Feb 1- Vale SA (VALE5), the world’s largest iron- ore producer, shut its mines in Sudbury, Ontario, to assess safety conditions after a worker was killed in an accident on Jan. 29, according to a regulatory filing.

Feb 1, RIO DE JANEIRO – Four people died and 16 others became ill on Tuesday as a result of a toxic gas leak at a tannery in the southwestern Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul, authorities said.

Feb 1, SURAT: A major fire erupted due to lack of fire protection system at Rama Paper mills plant in Barbodhan in Surat district in the early hours of Wednesday morning.

Jan 30 - THREE workers were killed by poisonous gas as they were repairing a clogged chemical tank in a copper smelting plant in the coastal Fujian Province, ...

Jan 31, SACUL --Two workers were critically burned Tuesday in what evidently was an electrical explosion and fire at a biomass power plant in Sacul in East Texas, authorities said.

Jan 31- Thirteen employees were taken by ambulance from Durable Packaging International’s Wheeling facility Tuesday after falling ill from an apparent carbon monoxide leak.

Jan 31- BYRON (WREX) - Several fire crews were called to the Byron Exelon Plant late Monday morning for what's being called a rare and unusual event that involved a power outage...

Jan 30- No injuries are being reported after a foundry furnace exploded at Cannon-Muskegon Corp. this evening...

Jan 30 - Officials in southern China said they’ve contained a toxic metal spill that threatened water for 1.5 million people and contaminated a tributary of the Pearl River,...

Jan 30- Cleveland Fire Department rushed to the scene of a reported chemical fire at Mueller Co. Saturday afternoon. According to 911 dispatchers,...

Jan 27 - ConocoPhillips on Friday reported sulfur dioxide emissions and flaring at its 356,000 barrels-per-day (bpd) joint-venture Wood River refinery in Roxana, Illinois, ...

Jan 27- The following table lists unplanned and planned production outages at U.S. refineries as reported by Dow Jones Newswires...

Jan 27- A raging fire that broke out at a Chilliwack B.C. Hydro substation Friday morning is now fully extinguished and power has been fully restored ...

Jan 26- An accident at a chemical plant in Wuelfrath, northwest Germany, injured nine people today.

Jan 26- It is reported that a worker at a Toelles Road steel plant was injured when his arm got caught between two metal rollers.

Jan 25, AVON LAKE — No one was injured in a fire at Ford’s Ohio Assembly Plant in Avon Lake this afternoon

Jan 25- Firefighters took more than half an hour to contain the fire, which ignited in a pump house on the east side of the smelter about 8pm...

Jan 24- DESPITE no indications that negligence was involved in a paint factory explosion in Verulam on Sunday night, the South Durban Community Environmental Alliance (SDCEA) ...

Jan 23- LyondellBasell's Wesseling site Germany has been hit by an explosion over the weekend, injuring seven employees, a company spokesman said Monday.

Jan 23, MCKEES ROCKS, Pa. -- Fire broke out inside of an industrial plant in McKees Rocks late Sunday night.

Jan 23- Uralkali (LSE: URKA) informs that an incident took place at Berezniki 4 plant on 23 January 2011. Around 11am local time fire started at the 6th crystallizer in the vacuum crystallization ...

Jan 23- An explosion at the Tema power transmission plant at the Ghana Grid Company (GRIDCO) last night ...

Jan 22 - Petroleos de Venezuela SA’s Amuay refinery is operating normally after a small fire at a distillation unit yesterday ...

Jan 22 - An early morning power outage that suspended production at Imperial Oil, Suncor and BP Saturday, may be the result of vandalism.

Jan 22- One worker was killed and five were injured in a blast inside the Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Limited (MRPL) here on Saturday morning.

Jan 22- Area fire departments worked together to contain the blaze at the C.A. Lawson building in De Pere.

Jan 21, NEW YORK, (Reuters) - A widescale power outage in Sarnia, Ontario shut down two area refineries early on Saturday but power was restored within hours, ...

Jan 20, STAVANGER, Norway -- Production at a liquefied natural gas facility producing as much as 48,000 barrels of oil equivalent for Statoil has resumed, ...

Jan 20, MASON CITY, Iowa -- Authorities say a building fire sprinkler system had put out a fire before Mason City firefighters arrived.

Jan 19- China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) has resumed partial production at its Zhuhai gas terminal project after temporarily fixing a leak in a subsea pipeline.

Jan 19 - Chevron Nigeria has called off search and rescue activities for two contractors who have been missing after a fire started aboard the jack-up KS Endeavor, offshore Nigeria.

Jan 19 - "We have evacuated half of the facility that was compromised by the fire," said Paul Thomsen, Director of Policy and Business Development ...

Jan 19- Jaisalmer: A fire broke out in the second unit of Ramgarh Thermal Power Project, 60 kms from Jaisalmer district headquarters, late on Tuesday.

Jan 19- Glencore International said that the PASAR copper smelter and refinery in the Philippines is shut after a fire earlier this month.

Jan 19, TOKYO - Japanese wholesale power supplier J-Power said on Thursday it partially restarted a fire-hit 1,200-megawatt coal-fired power plant ...

Jan 19, MASON CITY — No one was injured when an air compressor caught on fire at 6:06 p.m. Thursday at Aeron Advanced Manufacturing ...

Jan 19 - The Williams Lake Fire Department received a report of a fire at the Williams Lake Power Plant at about 5:30 p.m. Monday.

Jan 19 - SPRINGFIELD - The Springfield Fire Department's hazardous materials team is on the scene of a chemical spill at the Solutia plant in Indian Orchard ...

Jan 18- CODEGUA — An ammonia leak in a branch of Empresa Los Nobles S.A in Codegua, the O’Higgins Region, has left one person dead and caused the evacuation of nearly 150 workers, 122 of which have been taken to the hospital with injuries of varying severity.

Jan 18- LONDON - The PASAR copper smelter and refinery in the Philippines is shut after a fire earlier this month, majority owner Glencore International said on Wednesday.

Jan 18- A compressor explosion led to a fire this week on Pemex's KU-S platform in its Ku Maloob Zaap field, the Mexican state oil company and local newspapers said.

Jan 18 - WORKCOVER was called to investigate after an explosion at an industrial complex in St Marys left a worker with shrapnel wounds to his head and body last week.

Jan 17- SALISBURY -- Fire and emergency crews were on the scene of a boiler leak at the Perdue facility on Zion Church Road at about 2 p.m. Monday afternoon.

Jan 17, WILMINGTON, Calif. -(Dow Jones)- A major fire broke out Monday at a ConocoPhillips (COP) refinery administrative building in Wilmington, Calif., Fox News reported.

Jan 17, CARTERET — Emergency workers are still trying to stop a leak today at a Carteret fuel refinery that has released 3,000 gallons of combustible liquid, authorities said.

Jan 17, Berlin -- A chemical accident involving chlorine gas injured nearly 40 people Tuesday at a plant for security technology in Bruhl.

Jan 16- No one was injured in a fire Sunday afternoon at U.S. Steel's Irvin Plant in its Mon Valley Works, but the blaze shut down the plant's pickle line ...

Jan 16, GUWAHATI – The Guwahati Refinery fire that broke out on Tuesday was caused by an electrical spark and no explosive material was found...

Jan 15, SAN ANTONIO -- Firefighters doused a small blaze at a San Antonio Water System pumping station in the Olmos Basin around 12:30 p.m. Sunday.

Jan 15, York, PA - A small fire at a Springfield Township chemical plant Sunday morning triggered an employee evacuation, but there were no injuries...

Jan 15- ST. CHARLES PARISH, La. -- An oil fire at the Waterford I power plant sent thick smoke into the air Sunday morning ...

Jan 15, WEST MIFFLIN, Pa. -- Firefighters worked Sunday to extinguish a fire inside the U.S. Steel plant in West Mifflin.

Jan. 13, HAMMERFEST, Norway -- Norwegian energy company Statoil said it was forced to shut down some production of liquefied natural gas

Jan 13- One person sustained minor injuries during a steam explosion at the steel mill in Selkirk Friday morning.

Jan 12- A large fire has erupted overnight at the plant for alkaline paints and resins "Orgahim" in Bulgaria's Danube city of Ruse.

Jan 11 - Chemical giant Orica says static electricity is the most likely cause of another fire from a stack at its Newcastle plant overnight.

Jan 11- Venezuela's refining circuit has reported several incidents in the past month that have affected the production capacity of oil byproducts.

Jan 11- Two workers at a Manchester Township plant temporarily became ill Wednesday morning after inhaling a silica-type powder, leading to a four-hour hazardous-materials incident.

Jan 11, MOCKSVILLE, N.C. -- Fire crews in Davie County spent overnight hours on Wednesday fighting a fire at a manufactuirng plant in Mocksville.

Jan 11, Eastover, SC -- 40 firefighters and 21 emergency units were called to a fire at the Finnchem USA plant early Wednesday morning.

Jan 11- About 350 people had to be evacuated from Goodrich Engine Components in West Des Moines Wednesday morning when a fire broke out.

Jan 11- Mexican authorities are battling what they say is a 1500-barrel pipeline spill in southern Veracruz just kilometres away from the Coatzacoalcos River.

Jan10 - A fire at Indian Oil Corp's (IOC.NS) 20,000 barrels per day (bpd) refinery at Guwahati in northeastern state of Assam is being controlled,...

Jan 10- Exxon Mobil Corp. (XOM) on Jan. 10 said unplanned flaring at its ...

Jan 10, TOKYO - Pan Pacific Copper, Japan's biggest copper smelter, said on Tuesday it suspended operations at its 200,000 tonnes per year Saganoseki smelter on Jan. 7 ...

Jan 09- An engineering plastic plant that exploded and caused the death of three workers in August will go back on-line after undergoing repairs, Hyundai EP Co. said.

Jan 9, TACLOBAN CITY – The Philippine Associated Smelting and Refining Corp. (Pasar), the only copper smelter and refinery in the country, has stopped its operations after a fire damaged its acid plant ...

Jan 9, TUPELO, Miss. - Tupelo firefighters spent about an hour on the scene of a fire at Inter-Pac Incorporated Monday afternoon.

