Iran >> 10/29/2011 - An explosion at an ageing oilfield in Iran has come under control, according to reports. ... |
Kazakhstan >> 10/11/2011 - A powerful gas explosion at an oil pumping station killed eight workers in western Kazakhstan on, the Central Asian nation's Emergencies Ministry reported. ... |
Iraq >> 9/20/2011 - A fire erupted at Iraq's supergiant Rumaila oilfield in Basra province, possibly disrupting production, South Oil Company sources said. "A big fire erupted in the central crude processor f... |
China >> 7/11/2011 - China National Offshore Oil Company's Huizhou refinery has shut its 800,000 tonne-per-year aromatics unit after a fire broke out early on Monday morning, two industry sources said. ... |
Kuwait >> 6/24/2011 - Fire squads from four departments combined and put out a huge fire that erupted in a construction materials and oils storage warehouse at Abdullah Port, south of Kuwait. ... |
Kuwait >> 2/11/2011 - Kuwait Petroleum Corporation (KPC) said that Kuwait Oil Company controlled a minor fire in an oil tank in the west of the country Thursday evening. ... |
Egypt >> 2/5/2011 - Egyptian officials said the bombing that targeted a gas pipeline in northern Sinai Peninsula occurred in the section that connects the gas to Jordan. ... |
China >> 1/19/2011 - An explosion shut a gasoline-making unit at PetroChina Co Ltd's Fushun refinery in northeast China on Wednesday, company officials said, with traders expecting scant immediate impact on prices or supp... |
United Kingdom >> 1/9/2011 - The gas main serves the annealing and pickling plant at the site, where, following a fire, an investigation by Safety, Health and Environmental Services recommended improvements. These involved the i... |
Russia >> 12/30/2010 - Led by Alexander Ananenkov, Deputy Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee, a joint meeting of the Gazprom Emergency Response & Fire Safety Commission and the Civil Defense Board took place at th... |
Azerbaijan >> 7/26/2010 - On July 26, fire blazed up in the tank No 140 in Baku Oil Refinery named after Heydar Aliyev at about 11.05 am. In this connection, firefighting service of the Ministry of Emergency Situations arrived... |
Egypt >> 8/10/2004 - HOUSTON, Aug 10, 2004 - GlobalSantaFe today reported that one of the company's drilling rigs, the GSF Adriatic IV, was severely damaged during a fire and sank in the Mediterranean Sea approximately 25... |