USA - Fire At Chevron El Segundo Refinery Oil Refinery A fire that erupted at the West Coast’s largest oil refinery threatened storage tanks and sent huge flames into the sky and black smoke across neighborhoods before crews quickly smothered…
Turkey - Explosion kills 4 at oil refinery in Izmir Four workers were killed and two others were wounded in an explosion at the TÜPRAŞ Aliağa Refinery in Turkey's western Izmir province on Wednesday, District Governor Bayram Yılmaz said. Yılmaz…
Russia – Refinery Explosion 4 Dead At least four people died in a fire that occurred at Norsi oil refinery in the Kstovsky district of Russia’s western Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, the press service of the regional administration told Sputnik on…
At least three people were killed and another was hospitalizsed due to gas poisoning after a blast in the Mubarek gas processing plant in Kashkadarya region, Uzbekistan, on September 20, according to centralasian.org. Local sources said those killed and wounded…
Indonesian - Fire On Board Tanker At Shipyard Kills Five A fire killed five and injured one at ASL Marine Holdings' shipyard in Batam, Indonesia on September 7, according to the Straits Times. The vessel owner-operator and shipbuilder said that initial…
Japan's Fukushima Cleanup Plan Delays Spent Fuel Removal TOKYO (AP) — Japan's government on Tuesday approved a revision to its 30-to-40-year plan to decommission the Fukushima nuclear plant, delaying by two more years the removal of radioactive fuel rods in…
Two Workers Killed In Incident At US Power Plant A FirstEnergy spokeswoman said two workers were killed and four others injured at the utility’s Bruce Mansfield coal-fired power plant in Shippingport, Pennsylvania. Local media reported her as saying the workers…
Fukushima Operator Hit By Second Multi-Billion Dollar US Lawsuit Japanese utility Tokyo Electric Power Co Holdings (Tepco) said another lawsuit had been filed in a US court seeking $5 billion in compensation over the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster, the second…
British Bulk Carrier Carrying Explosive Fertiliser On Fire According to Spanish sources, a British bulk cargo carrier owned by the UK’s Bibby Line Ltd is on fire and without power off the Canary Islands with more than 42,000 tonnes of…
Four Killed In Explosion At South Korean Shipyard Four workers were killed in an explosion at the STX Offshore & Shipbuilding plant in Changwon, South Korea, fire authorities said on August 20. The blast occurred as workers carried out painting…
