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The JOIFF Virtual Industrial Fire & Hazard Management Conference & Exhibition 2021
The JOIFF Industrial Fire & Hazard Management Virtual Conference & Exhibition 2021 SAVE THE DATE - February 8TH & 9TH 2021 The Global Covid 19 Pandemic has resulted in all Fire Industry Events to be cancelled or postponed, this included the JOIFF International FEHM Conference 2020.Due to the risks that Covid 19 represents, organisational travel restrictions & quarantine periods, In house budget…
GLOBAL INCIDENT REPORT – Spain – Lightning Strike Causes Storage Tank Fire – Repsol – VIDEO
Fire at Repsol's Puertollano plant under control, no production hit MADRID, Aug 10 (Reuters) - A fire that broke out at Repsol’s Puertollano petrochemical plant on Monday morning after lightning struck a fuel storage tank has caused no injuries and will have no impact on production, a company spokesman said. Repsol said its on-site emergency response unit had largely brought…
Nigeria – Seven Dead In Blast At Oil Platform
Nigeria - Seven Dead In Blast At Oil Platform Seven workers at the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation have been killed in a fire explosion at Oil mining lease 40 operated by the Nigerian Petroleum Development Company, a subsidiary of NNPC. The explosion occurred on Tuesday at the petroleum company’s Benin River Valve Station. The Group General Manager,…
PIPER ALPHA – On this Day in 1988: Offshore Industry’s Deadliest Disaster
On this Day in 1988: Offshore Industry's Deadliest Disaster Thirty-two years ago, on July 6, 1988, one of the offshore oil and gas industry's worst-ever disasters struck - the explosion of the Piper Alpha platform in the UK North Sea. To this day, the disaster is the worst ever in the industry by the numbers of lives-lost; 167 people died.…
South Africa – Oil Refinery Explosion Kills Two, Injures Six
A large explosion rocked the Astron Energy refinery at about 4am on Thursday morning [July 2], leaving two people dead and six others injured. The plant is located in Milnerton and damage is reportedly visible on one of the units closest to the Plattekloof side. Witnesses told local media that a large explosion rattled windows and doors of nearby houses…
JOIFF Online Shared Learning Seminar – FireFighter Health & Wellbeing 25th August 2020
SUPPORTED BY JOIFF Shared Learning Online Seminar - Firefighter Health & Wellbeing Video and Presentations now available in the members area @ www.joiff.com On August 25th 2020 JOIFF hosted the JOIFF Shared Learning Online Seminar - Firefighter Health & Wellbeing. The presentation slides and the recorded video of the entire event is now available in the members area…
Russia Use Anti-tank Shells In Attempt To Put Out Oilfield Fire
Military called in to fire artillery rounds at wellhead in Siberia that has been ablaze for nearly a week A Russian oil company has asked the military to bombard a wellhead fire with anti-tank artillery rounds in a last-ditch effort to extinguish the blaze after nearly a week. Russian troops will deploy to rural Siberia and fire shells from…
Brazil – Fire At Reduc Refinery
Petróleo Brasileiro SA (Petrobras) has extinguished a fire at its 239,000-b/d Duque de Caxias (REDUC) refinery in the Baixada Fluminense area of Brazil’s Rio de Janeiro state. On the afternoon of June 15, the REDUC refinery’s brigade quickly controlled and extinguished a fire that broke out in one of the refinery’s distillation units, Petrobras said. The fire, which was caused by…
India – 10 Dead After Chemicals Factory Explosion
10 workers have now died following an explosion on 3 June, at a chemicals factory in India, reports news agency The Indian Express. Reportedly, more than 70 others were injured. The blast occurred at a facility owned by specialty chemicals and intermediates company Yashashvi Rasayan, in an industrial area located in Dahej, in the Bharuch district of Gujarat, India. New Delhi Television (NDTV) reports that…
Russia – Mining Giant Behind Major Arctic Fuel Spill Admits Waste ‘Violations’
Norilsk Nickel says it has suspended a number of employees responsible for dumping waste water More than 21,000 tonnes of diesel leaked from a fuel storage tank at one of the company’s subsidiary plants near Norilsk A Russian mining giant behind an enormous Arctic fuel spill last month said Sunday it had suspended workers at a metals plant who were…