Jan 09, Jaipur: Three workers asphyxiated in the bleaching vessel of an oil factory meant to reprocess the used lubricant oil in Vishwakarma industrial area on Sunday.

Jan 09 - A bolt of lightning has caused a fire at the problem-plagued Orica chemical plant in the New South Wales Hunter Valley.

Jan 8- Six people were killed and two others injured in a geothermal plant explosion in northern China’s Hebei province yesterday afternoon.

Jan 07- Firefighters from Athens and neighboring communities were called to a manufacturing facility Friday after a fire broke out in a storage area.

Jan 7 - Kazakh emergency situations ministry said that fire took place at the aluminum smelter in Pavlodar as a result of short circuit in electric furnace.

Jan 7, Chiba — A fire broke out Friday at a coastal plant of JFE Steel Corp. in Chiba Prefecture after coke apparently burned abnormally in a furnace, firefighters said.

Jan 6 - COLUMBIA — Firefighters from Columbia and Boone County answered a call for regional aid Thursday after a fire broke out at a manufacturing plant in Linn Creek.

Jan 06- ONE worker died and three others were injured when an explosion ripped through a chemical plant in the city's suburban Songjiang District early yesterday morning.

Jan 6, PENDER COUNTY, NC-- A fire at a Pender County factory this morning left employees cleaning up the damage.

Jan 05- One worker is missing and three others were injured after an explosion ripped through a chemical plant in Shanghai's Songjiang District early this morning.

Jan 05- A man suffered cuts and a broken arm in an industrial accident Wednesday in Amherstburg.

Jan 05- An explosion killed three people and injured four others at a chemical plant in Jiaxing City, Zhejiang Province on Wednesday.

Jan 05- Electrical service to many Western Pennsylvania homes was thought to be in danger last week during a fire call in Washington Township.

Jan 05- An early Thursday morning fire in the Aledo Industrial Park damaged a plating manufacturer.

Jan 04- A fire started late Wednesday night at the Gershow Recycling facility in Medford, according to Suffolk County fire officials.

Jan 04- Three people have been taken to hospital with burns after a fire at an Auckland factory.

Jan 4- Indian officials have asked Aurobindo Pharma to provide details of the late November fire at a manufacturing plant that left two workers dead and one injured.

Jan 04- WINNIPEG — Four Winnipeg firefighters were sent flying by an explosion at a fire at a fibreglass plant.

Jan 04, TALCHER: The standby conveyor belt which carries coal to Talcher Thermal Power Station, a unit of National Thermal Power Corporation Limited, caught fire on Tuesday morning.

Jan 3- Zambian Universal Mining and Chemical Industries' steel plant in Kafue was damaged by an explosion at its oxygen tank on December 31, the plant's technical director Julius Kaoma said Sunday.

Jan 3, REGINA - Nine workers were sent to hospital Tuesday morning after a chemical spill created a vaporous cloud at the SeedMaster plant near White City, Sask.

Jan 3- Fire officials said Tuesday that the blaze that destroyed a Winnipeg fiberglass plant did $15 million damage.

Jan 3, SINGAPORE - Taiwan's Formosa Petrochemical Corp has temporarily shut a desulphurizer unit at its 540,000 barrels per day (bpd) refinery in Mailiao after a leakage

Jan 2- Local media reported that at least 11 people have been injured in an explosion at a steel plant in the Zambian capital on New Year eve.

Jan 2, ORMOC CITY—Fire broke out inside the plant premises of the Philippine Associated Smelting and Refining Corp. (Pasar) in Isabel town, some 47 kms from Ormoc.

Jan 1- Firefighter are still investigating the cause of a fire at a Fort Wright chemical plant.

Jan 1- Firefighters from three area departments responded at about 2 p.m. Friday to a fire at the City of Houston wastewater treatment plant.

Dec 31, HENDERSON, N.C. -- Firefighters were called to a glass manufacturing plant in Henderson Saturday morning.

Dec 30 -No one was injured when a three-alarm fire struck a recycling business in Columbia late Wednesday night, officials said.

Dec 30, FAIRFIELD, Conn. – A chemical spill at General Electric’s Fairfield headquarters leaked 500 gallons of nonhazardous materials Thursday evening, according to the Fairfield Fire Department.

Dec 30- An explosion, which sparked a fire at a shipyard in Korea's southeastern city earlier this morning killed four people who were working inside the plant.

Dec 30, HOUSTON - A fire broke out a manufacturing plant in northeast Harris County this morning, sending a plume of smoke into the air that could be seen from miles around.

Dec 29, CEDAR RAPIDS – Firefighters used a relatively minor issue inside a Cedar Rapids power plant as a training opportunity Thursday.

Dec 29, REGINA — Rolling, thick black smoke smeared the mid-afternoon sky — the aftermath of an explosion and fireball that forced the evacuation of hundreds of workers.

Dec 28- Kyrgyzstan, the Ministry of Interior specifies: the fire at Kainda-Oil bulk plant petroleum depot was caused by the explosion.

Dec 28, SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The cargo ship accident that dumped tens of thousands of gallons of thick, tarry ship fuel into San Francisco Bay caused lasting damage to the region's once-plentiful schools of Pacific herring

Dec 27- Brazilian state-controlled oil producer Petroleo Brasileiro, or Petrobras, said it halted operations at a distilling unit at its Duque de Caxias, or Reduc, oil refinery in Rio de Janeiro state Monday due to a small fire.

Dec 26- FIRE crews were called to an explosion at an industrial unit in Verwood on Thursday afternoon.

Dec 23- DELAWARE CITY, Del. — Less than a month after a power failure caused the release of hazardous chemicals at the Delaware City Refinery here, another release has been reported.

Dec 23, Balasore (Orissa): A major disaster was averted on Friday as a fire broke out inside the premises of Indian Oil Corporation's (IOC) LPG bottling plant near here, plant sources said.

Dec 23- An explosion has killed 11 people and injured 70 others at a pipeline run by Colombia's Ecopetrol.

Dec 22- They were called to Ebblake Industrial Estate in Verwood at about 16:30 GMT following reports of a small explosion and fire at a chemical cleaning plant.

Dec 22- Shell Nigeria Exploration and Production Company (SNEPCo) said it has shut production from its deepwater asset, Bonga field, following oil leakage from the floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel.

Dec 21- The largest offshore energy explorer in China, CNOOC, reported on Tuesday that one of their subsea pipelines in the South China Sea is leaking gas.

Dec 21- The timely involvement of the fire and rescue team averted a fire mishap at Saramkuthy in the late hours of Tuesday.

Dec 20- A malfunction at an Isfahan refinery caused a leakage of cooling water from its generators - the latest in a string of mysterious mishaps in Iran in the past few months.

Dec 20-A worker at the Ameren Missouri power plant at Labadie died Tuesday after falling 85 feet from a platform.

Dec 20- An employee of a Gainesville business was killed Tuesday afternoon in an explosion touched off when chemical fumes apparently ignited in a piece of equipment used to clean filters.

Dec 20- IT took 30 firefighters more than 11 hours to contain a gas leak at Mobil’s Altona refinery.

Dec 19- Orrington - No one was hurt when a fire broke out at the PERC plant in Orrington early Monday morning.

Dec 19- SPRING HILL Fire units responded shortly after 2:20 p.m. Monday at the Heritage Propane Plant at 4690 Keysville Ave. following a propane tank explosion.

Dec 19- A worker who suffered severe burns during a flash fire earlier this month has died.

Dec 19- A weekend explosion at a Shanghai factory run by Apple supplier Pegatron injured 61 workers, 23 of whom were hospitalized according to the Taiwan-based components maker.

Dec 18, EAST LIVERPOOL, Ohio — An East Liverpool plant fire is under investigation after two workers were seriously burned Saturday afternoon.

Dec 18, Beijing(IANS) As many as 23 workers were injured after an explosion occurred at a factory in China's Shanghai city Saturday, the Shanghai municipal government stated.

Dec 17- A section of the old fertilizer plant in Cottondale burned down on Thursday. No one was injured.

Dec 16, CUYAHOGA FALLS, Ohio - An early morning fire at a Cuyahoga Falls factory heavily damaged the building Friday.

Dec 16- WOODVILE, Ohio (WUPW) - Three people were injured at the Martin Marietta plant on Lime Road in Woodville after a structure collapsed Friday morning.

Dec 15, MOSCOW (Dow Jones)--Russian oil company OAO Lukoil Holdings (LKOH.RS) said a fire Thursday at the Stavrolen ...

Dec 14- TEXAS CITY, Texas— Residents living near Marathon’s refinery were awakened by sirens this morning after a spill of a diesel-like fuel.

Dec 13- TSURUGA, Japan (Kyodo) -- A fire broke out Monday evening at a waste disposal facility of a nuclear power plant in Tsuruga, Fukui Prefecture, ...

Dec 13- ROURKELA: Four contract labourers sustained burns at the Rourkela Steel Plant here on Monday.

Dec 13- KUALA TERENGGANU - Four contract workers sustained multiple injuries after a fire broke out at a Petronas plant in Kerteh, Kemaman.

Dec 12- A blast in a factory in the central Iran province of Yazd claimed seven lives and wounded 12 others Sunday evening, the Iranian authorities confirmed on Monday.

Dec 12- Blasts followed by a fire were reported at the Pasadena Refining System refinery in a suburb of Houston Saturday evening.

Dec 12- Orica has resumed ammonium nitrate production at its Newcastle plant after repeated chemical leaks almost shut down the site.

Dec 12- FIREFIGHTERS and specially trained Mobil staff took 11 hours to contain a gas leak at the company’s Altona refinery yesterday.

Dec 12- Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) pipeline Sunday burst into flame in Effurun adjoining Warri, thereby unsettling residents of Warri/Effurun metropolis in the process.

Dec 11-- A fire at Petroleo Brasileiro SA’s Pasadena refinery near Houston has been extinguished, the company said in an emailed statement.

Dec 11- NEW YORK (Dow Jones)--ConocoPhillips (COP) said a process unit upset and coke drum fire occurred at its Wood River ...

