Mar 3 - Artesia Police Department confirm two workers have died, while two remain critically injured after a storage tank exploded at the Navajo Refinery Tuesday afternoon.

RIO DE JANEIRO, March 2 - Brazilian state run oil firm Petrobras should complete the restart of its 242,000 barrel-per-day Duque de Caxias refinery within 10 days after a substation fire on Sunday, the company said late Monday.

NEW YORK, Feb 24 - A minor explosion over the weekend at United Refining Co's 70,000 barrel-per-day Warren, Pennsylvania refinery injured one employee, according to local media.

Feb 19 - fire at the ConocoPhillips refinery that spewed thick black smoke into the air on Christmas Eve was caused when a heater inside the tank ignited oil vapors, a company official said Friday.

Feb. 13 - A fire was doused yesterday afternoon after erupting at part of Exxon Mobil Corp.’s Fawley refinery in southern England.

NEW YORK, Feb 9 - Sunoco Inc (SUN.N) said it extinguished a fire that broke out Tuesday in a crude oil unit pump at the Girard Point section of its 335,000-barrels-per-day Philadelphia refinery.

Feb 8 American authorities have launched a criminal investigation into what caused a deadly explosion at an unfinished Connecticut power plant that killed five construction workers, including one Canadian, according to reports.

Feb 6 - SHREVEPORT, La. — A spokeswoman at the Calumet Specialty Product Partners refinery in Shreveport says an explosion shut down an environmental unit that cleans up residual gas.

Feb 6 - A fire at the Montana Refining Co. on Thursday injured one of the Great Falls refinery's employees, according to Fire Marshall Doug Bennyhoff.

Feb 4 - PT Pertamina will restart two processing units at its Balikpapan refinery that were closed last month because of a fire, Chrisna Damayanto, senior vice president of refining operations, said on Thursday in Jakarta.

CALGARY, Alberta, Feb 2- Valero Energy Corp's (VLO.N) 265,000 barrel a day refinery near Quebec City was damaged by fire early on Tuesday, shutting a key gasoline processing unit for an indefinite period, the company said.

Jan 26 - NEW YORK - Motiva Enterprises LLC said Monday that a distillation unit at its Norco, Louisiana, oil refinery was shut Friday following a fire, but the plant has been able to continue operations.

Jan 25 - An explosion at a refinery belonging to state oil and gas company PT Pertamina’s Unit IV in Cilacap, Central Java, occurred on Sunday morning, causing a halt in production at the refinery for an indefinite period.

Jan 22 - A worker died this morning at LyondellBasell Industries' oil refinery in Houston after an apparent fall.

HOUSTON, Jan 19 - ConocoPhillips said a fire on an unidentified stack at its 139,000 barrel per day Los Angeles Refinery in Wilmington, California, was extinguished by refinery and Los Angeles fire fighters.

Jan 19 One person was reported to have died and another injured when fire broke out at the Loading Rag area of the Tema Oil Refinery (TOR) on Tuesday.

Jan. 19 -- A fire at Ghana’s Tema Oil Refinery has been brought under control, acting Managing Director Kwame Ampofo said.

Jan 18 - Kopargaon: Thirteen labourers were injured after an explosion triggered at Sainath Chemicals factory in MIDC in Kopargaon, Maharashtra police said today. The explosion took place last night, they said.

ZAGREB, Jan 16 - Two blasts hit the oil refinery of the Croatian oil group INA INA.ZA (HINAq.L) in central Croatia late on Saturday and according to first reports there were no casualties, state television said.

Jan 15 Exxon reported an “operational issue” at the refinery and chemical plant that led to flaring, in a message recorded on a community hotline at 10:24 p.m. Thursday

Jan 8 A fire burned for hours at the Come By Chance oil refinery but no one was injured in the blaze Thursday evening at the installation on Newfoundland's east coast.

Jan. 7 -- Two people were confirmed dead Thursday after a chemical plant exploded in northwest China's Gansu Province, said local officials.

TOKYO, Jan. 7 -- Blasts at a chemical plant in Japan's Yokohama on Thursday have left five people injured, local fire department officials said.

Jan 7 - MEXICO CITY - Mexico's state-owned oil company Petroleos Mexicanos, or Pemex, said Thursday it had controlled a fire in a cracker at its Salina ...

Dec 30 - CORPUS CHRISTI — A small fire was contained within minutes of igniting at Citgo Refinery’s West Plant, a company representative said.

Dec 30 - The Murphy Oil refinery in Meraux was cited this week for numerous health and safety violations found during a federal inspection this summer that could have resulted in fatal injuries to workers.

Dec 25 -TEXAS CITY — Fire crews battled a blaze at Valero’s Texas City refinery for about four hours Thursday morning. No one was hurt, and the fire was put out by 9:45 a.m., a refinery spokesman said.

Dec 25 - BILLINGS — A fire in a storage tank at the ConocoPhillips refinery continued to burn into the evening Thursday after sending thick, black smoke and debris into the air above the South Side and downtown.

Dec 25 - TOKYO -- An explosion ripped through a chemical plant in western Japan on Thursday, killing four workers, emergency services said

Dec. 23 - BASF SE, the world’s biggest chemical company, said a fire caused the shutdown of one of its three European steam crackers, the second closure this week.

Dec 18 CALGARY -- Production at a Suncor Energy upgrader will be cut in half for up to a month after a fire damaged the facility this week. Spokeswoman Sneh Seetal said the production outlook for 2009 won't be impacted.

Dec 18 Muzaffarnagar, At least three labourers were killed while five others were injured when an explosion occurred in a chemical factory here today, police said.

