Bahrain said an explosion which caused a large fire on one of its main oil pipelines on November 10 was caused by terrorist sabotage, which it linked to Iran. “The incident was an act of sabotage and a dangerous act…
The scrapped FPSO Aces is on fire again on the beach at Gadani, Pakistan. Last November, almost exactly a year ago, an explosion and fire on the defunct vessel killed 31 workers and seriously injured 58 more. Activists suggest that…
An impromptu inspection last July by the French nuclear safety authority ASN of the Areva nuclear reprocessing plant at La Hague in Normandy found that in certain areas, both explosion protection and hydrogen monitoring did not comply with established safety…
Three workers are now confirmed dead following an explosion on Friday on board the drillship Norbe VIII while operating in the Marlim field for Petrobras in the Campos basin. According to Petrobras, OOG worker Eduardo Aragao de Lima, 33 years-old,…
Ten people have been killed and a further nine injured in an explosion at a Chinese petrochemical plant. At 1am local time, a liquefied gas tanker exploded in the loading area of a plant owned by Linyi Jinyu Petrochemical in…
An explosion and fire at a fireworks factory on the western outskirts of Indonesia's capital killed at least 30 people and injured dozens on Thursday, officials said. Television broadcast images of thick plumes of dark smoke billowing from a warehouse…
The US Coast Guard has nearly doubled its initial estimate of the amount of oil that seeped from a pipeline off the coast of Louisiana into the Gulf of Mexico. The leak was first announced on October 13 from a…
Turkish authorities have arrested four people over the October 11 explosion at the Tupras refinery in Izmir province which killed four workers, the state-run Anadolu news agency said. A further three have been released on probation. The report gave no…
The US Coast Guard said on October 22 it had suspended its search for two crew members who vanished two days earlier after a barge exploded and began leaking oil off Port Aransas, near Corpus Christi. The pair disappeared after…
On the night of October 1 a gunman opened fire on a crowd of concert-goers at the Route 91 Harvest music festival on the Las Vegas Strip in Nevada, leaving 58 people dead and 546 injured. It was subsequently discovered…