Dec 11- NEW YORK (Dow Jones)--Exxon Mobil Corp. (XOM) said operations had returned to normal following a relatively brief sulfur plant upset at its Beaumont, Texas, oil refinery ...

Dec 10- Neighbors of wood-preservation plant complained of breathing difficulties, brought more than 20 firefighters to leak

Dec 9- NEW YORK -(Dow Jones)-Valero Energy Corp. (VLO) on Thursday reported flaring and emissions due to an issue with a wet gas compressor at its oil refinery in Port Arthur, Texas, a filing to the U.S. National Response Center, or NRC, made available on Friday said.

Dec 9- HOUSTON (Dow Jones)--BP PLC (BP, BP.LN) reported emissions at its ...

Dec 9 - TengizChevroil LLP, the Kazakh oil venture led by Chevron Corp. (CVX), said production “safely returned to normal rates” yesterday evening after a fire at one of its processing plants.

Dec 8- The Osmose manufacturing plant in Millington experienced a leak.A ball valve was leaking ammonium hydroxide.

Dec 8, HENDERSON, KY – Three men were sent to the hospital Wednesday following an explosion and fire at Polymer Partners LLC on Commonwealth Drive near KY-136 in Henderson Corporate Park.

Dec 8-Chevron Corp. (CVX) on Dec. 7 said its oil refinery in El Segundo, Calif., had resumed normal operations after a power interruption on Dec. 1 forced the shutdown of several processing units.

Dec 7- Several fire trucks including a hazardous materials unit have been called to attend another incident at Orica's shuttered Kooragang Island plant near Newcastle.

Dec 6- A worker suffered serious injuries after his arm was dragged into a conveyor belt.

Dec 6, REGINA — The on-site investigation of the Oct. 6 fire and explosion at the Consumers’ Co-operative Refineries Ltd. (CCRL) is complete, but the cause will not likely be determined until the new year.

Dec 5, ALEPPO – Five workers were injured on Sunday when a fire erupted at al-Ramuseh gas plant in Aleppo.

Dec 1, TOKYO -- An explosion at a JFE Steel Corp. plant in Chiba, near Tokyo, has injured two workers, the Yomiuri Shimbun reported Friday, citing a local fire department.

Dec 1- A fire at a San Antonio (TX) refinery was attributed to a container leaking jet fuel. It was the second fire at this same industrial site in two years.

Dec 1, SAN ANTONIO — A San Antonio refinery caught fire for the second time in two years Wednesday, forcing about 60 workers to evacuate the plant after the company said a dislodged valve ignited the blaze.

Nov 30, VADODARA: Major fire broke out in a company manufacturing pesticides in Nandesari-GIDC on Wednesday afternoon.

Nov 30- Alon USA Energy reported that a fire within a tank had been contained at its Bakersfield, California, refinery on Wednesday, according to a notice filed with the California pollution regulators.

Nov 30- A shelter has been lifted in the Port Arthur-Groves area after a release was reported by Total Port Arthur refinery.

Nov 30- Refinery leaders say the raccoon got into some electrical equipment at the refinery, knocking a number of units offline, causing a large flaring incident Sunday night.

Nov 29, CANTON — Marathon Petroleum officials told the Canton Health Department that vapors from gas and oil being processed at its Gambrinus Avenue SW refinery were released Saturday after a piece of tubing ruptured, a Canton health official said Tuesday.

Nov 29, THERESA — A 55-year-old Horicon man died Monday, while a co-worker was reported in stable condition this morning after the two were overcome by chemical fumes at a plant near Theresa.

Nov 29, Norochcholai: A fire erupted in Sri Lanka's coal power plant in Norochcholai in the North Western Province early this morning, forced the authorities to shut down the plant temporarily.

Nov 29- Tense situation prevailed for some time on the premises of Aurobindo pharmaceutical unit at Pydibheemavaram in Ranasthalam mandal in the district when three workers of the plant were injured in a fire mishap that occurred inside the plant in the early hours of Monday.

Nov 28, THERESA, Wis. (AP) — One worker is dead and another critically injured after they were overcome by chemical fumes at a Dodge County manufacturing plant.

Nov 28-A small fire in a coal dust collector was extinguished automatically at a Colorado Springs Utilities power plant in Fountain Monday afternoon.

Nov 28- PBF Energy said a power interruption within its Delaware City, Delaware, refinery on Nov. 27 caused process unit upsets and a boiler shutdown.

Nov 28- A transformer fire and power loss shut down portions of the Delaware City Refinery late Sunday, triggering emergency use of open-air, high-level incineration "flare" towers on both the north and south ends of the refinery.

Nov 27, FLOYD, Iowa— A mechanical malfunction has been cited as the likely cause of a fire in a grain bin dryer at an ethanol plant in Floyd.

Nov 26, YOKOHAMA — A fire broke out Thursday night at a thermal power plant in Yokohama, but no one was injured, firefighters said.

Nov 25- Two people have been injured in a explosion at an gas bottling plant on the outskirts of Cork city this morning.

Nov 25- About 6,000 residents in southern China were evacuated Thursday after an explosion tore through a warehouse at a chemical plant, state media reported.

Nov 24, CLINTON, Okla. -- Crews from several departments were at the scene of a fire at B.J. Services chemical plant on Wednesday night.

Nov 24 - Imperial Oil Ltd (IMO.TO) reported a small release of diesel fuel early on Thursday from a unit undergoing maintenance at its Sarnia, Ontario, refinery, requiring the closure of a nearby street.

Nov. 24--WALLINGFORD -- A liquid oxygen tank is believed to have caused an early morning explosion at a plastic manufacturer that seriously injured a worker.

Nov 24, AMBERNATH: Two workers died and another two were left critically ill following a leak in a newly-opened chemical plant at the Anand Nagar MIDC in Ambernath.

Nov 23, MONTERREY, Mexico – Four workers were killed Wednesday in an explosion at a power plant in the northern Mexican state of Coahuila, authorities said.

Nov 23, West Fargo, ND- Firefighters have brought a blaze under control at a West Fargo metal galvanizing plant after battling it all night.

Nov 23, BECKER, Minn. (AP) — The Sherco 3 power plant near Becker remains out of service after a weekend fire.

Nov 22, EVENDALE – Firefighters quickly extinguished a blaze Monday afternoon at GE Aviation following an explosion in a utility building.

Nov 22 - Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP reported a fire at its petroleum coke terminal Monday in Port Arthur, Texas, in a filing with the U.S. National Response Center.

Nov 21 - Suncor Energy said on Monday that it shut a unit at its 85,000 barrel per day refinery in Sarnia, Ontario after a small leak was discovered late Sunday night.

Nov 20, HOUSTON - A safety flare at Total Petrochemcial's 232,000 barrel per day (bpd) Port Arthur, Texas, refinery malfunctioned on Friday, leading to release of volatile organic compounds into the atmosphere, according to a notice the refinery filed with federal pollution regulators.

Nov19 , PHILADELPHIA, Pa. - (WPVI) -- A small fire broke out inside the Honeywell refinery in Philadelphia early Saturday.

Nov 20-BEIJING — An explosion at a chemical plant in eastern China has killed 14 workers and injured five others.

Nov 17-THREE men were seriously burnt and a fourth knocked down a stairway by the blast when molten steel exploded at OneSteel’s Waratah mill early yesterday.

Nov 17 - Two workers remained hospitalized at the University Medical Center's Burn Care Center on Thursday after an electrical explosion at the Titanium Metals Corp. plant Wednesday.

Nov 17- An explosion and fire at the Nanyo complex (Shunan City, Yamaguchi prefecture) of Japanese chemicals and plastics producer Tosoh (Tokyo; www.tosoh.com) killed a 52-year-old worker and shut two of its three vinyl chloride monomer (VCM) plants on 13 November.

Nov 17, Visakahaptnam, (PTI)- A minor fire broke out today at NTPC's Simhadri Super Thermal power project at Parawada on the outskirts of the city.

Nov 17, OAK HARBOR (AP) -- Water leaking onto an electrical panel caused a small fire at a nuclear power plant.

Nov 16- A fire was reported at the Huntington Power plant in Huntington Canyon on Nov. 16 at approximately 3:13 p.m.

Nov 15 - Chevron Corp (CVX.N) said on Tuesday it experienced a small fire, which was quickly contained and extinguished at its 245,271 barrel-per-day (bpd) Richmond, California, refinery.

Nov 15, FULLERTON – One man has died and another is in critical condition after being exposed to chemicals at a paint-manufacturing plant Tuesday afternoon, authorities said.

Nov 14- A short circuit is the likely cause of a fatal fire in India that was triggered as workers inside a bottling chamber transferred bulk alcohol into bottles.

Nov 14- Valero Energy Corp. on Nov. 14 said there was no material impact to supply after its refinery in Port Arthur, Texas, reported flaring during the weekend. ...

Nov 14- OSHA has cited Akzo Nobel Surface Chemistry LLC in Morris, Ill., a manufacturer of chemical surfactants, for nine serious violations of OSHA's process safety management standards.

Nov 14 , TOKYO - Exxon Mobil's Japanese refiner TonenGeneral Sekiyu KK said on Monday it was conducting unplanned repair work at its 156,000 barrels per day (bpd) Sakai refinery this month in western Japan.

Nov 13, TOKYO- Fire broke out after an explosion shortly before 3:30 p.m. (0630 GMT) on Sunday at a vinyl chloride monomer plant at Tosoh Corp's Nanyo complex in Yamaguchi prefecture, western Japan, a company official said.

Nov 11-THE ORICA plant near Newcastle has been effectively shut down following Wednesday afternoon's serious ammonia leak which caused two people to be hospitalised, as the Premier, Barry O'Farrell, said he has ''absolutely no confidence'' in the company.

Nov 11 - China's State Oceanic Administration (SOA) said on Friday that an oil leak by a subsidiary of Houston-based ConocoPhillips in China's Bohai Bay is a major accident caused by negligence.

Nov 10-A Lincolnton industrial building caught fire Wednesday night. About 12 employees working the night shift at Hof Textiles were evacuated.

Nov 10-A small opening in an electrical junction box was where Tuesday’s explosion and fire at Necessary Oil Co. stated, fire investigators said Wednesday.

