USA - Refinery Engulfed in Flames – VIDEO https://youtu.be/0MSISOeyyNg CONVENT, La. (AP) — A fire Thursday at a refinery along the Mississippi River between New Orleans and Baton Rouge has been extinguished. The blaze began in the H-Oil unit at…
CSB Deploying To Refinery Terminal Incident That Injured Seven Workers In Texas Washington DC, August 15, 2016 - An investigative team from the U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB) is deploying to the scene of an incident that injured seven workers…
CSB Issues Safety Alert Stemming from Fatal Tesoro Anacortes Investigation Washington, DC – Today the U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB) issued a safety alert entitled “CSB Safety Alert: Preventing High Temperature Hydrogen Attack (HTHA)” focused on preventing accidents similar to…
Jasim Issa Mohammed Hassan gave 'ultimate sacrifice' in boarding burning plane, says agency Tributes have been paid to the "ultimate sacrifice" of a firefighter who died rescuing 300 passengers and cabin crew, when a plane crashed and burst into flames…
Canada to phase out older crude oil tanker cars early due to explosion risk Canada will take older crude tanker cars out of service much earlier than originally planned, Transport Minister Marc Garneau said on July 26. Accident investigators have…
Huge Explosion At Arms Factory Azerbaijan https://youtu.be/p1x9Z39uES4 Twelve people were hospitalized Tuesday after an explosion at an arms factory in the city of Shirvan in eastern Azerbaijan, a representative of a local hospital said. The victims have been transported to the…
The water supply for communities in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan is threatened by an oil spill that dumped an estimated 66,000 gallons of heavy oil, along with natural gas used to dilute it, into a major river. The pipeline…
Two killed in China gas pipeline blast Beijing: A section of natural gas pipeline broke and caught fire in Enshi City, a city in central China's Hubei Province, on Wednesday morning, killing two and injuring another seven. According to the rescuers,…
Aeronautics company unveils new system to fight oil spills with Boeing’s 737-400 An Everett aeronautical company has unveiled a new way to use Boeing’s 737-400 cargo freighter. It’s designed a system to use it to tackle oil spills from the air.…
BP Draws Line under Deepwater Horizon Liabilities BP Group Chief Executive Bob Dudley said Tuesday that the company has "finally drawn a line under" its material liabilities for the April 20, 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster and associated oil spill. In…
