11.09.2017
- Seven rescue workers in Texas are suing Arkema for $1 million, alleging the French chemical producer was unprepared for the flooding that engulfed its organic peroxides plant at...
28.11.2016
- As a spate of autumn accidents at chemical plants continues, ExxonMobil’s oil refinery at Baton Rouge, Louisiana, was hit last week by a major fire. Four workers – at least two of...
14.11.2016
- The second major fire at a German chemical production site in less than a month broke out at the ChemPark chemical industry park at Leverkusen on the evening of Nov. 12. However...
12.05.2016
- The US Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) is offering a reward of up to $50,000 for information leading to the arrest of persons or persons who deliberately...
11.04.2016
- Two fires that broke out at the respective refineries of LyondellBasell and ExxonMobil in the Houston, Texas, area on Apr. 7 and 8 are believed to have caused extensive damage, but...
20.11.2015
- A fire at a Lubrizol plant in Leetsdale Industrial Park near Pittsburgh, Pennylvania, in the US on Nov. 17 injured one worker and prompted a hazmat response by local firefighters...
17.11.2015
- Shell’s cracker at Moerdijk in the Netherlands remains off line following a small compressor fire in a compressor on Nov. 11. The oil and petrochemical group so far has not...
12.11.2015
- A fire at the Chemelot industrial park operated by Dutch chemical producer DSM on Nov. 9 destroyed a storage facility for plastics resins. No injuries were reported, and estimates...