Nov 10, ABILENE, Texas -- Abilene Fire Department crews responded to calls of smoke coming from the old power plant on East Lake Road at 10 a.m. Thursday.

Nov 10- The chemical giant Orica has had one of its major plants shut down because of another toxic gas leak.

Nov 10 - ConocoPhillips reported an unplanned flaring at the Carson plant of its 139,000 barrel-per-day refinery in Los Angeles, California, in a filing with state regulators on Thursday.

Nov 9, WINCHESTER -- The cause of a Wednseday morning fire at the HP Hood plant in Kernstown remains under investigation.

Nov 8-Two workers have suffered burns in an explosion at the Angaston cement works in the Barossa Valley.

Nov 8-SEVEN men are being treated by paramedics after a chemical accident at an industrial unit in Brimsdown.

Nov 8, BRISTOL, Tenn. -- A fiery blast Tuesday at Necessary Oil Co. reminded employees of the nearby Food City and other neighbors of a fire that occurred there more than a decade ago, killing one man and heavily damaging the property.

Nov 7- Four workers were injured Monday afternoon during an accident at a Nevada ethanol plant.

Nov 7- South Africa's national oil company PetroSA has restarted its 45,000 bpd gas-to-liquids Mossel Bay refinery, its spokesman said on Monday, which should ease a shortage of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) and bitumen in the country.

Nov 7, LONDON -(Dow Jones)- French oil major Total SA (TOT) has succeeded in extinguishing a fire that broke out at its 331,000 barrel-a-day Gonfreville refinery Monday morning, a spokesman for the company told Dow Jones Newswires.

Nov 7-Three people have been confirmed dead and eight others injured after a factory blast occurred in northeast China's Jilin Province Sunday evening, local authorities said early Monday morning.

Nov 4 - Petrobras subsidiary Pasadena Refining Systems Inc was restarting a crude distillation unit shut since late September at its 100,000 barrel per day (bpd) Pasadena, Texas, refinery, sources familiar with refinery operations said on Friday.

Nov 4-The Malaysian-owned Engen Petroleum group has threatened to pull out of its ageing and controversial Durban fuel refinery after coming under strong pressure from government officials to sort out long-standing air pollution and safety problems.

Nov 4, SHREVEPORT, La. (AP) — Safety officials at the Calumet Specialty Products refinery are investigating an accident that sent three contract workers to the hospital.

Nov 4-Three employees of a Springfield power plant have been released from the hospital after suffering carbon monoxide poisoning during a fire at the plant.

Nov 4, DOVER, Ohio (AP) — A leak of vapor at a chemical plant in eastern Ohio has sent three workers to the hospital and led authorities to restrict traffic in the area.

Nov 3l, HOUSTON- Operations at ConocoPhillips' 120,200 barrel-per-day (bpd) Rodeo, California, refinery were unaffected by a Thursday morning fire in a pit where petroleum coke is dumped, a company spokeswoman said.

Nov 3, SHERWOOD PARK, ALTA.—A serious workplace accident has killed an 18-year-old employee at a refinery northeast of Edmonton.

Nov 3-A blast in the furnace of Pal Steels located at Focal Point, Phase 7, resulted in the death of one worker while 10 others were seriously injured.

Nov 2, BATON ROUGE, LA - It's a safety procedure that was followed, but had people in the around the North Baton Rouge area asking questions.

Nov 2, SAN CLEMENTE (CNS) - An ammonia leak in a water-treatment system at San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station prompted an alert and partial evacuation at the facility Tuesday, but utility officials insisted there was never any threat to the public.

Oct 31-FIRE crews were called to Parkeston's Petrochem Carless refinery after leaking oil caused a fire.

Oct 29-North Wales firefighters were called at 14:23 BST on Saturday to deal with a fire in a refrigerator at an industrial unit at Lon Groes, Gaerwen, Anglesey.

Oct 29-ERARING Power Station was still smouldering last night after an explosion at the plant caused an oil spill that some fear could cause environmental damage much worse than authorities have admitted.

Oct 28-TEHRAN (Reuters) - An explosion caused a fire at an Iranian oil refinery on Friday and a separate incident killed one person in an oil field explosion, the semi-official Mehr news agency reported.

Oct 27-Saudi Aramco has reportedly put a halt to an oil leak at the giant Safaniya field which is rumoured to have started some days ago.

Oct 25, CARACAS - A small explosion and fire hit Venezuela's Petropiar heavy oil upgrader on Tuesday in the second incident at the 180,000 barrel per day (bpd) facility this month, but no one was hurt, officials said.

Oct 25-Unit 2 at Sweden’s Oskarshamn nuclear plant shut down safely Saturday night following a small fire in its turbine hall.

Oct 25-A power plant employee was burned when a hydrogen leak caught fire late Monday near southwest suburban Joliet.

Oct 25- Japan's top oil refiner, JX Nippon Oil & Energy Corp, a unit of JX Holdings , said it restarted the 30,000 barrels per day fuel oil desulphurisation unit at its Kashima refinery, northeast of Tokyo, on Oct. 23, following a fire on Oct. 1.

Oct 24-Stockholm — A Swedish nuclear reactor was shut down yesterday after a fire broke out in the turbine hall of the plant some 310 kilometres south of the capital Stockholm.

Oct 24-SAINT JOHN - Dark smoke and flames at the Irving Oil Ltd. refinery could be seen from uptown during a small fire at the refinery Saturday evening.

Oct 24, OSLO - Production at Nynas AB's 22,000 barrels-per-day Nynaeshamn refinery in Sweden has been halted as some equipment caught fire this weekend in connection with an attempt to restart production after a five-week long maintenance outage.

Oct 22-HOUSTON -(Dow Jones)- A small fire at LyondellBasell Industries' (LYB) refinery in Houston has not affected operations, the company said Saturday.

Oct 22-Alabama Power Co. employees temporarily evacuated Saturday morning following a fire at Plant Gaston in Wilsonville.

Oct 21-Valero Energy Corp. (VLO) on Oct. 21 said previously announced turnaround maintenance at a crude distillation unit and a coker unit began at its oil refinery in Corpus Christi, Texas. The turnaround is expected to conclude in three weeks.

Oct 21-Unplanned oil refinery shutdowns have caused severe shortages of liquid petroleum gas (LPG) and bitumen, pushing the car manufacturing and road construction and rehabilitation industries into crisis.

Oct 21-A fire-shut 8,200 bpd lubricant oil manufacturing unit at its Negishi refinery near Tokyo has entered planned maintenance, a company spokeswoman said.

Oct 20-MOBIL was forced to order around 500 workers at its Altona refinery to stop work after a chemical spill caused a foul “rotten eggs” smell, last week.

Oct 19, SYDNEY - Shell said its Geelong Refinery in Australia's Victoria state had suffered power disruption which had affected production and workers were trying to return operations to normal.

Oct 18- A teenage worker was killed and four suffered severe burns when an explosion ripped through a crude oil storage tank of Phase III of the Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Limited in Bala area here on Tuesday morning.

Oct 18, WARREN, Ohio - Investigators are probing the cause of Monday mornings explosion and fire that ripped through a portion of the RG Steel plant in Warren.

Oct 17 - BP reported a process upset at its 405,000 barrel-per-day refinery in Whiting, Indiana, on Sunday, according to a filing with regulators.

Oct 17-Reduced refining capacity is raising fears of possible shortages of petrol, diesel, paraffin and bitumen tar used in road construction and maintenance

Oct 15-Clean up is underway after a diesel fuel spill at the Montana Refining Company's plant in Great Falls.

Oct 14-CBC News has learned there are still two women in hospital with serious injuries eight days after an explosion and fire at the Consumers' Co-operative Refineries Ltd. refinery in Regina.

Oct 13-An outage at a Chalmette refinery Monday led to a release of hydrogen sulfide and sulfur dioxide, according to Reserve attorney Daniel Becnel Jr., who petitioned for a class-action lawsuit against Chalmette Refining LLC in federal court Tuesday.

Oct 13- Tioga city and rural firefighters were called to a reported grass fire near the Hess Gas Plant at approximately 1:30 p.m. Thursday.

Oct 13, LINDEN — ConocoPhillips officials refused to cooperate in an investigation of an accident scene at an oil refinery, leaving police with little information about a man who may have been seriously injured, said city police.

Oct 13-A ‘ROTTEN egg’ smell released from the Mobil Altona refinery yesterday afternoon was not dangerous to the public, the refinery has confirmed.

Oct 12, CATLETTSBURG, Ky. (AP) - Four workers at the Marathon Petroleum refinery in Catlettsburg have received minor injuries in an acid spill.

Oct 12-An explosion and fire that occurred last week at a crude oil refinery in the central Canadian province of Saskatchewan has injured 10 people.

Oct12-Firemen from Port Reading and Woodbridge responded to a natural gas leak today at the Port Reading refinery.

Oct 12-Residents in the Daya bay area in China's southern Guangdong province expressed their diminishing confidence in China National Offshore Oil Corp (CNOOC) after the oil giant's Huizhou refinery released noxious odors on Oct. 8, causing people to flee the area.

Oct 11, HOUSTON- Petrobras' 100,000 barrel per day (bpd) Pasadena, Texas, refinery is expected to remain shut through the end of October for repairs following a Sept 30 crude distillation unit fire, sources familiar with refinery operations said on Tuesday.

Oct 11, CHALMETTE, La.-- Operations appeared to be back to normal at Chalmette Refining on Tuesday, after a chemical discharge the night before. People living across the Mississippi River in Algiers described the smell as a foul odor.

Oct 11-At least eight workers have been killed in a fire at an oil storage facility near the western Kazakh city of Aktau.

Oct 11-Firefighters say a hydrogen leak caused Sunday's brief blaze at a Los Angeles County oil refinery.

Oct 10, DURBAN - A section of Durban's Engen refinery caught fire on Monday morning, the company said.

Oct 10- The fire brigade called the all clear after an oil leak at the Statoil-operated Mongstad oil refinery north of Bergen in Norway on Monday caused Statoil to evacuate the plant.

