Only minor injuries reported, cause of explosion still unknown REEVES COUNTY, TX – More than 250 oil workers escaped injury Thursday morning after an explosion rocked the Anadarko gas refinery near Orla and forced safety workers to evacuate people from…
Brazil Sues BHP Billiton, Vale and Samarco For $7.2 billion Over Mine Disaster Brazil's government has filed a $7.2 billion lawsuit against mining company Samarco Minerao and its co-owners, Australia's BHP Billiton and Vale, to clean up the damage caused…
Video Reportedly Shows Clear View of Chemical Plant Explosion in China Video uploaded to YouTube last week purports to show a massive explosion at a Chinese chemical plant only weeks after deadly explosions rocked the country's chemical sector. The 52-second…
Steel Factory Gas Leak Kills 10, Injures 7 in Eastern China At least ten people have been killed and seven more injured following a gas leak at a steel parts factory in Eastern China on Sunday. According to officials in…
DOJ Charges Three Individuals, Firms For Fatal 2012 Offshore Platform Accident Three firms and three individuals were charged by the U.S. Department of Justice on Thursday for their involvement in the fatal 2012 West Delta 32 platform accident in the Gulf…
EPA Investigating ExxonMobil For Understating Risk The EPA has become the latest government agency to launch an investigation into the ExxonMobil Torrance Refinery. The environmental watchdog is investigating whether the company has deliberately understated the worst-case scenario for a disaster…
IAEA Publishes New Emergency Preparedness Standards New safety requirements on nuclear emergency preparedness and response published by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) incorporate lessons learned and developments since 2002, including lessons from Fukushima. Preparedness and Response for a Nuclear…
Pemex Refinery Blast Injures At Least Eight A blaze at Mexico’s largest refinery on Tuesday injured at least eight people and forced some staff to be evacuated from the Pemex operated facility. According to Reuters, state-owned Pemex said eight people were…
1 Dead, 2 Injured In California Gas Line Explosion BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (AP) — A heavy equipment operator was killed after puncturing a natural gas line in Central California, creating an explosion and 200-foot-high plumes of flame that destroyed a nearby…
Workers remove crude oil along the shoreline during a clean up operation after the tanker Nadezhda, left, hit a reef during a storm on Saturday near the port city of Nevelsk, about 90 kilometres (56 miles) south west of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk,…
