Explosion At Sinopec Oil Storage Site In Gabon Kills One, Injures Six One person was killed and six wounded in an explosion on March 12 at an oil site in southwest Gabon run by a subsidiary of Chinese energy giant…
USA - Lightning Strike Ignites Fuel Tanks Several crude tanks caught fire on Saturday after a lightning bolt struck a field near Houston. According to Click2Houston, the blaze started around 1:00 a.m. on Saturday when a lightning bolt struck a grassy field…
USA - Gas Pipeline Explosions Bring New Federal Safety Proposal U.S. officials moved Thursday to strengthen safety rules for the nation’s 300,000-mile network of natural gas transmission pipelines in a belated response to numerous fiery accidents, including a 2010 California…
USA - Carson Oil Refinery Says Fire Extinguished, No One Hurt CARSON, Calif. (AP) — A fire that broke out at a Southern California oil refinery was quickly extinguished Monday with no reported injuries and no disruption in production expected,…
Russian Coal Mine to Extinguish Fire, Clear Rocks With Flooding A coal company in Russia's far northern Komi region was scheduled to begin pumping water early Friday into a mine where a recent series of explosions had killed 36 people,…
Hazelwood Mine Manager Charged With 10 Offences Over 2014 Morwell Fire The company responsible for managing the Hazelwood mine in Victoria’s La Trobe Valley has been charged with 10 offences following a devastating mine fire which burned for 45 days…
No Casualties In Fire At Iranian Refinery TEHRAN (Tasnim) – A technical failure in a compressor at a refinery on Iran’s southern island of Lavan started a fire on Wednesday, which was put out rapidly, Lavan Oil Refining Company announced,…
2 Dead, 1 Badly Hurt in Explosion at Spanish Biodiesel Plant An explosion at a biodiesel plant has killed two workers and left one survivor seriously injured, Spanish emergency services said Saturday. The Emergency Coordination and Information Center for the…
South Africa - Platinum Mine Fire Under Control – 4 Dead The fire at Impala Platinum’s 14 Shaft in Luka near Rustenburg was under control, the company said on Monday. “To a large extend the fire has been extinguished, six…
Fires at oil storage tanks in the major Libyan terminal of Ras Lanuf were still raging two days after Islamic State militants set fire to the facility. https://youtu.be/6_lwaO1RZwg
