PARIS (Reuters) – Striking workers blocked delivery trucks carrying oil products, including petrol, from leaving the ExxonMobil Chemical France’s Port-Jerome-Gravenchon refinery in northern France on Friday. Some 200 workers are on strike, an FNME-CGT union member said, and the action will continue until management returns to the negotiations over ExxonMobil Chemical France’s plans to close […]
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The Ukrainian military launched a wave of drones that struck three oil refineries inside southern Russia overnight, a security official said Friday, as Ukraine tries to disrupt the infrastructure that supplies the Russian military. Russia said its air defenses shot down scores of drones, including a half dozen it said were […]
IRBIL, Iraq (AP) — A team of 32 firefighters in northern Iraq was battling to put out a massive fire Thursday, a day after it broke out at an oil refinery, local officials said. The fire broke out late Wednesday at a large refinery in Irbil, in the semi-autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq. Shakhawan […]
By Arathy Somasekhar and Erwin Seba HOUSTON (Reuters) – Element Fuels Holdings, a Dallas-area startup proposing to build the first all-new U.S. oil refinery in nearly 50 years, on Thursday said it was relaunching efforts to build a large plant in South Texas. The Brownsville, Texas, project has been proposed by entrepreneur John Calce at […]
MOSCOW (Reuters) -A fire on Sunday at an oil refinery owned by Lukoil near Ukhta in Russia’s northwestern Komi Republic caused fatalities, authorities said, but did not say how many. Vladimir Uiba, head of the Komi Republic, said the fire had been caused by a failure to comply with safety rules and not by drone […]
Fire broke out at an oil refinery in northwestern Russia on Sunday, resulting in deaths and injuries, local officials said. The regional governor said the fire was not caused by a Ukrainian drone strike and investigators opened a criminal case on suspicion of negligence. The fire near the city of Ukhta in Russia’s northwestern Komi […]
(Bloomberg) — Brazil President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will push the new head of Petroleo Brasileiro SA to speed the pace of investments into refineries and expand its natural gas supplies after ousting the state-run oil company’s chief executive officer, people familiar with his plans said. Most Read from Bloomberg Lula’s firing of Jean […]
(Adds detail on the attack in paragraphs 1-5) May 10 (Reuters) – A Ukraine drone attack set an oil refinery in Russia’s Kaluga region on fire, RIA state news agency reported on Friday, citing emergency services sources. Vladislav Shapsha, governor of the Kaluga region which borders the broader Moscow region, said on the Telegram messaging […]
A worker at the Whitegate oil refinery in Cork who was unfairly dismissed over the manner in which he was fired after testing positive for alcohol at work is to receive no compensation. The Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) ruled that no award should be made against Irving Oil Whitegate Refinery as the employee, Eddie Desmond, […]
MOSCOW (Reuters) -Ukraine struck one of Russia’s biggest refineries on Tuesday with a drone 1,300 km (800 miles) from the front lines in Ukraine and said it had inflicted significant damage on a military target. Ukrainian drones attacked targets in Tatarstan, a highly industrialised region south-east of Moscow, in the early hours and some people […]
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian shelling of the Russian city of Belgorod, close to the border with Ukraine, killed two people, Russian officials said Saturday. A man and a woman died in the attack and three other people were wounded, regional Gov. Vyacheslav Gladkov said on Telegram. It was the latest in exchanges of long-range […]
By Guy Faulconbridge and Lidia Kelly MOSCOW (Reuters) – Ukraine pounded targets in Russia on Tuesday with dozens of drones and rockets in a sweeping attack that inflicted serious damage on a major oil refinery and sought to pierce the land borders of the world’s biggest nuclear power with armed proxies. Russia and Ukraine have […]