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.

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.