PANAMA CITY, PANAMA (By Piero Stewart, Energy Analytics Institute, 15.May.2026, Words: 160) — State-owned Petróleos de Venezuela, S.A. (PDVSA) confirmed an explosion occurred at the Lamargas compression plant, located in block 5 of Lake Maracaibo, Zulia state. The incident occurred on the morning of 15 May 2026.
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Chevron Corp. says fire at El Segundo refinery is now out
EL SEGUNDO, CALIFORNIA (By Chevron, 3.Oct.2025, Words: 176) — On Thursday, 2 Oct. 2025, at approximately 9:30pm, a fire occurred at the Chevron Corporation El Segundo refinery. The incident took place at a processing unit located near the southeast corner of the facility. Following Chevron’s active response along with support from […]
SSR Mining temporarily halts operations at Seabee in Canada due to forest fires
BATON ROUGE, LOUISIANA (Steve Stewart, Energy Analytics Institute, 4.Jun.2025, Words: 167) — SSR Mining Inc. said its 100% owned operations at Seabee have been temporarily suspended due to power interruptions caused by forest fires in the vicinity of the mine. Operations at Seabee are located in Northern Saskatchewan, Canada 125km […]
Pemex attends to fire in TepejĂ del RĂo de Ocampo, Hidalgo
HOUSTON, TEXAS (Editors at Energy Analytics Institute, 17.Jan.2025) — A fire broke out around 5pm on 17 Jan. 2025 near a PetrĂłleos Mexicanos (Pemex) pipeline that transports liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) and located in Tepeji del RĂo de Ocampo on the Mexico-QuerĂ©taro highway. Specialized Pemex personnel, accompanied by security teams, […]
Smoke Development on the Sleipner B Platform
(Equinor, 22.Oct.2024) — Equinor announced that the emergency vessels Skandi Mongstad and Esvagt Bergen have used seawater to cool down the Sleipner platform from a distance during the day. The vessels will remain stationed outside the unmanned Sleipner B platform and monitor the situation for as long as necessary. A […]
SSR Mining updates on Seabee
HOUSTON, TEXAS (Aaron Simonsky, Energy Analytics Institute, 23.Sep.2024, Words: 196) — SSR Mining Inc. said Seabee will restart in second half of Oct. 2024. The fire activity has significantly reduced in the direct vicinity of the Seabee operations and is being actively managed. Following the Seabee evacuation on 21 Aug. […]
EP PetroEcuador controls fire at Esmeraldas refinery AOV 14 tank
(Energy Analytics Institute, Jared Yamin, 27.Sep.2018, Words: 91) — Today at approximately 12:10 pm a fire was reported at the Esmeraldas Refinery AOV 14 Asphalt tank.