Dec 14 SAMARA -- A major fire broke out at an oil refinery in the Samara region. According to the preliminary reports, no casualties sustained, chief press officer of the Samara regional emergencies department Mikhail Metelkin told Itar-Tass on Monday.

Dec 14 BEIJING -Three workers died Monday after a chemical tank blew up in a plant in Beijing, local authorities said.

Dec 14 Houston, TX-Leading Dallas, Texas workplace accident lawyer, Amy K. Witherite, reports a deadly refinery accident at the Valero petroleum refinery facility in Texas City,

Dec 10 SHREVEPORT, LA Happening right now in Shreveport… there are still Shreveport Fire units on the scene at Calumet Refinery in Shreveport for a reported fire.

Dec 9 -An explosion at a chemical plant in the Bayport area Wednesday shook nearby homes, generated black smoke seen for miles and injured two workers.

Dec 9 CASPER — An external power failure Sunday forced a shutdown at the Sinclair oil refinery near Rawlins and led to yet another release of toxic gases, hydrogen sulfide and sulfur dioxide, according to an official at the refinery.

Dec 7 - A giant industrial boiler that exploded late Friday, killing a worker at Valero Energy Corp's (VLO.N) Texas City, Texas, refinery had a history of problems since it was installed in 2006, said an attorney for a worker injured in the blast.

Dec 7 MOSCOW - An explosion at a motor oil refinery unit of Russian oil major Rosneft has not affected overall production, a spokesman said on Sunday.

Dec 2 - An explosion on Tuesday rocked the ailing Warri Refining and Petrochemical Company, Ekpan, Delta State. Our correspondent gathered that the deafening blast from one of the storage tanks in the pioneer crude oil refining plant, identified as Tel Tank, was followed by a fire.

Dec 2 HOQUIAM, Wash. – An explosion at the Imperium Biodiesel refinery Wednesday afternoon forced the evacuation of several nearby businesses.

Nov 21 - CLAYMONT -- Emergency officials and hazardous materials units this afternoon responded to an accidental chemical fire in a pit at the Honeywell plant just north of Naamans Road on Philadelphia Pike.

Nov 17 - An explosion and fire at the Silver Eagle refinery in Woods Cross, Utah, on Nov. 4 was caused by a pipe failure during the change out of a catalyst, said the U.S. Chemical Safety Board on Tuesday.

Nov 17- A malfunctioning fuel monitoring system was the likely cause of an Oct. 23 explosion and massive fire at a Puerto Rican fuel storage depot, the U.S. Chemical Safety Board said on Tuesday.

Nov 13 - Oil giant Total UK today admitted health and safety breaches in connection with the massive Buncefield oil depot explosion.

Nov 4 - Chemicals accidentally spilled at Eastman Chemical Company last week and killed fish in the Holston River, Eastman Chemical Company Spokesperson Wanda Valentine said.

Nov 4 -WOODS CROSS -- An investigation begins Thursday into a refinery explosion at the Silver Eagle Refinery, located at 2355 S. 1100 West, that damaged several homes in the surrounding area and was felt several miles away from the facility.

Guwahati, Oct 30, 2009 A major fire broke out in the Guwahati Refinery of Indian Oil Corporation at Noonmati area of the city Sunday, official sources said here in the north-eastern state of Assam.

Oct 27 - An explosion involving a boiler at the Big Spring Refinery Monday night sent three employees to the hospital, where they were treated and released, according to refinery officials.

Oct 27 - MOUNT VERNON, IND. Crews were dealing with two emergency situations at resin plants on Oct. 27 — one at a Sabic Innovative Plastics plant in Indiana, and another at a Dow Chemical Co. plant in Texas.

oct 23 - New Delhi, October 23: Two massive explosions have been reported from an oil refinery near Puerto Rico capital. The massive fires that followed the explosions have unnerved the authorities.

Oct 21 SALT LAKE CITY -- Firefighters from several agencies worked quickly to douse the flames of a fire that erupted at the Tesoro Oil Refinery in Salt Lake City Wednesday night.

Oct 13 - A fire at the Total refinery in Port Arthur this morning began after a restart of the plant because of an overnight power outage, according to a regulatory filing with the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality.

Oct. 12-- Suncor Energy Inc. reported a compressor fire shut down a hydrocracking unit at its Sarnia, Canada, oil refinery, CHOK radio reported on its Web site.

Oct 7 - Valero Energy Corp (VLO.N) said Wednesday that a small fire at the west plant of its 340,000 barrel-per-day Corpus Christi, Texas refinery shut a hydrocracking unit.

Sep 25 - Tesoro Corp.’s refinery in Wilmington, Calif., experienced a fire on Friday in the facility’s coker unit.

Sept 21 - Valero Energy Corp (VLO.N) said a small fire was quickly extinguished on Monday morning at its 100,000 barrel per day (bpd) Three Rivers, Texas, refinery, which is currently shut for a planned overhaul.

Sep 16 - A proposed fine of $32,700 has been levied on ExxonMobil for the April scalding death of a worker at its Torrance refinery and a criminal investigation opened by the state agency overseeing workplace safety.

Sep 7 - LONDON --Ineos PLC's petrochemical facility at its Lavera plant in France was shut down over the weekend following a steam leak, the company said Monday

Sep 7 - A lightning strike on Friday afternoon, which resulted in a blackout at Nippon Oil Corp's Marifu refinery in western Japan, caused the refinery to shut all its refining units, the company and local fire department told Reuters on Friday.

Sept 4: Just over a week after an electric short circuit resulted in the closure of nine of the 10 units of the Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Ltd. plant, accidental fires broke out at the plant again on Wednesday.

