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  • One person hospitalised following explosion at pharmaceutical company in Ireland

    29 August 2024

    One person was taken to hospital after a chemical explosion occurred at a site in County Mayo, Ireland on 28 August. The facility, located in the town of Westport, is operated by pharmaceutical company AbbVie....

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  • Fire at Danish oil refinery brought under control

    27 August 2024

    A fire broke out at the Crossbridge Energy refinery in Fredericia, Denmark on 25 August before being brought under control after a few hours. The facility in the southeast of the Jutland peninsula supplies more than 35% of Denmark’s entire consumption of liquid fuels for shipping, aircraft, cars, tractors and lorries....

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  • Nuclear safety situation at Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant is “deteriorating”

    19 August 2024

    International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi has said that the nuclear safety situation at Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) is deteriorating following a drone strike that hit the road around the plant site perimeter on 17 August....

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  • Chemical plant fire injures three employees

    05 August 2024

    An explosion and subsequent fire left three employees injured at a Bulgarian chemical plant on 29 July. The incident happened at the Svilosa sodium chlorate plant in the town of Svishtov in the north of the country....

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  • 15 injured in explosion at world’s largest chemical complex

    30 July 2024

    An explosion and subsequent fire left 15 people injured at BASF’s Ludwigshafen chemical complex in Germany on 29 July. The chemical giant said in a statement that an organic solvent leak led to an explosion and subsequent fire, injuring 15 employees at the world’s largest integrated chemical complex....

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EnBW to invest €1 billion in German hydrogen network 23 July 2024

Energy company EnBW has announced that it initially intends to invest around €1 billion (£841m) in establishing and expanding a national hydrogen core network, which, according to the German government’s plans, is set to be built by 2032 and become a key component of a future European Hydrogen Backbone (EHB)....

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Equinor releases second quarter 2024 safety results 23 July 2024

Equinor has released it safety results for the second quarter of 2025 which show the energy major’s long-term safety trend continues to move in a positive direction. The total number of serious incidents and injuries per million hours worked has never been lower than at the end of the second quarter, measured over the previous twelve months....

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Funding approval paves way for progress at BP’s Lingen green hydrogen project 16 July 2024

BP has been granted funding, provided jointly by Germany’s Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (BMWK) and Lower-Saxony Government, as part of the European IPCEI Hy2Infra wave for a green hydrogen project in Germany. The funding will help support the development of a 100MW green hydrogen project next to BP’s Lingen Refinery....

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Explosion damages newly opened hydrogen fuelling station in Germany 27 June 2024

A fire broke out following an explosion at a hydrogen fuelling station near Augsburg, Germany on 26 June, forcing the facility to be closed down just one week after it was opened. The station’s operator, Tyczka Hydrogen, has said the station would remain closed until further notice due to the damage caused. Fortunately, no injuries were reported as a result of the blast....

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Equinor releases investigation report into fatal helicopter accident 25 June 2024

Equinor has conducted an internal investigation into the search & rescue (SAR) helicopter accident that occurred near Bergen on 28 February. The investigation aims to ensure that lessons are learned from the accident, and to identify actions and measures aimed at improving the company’s SAR service and accident preparedness, Equinor said....

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