Oil Pipeline Blast

An international oil pipeline running through a key rebel-held city in eastern Ukraine blew up on Friday, Russian media said, with images showing a fireball lighting up the night sky.

Three workers died in an explosion in Iran on Tuesday as they attempted to maintain an oil pipeline in the country's west, the oil ministry's Shana agency reported.

A 150-feet tunnel dug by a gang to siphon thousands of litres of fuel from a pipeline has been discovered in west Delhi's Dwarka. The heist that involved tapping into the India Oil Company's pipeline had been going on for some time.

The largest gasoline pipeline in the United States remained shut off on Tuesday in the southern state of Alabama following an explosion that killed one and injured five, as crews battled to control the resulting wildfire.

A fire from a gas pipeline explosion in Iran early today near the town of Gonaveh in the southern province of Bushehr, has been brought under control and did not cause any fatalities, the news agency of the country's oil ministry said today.

A Yemeni government spokesman says a blast hit pipelines connecting oil storage tanks with the refinery in the city of Aden, causing a huge fire.

State-controlled energy firm Oil & Natural Gas Corp (ONGC) has shut two gas fields in Andhra Pradesh after a pipeline fire killed more than two dozen people, its exploration chief said on Friday.

China has punished 48 people, including the chairman of Asia's top refiner, for one of the country's worst industrial disasters last year that killed 62 people.

A Chinese oil pipeline punctured twice a week by oil thieves cleared a safety inspection just two months before a section of the line exploded and killed 62 people in November.

Police have detained seven employees of China's largest oil refiner, Sinopec, following last week's oil pipeline blast that killed at least 55 people when it ripped through residential and commercial roads in an eastern port city.

China has launched a broad investigation into safety at oil and gas pipelines, state media reported on Monday, as the death toll from an explosion at a Sinopec pipeline last week rose to 52.

The death toll from an oil pipeline explosion in a Chinese coastal city rose to 52 on Sunday, as rain and the close proximity of dangerous gases hampered rescue operations.

China's largest oil refiner Sinopec on Saturday apologized for explosions from a ruptured oil pipeline that killed 47 people and injured 136 others in one of the country's worst industrial accidents this year.

An Eni SpA oil pipeline ruptured and caught fire as a militant group claimed responsibility for an attack in the region, their first alleged assault in months as its purported leader awaits trial on terrorism charges in South Africa.

A pipeline exploded in Central Mexico early on Sunday as thieves were trying to steal oil, killing at least 22 people and sending rivers of flaming crude through city streets.Authorities estimated that the explosion and resulting spill affected a 3-mile (5-kilometre) radius.The principal explosion, followed by four additional minor blasts, injured ...

An international oil pipeline running through a key rebel-held city in eastern Ukraine blew up on Friday, Russian media said, with images showing a fireball lighting up the night sky.

Three workers died in an explosion in Iran on Tuesday as they attempted to maintain an oil pipeline in the country's west, the oil ministry's Shana agency reported.

A 150-feet tunnel dug by a gang to siphon thousands of litres of fuel from a pipeline has been discovered in west Delhi's Dwarka. The heist that involved tapping into the India Oil Company's pipeline had been going on for some time.

The largest gasoline pipeline in the United States remained shut off on Tuesday in the southern state of Alabama following an explosion that killed one and injured five, as crews battled to control the resulting wildfire.

A fire from a gas pipeline explosion in Iran early today near the town of Gonaveh in the southern province of Bushehr, has been brought under control and did not cause any fatalities, the news agency of the country's oil ministry said today.

A Yemeni government spokesman says a blast hit pipelines connecting oil storage tanks with the refinery in the city of Aden, causing a huge fire.

State-controlled energy firm Oil & Natural Gas Corp (ONGC) has shut two gas fields in Andhra Pradesh after a pipeline fire killed more than two dozen people, its exploration chief said on Friday.

China has punished 48 people, including the chairman of Asia's top refiner, for one of the country's worst industrial disasters last year that killed 62 people.

A Chinese oil pipeline punctured twice a week by oil thieves cleared a safety inspection just two months before a section of the line exploded and killed 62 people in November.

Police have detained seven employees of China's largest oil refiner, Sinopec, following last week's oil pipeline blast that killed at least 55 people when it ripped through residential and commercial roads in an eastern port city.

China has launched a broad investigation into safety at oil and gas pipelines, state media reported on Monday, as the death toll from an explosion at a Sinopec pipeline last week rose to 52.

The death toll from an oil pipeline explosion in a Chinese coastal city rose to 52 on Sunday, as rain and the close proximity of dangerous gases hampered rescue operations.

China's largest oil refiner Sinopec on Saturday apologized for explosions from a ruptured oil pipeline that killed 47 people and injured 136 others in one of the country's worst industrial accidents this year.

An Eni SpA oil pipeline ruptured and caught fire as a militant group claimed responsibility for an attack in the region, their first alleged assault in months as its purported leader awaits trial on terrorism charges in South Africa.

A pipeline exploded in Central Mexico early on Sunday as thieves were trying to steal oil, killing at least 22 people and sending rivers of flaming crude through city streets.Authorities estimated that the explosion and resulting spill affected a 3-mile (5-kilometre) radius.The principal explosion, followed by four additional minor blasts, injured ...