Sep 3 - A fire was quickly extinguished after an apparent hydrogen explosion at the Montana Refinery Co. on Wednesday night.

Sep 2 - BEIJING — A state news agency reports a chemical explosion in eastern China has killed 18 people and injured 10 others.

HOUSTON, Aug 31 - Tesoro Corp (TSO.N) said on Monday a brief Saturday fire in a sulfur recovery unit at its 58,000-barrel-per-day (bpd) Mandan, North Dakota, refinery did not affect operations or production.

Guwahati, Aug 30 - A devastating fire broke out in the Guwahati Refinery of Indian Oil Corporation today at Noonmati area of the city, official sources said.

Aug 24 CALGARY - Suncor Energy Inc (SU.TO) on Monday reported a vapor release at its Edmonton refinery, but spokesman Brad Bellows said he did not expect a significant impact on production.

Aug 24 - No one was injured in a fire at a chemical factory complex today that set off a hazardous materials situation in northwest Detroit.

Aug 22 - The death toll from Monday's accident at Russia's largest hydro-electric plant has risen to 67, officials say.

Aug 19 - CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- A chemical leak at the DuPont plant in Belle on Tuesday released less than one pound of monomethylamine into the atmosphere, said Roger Hess, DuPont's human resources manager.

PRAGUE, Aug 18 - An explosion in an empty storage container at a refinery of Czech downstream oil group Unipetrol on Tuesday injured four people, three seriously, the company said in a statement.

Aug 13 State media say an explosion at a chemical plant in eastern China has killed at least three people. A blast tore through a boiler Thursday afternoon at the plant outside Jingjiang city in Jiangsu province, the Xinhua News Agency reported. The name of the factory was not given.

LONDON, Aug 10 - British oil major BP (BP.L: Quote, Profile, Research) said on Monday there was a fire at its Rotterdam oil refinery in the Netherlands on Sunday.

MELAKA, Aug 7 -- A fire broke out early Friday at a power sub-station at the Petronas refinery complex in Sungai Udang here..

Aug 6 -LONDON -The fire-hit line-4 at Neste Oil's (NES1V.HE) Porvoo refinery produces about 25% of the refinery's diesel, and will be offline for at least two weeks, company Vice President Miika Eerola told Dow Jones Newswires Thursday.

HOUSTON, Aug 6 - A small Thursday afternoon fire at Exxon Mobil Corp's giant Baytown, Texas, complex was in the chemical plant and not the adjoining refinery, according to a trade source.

Aug 3 - While dangerous emissions were not found in the air surrounding the El Dorado Chemical plant in Bryan, Texas, thousands of residents were forced from their homes, reported the Associated Press (AP), citing the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality.

July 30 - Valero briefly activated an emergency routine at its refinery near Delaware City today after what was described as smoke or a small fire at a power plant.

July 30 - Some 80,000 residents of a town in the U.S. state of Texas were evacuated on Thursday after a major fire broke out in a nearby chemical factory, said officials and local reports.

July 28 CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Management at DuPont Co.'s chemical plant in Belle waited more than two days before reporting a toxic material leak to state and local authorities last week, government and company officials confirmed Tuesday.

July 27 - An inquiry is under way into the cause of a minor fire at the Engen Refinery in Tara Road, Wentworth, Durban, yesterday.

Jluy 24 It happened late Friday afternoon at the Sinclair Oil refinery, located along Southwest Boulevard near 35th Street. Sinclair spokesperson John Goodwin tells NewsChannel 8 that a small gasoline leak on a valve ignited, sparking a fire that burned for a short time

HOUSTON, July 19 - A Sunday morning fire at Citgo Petroleum Corp's 163,000 barrel per day (bpd) Corpus Christi, Texas, refinery broke out in an alkylation unit, which makes high-octane gasoline components, according to sources familiar with refinery operations.

Jluy 18 - A man died while another sustained burn injuries after a major fire broke out in the premises of a chemical unit at Industrial Focal Point in Dera Bassi on Friday morning.

July 16 - Rescuers have found the bodies of two workers who disappeared after a blast at a chemical plant in central China's Henan Province early on Wednesday. The discovery brings the death toll to seven.

CARLINE, France, July 15 (UPI) -- An explosion at a French petrochemical site Wednesday killed two people and injured five others, a spokesman for the company running the site said.

July 15 - A tank of chemicals used for dyes exploded at the Luo Dye Company Ltd factory in Yanshi city in the central province of Henan on Wednesday, the city's propaganda department said in a statement.

July 15 - Pekanbaru, Riau (ANTARA News) - The second unit of the Dumai oil refinery on Jalan Putri Tujuh, Dumai, Riau province, caught fire on Wednesday.

july 14 PETROSA will shut down its Mossel Bay gas-to-liquids refinery and offshore natural gas rig, the FA Platform 80km off the Southern Cape coast, at the end of September for a 37-day maintenance programme.

July 14 -Officials of the Ministry of Emergency Situations told APA there were no casualties during the fire. No details of the causes of fire were reported. The incident is investigated.

July 13 An oil tank explosion that occurred at a chemical plant in Urumqi, capital of northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, Sunday morning had no link to sabotage, a company official said.

July 7 HOUSTON - An employee of a chemical processing plant was transported to a hospital in serious condition after a tank-cleaning job ended in flames.

July 7 - NEW YORK - Top U.S. refiner Valero Energy Corp (VLO.N) said Tuesday a naphtha hydrotreater remained shut at its 87,400 barrel-per-day Ardmore, Oklahoma refinery after a Saturday night fire in the unit.