Oct 10- NEW YORK (Dow Jones)--West Coast spot gasoline pricing differentials soared Monday morning on news of an equipment snag at ConocoPhillips' refinery near Los Angeles.

Oct 10-The Billings ExxonMobil Refinery is cleaning up a small oil sheen in a side-channel of the Yellowstone River downstream from the plant.

Oct 10, SINGAPORE: Two weeks after the fire at the Singapore refinery, Shell has partially restarted the 210,000 barrels per day CDU (Crude Distillation Units). The units are capable of processing 500,000-bpd of crude.

Oct 10-ExxonMobil's natural gas production in Mobile Bay offshore Alabama remains shut three weeks after a salt water pipe rupture, the company said on Monday according to a report.

Oct 10- Japan's top oil refiner, JX Nippon Oil & Energy Corp, said the 8,200 barrels per day lubricant oil manufacturing unit at its Negishi refinery near Tokyo caught fire around 6:30 p.m. (0930 GMT) on Sunday, but was extinguished by 8:55 p.m.

Oct 9, WILMINGTON - An on-site leak of hydrogen at the ConocoPhillips Refinery in Wilmington, California ignited a stubborn non-injury fire on Sunday that was brought under control by the refinery's industrial fire brigade without need for evacuation.

Oct 7-Goshen, IN — An explosion at an Indiana fertilizer plant injured four workers, who were welding a tank on Monday, October 3, 2011.

Oct 6-REGINA - Ten workers were injured Thursday when a pipe leaking diesel fuel and hydrogen gas caught fire at a crude oil refinery in Regina and sent an explosion tearing through part of the plant.

Oct 6-HOHHOT - One was killed and 6 others injured in a blast-triggered fire on Thursday at a chemical plant in North China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, local authorities said.

Oct 6-REGINA -- Shaken by an explosion that some described as a massive fireball, workers huddled in groups in the fields surrounding the Consumers' Co-operative Refineries Ltd. (CCRL) in north Regina on Thursday afternoon.

Oct 5-Qatar's 146,000 barrel per day (bpd) Laffan condensate refinery is completely shut and work ongoing to resolve the issue, a Qatargas spokeswoman said on Wednesday less than a week after a large refinery in Singapore was shut by a fire.

Oct 5- BP is investigating a weekend fire at a gasoline reformer in its Castellon refinery, a company spokesman said on Wednesday.

Oct 5- The crude distillation unit at BP's small Lingen refinery in Germany remains out of action after a fire broke on Tuesday, a company spokesman said on Wednesday.

Oct 4-Workers were mixing chemicals at Magnablend, Inc., the company which owns the Waxahachie, TX plant, when the process went awry and sparked a massive fire which has consumed the facility in a dramatic conflagration.

Oct 4-SINGAPORE - Last Wednesday's fire on Shell's Pulau Bukom refinery broke out during preparation work for maintenance, which included the draining of residual oil in a pipeline.

Oct 3-WorkSafeNB is investigating an incident at the Irving Oil refinery last week where some workers were exposed to acid fumes.

Oct 3-Federal workplace safety officials have launched an investigation of the illnesses of three workers last week at the DuPont Co. chemical plant in Belle.

Oct 2, TOKYO - Japan's top refiner, JX Nippon Oil & Energy Corp, a unit of JX Holdings , said it conducted an emergency shutdown of the 30,000 barrels per day No.1 fuel oil desulphurisation unit ...

Oct 2-Four workers have been killed and two injured in a gas pipe explosion at Kuwait's largest refinery of Mina al-Ahmadi.

Sep 30 - A fire that broke out Friday afternoon in a crude distillation unit at Petrobras' (PETR4.SA)(PBR.N) 100,000-barrels-per-day Pasadena, Texas refinery was under control, a fire marshall said.

Sep 30, HOUSTON -(Dow Jones)- A fire at a crude unit at the Pasadena Refining Systems Inc. refinery in suburban Houston has been extinguished, the company said Friday.

Sep 29,HASTINGS -- An explosion at the new Whelan Energy Center 2 power plant near Hastings caused some damage but no injuries.

Sep 29, SINGAPORE- Royal Dutch Shell Plc (RDSa.L) halted tanker loading at its largest refinery, a half-a-million barrels-per-day plant in Singapore, as the company struggles to put out a fire burning since Wednesday afternoon.

Sep 29- Royal Dutch Shell Plc finally put out a blaze at its massive Singapore refinery after firefighters struggled to contain it for a day and a half, forcing the firm to start shutting its biggest plant worldwide.

Sep 28-At least two had serious burns from the fire at Kentucky Electric Steel in Ashland.

Sep 26-A gas leak at Shell Todd's Kapuni production station is under control with all staff accounted for and unharmed.

Sep 25- BEIJING -(Dow Jones)- A fire broke out late Friday at a China Petroleum & Chemical Corp. (SNP) refinery in Shanghai, but no casualties were reported, the official Xinhua news agency reported Saturday, citing municipal police.

Sep 23- A city-wide power outage hit refineries in Texas City, Texas, during the evening of Sept. 22. As of the morning of Sept. 23, Marathon Petroleum Corp. (MPC) said units at its 76,000 barrel-a-day refinery were back online...

Sep 22-HOUSTON -(Dow Jones)- ConocoPhillips (COP) said Thursday that its refinery in Trainer, Penn., was running at reduced rates after a release of crude oil.

Sep 21-Tesoro Corp. restarted a sulfur recovery unit at its refinery in Kapolei after an unscheduled shutdown Tuesday.

Sep 21-ExxonMobil depressurised and shut in a natural gas pipeline in Mobile Bay after an unknown sheen was reported Tuesday night.

Sep 20-WATONGA, Okla. — An oil rig exploded Monday night in Watonga, Okla., forcing workers to take safe cover and several families to evacuate their homes, NewsOn6.com reported.

Sep 20, LONDON (Dow Jones)--Oil production at Rumaila, one of Iraq's largest oil fields, has been affected by a fire at a neighboring ...

Sep 20, Portland, Conn. (WTNH) - Residents living near the Kleen Energy plant in Middletown, the scene of a deadly explosion a year and a half ago, got to quiz the company Tuesday about everything from plans for an emergency to noises coming from that new plant.

Sep 19-ISTANBUL, TURKEY (BNO NEWS) -- At least two people were killed on late Monday morning when an explosion ripped through a chemical factory in Turkey, local media reported. Several others were said to be injured.

Sep 19-Four people have suffered burns after a chemical gas explosion at a factory in Alrode on Gauteng’s East Rand.

Sep 18-Bloomberg has reported the release of a carcinogenic chemical - butadiene – by Shell/Motiva at its Norco plant in Louisiana.

Sep 16-Southwest Georgia Ethanol, LLC, a FUEL Company, (SWGE) had a fire occur within one of its ddgs silos on Thursday, September 15, 2011.

Sep 15, Port Dickson - Afire at a shore-to-ship delivery pump at the Esso Oil Refinery here early today saw workers running for safety and flames shooting skywatds visible from two kilometeres away.

Sep 15-A fire Wednesday night at the Land ’O Lakes Purina Feed plant at 505 N. Fourth St. had black smoke billowing over several blocks.

Sep 15-Three workers were killed and four others were seriously burned in a work accident at the state-owned oil and gas company PT Pertamina Refinery Unit IV in Cilacap, Central Java, on Tuesday evening.

Sep 14-Today, Total still has unauthorized emissions like the one caused by an equipment malfunction Sept. 7.

Sep 14-HANOVER, Pa. -- A SKF employee died Tuesday night following an explosion at the Hanover plant in York County, a company representative said.

Sep 14, BEIJING (AFP) - Three people were killed and another three wounded in an explosion at a chemical plant in east China on Tuesday, the official Xinhua news agency reported.

Sep 14-Theindonesiatoday.com - An accident in Pertamina's Cilacap refinery in Central Java killed three workers and injured four others Tuesday (Sept 13) night.

Sep 14- Zuari Industries Ltd has announced with reference to the major break out of fire due to naphtha pipeline leak and subsequent plant shutdown respectively, that the petroleum pipeline which supplies naphtha to the Company is yet to be repaired.

Sep 14-Firefighters are continuing to battle a three-alarm blaze at the Burnwell gas company in Mumford, and at least one male employee who was inside the building was taken to Strong Memorial Hospital with burns to his face and arms and possibly most of his body.

Sep 13-A Long Island Power Authority employee suffered a minor injury while trying to asses a fire that broke out at the defunct Shoreham Nuclear Power Plant Tuesday afternoon, Wading River fire officials said.

Sep 13,LONDON -- A pipeline explosion in Kenya that killed at least 100 people highlights the growing problems facing energy programs in developing countries, analysis finds.

Sep 13 - A leak from a shallow water crude oil pipeline in the Main Pass Area of the Gulf of Mexico has led Chevron to shut down its offshore Louisiana Main Pass pipeline network, the company said on Tuesday.

Sep 13-A worker was killed Monday in an explosion at a French nuclear-waste site, but officials said there was no radioactive leak and authorities quickly declared the emergency over.

Sep 11- Investigators are working to find the cause of a blaze reported to 911 dispatchers around 8 p.m. Saturday.

Sep 11-One worker was treated at Mount St. Mary’s Hospital in Lewiston, then released, following the chemical explosion Friday night at Stollberg Inc., a manufacturing plant in the Town of Niagara.

Sep- 9 ,SHANGHAI, -- No casualties have been reported in a fire that broke out in a chemical industry zone in the outskirt of Shanghai late Thursday evening, sources with the Shanghai fire brigade said.

Sep. 9, SHANGHAI, -- Fire fighters extinguished the flames at a Shanghai chemical plant Friday morning, about 10 hours after the fire broke out, local authorities said.

Sep 9-Factory fire in the night sky lit up red special correspondent Wu Xuehua photo.Time: 10 o’clock last night 50 minutes,Venue: Shanghai Secco Petrochemical Chemical local limited liability company. cause: low olefins pipeline tank farm fire

Sep 7-At least four people have been wounded in a fire in the oil refinery facility in the southern Iranian port city of Abadan, Iranian lawmaker Abdullah Kabi says.

