One worker was killed and another was missing after an accident at an offshore oil and gas platform in the Caspian Sea off Azerbaijan, Azeri state energy company SOCAR said on Thursday. "One person was killed in the accident. A…
Rescue operations to save 18 workers who remain trapped in a flooded mine in central Turkey have not yet led to any tangible results, the Turkish energy minister said on Wednesday. "We can access two-thirds of the flooded mine, which…
Three men in their 20s have been arrested in possession of a drone near a French nuclear reactor, the first such arrests since a spate of mysterious drone overflights of reactors began in early October. There have been at least…
A petrochemical factory that's one of the largest acrylic acid producers in China was partly engulfed in fire for nearly three hours yesterday in the Pudong New Area, but no one was injured and 50 fire engines were used to…
A fire occurred at the Bratislava-based oil refinery Slovnaft on Monday, June 24. “We started an ethylene unit, and there was a smaller fire during this start, but it was soon extinguished by our factory firemen,” Slovnaft spokesperson Anton Molnár…
ALMATY, Kazakhstan -- A traffic accident involving a gasoline tanker truck caused a huge fire in the center of Kazakhstan's largest city, Almaty.Kazakhstan's Emergency Situations Ministry says one person, the truck's driver, died in the accident on June 27.The truck…
Shell Nigeria said on June 20 that an explosion and fire caused by oil theft have forced it to shut down its Trans Niger Pipeline, which has a capacity of 150,000 barrels of crude a day. The statement said the theft…
LONDON - The Oseberg oil-field center in the Norwegian North Sea is closed following the activation of an alarm Monday morning, with no indication as to when production might resume. The Oseberg field contributes one of the four key…
A new fiber-optic monitoring system developed through a Space Act Agreement between NASA and Astro Technology Inc. of Houston is helping to increase safety for workers and reduce the risk of leaks and spills on two oil platforms off the…
CHANGSHA, June 3 (Xinhua) -- Ten people have been confirmed dead and 15 others injured in a mine explosion that occurred on Sunday in central China's Hunan Province, local authorities said Monday. The blast occurred around 7:55 p.m. Sunday at…