July 7 - MARCUS HOOK — Between 40-50 Sunoco employees are expected to lose their jobs now that company officials have decided to shut down the ethylene complex damaged in a May 17 explosion at the Marcus Hook Refinery.

July 7 - PETROSA will shut down its Mossel Bay gas-to-liquids refinery and offshore natural gas rig, the FA Platform 80km off the Southern Cape coast, at the end of September for a 37-day maintenance programme.

DALIAN, June 30 (Xinhua) -- Two workers were killed and six more were injured Tuesday in a chemical plant explosion in northeast China's Liaoning Province, local work safety sources said.

June 26 - India's Reliance Industries Ltd (RELI.BO: Quote, Profile, Research) has shut a 100,000 barrel-a-day vacuum gas oil (VGO) hydrotreater at its old refinery in western Gujarat state since past few days after a small fire in the unit, trade sources said on Friday.

June 22 - The following table lists unplanned and planned production outages at U.S. refineries as reported by Dow Jones Newswires. The information is compiled from both official and unofficial refining sources and doesn't purport to be a comprehensive list.

June 17 - AN INQUEST is being held into the death of a Yarm father-of-two who died after an electrical explosion at a Teesside oil refinery.

June 15 -An oil pipeline belonging to the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) in Ilado, a Lagos suburb, exploded at the weekend leaving scores of persons injured.

June 10 - Most recently, Delek US Tuesday shut a SCOT unit, a unit used to increase the efficiency of sulfur recovery, at its Tyler, Texas, refinery for about four days of unplanned maintenance.

June 10 - Valero Energy Corp said the gasoline-making fluid catalytic cracking unit at its 185,000 barrel-per-day St. Charles refinery in Norco, Louisiana was still running after a fire early Tuesday morning.

June 9 At least 20 people have been hospitalized and two remain unaccounted for following an explosion Tuesday morning at a ConAgra Foods Inc. manufacturing plant in Garner, N.C. that knocked down walls and caused the roof on the south side of the building to collapse.

June 7 - Failure of electrical switch equipment caused Tesoro officials to shut down one of the Nikiski refinery's processing units last week, but no interruptions in product supply are anticipated.

Jun 5 - A fire destroyed on Wednesday a crude distillation unit (CDU) at the Pertamina state oil and gas company's refinery in Cilacap, Central Java, which processes kerosene and diesel fuel, forcing them to cease operation.

May26 - CAGLIARI, Italy, Three workers died in an accident on Tuesday at Saras SpA's (SRS.MI) Sarroch oil refinery on Sardinia, an Italian police spokesman said.

May 22- MADISON, Wis. — The investigation into a chemical fire in Columbus is winding down. The fire broke out at Columbus Chemical Industries on May 11. A series of explosions forced firefighters to retreat and evacuate about 140 homes.

May 20 -- A fire was doused early this morning at the Imperial Oil Ltd. refinery in Sarnia, Canada, CHOK radio reported on its Web site.

May 20 - TEXAS CITY — Firefighters responded to a small, slow-burning blaze at a storage tank at BP’s Texas City refinery Tuesday morning, emergency management officials confirmed.

May 19 - CORPUS CHRISTI - Emergency crews were on the scene at a fire at the Flint Hills East Refinery near the Port of Corpus Christi on Tuesday morning.

May 18 MARCUS HOOK, Pa. — Authorities say there have been no injuries reported and no evacuations ordered after an explosion at an oil refinery on the Delaware River.

May 17 - Citgo Petroleum Corp said on Sunday operations at its 167,000 barrel per day (bpd) Lemont, Illinois, refinery were unaffected by a Sunday morning fire in a conveyor belt, according to a statement.

May 15 Two people have been killed in an accident in a chemical plant near the port city of Flushing (Vlissingen). A third person was taken to hospital with respiratory problems. The three employees were working in a six metre deep oven. In the oven barrels containing fosfine, a highly toxic detergent, were stored.

May 14 -YEREVAN (Combined Sources)–At least three people were killed and about two dozen others injured in two powerful explosions at Armenia’s largest chemical plant on Thursday.

May 13 New Delhi: Indian Oil Corp. Ltd, the nation’s largest refiner, said a coker unit at its refinery in Digboi in Assam was on fire. The fire was under control, spokeswoman Anshu Mahajan said by telephone from New Delhi on Wednesday.

May 12 - Five contract workers have been treated and released from a hospital after complaining of shortness of breath at the Total Refinery in Port Arthur, according to information provided to KFDM News by Pat Avery of Total.

May 12 - At the height of the fire, half a million litres of hydrochloric acid spilt from melting plastic tanks, at the Hastings Bluescope steel plant, sending fumes across Western Port Bay.

May 4- As the emergency draws to a close at the Veolia Environmental Services plant in West Carrollton, local officials of the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency are investigating to find out exactly what happened and whether there’s any lingering environmental fallout.

May 2 - Workers at Imperial Oil responded to a small fire at Imperial Oil on Friday. An emergency warning alert was issued shortly before 3 p.m. after a fire broke out in Area Two of the Sarnia refinery.

Apr 27 - A fire blazed Thursday afternoon in a factory for storing oils in the Shamlan area, on the outskirts of the Yemeni capital Sana’a. Security authorities have immediately embarked on investigating the incident to discover the cause of the fire.

Apr 23 - INSTITUTE, W. Va. — The explosion that tore through the Bayer CropScience chemical plant here last August, killing two employees, was an easily avoidable accident caused by management decisions.

