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Xiangshui County. Years of illegally stored chemical waste self-heated until it ignited. The blast registered as a 2.2 magnitude earthquake.

During turnaround preparation, a flange full of hot hydrocarbons was opened on a live line. it ignited within minutes...

Campos Basin, Brazil. A well conversion triggered a blowout the platform's own safety barrier could not stop.

Gippsland, Victoria, 1998. A Hazard nobody had studied cut off gas to an entire Australian state...

Campos Basin, Brazil, 2001. A misrouted drainage operation triggered two explosions. Eleven emergency responders died. Five days later, the platform sank.

North Sea, Norway. A vessel lost power and drifted into an unmanned platform. The same failure had already been flagged four years earlier.

Ruwais, UAE, A maintenance-related release ignited on a newly commissioned unit. Nobody was hurt. It is still the 3rd largest loss in the report's 51-year history.

South Pass, Louisiana, A verified pressure reading was wrong. Seven died escaping into the Gulf of Mexico.

Pasadena, Texas. The disaster that led directly to OSHA's Process Safety Management rule.

The Largest Loss in Energy Industry History. A gas condensate release and explosion destroyed Piper Alpha platform in the North Sea July 6 1988.

Lightning Strike Ignites Tank Fire. Three storage tanks caught fire after a lightning strike at major US fuel hub outside Tulsa.

A direct warning that some industrial fires can shift from manageable to catastrophic without much warning