Sep 7- An oil refinery in the central Croatian town of Sisak will resume work in the last quarter of this year after heavy damage in a fire in June, its owner, oil and gas group INA , said on Wednesday.

Sep 7- California-blend gasoline weakened the most in five days on speculation that the switch to winter- blend fuel will boost supply in the market and after Exxon Mobil Corp.

Sep 7-Another fire broke out yesterday at petrochemical complex run by the Formosa Plastics Group (FPG) in Mailiao, Yunlin County, the eighth in the past year at the same industrial zone.

Sep 6-A spokeswoman for the city says two chemicals were mistakenly mixed this morning, creating a hazardous chemical reaction.

Sep 6-Multiple agencies responded to a fire at PCS Phosphate Tuesday night. PCS Phosphate tells WITN that the fire broke out around 10:00 in the Mill area of the property in Aurora.

Sep 5,NEW YORK (Dow Jones)--While operating at "very" low rates due to Tropical Storm Lee, ConocoPhillips' (COP) ...

Sep 5,NEW YORK (Dow Jones)--Sinclair Oil Corp.'s oil refinery in Sinclair, Wyoming, is operating at reduced rates while damage assessments are being made following two recent fires at the plant's ...

Sep 4-RAWLINS, Wyo. (AP) - The cause of 2 fires at the crude oil processing unit at the Sinclair Refinery outside of Rawlins remains under investigation.

Sep 2-Stafford, Kan. — The Stafford city power plant suffered some damage during a fire Thursday afternoon. According to sources in the Stafford County fire department one of the plants power generating motors was damaged in the fire.

Sep 2-FLORIDA, N.Y. — Firefighters are battling a blaze that broke out at the Pharmline Chemical Company in upstate Florida, N.Y.

Sep 2, HOUSTON - Sunoco Inc's 335,000 barrel per day (bpd) Philadelphia refinery restarted the 135,000 bpd crude distillation unit in the Point Breeze section of the refinery on Thursday...

Sep 1-A major fire broke out today at a refinery of Hindustan Copper Limited in the Moubhandar township in Ghatsila subdivision, official sources said.

Sep 1, BERLIN, N.H. (AP) — A fire at a hydroelectric power plant in Berlin has caused some power outages in the city in New Hampshire's North Country.

Sep 1-Warning sirens blasted at Imperial Oil Wednesday as a CVECO code 8 was issued for a light hydrocarbon release.

Aug 31, CATLETTSBURG, Ky-- A power outage continues to cause problems at the Marathon–Catlettsburg Refinery

Aug 30-Three workers were killed Monday morning in an explosion at an oil service site near Glenrock, Wyoming, according to Samson Energy, the Tulsa-based operator.

Aug 30-ConocoPhillips (COP) on Aug. 30 notified U.S. regulators of flaring due to a possible sulfur dioxide release during the restart of its Bayway refinery in Linden, N.J.

Aug 29, BEIJING - A fire broke out at Petrochina's Dalian refinery on Monday morning, the official Xinhua News Agency reported.

Aug 29-CAMBRIDGE — A small explosion at a Cambridge chemical plant sent one person to hospital this morning.

Aug 29-SHANGHAI - Firefighters fought three hours to put out a blaze Monday at a major petrochemical refinery in the northeastern Chinese city of Dalian, the second fire in two months at the facility, police and the company said.

Aug 28, HOUSTON - Sunoco Inc said on Sunday that its Philadelphia and Marcus Hook, Pennsylvania, refineries were operating at reduced production levels.

Aug 28,WARRICK COUNTY, Ind. — One man was hospitalized after a Sunday afternoon fire at Alcoa's Warrick County, Ind., plant, according to company spokesman Jim Beck.

Aug. 28 -- ConocoPhillips shut a 16-inch crude- oil pipeline that delivers feedstock to its Rodeo refinery in northern California after a leak.

Aug 27,SEOUL, South Korea — Authorities say five people were killed in an explosion during an experiment at a chemical company in southeastern South Korea.

Aug 27-ConocoPhillips has shut down its 238,000 barrel-per-day Bayway refinery in Linden, N.J., as a precaution ahead of Hurricane Irene.

Aug 27-A series of explosions at a Southeast Texas oil facility has sent one person to the hospital.

Aug 26-An unplanned flaring event at ExxonMobil's 155,000 barrel-a-day refinery in Torrance, CA, has been in effect since 3 pmAug. 25 Pacific Coast time and is expected to continue until midnight Aug. 26, according to the South Coast Air Quality Mangement District.

Aug 25-In another sign of ongoing risks facing the refining industry and people who live nearby, a fire broke out Wednesday morning at Sunoco Inc.’s Philadelphia oil refinery.

Aug 25-Valero Energy Corp. said a fire was reported recently at its Memphis - Tennessee plant, and the blaze was extinguished after a few hours.

Aug 25-Marathon Petroleum Corp. shut a continuous catalytic reformer at its Detroit refinery after a fire Thursday, according to a state official.

Aug 25, LITCHVILLE, N.D. — A fire at a fertilizer plant in this town near Jamestown destroyed about $300,000 in material, officials said Wednesday

Aug 24 - A brief interruption in power Wednesday afternoon led to a noticeable increase in flaring from Frontier Refining's FTO.N 130,000 barrel-per-day El Dorado refinery in Kansas, according to a local newspaper.

Aug 24, NEW YORK - Marathon Petroleum Corp (MPC.N: Quote) said on Wednesday a gasoline-making fluid catalytic cracker at its 212,000 barrels-per-day refinery in Catlettsburg, Kentucky, was still offline after a small fire shut down the unit a week ago.

Aug 24-Brazil-based Petrobras has temporarily shut operations at its Bahia Blanco refinery in Argentina due to a fire explosion.

Aug 24, HOUSTON - A crude distillation unit at Sunoco Inc's (SUN.N: Quote) 335,000 barrel per day Philadelphia refinery was operating at reduced levels following a fire there Wednesday morning, the company said.

Aug 24-Secunda - At least one person was injured when an explosion caused a fire at Sasol's synfuel plant in Secunda on Wednesday morning.

Aug 23, BHOPAL- Panic gripped Birla Mandir area here on Monday following leakage of chlorine gas from the water filtration plant of BHEL facility here.

Aug 22, BUENOS AIRES - Fire on Monday interrupted operations at an oil refinery where an explosion earlier this month killed a worker and forced the facility to be closed, a local government official said.

Aug 22- Panaji: The Goa Disaster Management Authority (DMA) has ordered the temporary shutdown of a multi-product pipeline from the Mormugao Port Trust (MPT) to a fertiliser manufacturing plant in the port town of Vasco following a fire outbreak on Friday evening.

Aug 20-Close monitoring of the valve is, however, to continue over the weekend to make sure that there is no further leak, the Anglo-Dutch supermajor wrote in a statement on Saturday.

Aug 19-ORICA'S emergency response plan had never factored in the possibility that toxic hexavalent chromium could become airborne.

Aug 17- The controversial Fujia petrochemical plant in China's northeast Liaoning province,n which had been ordered to shut down after mass protests over pollution concerns, began the process to halt production, officials said today.

Aug 17-Two months after it was damaged by fire, Sisak refinery is not back in business, daily Vecernji List writes.

Aug 17-With the goal of restarting operations of oil re-refining by early September, Evergreen Oil Refinery will host a community meeting next Tuesday.

Aug 17,MARSHVILLE, N.C.— A spokesman for a turkey processing plant in Union County says the company is investigating an ammonia leak that forced the evacuation of more than 100 people in the North Carolina community.

Aug 16-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.

Aug 16-Witnesses watched in horror as flames and loud noises erupted from Ballance's Kapuni urea plant on Palmer Rd yesterday.

Aug 16-At least five people were injured and transported to area hospitals after an explosion at a gas plant.. in Herscher , Illinois .

Aug 14, LONDON—Royal Dutch Shell PLC doesn't expect oil leaking from a North Sea platform to reach shore, the Anglo-Dutch major said Saturday, and that the spill was "under control."

Aug 13, PASADENA, TX (KTRK) -- Firefighters battled a two-alarm fire outside Goodyear Bayport Chemical Plant in Pasadena on Saturday.

Aug 12-WARREN, Ohio - Early reports are coming into 21 News about an explosion at the Warren Steel Holdings plant on Mahoning Avenue.

Aug 11-BP PLC (BP) evacuated some non-essential employees Wednesday from its refinery in Texas City, Texas, after flaring occurred for unknown reasons, according to a government filing made...

Aug 10- Two Oklahoma refineries shut down Monday due to storms and other factors, company officials said Wednesday.

Aug 10-Argentine officials ordered Petrobras to close down a small refinery in Argentina after an explosion at the plant killed one person.

Aug 10-Formosa Plastics emergency personnel responded to and extinguished, a non-process fire at its Point Comfort plant shortly after 8 a.m. Wednesday.

Aug 9-A worker has been injured in an explosion at a thermic power plant in southwestern Turkey.

Aug 9- There was a fire this morning at that big ethanol plant in Camilla, though it did not force the FUEL plant to stop production.

Aug 8-BIG SPRING - A fire at the Alon Refinery in Big Spring isn't stopping daily operations.

Aug- 8, HANGZHOU (Xinhua Xiao-Chuan Wang, Wang Tianrong) -Taizhou, Zhejiang, August 8, a chemical plant fire, accident killing seven people were injured.

Aug 8-A catalytic cracking unit at Lyondellbasell's 105,000 barrel per day refinery of Berre l'Etang in southern France was offline after a confined combustion incident, the company said on Monday.

Aug 6, NEW YORK - There was an explosion at Alon USA's 70,000 barrel per day refinery in Big Spring, Texas, local media reported on Saturday.

Aug 5 - A fire on Friday at Valero Energy Corp's refinery in Memphis, Tennessee, has been extinguished and there were no reports of injuries, the company said.

Aug 3- Lion Oil restarted a gas processing unit at its 75,000 barrel-per-day El Dorado, Arkansas refinery after an unexpected shutdown, according to a filing with the National Response Center.

Aug 1-SINGAPORE - Taiwan’s Formosa group has shut a 540,000 bbl/day refinery and 520,000 tonne/year Group II base oil plant in Mailiao following a fire at a propylene pipeline over the weekend, company sources said on Monday.