Apr 23 - PARAMOUNT, Calif. -- A big explosion at an oil refinery rattled nearby homes in Paramount. The blast was at Paramount Petroleum just before 10 p.m., when a pair of furnaces about 100 feet high was relit. Authorities say a buildup of gas caused the explosion.

Apr 23- Parts of Port Arthur's Savannah Avenue did not reopen Thursday until after 4 p.m. following a reported plant leak at Motiva Enterprises. No health or safety hazards were detected following the Vacuum Gas Oil leak at the refinery around 10:25 a.m., said spokeswoman Verna Rutherford.

Apr 21- The Bayer CropScience chemical facility explosion and fire that fatally injured two plant operators and potentially threatened plant neighbors likely resulted from a series of process safety management deficiencies that led to a runaway chemical reaction, U.S. Chemical Safety Board Chairman John Bresland told a House committee investigating the matter today.

Apr 19 - Dera Bassi A major fire broke out in the premises of Punjab Chemicals and Crop Protection Limited (PCCPL) on the Mubarikpur road in Dera Bassi in the early hours of Saturday.

Apr 19 - DOVER, Ohio (AP) — Fire officials say a vapor cloud from a large hydrochloric acid spill at an east-central Ohio plant is dissipating, and no injuries have been reported.

April 17 - Investigators with the Albany Fire Department are still looking into what sparked a chemical fire at the Equinox Chemical Plant Wednesday night.

April 17 - NEW DELHI - India's Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Ltd on Friday said it had contained a minor fire that broke out in the cooling tower of its refinery.

CARACAS, April 14 A fire at Venezuela's 300,000-barrel-per-day Cardon oil refinery will keep the affected unit closed for at least three or four days but will not hit supplies, the refinery manager said on Tuesday.

April 13-One chemical worker is being treated for severe burns suffered in a series of explosions that rocked a St. Charles plant Sunday evening.

April 13-ConocoPhillips reported a fire in the coking unit at its 247,000 barrel-per-day refinery in Sweeny, Texas late Thursday, according to a filing with state environmental regulators.

April 10 - FOUR people were taken to hospital for precautionary checks after a toxic gas leak from an industrial building.

April 10 - SARNIA -- Area roads were blocked off and traffic was re-routed Thursday following a sulphur dioxide release at Suncor Energy.

April 10 Baku, Fineko/abc.az. The ignition in cooling system at the territory of treatment plants occurred today at Baku Heydar Aliyev Oil Refinery.

PRAGUE, April 9 - An explosion in a Czech coking unit of coal miner NWR (NWRSsp.PR) killed two workers and injured another one, NWR said on Thursday.

April 9 - SANTA MARIA, Bulacan—Eleven factory workers died and six others were seriously wounded when a steam accumulator of a polystyrene foam factory exploded at about 8 p.m. on Tuesday in this town.

Apr 6 - A 27-year-old male employee of a Carroll County firm that produces tobacco flavoring was injured Monday when the lid of a tank containing boiling methylene chloride under high pressure blew off, causing the man to flee before he fell to the floor and sustained injuries to his face, according to the state police at Westminster.

April 6 - A weekend fire at ConocoPhillips' 238,000 barrel-per-day Bayway refinery in Linden, New Jersey shut down a crude distillation unit for a "few days," according to a source familiar with refinery operations.

April 6 - A limited fire erupted at a liquefied gas unit at Kuwait's 460,000 barrels per day Mina Al-Ahmadi oil refinery on Sunday, without affecting refining or export operations, the state oil refiner said.

April 1 -- Reliance Industries Ltd., India’s most valuable company, said a fire that broke out at its new refinery at Jamnagar, Gujarat, has been brought under control.

Mar 30 -- St. Louis firefighters and Hazmat crews were called to the scene of a possible chemical fire at the Dial Corporation plant in North St. Louis.

Mar 30 - The Sinclair Wyoming refinery is operating at "partial capacity" after a heater fire on Sunday morning that forced the shutdown of a hydro-desulfurization unit.

Mar 30 - The Oil Refinery fire incident that took place on Sunday 22nd March 2009, has as at Sunday 29th March 2009, claimed the lives of thirty (30) people, with several others still remain in life threatening conditions.

Mar 29-AVALON, Texas — Some residents living near a chemical plant in Avalon were out of their homes late Sunday after a fire at the plant.

Mar 28 - WEST CHESTER TWP. — Employees triggered an alarm at Amylin Pharmaceuticals and briefly evacuated the West Chester Twp. plant Friday afternoon, March 27, after noticing a heat-producing chemical reaction.

Mar 28 - Sunoco Inc., which is still contesting a hefty fine it received last year for safety problems at its East Toledo refinery, has been cited for a $25,000 fine from federal safety officials and a letter detailing other problems related to an Oct. 2 cooling tower fire.

Mar 28 - A fire at a chemical depot in Brazil's largest city has resulted in dozens of evacuations and severely damaged a number of houses in a busy neighbourhood.

Mar 26 - A power outage caused by a lightning storm impacted several units at Motiva's oil refinery in Port Arthur, Texas, and set off a flash fire that was quickly extinguished, the company said in a filing with environmental regulators.

Mar 24 - An explosion following a leakage in the main oil refinery fuel transfer pipe to the Texaco terminal at the Kissy terminal, east of Freetown, has killed at least nine people and seriously injured at least 23.

NEW YORK, March 24 - ConocoPhillips said on Tuesday there was minimal impact from a brief Saturday fire at its Bayway refinery in Linden, New Jersey, and said planned maintenance work was still ongoing at the plant.

Mar 14 - The accident happened on the 04 ammonia plant, which produces 2,200 tonnes of ammonia a day-worth more than $US1.5 million at current market prices.

