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  • Coal mine gas leak kills six in Pakistan

    15 March 2023

    A gas leak in a coal mine killed six people in Pakistan’s Balochistan region on March 3. Five people were also injured and required hospitalisation after attempting to rescue trapped workers....

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  • Essar to invest £3 billion in UK and India energy transitions

    27 February 2023

    Indian multinational conglomerate Essar Group has announced the formation of Essar Energy Transition (EET) to drive the creation of an energy transition hub in North West England. EET plans to invest a total of £2.9 billion in developing a range of low carbon energy transition projects over the next five years, of which £1.9 billion will be invested across its site at Stanlow and £1 billion in India....

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  • Chemical plant explosion and fire kills two, injures 17

    05 January 2023

    An explosion and fire at a chemical plant in Maharashtra, India killed two people and left 17 others injured on January 1. The incident occurred at a chemical plant operated by Jindal Poly Films which produces polyester and polypropylene films....

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  • Petronas pipeline explosion kills one, injures two

    21 November 2022

    An explosion and fire at the Sabah-Sarawak Gas Pipeline (SSGP) in the town of Lawas in Malaysia killed one person and injured two others on November 16. The SSGP is operated by Malaysian state energy company Petronas which said the incident involved a third-party contractor performing work unrelated to SSGP operations....

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  • Gas plant explosion injures five in Thailand

    30 August 2022

    An explosion at a liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) plant near Bangkok, Thailand injured five people on August 30. The incident happened in the early hours of the morning and left three workers in serious conditions with severe burns....

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Container depot explosion kills at least 49, injures hundreds in Bangladesh 07 June 2022

A fire and subsequent explosion at a shipping container depot near Chittagong, Bangladesh killed at least 49 people and injured over 300 more on June 4. Many of those killed and injured had arrived at the depot to help extinguish a blaze that had erupted before several containers storing chemicals exploded....

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Explosion at Tata Steel plant injures three 13 May 2022

An explosion at a Tata Steel plant in the city of Jamshedpur, India injured three people on May 7. According to Telegraph India, the blast involved a gas pipeline at the plant....

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Coal mine explosion leaves four dead in Pakistan 08 February 2022

An explosion in a coal mine near Quetta, southwestern Pakistan killed four workers on February 5. The blast caused a partial collapse of a mine shaft which meant three more workers had to be rescued following a search and rescue operation....

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Chemical plant explosion kills three, injures 15 in India 17 December 2021

An explosion at a chemical plant in the state of Gujarat on India’s west coast killed three people and injured 15 others on December 16. The incident happened at a chemical manufacturing plant belonging to Gujarat Fluorochemicals Limited (GFL) in the Panchmahal district of Gujarat....

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Shell to build Asia's largest pyrolysis oil upgrader unit for recycling plastic waste 29 November 2021

Shell announced that it will build a new pyrolysis oil upgrader unit which improves the quality of pyrolysis oil, a liquid made from hard-to-recycle plastic waste that would have gone into a landfill, and turns it into chemical feedstock for its Pulau Bukom plant in Singapore. Slated to start production in 2023, the unit will be the largest in Asia and Shell’s first globally, with a capacity of 50,000 tonnes per annum (tpa)....

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