• The Hub Oil explosion was an industrial accident that occurred on August 9, 1999, in Calgary, Alberta, resulting in two fatalities. The Hub Oil refinery...
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  • This is a list of notable tank truck fires and explosions. On 10 June 1961 a Standard Oil tank truck carrying 7,900 gallons of gasoline traveling through...
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    ordered a media blackout on the explosion. The Port of Shahid Rajaee is Iran's largest commercial port and maritime hub, handling approximately 80 million...
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  • a list of accidental explosions and facts about each one, grouped by the time of their occurrence. It does not include explosions caused by terrorist attacks...
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    Hertfordshire Oil Storage Terminal fire. 2021 Balongan refinery explosion 2009 Cataño oil refinery fire 2009 Jaipur fire 1987 Grangemouth Refinery explosion and...
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    Gulf of Mexico. Caused in the aftermath of a blowout and explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oil platform, the United States federal government estimated...
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    North America. In June 2008, the natural gas pipeline explosion at the company's processing hub on Varanus Island led to the 2008 Western Australian gas...
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  • Piper Alpha (category Gas explosions in the United Kingdom)
    30-inch (76 cm) diameter main oil pipeline ran 128 miles (206 km) from Piper Alpha to Flotta. The Piper platform was the hub of a network of pipelines connecting...
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  • office from Montreal to Calgary. 1997 – Calgary Declaration 1999 – Hub Oil explosion 2000 – Bankers Hall-West is completed 11 years after its twin. 2002...
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  • news channel Al Mayadeen falsely reported that seven oil tankers were involved in an explosion in the Port of Fujairah. The news report was quickly picked...
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    An oil tanker, also known as a petroleum tanker, is a ship designed for the bulk transport of oil or its products. There are two basic types of oil tankers:...
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  • Retrieved 12 January 2024. "Industrial – Longford Gas Explosion". Australian Disaster Resilience Knowledge Hub. Archived from the original on 25 October 2023...
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  • companies like Golden Star Resources (Bogoso/Prestea Mine). A tragic explosion occurred in Bogoso on January 20, 2022, when a track transporting mining...
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    oil, with a production capacity of approximately 58,500 barrels per day (9,300 m3/d), however the upgrader was shut down following a 2016 explosion....
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    to the oil deposit – through the riser. In the Deepwater Horizon oil spill of 2010, a large explosion occurred, killing workers and spilling oil into the...
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    - A fire and explosion broke out at an abandoned crude oil tank battery, near El Dorado. March 29, 2013 – Mayflower – "Exxon-Pegasus" oil pipeline spill...
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    June 2008, Apache Energy's primary gas pipeline ruptured, causing an explosion. The plant was shut down, and all personnel on the island were airlifted...
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    Arabian-American Oil Company), officially the Saudi Arabian Oil Company, is a majority state-owned petroleum and natural gas company that is the national oil company...
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    BP (redirect from BP (oil company))
    City refinery explosion, which caused the death of 15 workers and which resulted in a record-setting OSHA fine; Britain's largest oil spill, the wreck...
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    fisheries. The Kuwaiti oil fires produced air pollution that caused respiratory distress. The Deepwater Horizon explosion killed eleven oil rig workers. The...
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    Rogers Place (category Edmonton Oilers)
    Coliseum (opened 1974) as the home of the NHL's Edmonton Oilers and the WHL's Edmonton Oil Kings. The arena is in the block between 102 and 104 Streets...
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    characteristics of explosives used in explosion near Israel Embassy in Delhi". ANI News. Retrieved 13 April 2021. "NSG's Kolkata hub to serve east, northeast: Chidambaram"...
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  • following the discovery of significant oil deposits in the North Sea. Aberdeen has been characterised as the "oil capital" of Scotland, the United Kingdom...
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    people. The explosion was estimated to have a one-kilometre (0.62 mi) blast radius. As of January 2015, estimates varied on the break-even oil price for...
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  • 1984 Romeoville petroleum refinery disaster (category Industrial fires and explosions in the United States)
    On July 23, 1984, an explosion and fire took place at a Union Oil Lemont Refinery in Romeoville, Illinois, outside Chicago, killing 17 people and causing...
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    became a regional trade hub in the 20th century after declaring itself a free port (1901) and extending the Creek (1961). Modest oil revenue helped accelerate...
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  • phases. Oil tanker Oceanic Grandeur oil spill – 1970 Box Flat Mine explosion resulting in the death of 17 miners – 1972 Bulk coal tanker Sygna oil spill...
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    1980s and 1990s. On 7 March 2021, the city was struck by a series of explosions which resulted in the death of at least 105 people and the wounding of...
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    largest oil producing province, Alberta is the hub of Canadian crude oil pipeline systems. About 415,000 kilometres (258,000 mi) of Canada’s oil and gas...
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    An oil platform (also called an oil rig, offshore platform, oil production platform, etc.) is a large structure with facilities to extract and process...
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