Fire broke out at the Inergy North Coles Levee LPG facility near Tupman Wednesday evening sending a large plume of black smoke over the area.

Ten Sunoco contract workers were possibly exposed to a chemical vapor release yesterday morning at the company's South Philadelphia oil refinery, a Sunoco official said yesterday.

Mar 11 - MIDLAND, Mich. -- Two separate chemical releases Tuesday at Dow Corning has been identified and isolated, according to a company spokesman.

March 10 - A pipeline supplying crude oil to Marathon Oil Corp's 256,000-barrel-per-day Garyville, Louisiana, refinery was temporarily shut after an explosion that killed one worker and injured three others on Tuesday, according to the Louisiana State Police.

Mar 10 - ST. JAMES, La. -- One person was killed and three others were injured in an accident Tuesday at a plant that processes crude oil, Louisiana State Police said.

Mar 9 - As a result, the company has been issued 26 serious violations with combined proposed penalties of $81,000 and one willful violation with a proposed penalty of $49,500.

Mar 6 - A fire that erupted in a chemical plant in Yehud Friday afternoon led to the temporary evacuation of local residents and brought hundreds of others to shut themselves in their homes for fear of dangerous gases.

CALGARY, Alberta, March 6 - Imperial Oil Ltd (IMO.TO) reported on Friday a minor leak of heavy oil at the coker unit at its 119,000 barrel per day Sarnia, Ontario, refinery.

Mar 5 - CHENNAI: The bodies of three Indian nationals from Tamil Nadu, who died in Singapore following an industrial accident, arrived in Chennai on Tuesday.

Mar 5 - Oil supplies to three refineries and the Black Sea port of Tuapse were cut off by a fire and leak on a central Russian pipeline this week, in addition to the port of Novorossiisk, Russia's pipeline monopoly said on Thursday.

March 5 - Two workers were killed and another one injured early on Thursday after hydrogen sulfide leaked at an oil refinery in Russia's Urals region, a local police source said.

KUWAIT, March 4 Kuwait National Petroleum Company announced here on Wednesday it has controlled limited oil spill occurred in one of the units in the Mina Abdulla refinery earlier in the day without causing any injuries or impact on oil exports.

Mar 4- Formosa Petrochemical Corp (台塑石化) said an explosion at its No. 1 ethylene plant on Monday killed one person.

BEIJING: Mar 3- A city in eastern China that had its tap water contaminated by an industrial chemical leak will shut down more than 30 chemical plants, state media reported Tuesday.

Mar 3 - TEXAS CITY — Several process units at BP’s refinery were shut down Monday after a unit that removes sulfur from oil malfunctioned.

HOHHOT, March 2 (Xinhua) -- Three workers died and six suffered slight carbon monoxide poisoning in a leak at a chemical plant in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Sunday.

HOUSTON, March 1 - Valero Energy Corp (VLO.N) took a crude unit out of production at its 325,000 barrel-per-day-total-throughput Port Arthur, Texas, refinery after a Friday night fire in a heat exchanger, a company spokesman said.

Feb 26 - The Bayer CropScience Plant in Kanawha County is cited for 13 serious violations and two repeat violations after a deadly explosion and fire at the facility in August 2008.

Feb 26 - An explosion shut down part of the Sid Richardson carbon plant in Borger on Thursday afternoon.

Feb 24 - BP Plc said on Tuesday that a fire in a conveyor belt carrying petroleum coke at its 265,000-barrel-per-day refinery in Carson, California, was put out late Monday and resulted in no damage to the coker unit.

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) Feb 18 - Two people remain in the hospital with potentially life-threatening injuries following a possible chemical leak at a Cedar Rapids corn processing plant.

Feb 18, 2009 -- after exposure to an unknown chemical at Aiken Chemical Co.

CALGARY, Alberta, Feb 18 - Imperial Oil Ltd (IMO.TO) said on Wednesday it is repairing a coker unit at its 119,000 barrel per day refinery in Sarnia, Ontario,

INSTITUTE, W.Va. Feb 16 -- Officials at a Bayer CropScience complex have notified Kanawha County emergency officials about a small spill of a non-toxic chemical.

MANISTEE TOWNSHIP, Mich. Feb 13 — Authorities say one worker received minor injuries in an explosion and fire at a natural gas processing plant near Manistee.

Feb 13 - A fire early this morning at the Calumet refinery in Shreveport was quickly extinguished by the plant's fire brigade, the Shreveport Fire Department said.

ROTTERDAM, Feb 13 - Flames engulfed a sulfur extraction plant operated by Kuwait Petroleum in Rotterdam for several hours on Friday before the blaze was brought under control, police and fire officials said.

Feb 12 - HYDERABAD: The explosion at a chemical factory in the Moula Ali industrial area on Monday night causing much panic in the surrounding areas highlights the negligence and blatant flouting of safety norms by factories in the city.

Feb 11 - CARTHAGE, Texas — Two explosions near an East Texas gas processing plant sparked a grass fire, scorched the highway and burned a trailer and several parked vehicles Wednesday, officials said.

Feb 10 - MEAD — Boulder Scientific Co. has disputed federal citations and fines issued after an explosion and fire that left an employee dead last May.

Feb 9 - Nine days after an explosion and fire at the Petro-Canada refinery west of Sherwood Park, another black column of smoke was spotted over the refinery early Thursday afternoon.

