The nation's coal mines set a record for the lowest number of on-the-job fatalities last year, with 16, the federal mining agency said Monday. There were two fewer deaths than the previous low of 18 in 2009, according to the…
Two oil residue tanks exploded on Sunday in Dalian, Northeast China's Liaoning Province, leaving two critically injured and another two missing, local officials said. The two blasts occurred at around 2:30 pm within one minute of each other at a…
Firefighters have brought a fire under control in the Hazelwood coal mine in Morwell, in Victoria's east, where a blaze burned for more than a month earlier this year. The Country Fire Authority (CFA) was called to the blaze just…
Numaligarh Refinery , situated at a distance of 250 KM from Guwahati and 25 KM from Golaghat, was engulfed in a devastating fire broke out at the Crude Distillation Unit (CDU) and Vacuum Distillation Unit (VDU) of the refinery in…
The NSW environmental regulator is investigating the leak of a potentially lethal gas at a chemical plant in southeast Sydney. The Environment Protection Agency (EPA) said the ethylene oxide leak occurred at the Huntsman Surfactants Plant, at the Botany Industrial…
About 4,500 tonnes of crude oil has been spilled near Horsburgh Lighthouse on the Singaporean island of Pedra Branca following the 2 January collision of oil tanker Alyarmouk and Sinar Kapuas, a bulk carrier. The estimate, by V.Ships UK, manager…
Two crew members are missing after an explosion in a Chinese products tanker off South China's Zhanjiang port, local authorities said. Around 09.40hrs local time yesterday, the 2013-built 4,577dwt products tanker Run Guang 9, which was unloaded, broke loose after…
A fire sparked by underground tremors tore through a coal mine in northeastern China early Wednesday, killing 26 miners and leaving several others with life-threatening injuries, state media reported. Another 50 miners were injured in the disaster, which broke out…
Millions of liters of crude oil gushed out of a breached pipeline in southern Israel early Thursday, causing what one Environmental Protection Ministry official called "one of the gravest pollution events in the country's history." The official, Guy Samet, said…
Muscat: A fire that broke out at the Muscat Refinery in Mina Al Fahal has been put out, Oman Oil Refineries and Petroleum Industries Company (Orpic) said on its website. "There were no serious injuries reported and we would like to…