Jul 30- Petroleos Mexicanos, Latin America’s largest oil producer, said today that two workers died and one was seriously injured in a fire at the Tula refinery today in the central state of Hidalgo, according to a Bloomberg News report.

Jul 30, MANCHESTER, Tenn. — Sheriff's office officials said about 60,000 gallons of fuel were burning at the Tennessee Bio Energy Plant in Coffee County.

Jul 29 - ConocoPhillips (COP.N: Quote) said on Friday it has controlled a fire caused by a release from a hydrocarbon transfer line at its 146,000 barrel-per-day joint venture refinery in Borger, Texas.

Jul 29-CHINA - DSM-AGI Corporation's Shin Hua plant in Tainan, a chemical company producing pesticides, caught fire yesterday morning, injuring eight people and forcing thousands of residents to evacuate, including staff and patients hospitalized in the nearby Tainan Hospital Shin Hua branch.

Jul 28-A small explosion occurred at a power plant in Queens on Wednesday night, though no one was injured.

Jul 28-EL PASO- Dangerous gases are still spewing into El Paso’s air after a refinery accident Tuesday night.

Jul 28-TAIPEI -- Shares of Formosa Plastics Group's (FPG) major units came under pressure yesterday after another fire occurred at its petrochemical complex in Yunlin County, dealers said.

Jul 27, TAIPEI- Taiwan stocks fell 0.22 percent on Wednesday, with Formosa Petrochemical lower after a small fire damaged a power transmission network at the Mailiao complex operated by parent Formosa Plastics Group.

Jul 27-MYFOXNY.COM - A boiler exploded at a power plant in Astoria, Queens, Wednesday evening, authorities said.

Jul 27, NEW YORK - Total Petrochemicals USA Tuesday began the process of restarting several processing units at its Port Arthur, Texas, oil refinery after a lightning strike forced ...

Jul 27- Taiwan's Formosa Petrochemical Corp will shut its No. 3 naphtha cracker in mid-August for a planned maintenance even if it fails to restart its No. 1 unit by then following another outage, its spokesman said on Wednesday.

Jul 26-Witnesses reported just before 2 p.m. today that the Macro Plastics plant on Huntington Drive in Fairfield is on fire.

Jul 25-Exxon Mobil Corp. (XOM) on Monday confirmed an equipment malfunction and the emissions associated with the event at its Joliet refinery in Channahon, Ill., but would not provide further details.

Jul 25-An industrial accident is being investigated after an employee was killed Sunday at LG Hausys in Gordon County.

Jul 24, NEW YORK (Dow Jones)--ConocoPhillips' (COP) Saturday reported flaring at its oil refinery in Rodeo, California, when a ...

Jul 24-A man has died following an industrial accident at an oil refinery in Hampshire, police have said.

Jul 22-Tesoro Corporation released the TOP (Triangle of Prevention) Investigation Team Report on the April 2, 2010, incident at the Anacortes Refinery in Washington State.

Jul 22-Shell Australia reported that a major siren was sounded at the Shell Geelong Refinery in Victoria Thursday morning due to a gas leak on a refinery pump.

Jul 22-WEST CHESTER — Emergency crews responded to an acid leak Friday morning at Kidde Firefighting National Foam Division in the 300 block of East Union Street.

Jul 22, LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A worker at a Louisville plant has been injured in a chemical spill.

Jul 22-Pipeline operator TransCanada has shut-in its 330-mile interstate Bison natural gas pipeline after a rupture in a remote area of Campbell County, Wyoming, late Wednesday.

Jul 22-LINDEN — An overheated pump ignited an ethanol fire at the Citgo plant on Wednesday night.

Jul 21- A MAN has been killed in an industrial accident at Fawley refinery.

Jul 21-Two workers were exposed to a poisonous gas at the Shell refinery near Geelong this morning, firefighters say.

Jul 20-BIG SPRING - A man suffered second degree burns while working at the Alon oil refinery in Big Spring.

Jul 20-Toronto-listed Pembina Pipeline Corporation said it has shut down its Moosehorn gathering pipeline after 1300 barrels of crude oil leaked into an unnamed creek in northern Alberta.

Jul 20-One person was killed and nine others wounded in an explosion Tuesday at a compressor plant on Russia's Yamal peninsula, northwestern Siberia, a spokesman for the local emergencies administration told Itar-Tass news agency.

Jul 20- A worker at the Montana Refining Company on Smelter Avenue in Great Falls was taken to Benefis hospital on Wednesday morning after an electrical incident.

Jul 18, PEARLAND, Texas -- A fire at a chemical plant was contained after firefighters used foam to put it out.

Jul 18- Magna • A Kennecott worker suffered first- and second-degree burns Monday when an overheated water container exploded, the Unified Fire Authority reported.

Jul 18 - Japan's top oil refiner, JX Nippon Oil & Energy Corp, said it shut one of two vacuum distillation units at its 150,000 bpd Mizushima-A refinery on Monday after a fire.

Jul 18- BP reported another pipeline leak at its Alaskan oilfields, frustrating the oil company's attempts to rebuild its reputation after last year's disastrous Gulf of Mexico oil spill.

Jul 16, HARTFORD - A man who fell to his death this month from the top of a tank at the ConocoPhillips refinery was on his first day on the job and had just come from a safety-related worker orientation, investigators say.

Jul 16-China National Petroleum Corp. said a fire that broke out at its refinery in the Chinese coastal city of Dalian has been contained without casualties.

Jul 15-A three-alarm blaze at a plastics recycling plant in Palmer Township sent a giant plume of smoke above the Nazareth area Friday morning as crews tried to contain a fire that started outside but spread inside and badly burned the building.

Jul 13, Baghdad, Iraq - At least 500 people were sickened Tuesday night by a cloud of chlorine gas that leaked from a water treatment plant over Sadr City in eastern Baghdad, health and police officials said.

Jul 13-To ensure that two of its units do not go un-operational at the same time, Taiwan based Formosa Petrochemical Corp will resume operations of its No.1 naphtha cracker in the first-half of August before it closes its No. 3 plant for maintenance.

Jul 13, HOUSTON - Sunoco Inc's (SUN.N) 335,000 barrel-per-day (bpd) Philadelphia refinery has repaired a 40,000-bpd gasoline-producing fluidic catalytic cracking unit, which is increasing production levels, sources familiar with refinery operations said on Wednesday.

Jul 13-After China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) was recently accused of covering up an oil spill less than two weeks ago, they are cleaning up another oil slick after a rig broke down off the northeast coast of China in the Bohai Bay, making this the third oil incident in recent weeks for the company.

Jul 13-At 7:00 am on Monday, July 11, a check valve failure occurred on a coker at the Valero refinery. According to the Hazardous Materials Spill Report provided by the California Emergency Management Agency, the leak resulted in the release of 518 pounds of sulfur dioxide (S02) vapor.

Jul 12- As teams continue to clean stained vegetation and retrieve pooled oil from the Yellowstone River, the state is questioning ExxonMobil’s data.

Jul 12, MILWAUKEE -- Firefighters and Haz-Mat units have responded to a fire at 1316 West St. Paul Ave. in Milwaukee.

Jul 12- A fire at an oil refinery in Guangdong Province has been put out. The fire took hold early on Monday morning in Huizhou City. No casualties were reported.

Jul 12- A potential ammonia spill at Fonterra’s Whareroa plant in Hawera has caused at least three injuries.

Jul 11-CVR Energy Inc. (CVI) reported an "unplanned emergency" at its 115,000-barrel-a-day its refinery in Coffeyville, Kan., that resulted in flaring on Saturday.

Jul 11, BEIJING - China National Offshore Oil Company's Huizhou refinery has shut its 800,000 tonne-per-year aromatics unit after a fire broke out early Monday morning, an industry source said.

Jul 11- A huge fire erupted Sunday night at the General packaging Industries (GPI) plastic factory which is located in the town of Mazraat Yachouch in Bikfaya area of the Metn region and civil defense teams are still struggling to extinguish it.

Jul 10-An oil depot in Daya Bay, south China's Guangdong Province, blasted at around 4:10 am on June 11, 2011, the China National Radio reported.

Jul 09, DAYTON, Tenn. -- About 350 gallons of an isopropyl alcohol and toluene mixture spilled in the Fuji Film Hunt Chemical plant around 7 a.m. Friday, officials said.

Jul 08-Hartsville City Firefighters are responding to a fire at the Sonoco Plant off of North 2nd Street in Hartsville.

Jul 08-Husky Energy Inc.(HUSKF, HSE.T) said July 7 that it has restarted its 155,000 barrel-a-day refinery in Lima, Ohio, after shutting it June 27 to repair a leak in the crude distillation unit furnace.

Jul 08-A Sunday fire at CP Chemicals, 28960 Lakeland Blvd., was caused by human error, according to Wickliffe Fire Department.

Jul 08, GRAPEVINE -- An explosion at an industrial plant sent thick black smoke rolling over Texas 114 on Friday afternoon and shut down a service road.

Jul 07,CORPUS CHRISTI - A gas leak caused concern out near Highway 44 and McKinzie Road today. Residents and businesses were told to shelter in place as crews tried to contain the leak.

Jul 06,HOUSTON- A contract worker died after falling from the top of an asphalt storage tank on Tuesday at the ConocoPhillips (COP.N) refinery in Wood River, Illinois, the company said on Wednesday.

Jul 06-Fire broke out again at Sisak refinery this Monday, just two weeks after a similar larger incident.

Jul 06- PBF Energy reported three problems on July 1 and 2 that resulted in flaring during the restart of the Delaware City, Del., refinery it bought last summer.

Jul 04-A strong blast rocked a gas station in Al-Areesh city, 344 kilometers northeast of Cairo, early Monday, Egyptian TV said.

Jul 04-An explosion sparked a fire at a French nuclear power station on Saturday, just two days after the authorities found 32 safety concerns at the plant.

Jul- 02,Despite having pinpointed repairs needed at an oil refinery plant that caught fire in March, officials at the Evergreen Oil plans remain at a standstill while outside agencies continue investigating the cause of the fire.

