Crisis Report

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.

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.