A fire has broken out at a Pemex oil refinery in Minatitlan, a town in the Mexican state of Veracruz. Video from the scene shows a plume of black smoke as the facility is engulfed in flames. No casualties have yet been reported.

The incident occurred at the Petroleos Mexicano (Pemex) refinery, named after former Mexican president Lazaro…

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A first for Canada and the world, the company claimed the well can produce enough electricity to power 3,000 homes.

A small, Saskatoon-based company has drilled and fracked the world’s first 90-degree horizontal well for geothermal power in a potentially landmark move that signals the arrival of a new energy source in Canada and provides fresh…

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Berlin should introduce punitive tariffs on imports of US liquefied natural gas (LNG) since Washington is pursuing its own ends by imposing sanctions against the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, according to a German MP.

Klaus Ernst, the chairman of the German parliament’s Committee on Economic Affairs and Energy said that penalties against corporations…

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Russian energy giant Rosneft has announced the discovery of a “unique” gas deposit in the Kara Sea containing an estimated 514 billion cubic meters of natural gas.

The company says the discovery could establish a new cluster for oil and gas production in the area.

The field, which has been named after Soviet Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky, is…

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Iraq’s Ministry of Oil has confirmed reports of explosions at two oil wells in the early hours of Wednesday morning, adding the blasts were the work of a terrorist organization.

The Ministry of Oil said on Wednesday that the oil wells in the north of the country were ablaze after terrorists detonated explosives at the site.

“The Khabbaz…

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The US wants Germany and its European partners to halt construction on Nord Stream 2, a top American diplomat has said. Russian ships have increased activity in the area where the last stretch of the unfinished pipeline lies.

“Now is the time for Germany and the EU to impose a moratorium on the construction of the pipeline,” Robin Quinville,…

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At least seven people were injured in a massive explosion at a crude oil refinery in Durban South Africa, though there have been no reports of fatalities despite the scale of the blast.

Emergency services swarmed the scene, with large contingents of police, fire, and ambulance personnel on scene establishing a security cordon and urging the…

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Oil demand isn’t going to see a bump from air travel demand anytime soon, or so the International Air Transport Association (IATA) said in a recent press release.

And when it says anytime soon, the industry body means that air travel won’t return to normal for years.

And this air travel is exactly the shot in the arm that the oil industry needs…

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A Greek-operated oil tanker has been damaged by a mine explosion near a Saudi port in the Red Sea, local authorities have confirmed. The incident is suspected to stem from Riyadh’s protracted war with Yemen rebels.

Saudi authorities confirmed on Wednesday that a Maltese-flagged oil tanker sustained minor damage following an “attack”at a Red Sea…

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An official from Saudi Arabia’s Aramco oil company has confirmed that Yemen’s Houthi rebels targeted one of its facilities in Jeddah, but said the attack did not halt the plant’s output.

The official said that the strike occurred at a “critical facility” which distributes more than 120,000 barrels of petroleum products per day. The plant is one…

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Washington has reached an agreement to include additional sanctions against Russia’s natural gas pipeline to Germany in a must-pass defense bill, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday, citing sources familiar with the issue.

According to the report, the fresh sanctions against Gazprom’s Nord Stream 2 pipeline would target insurance and certification…

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Energy Safety Canada has reported that A worker was injured when a sudden release of well bore pressure caused the disconnection of the flow ‘T’ from the wellhead.

A rig crew was on location to begin abandonment of an orphaned well.

The task required the rig manager to check and record the shut-in wellhead pressure.

The crew heard a hissing…

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Nearly half of all oil production on the U.S. Gulf Coast has been shut-in ahead of Tropical Storm Zeta, the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) said on Tuesday afternoon.

In the latest update on the multitude of storms making their way through the Gulf Coast this year, disrupting U.S. oil production, the BSEE reports that…

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An explosion caused a blaze at a petrochemicals plant in southwestern Iran on Friday, according to state media. The country has been plagued by accidents at industrial facilities in recent months.

The fire broke out at the aromatics unit of a petrochemical plant in the port city of Bandar Mahshahr, state broadcaster IRIB reported.

Firefighters…

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The Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) has approved the conversion of Exxon Mobil’s Lena compliant tower platform into an artificial reef under its Rigs-to-Reefs Program.

On July 3, 2020, the Lena platform jacket was toppled-in-place to create a new reef site in the Gulf of Mexico outer continental shelf. BSEE approved the…

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Energy safety Canada has reported that a worker was fatally injured by a pumpjack, or as a lot people know them as a nodding donkey.

The two workers were removing an alignment bolt from an out ofservice pumpjack horse head at a storage yard.

The horse head was connected to the walking beam and situated in an upright position, therefore…

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A federal court has struck down the Bureau of Land Management rollback of most of a 2016 rule meant to minimize the venting and flaring of natural gas from oil and gas wells and related storage vessels.

The US district court for the Northern district of California ruled on the 15th July that Bureau of Land Management in 2018 did not do an…

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In 2016 a news channel in Texas ran a story about how oil field workers mysteriously dropped dead whilst on the job. The victims, some as young as 20, were working alone when they died but all of them were performing the same task, which ended in the same fatal circumstances.

The deaths were linked to a task those workers were performing,…

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Two missing firefighters belonging to state-owned Oil India Limited were found dead Wednesday at a wetland near the site of massive blaze at an oil well in India’s northeastern state of Assam.

The oil well that had been leaking gas for the 14 days caught fire in Baghjan of Tinsukia district, about 523 km northeast of Dispur, the capital city…

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While running casing, the pin in the Casing Elevators was incorrectly inserted before the latch was fully closed. This allowed the elevators to inadvertently open as a joint of 9-5/8″ casing was hoisted out of the tubular handling trough.

The joint bounced in the trough and fell on to the gull wings next to the catwalk. No one was injured,…

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It’s easy to forget events that changed the world in the current global crisis, but before you complain about employers or the government asking you to social distance, wear a mask or gloves for your own safety, remember this date, 6th July 1988.Nearly 32 years have passed since Piper Alpha erupted into a fireball after a catastrophic failure… Read more

When your colleague messages you that a storm is now about to strike the desert camp, you need to move, you move! Walking out the office and seeing the monster sandstorm just about to strike the camp leaves you thinking one thing, “Houston we have a problem”!

Oil refinery company, Phillips 66 Ltd was sentenced for safety breaches after two workers in North Lincolnshire suffered life-changing injuries from an uncontrolled release of high pressure and high temperature steam.

Grimsby Crown Court heard that on 30 October 2013, the two workers – one an employee of Phillips 66 Limited, the other an…

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