Jul 02,HOUSTON -- Montana authorities estimate that about 1,000 barrels of crude have leaked out of an Exxon Mobil Corp. pipeline into the Yellowstone River, a state official said Saturday. The pipeline has been shut down.

Jul 01- Gulf Coast gasoline strengthened against futures after Valero Energy Corp. (VLO) reported flaring at its refinery in Corpus Christi, Texas, because of maintenance on an off-gas compressor.

Jul 01-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.

Jul 01,BEIJING - A small oil leak from the Penglai 19-3 oilfield off China's Bohai Sea, operated by U.S. firm ConocoPhillips , has been largely cleaned up, with production barely affected, Chinese partner CNOOC Ltd and industry sources said on Friday.

June 30-Fire crews in Dundee were today tackling two blazes in separate incidents at industrial premises in the city.

Jun 30-National Petroleum Company (KNPC) declared Thursday that a gas leakage took place at one of the gas branches of the Kuwait Oil Company (KOC) which is injecting gas into Abdullah port refinery.

Jun 28, Russia: Twelve people were injured, five of them seriously, when a fire broke out Tuesday at a large Russian power plant near the western Siberian city of Surgut, Interfax reported.

Jun 27- Abu Dhabi Police and Civil Defence has said a fire that broke out at the Umm Al Nar Refinery on Sunday morning has not resulted in any casualties, Gulf News has reported.

June 27, SPRINGDALE — A chemical accident sent 173 Tyson workers to five hospitals Monday morning when they were overcome by chlorine gas fumes at the Berry Street chicken processing facility

Jun 27-Gas from a chemical plant has been blamed for making almost 100 middle-school students fall ill on Saturday in southwest China’s Guizhou Province.

Jun 25, LOUISVILLE, KY – Friday, state investigators were back out at the scene of a plant explosion in Bluegrass Industrial Park.

Jun 25 ,BAGHDAD- Iraq’s biggest oil refinery, Baiji, was operating at full capacity on Saturday after an explosion and fire on its main gas pipeline shut down most production units, officials said.

Jun 24- Cleburne firefighters responded to the site in the 3500 block of Windmill Road at 7:25 p.m. after receiving reports of a propane tank on fire.

Jun 24-BAYTOWN, Texas - A tanker truck was reported to have exploded near or inside a Chambers County refinery Friday afternoon.

June 23-TEXAS CITY — Problems at an electrical substation knocked out power to Dow Chemical’s Texas City chemical plant Wednesday morning, a company spokeswoman confirmed. The outage, however, was not weather related, power company officials said.

Jun 22 - The man, a longtime employee whose name was being withheld, was working in an area where railcars are loaded with light refinery products when he was pinned by a piece of equipment just before 8 a.m., BP spokesman Walter Neil said.

Jun 22-One worker died Wednesday in an accident at the BP refinery in Carson, a company spokesman said.

Jun 21-A major fire that broke out Monday at an oil refinery in the central Croatian town of Sisak left four firefighters injured, one of them seriously, the HINA news agency reported.

Jun 21-A sulfuric acid leak leads to evacuations at a plant in Oakley. Fire crews were called to Cast-Fab Technologies on Forrer Street just before seven Monday evening. Investigators say an employee was working on a 5,000 gallon tank that holds sulfuric acid when a pipe broke.

Jun 21- LANCASTER — City firefighters put out a fire Monday night at a former Sunoco plant on South Memorial Drive.

Jun 20-Fire crews in St. Louis have been fighting a five-alarm industrial fire in St. Louis.

Jun 20-A fire has broken out at the Ina oil refinery in Sisak early this morning (Mon), daily 24 Sata writes.

Jun 20, ST. LOUIS (AP) — Fire crews in St. Louis have been fighting a five-alarm industrial fire in St. Louis.

Jun 19,BHARUCH- Two labourers were killed when a reactor exploded in United Phosphorus Limited's chemical unit at Ankleshwar on Friday night.

Jun 14-Five people were sent to the hospital after a fire broke out at Arch Chemical plant in Charleston, Tenn., Monday afternoon, emergency officials say.

Jun 14,NEW IBERIA, La. -- Explosions rocked a chemical plant in a southern Louisiana industrial park, sending at least four people to the hospital and forcing evacuations within a mile of the factory.

Jun 14- A small grass fire started Tuesday morning at the Total Petrochemicals refinery in Port Arthur.

Jun 9, LONDON - Fire broke out at the north site of the 320,000 barrel-per-day ISAB refinery in Italy on Thursday morning, a source at the plant said.

Jun 9-The accidental release of toxic gas from a Rosedale Highway refinery last month has prompted air regulators to issue a notice of violation to the plant, essentially kicking off months of negotiation over what size fine the operator should pay.

Jun 8, NEW YORK - ConocoPhillips (COP) reported that a mechanical issue at its oil refinery in Rodeo, Calif., resulted in excess emissions early Wednesday, according to a filing with state environmental regulators.

Jun 7- Workers are currently responding to a fire at the ExxonMobil refinery in downtown Beaumont.A photographer at the scene said it did not appear that anyone was being evacuated from the plant or the homes around it.

Jun 5, Caracas (Prensa Latina) - Experts with the Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA began investigating Sunday to determine the cause of a Saturday night fire at the Amuay refinery, part of the biggest refinery in the world.

Jun 3 -- Four workers were killed when a storage tank exploded and caused a fire at Chevron Corp’s Pembroke plant in Wales yesterday, in the U.K.’s worst refinery disaster for almost four decades

Jun 3-Four people were killed and one was seriously injured in an explosion at an oil refinery in southwest Wales, the plant's owner Chevron Corp said on Friday.

Jun 2-The fire broke out at the Terra Nitrogen plant in Billingham at about 1800 BST and at its height it was tackled by 50 firefighters

Jun 2-ConocoPhillips (COP) shut a crude unit at its Bayway refinery in Linden, New Jersey, after a fire, a company spokesman said.

Jun2, LINDEN — A 41-year-old worker at the ConocoPhillips Bayway Refinery in Linden was in critical condition last night with burns over about 20 percent of his body after a fire started in a furnace in a crude unit used to heat crude oil as part of the refining process.

Jun 1-PBF Energy was working Tuesday to get Delaware City Refinery restart efforts back on track after troubles in a key processing unit on Friday triggered emergency pollution flaring and a system shutdown.

Jun 1-Royal Dutch Shell Plc (RDSA) lost power to all units at its refinery in Deer Park, Texas, after losing steam from an external supplier, two people with knowledge of plant operations said.

May 31-About 100 residents near a petrochemical facility in southwest suburban Morris were evacuated after a power outage stoked fears that a tanker might explode, as per Chicago Tribune.

May 31-Two workers were exposed to sulfuric acid at the DuPont Plan in Belle Tuesday afternoon.

May 29- More than 100 Minooka residents were evacuated from their homes Sunday afternoon when a power outage caused the threat of a tanker explosion at Lyondell Bassell.

May 29- UPDATE: Louisiana State Police say the man injured in Saturday night's natural gas well blowout has been released Sunday from Willis-Knighton Pierremont. No other information has been released.

May 29- Beijing: Three people were killed and eight others injured in an explosion at a chemical plant in east China. The blast occurred last night in a chemical plant of Shandong Baoyuan Chemical Co Ltd in Zibo City, Shandong Province, state-run Xinhua news agency reported today.

May 29, KOCHI: The leakage in an ammonia plant near Edakochi on Thursday evening created panic among the residents in the area.

May 28, HUDSON, N.C. — An explosion at a North Carolina chemical plant set off a multiple-alarm fire Saturday, sending thick black smoke into the air and forcing the evacuation of residents within two miles

May 27-Indeni Oil Refinery, Zambia’s sole 24,000 barrel per day producer resumed work following a shutdown of the Ndola based plant because of a fault in the operations.

May 27, OTTAWA — The Royal Canadian Mint in Ottawa says three workers are OK after inhaling some chemical fumes at the facility this morning.

May27- Sarnia Police removed road blocks around the Imperial Oil refinery Friday at 6:45 p.m. after a disturbing odour was reported late in the afternoon.

May 27, HOUSTON- Refiners in Texas City, Texas, are restarting production units after experiencing the second city-wide power outage in as many months.

May 26-Exall Energy started partial production from its Marten Mountain project in Alberta, after a wildfire in a nearby town forced the oil and gas producer to shut down operations earlier this month.

May 26-An electrical problem is believed to be the cause of a smoky fire last night at a chemical plant in New Jersey.

May 25- Safety fears and “unstable hole conditions” have forced Australian independent Otto Energy to abandon a sidetrack well in the Philippines.

May 25- If you smelled the stench of rotten eggs in the air Tuesday, you most likely smelled gas coming from the Alon Refinery. The smell poured out of the refinery as emergency crews responded to a hydrogen sulfide leak coming from inside.

May 25- MIDDLETON -- An internal investigation has determined that an explosion at a Middleton chemical plant that sent four workers to the hospital was caused when two valves were left open, allowing a building to fill with flammable vapors that were ignited by an internal ignition source.

May 25, BAYONNE, N.J. — A blaze that erupted at a large chemical processing facility in northern New Jersey on Wednesday night appears to have been an electrical fire and caused no injuries, authorities said.

May 25- PARIS - An explosion at a chlorine plant in southern France on Thursday killed one man and injured nine, authorities said. The administration for the Bouches-du-Rhone region said a leak of water containing sodium prompted the explosion. The blast occurred at a plant run by Gazechim in the Mediterranean port of Lavera.

May 25, CHANNAHON — A compressor problem at the ExxonMobil Joliet Refinery in Channahon Township over the weekend led to the flaring of sulfur dioxide gases, according to reports filed recently with the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency.

May 25- An overheated “30-year-old structurally-weakened” fire tube was to blame for a blaze onboard a Mariner Energy platform in the Gulf of Mexico last year, a US marine watchdog report has found.

May 24,BRANCHBURG — A small explosion and fire, caused by a gas that burns when exposed to air, brought volunteer firefighters to a chemical plant at 197 Meister Ave. late Sunday afternoon.