Canada - Ontario Refinery Fire Imperial Oil expects operations at its 121,000 barrel-per-day refinery in Sarnia, Ontario, to quickly return to normal after a brief fire on Monday, a company spokesman said. A small electrical fire broke out in a…
Deadly Blast At Turkmenistan Refinery Internet connections have been down in large parts of Turkmenistan following a reported fatal explosion at an oil refinery in the western city of Turkmenbashi. Alternative News of Turkmenistan cited unnamed sources in a report…
Five Dead In Oil Refinery Blast In China Five people have died in an explosion at an oil refinery in Anhui province in eastern China, according to local authorities. Three people were injured in the blast, Xinhua news agency reported…
PEMEX Fuel Storage Facility Blast Injures Eight At least eight people were injured on March 15 by an explosion at a Pemex fuel storage and distribution facility near the state-owned oil company's Salamanca refinery, in the central Mexican state of…
USA - Fire Extinguished at Motiva Refinery HOUSTON (Reuters) - A fire was extinguished at Motiva Enterprises [MOTIV.UL] 235,000 barrel per day (bpd) Convent, Louisiana, refinery on Saturday with no injuries, a company spokeswoman said in a statement. A source…
Iran fears oil plant fires could be due to hacking AP says in one of its Big Story reports that a series of fires at Iranian petrochemical plants and facilities have raised suspicions about hacking having played a role, with…
Saudi Aramco Fire Injures 8 RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — State-owned Saudi Aramco, the world's largest oil production company, says eight of its workers have been injured in a fire that broke out at one of its oil terminals. The…
ExxonMobil restarts refinery in Torrance a year after fire TORRANCE, Calif. (AP) — ExxonMobil has restarted its oil refinery in Torrance more than a year after an explosion crippled the plant and led to higher gas prices in California. As…
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
When part of the ExxonMobil refinery blew up in February south of Los Angeles, smoke filled the sky and ash rained down on nearby neighborhoods. Lorraine Harding's family lives a mile from the plant and felt the blast -- so…
