Safety

China's Sinochem shuts one crude unit at Quanzhou after fire

The 300,000-bpd Quanzhou refinery was due to be offline for scheduled full plant maintenance from the end of November or early December to January.

ABB awarded highest certification for industrial safety management

The TÜV Rheinland FSMS Certificate ML 5 is granted to the ABB Energy Industries division Safety Execution Centers (SEC) in Germany, Italy, Norway and Singapore, which provide safety support to high hazard industrial sectors.

Russia's Volgograd oil refinery halts operations after Ukrainian drone attack

Ukraine has for several months been striking Russian oil refineries, depots and pipelines, while Ukrainian energy infrastructure has also been the target of Russian strikes in a war that is approaching its fourth year.

Fire at Belarusian oil refinery Naftan has been put out

The fire was caused by an incident involving diesel fuel at a technological unit.

Ukrainian strikes on Russian refineries drive fuel price rise in Tajikistan

Monitoring on Friday showed that fuel prices in Tajikistan's capital, Dushanbe, had risen significantly since the beginning of October.

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MOL says restarting units of Danube refinery not affected by fire; probe ongoing

The refinery, which has a capacity of 165,000 bpd of crude oil, largely processes Russian crude delivered via the Druzhba pipeline. It effectively covers Hungary's domestic demand for oil products.

Chevron working to restart units at El Segundo refinery (U.S.) after fire

The critical interdependency of relief valve analysis and flare system considerations during a HAZOP study

EverLine and Amulet Critical Infrastructure launch first unified cyber-physical security platform to protect critical U.S. infrastructure

The collaboration combines EverLine’s 24/7 OT monitoring, threat intelligence and compliance capabilities with Amulet’s physical protection solutions and ballistic and blast event detection technologies, creating a comprehensive system that enables critical infrastructure operators to detect, deter and respond to both digital and physical threats in real time.