For its role in an explosion and fire in October 2011 that injured 52 workers, a provincial court judge sentenced the Regina Consumers' Co-operative Refineries Ltd., on Tuesday to a $200,000 fine. In addition, the refinery was ordered to pay…
BEIJING: Over 50 people had a miraculous escape today when a passenger plane skidded off a runway and caught fire while taxiing in a airport in China's southeast Fujian Province, injuring five. The Joyair flight, JR1529, was scheduled to depart…
The Arctic Offshore Regulators Forum (AORF), a new cooperative forum with members from the safety agencies of the USA, Canada, Russia, Iceland, Greenland, Finland, Sweden and Norway, aims to help raise the safety levels of petroleum activities in the Arctic.…
Rome's Fiumicino airport reopened its main international terminal on Friday after a fire damaged the building and forced airlines to cancel dozens of flights. Eighty percent of check-in desks in Terminal 3 were working normally after hundreds of staff worked…
At least three people were killed and 16 seriously injured in an explosion at the Harduagunj Thermal Power Station at Kasimpur near Aligarh, 100 kilometres south east of New Delhi, on May 2. Local sources quoted Balkar Singh, Aligarh district magistrate,…
TACOMA, Wash. - A crude oil fire at the U.S. Oil and Refining Co. burned for almost two hours Wednesday, sending a plume of thick black smoke over the Port of Tacoma, but it didn't cause any injuries. One witness…
Shell has reached an agreement to clean up a local Nigerian community devastated by two oil spills in 2008. Representatives from the Amnesty International, United Nations Environment Program, the Dutch embassy met with Shell over the weekend to hash out a €134 to €446…
An accident on an oil well-maintenance platform killed two workers and injured 10 off Mexico's coast on Tuesday, company officials reported, blaming the incident on the collapse of one of the rig's legs. State oil company Petroleos Mexicanos, or Pemex,…
A train carrying highly volatile crude oil derailed and erupted into flames on Wednesday morning, forcing the evacuation of a small town in North Dakota, according to local and federal officials. It was at least the sixth oil train accident…
CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Two workers were injured in an explosion and fire at an oil facility in Converse County on Friday while working with fluid at a well head. The blast happened shortly before noon at the Chesapeake Energy…