Feb 9 -GRAPEVINE, Texas - GREENHUNTER BIOFUELS, LLC, a refiner and producer of EN and ASTM quality biodiesel, and a wholly-owned subsidiary of GreenHunter Energy, Inc. (NYSE Alternext: GRH), sustained minor damages due to a small fire at the GreenHunter BioFuels refinery located in Houston, Texas this weekend. There were no injuries sustained by GreenHunter personnel or firefighters during this incident.

TOKYO, Feb 9 - Japanese refiner Cosmo Oil Co (5007.T) may be allowed to restart secondary units at its Yokkaichi refinery as early as this week, an official with the local fire department said on Monday.

KIROV, February 6 -- A 25-year old worker was killed and another man badly injured by an outburst of ammonia at the chemical plant in Kirovo-Chepetsk that producers fertilizers on Thursday.

AMSTERDAM, Feb 5 - Royal Dutch Shell (RDSa.L) plans to restart a catalytic cracker at its Pernis oil refinery in the Netherlands in about two to three weeks, a source familiar with the refinery's plans said on Thursday.

Feb 5 - The explosions and fire a year ago at Imperial Sugar Co.’s Port Wentworth, Ga., sugar refinery has cost the company $14.9 million so far, but insurance paid all but about $3.3 million.

CALGARY, Alberta Jan 28 - An explosion and fire damaged Petro-Canada's Edmonton, Alberta, refinery late on Tuesday, but the company said no injuries were reported and the plant was still producing some fuels after the blaze was extinguished.

WASHINGTON, DC, Jan. 26 -- The US Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board provided more details about a Jan. 12 refinery fire near Salt Lake City as its investigators prepared to return to the plant on Jan. 27.

Jan 26 CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Authorities say an oil refinery fire in western Venezuela has injured seven people before being brought under control.

LONDON, Jan 20 - A fire in the platformer unit at Total's (TOTF.PA) Vlissingen refinery in the Netherlands on Tuesday was extinguished fully and caused no injuries, a company spokeswoman said.

Jan 15 - The flexi-coke unit of Amuay refinery, the largest in the country, reduced its input as a result of a fire and defective operations, two sources of the facilities told Reuters on Thursday.

WOODS CROSS, Utah - Four workers were critically injured in an explosion and fire Monday evening at the Silver Eagle Oil Refinery in South Davis County.

Bratislava, January 12 - Strong detonation was heard from Slovakia's oil refinery Slovnaft on Monday around 9.30 p.m. This detonation was linked to the smooth launch of polyethylene unit, Slovnaft refinery corporate communication director Kristina Felova told TASR.

Jan 10 - CAMILLA — Georgia corn ethanol production ground to a halt Tuesday when a valve blew out at First United Ethanol LLC. “Luckily, no one was injured,” said Alicia Shirah, director of communications at FUEL, the state’s first corn ethanol refinery. “There was no emission of any sort, except for steam.”

JOHANNESBURG, Jan 8 - Petrochemicals group Sasol (SOLJ.J) shut down its Germiston chemical solvents plant in South Africa after a fire destroyed four tankers, injuring one person, the company's spokeswoman said on

ZURICH, Jan 8 - Oil refiner Petroplus (PPHN.VX) said on Thursday repair costs following a fire at its Ingolstadt refinery were likely to be minimal and the refinery was expected to come back on stream by the beginning of next week.

Jan 8 - The Engen oil refinery in Durban will run at full capacity by the end of January, spokesperson Herb Payne said on Thursday.

Jan 7 - NEW YORK -- An accident at Reliance Petroleum Ltd.'s new refinery on India's west coast killed two workers less than two weeks after the company began commissioning the mammoth plant.

Jan. 6 -- Royal Dutch Shell Plc is delaying the start of a gasoline unit at Pernis, Europe’s largest refinery, by at least a week after a pipeline fire forced its shutdown last month, two people familiar with the situation said.

Jan 5 - TORONTO _ Chemtrade Logistics Income Fund (TSX:CHE.UN), a provider of industrial chemicals, says it plans to reopen its plant in Beaumont, Tex. in mid-January after lengthy repairs from an August explosion and fire.

LAUREL - Investigators pinpoint the cause of the Christmas day explosion at the CHS Refinery in Laurel. Officials say a pipe failed where they make ultra low sulfur diesel.

Jan 2 - BEIJING (AFP) — At least five people were killed in an explosion at a chemical plant in east China, state media reported Saturday.

LONDON, Jan 2 - A fire broke out on Friday at a British plant owned by French speciality chemicals maker Rhodia (RHA.PA), sending a cloud of phosphorus into the air, police said.

VALDEZ, Alaska, Dec 29, 2008 -- Petro Star Incorporated (PSI), a subsidiary of the Arctic Slope Regional Corporation (ASRC), reported that a fire was extinguished at its Valdez refinery during the midnight hours of Monday, December 29, 2008. There were no injuries to employees or responders.

CARACAS, Dec 28 - Venezuela's 640,000 barrel per day Amuay refinery is operating normally after a fire at one of its naphtha units, state oil company PDVSA said in a statement on Sunday.

Dec 27 - Safety must be to the highest standard at facility where one accident could kill people.

Dec 27 - PetroSA has launched an urgent investigation into a fire at the company's Mossel Bay oil-from-gas plant. The cause of the fire, first detected at one of its units at midday on Christmas day, is unknown.

Dec 26 -BILLINGS - A huge plume of black smoke and flames erupted from the Conoco Phillips Refinery in Billings around noon Thursday. Bill Tanner with Conoco Phillips says the incident happened on a unit that aids in the production of gasoline.

KONKOLA Copper Mines (KCM) Nchanga Smelter in Chingola yesterday caught fire after failure in the instrumentation system.

