Fire Breaks Out at Gazprom Neft's Omsk Refinery

The Oil and Gas industry is commonly divided into the three major sectors: Upstream, which includes oil and gas exploration and production;

A Process Safety Incident typically involves an unexpected mechanical integrity failure in a pipeline system or processing facility, often including a fire, explosion, rupture, or hazardous chemical leak. These incidents can be caused by a number factors including

At least three employees were injured in a fire raging at TPC Group's chemical plant in Port Neches, Texas, early on Wednesday morning following a massive explosion felt 30 miles (48 kms) away from the plant.

The U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB) said on Wednesday a fuel leak, possibly due to open valves and a running pump, set off the massive blaze at the ITC petrochemical storage facility along the Houston Ship Channel in March.

Russia’s largest lender Sberbank is in talks with potential investors to sell the Antipinsky oil refinery in Siberia, CEO German Gref said on Friday, adding that he expected a sale in the near future.

Royal Dutch Shell Plc is finishing a planned multi-unit overhaul as it begins restarting the large crude distillation unit (CDU) at its 340,000 barrel-per-day joint-venture Deer Park, Texas, refinery on Tuesday.

Massive explosions that engulfed a Philadelphia refinery in flames on Friday have renewed concerns about the oil industry’s use of hydrofluoric acid to make high-octane gasoline at plants in densely populated areas.