Incidents

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After Fire, Rouen Adopts Alert System

March 23, 2021

A year and a half after a fire at a local lubricant additive factory, the northern France city of Rouen has adopted a sy ...

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Survey Studies Impacts of Rouen Fire

August 31, 2020

France’s public health agency is conducting a survey to assess health and quality of life impacts of a September 2019 ...

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Baton Rouge Refinery Hit by Fire

February 28, 2020

ExxonMobil is still mum on the cause and effect of a massive fire last week at its large refinery and chemical facility ...

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Building Blockchains Place in Lubricants

October 21, 2019

New disruptive technologies have a direct impact on the lubricant industry, but one in particular is grabbing headlines. ...

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ITC Fire Disrupts Shipping

March 27, 2019

Traffic through the Houston Ship Channel remains backlogged following a three day chemical fire at Intercontinental Term ...

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Hurricane Harvey Impacts PAO Production

September 27, 2017

Chevron Phillips Chemical has declared force majeure on its polyalphaolefin and metallocene PAO produced in North Americ ...

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Motiva Declares Force Majeure

September 13, 2017

Motiva declared force majeure yesterday on base oils produced at its plant in Port Arthur, Texas, indicating that delive ...

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Refineries Move to Reopen

September 6, 2017

A week after Hurricane Harvey stopped drenching the U.S. Gulf Coast, there were signs of good news for the lubricants in ...

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Storm Closes Port Arthur, Baytown, Other Plants

August 30, 2017

Base oil and additive plants along Texas Gulf Coast stand idle as Hurricane Harvey brought record flooding to one of the ...

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Fire Erupts at Rerefinery in Denmark

August 2, 2017

Avista Oil stopped production at its API Group I base oil rerefinery in Kalundborg, Denmark, last week following a fire ...

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Pearl GTL Plant Hobbled

December 28, 2016

Shell announced last week that its joint venture Pearl gas-to-liquids plant in Qatar is operating at a reduced rate of p ...

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Fire Destroys Lube Warehouse in Kyrgyzstan

November 9, 2016

A fire devastated a motor oil warehouse in Bishkek, the capital city of Kyrgyzstan, the countrys emergency situation min ...

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Russian MWF Plant Explosion Kills 1, Injures 4

June 29, 2016

One person was killed and four others injured by an explosion last week at a metalworking fluids and chemicals complex o ...

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Shreveport Refinery Accident Results in Worker Death

May 25, 2016

Calumet Specialty Products Partners L.P. confirmed a worker at its Shreveport, La., facility died from injuries suffered ...

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Axel Americas Resumes Production

April 13, 2016

Axel Americas manufacturing plant in Rosedale, Mississippi is operating at normal capacity after repairing damage that a ...

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Fire Damages Axel Plant in Mississippi

March 9, 2016

A fire erupted at Axel Americas LLCs manufacturing facility in Rosedale, Miss., on Feb. 29, damaging recently installed ...

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Fire Scorches Russian Lube Depot

October 28, 2015

Fire last week at distributor Tekhnorynok Avtomasels warehouse in Bryansk injured none, but caused possibly several mill ...

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BASF Discovers WWII Bomb at German Plant

August 26, 2015

BASF last week announced the discovery of a half-ton WWII-era U.S. bomb at its Ludwigshafen, Germany site, which has mul ...