Dec 24 - KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- From the start, the fire call to the Bayer plant was two-alarm, based solely on how bad it could get and how fast it could happen, fire officials said.

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration recently fined Alon USA $52,275 for violations in connection with the Feb. 18 fire at the company's Big Spring refinery.

HOUSTON, Dec 21 - Production was cut at Citgo Petroleum Corp's 156,000 barrel per day (bpd) Corpus Christi, Texas, refinery after a Sunday morning fire in a sulfur recovery unit, according to a report posted on the Corpus Christi Caller-Times website

CATOOSA — About 40 firefighters battled an explosive fire at a petroleum recycling facility at the Tulsa Port of Catoosa Friday night. The explosions were reported at a two-story building at Safety-Kleen about 8:30 p.m., Tulsa Fire Capt. Michael Baker said.

Dec 18 - Evraz said that three workers at its Nizhny Tagil steel plant died in an incident at a coke chemical production facility. Russia's Evraz Group said that the incident did not stop production at the plant and that it also did not present any threat to the environment in the region.

Dec 18 WASHINGTON -- -- Federal officials have fined Exxon Mobil more than $6 million after it violated a three-year-old agreement to decrease air pollution at four of its refineries.

Dec 18 - A fireball could be seen for miles after an August explosion at the Bayer CropScience Plant in Institute that killed two veteran employees.

Dec 18 - In addition to trying to calculate the damage to their plant and equipment, fire investigators and officials from DCP Midstream are still trying to discover the cause of Tuesday’s explosion that caused so much damage.

Dec 17 - WEST DEPTFORD — A local oil refinery faces a federal fine of $305,000 for workplace safety and health violations. Sunoco Inc.'s Eagle Point Refinery was cited Monday for 25 violations and nine repeat violations by the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration.

Dec 16 - An explosion Tuesday morning at the Huntsman Petrochemical Corporation rocked the facility and surrounding area, leaving company officials perplexed about what caused it.

Dec 16 - Weld County officials are searching for the cause of an explosion that rocked a natural gas plant outside of Fort Lupton on Tuesday morning, according to 9News

Dec 15 - A crude oil processing tank in the city of Dumai, Riau, in Sumatra caught fire Monday, causing state-owned oil firm PT Pertamina to lose an estimated Rp 10 billion (US$ 83,333).

BATON ROUGE, LA - Dec 13 - Baton Rouge firefighters and hazardous materials crews responded to a chemical leak near the Exxon plant around 1:30 p.m. Wednesday.

Dec 12 - Caltex Australia says there was not a major fire or an explosion at its Fort Lytton refinery in Brisbane on Friday afternoon.

Dec 10 - One person has been injured in an explosion at the largest ethanol distillery in Australia near Nowra on the New South Wales south coast.

Dec. 10--A Hartselle man died Monday after being hospitalized in critical condition Sunday evening for possible chemical exposure at ATI Alldyne in Huntsville, where he worked.

Dec 9 - PASCO, Wash-- A hazardous material fire breaks out in Pasco. Firefighters were forced to change their normal methods of attacking the flames, because a potentially dangerous chemical was burning.

NEW DELHI, Dec 8 - A minor fire at a waste treatment unit of Reliance Petroleum's (RPET.BO) new 580,000 barrels per day (bpd) refinery was quickly put out before it could cause damage, a spokesman said on Monday.

Dec. 5 -- Royal Dutch Shell Plc and the DCMR Environmental Protection Agency began an investigation into a fire that broke out yesterday at Shell Pernis in Rotterdam, Europe’s largest refinery.

Dec 3 - The first lawsuit has been filed in connection to last month's explosion at an East Texas refinery. One person died and three people had to go to the hospital after the explosion at Delek Refining in Tyler.

OSLO, Dec 3 - There has been a gas explosion at a fertilizer plant owned by Norway's Yara (YAR.OL) at Heroya south in Norway, public broadcaster NRK reported on Wednesday.

CAIRO, Dec 02, 2008 (The Lima News - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) A man driving a tanker truck full of gasoline escaped with his life Monday after he flipped his truck into a ditch, causing an explosion that sent flames 60 feet into the air and creating a black cloud that could be seen for miles.

Dec 1 - A fire has broken out after a "large explosion" at a chemical plant on a Berkshire trading estate.

HOUSTON, Pa. (KDKA) ― Nov 30 - Officials are investigating the cause of an accident at a plant in Washington County that left one worker injured.

Nov 30 - Royal Dutch Shell last year suffered more workforce deaths than any other large western oil company, with a rate of fatalities twice as high as BP’s.

Tyler, Texas, Nov 28 - More than 2,000 gallons of gasoline spilled Friday from a tank at an eastern Texas oil refinery where an explosion and fire last week killed one worker and injured five.

GUANGZHOU, Nov. 25 (Xinhua) -- Two workers died and three others were injured in a chemical plant fire in south China's Guangdong Province on Tuesday.

Nov 23 - CROSSVILLE, Ill. — An explosion ripped through an out building at the Baker-Hughes oil field chemical plant in this southeastern Illinois town Sunday afternoon, heavily damaging three homes and forcing the evacuation of several others.

JOHANNESBURG, Nov 13 - Engen will import refined oil and oil products after a fire destroyed the main processing unit at its South African crude oil refinery, the country's second largest, the company said on Thursday.

HELSINKI, Oct 29 (Reuters) - Finnish refiner Neste (NES1V.HE) said on Wednesday a small fire broke out at its accident-prone Porvoo refinery, with gasoline production slightly dented, but deliveries unaffected.

Noise from blast at AT Plastics heard up to 20 kilometres away, some schools closed due to significant smoke