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Ship Fire In The Atlantic Complicated By Burning EV Batteries.
A large transport vessel drifting in the Atlantic Ocean broke out in flames on February 16th, which caused the electric vehicles the ship was transporting batteries to ignite. It can be a complicated matter to respond and extinguish a fire outbreak in such a large...
Energy Projections For 2022
According to a report published by S&P Global Market Intelligence, U.S. solar and wind implementations will hit a new record in 2022. This is largely due to the quick transition behind energy sources. According to these reports, the firm is expecting to see as...
Petroleum Storage Tank Fire Outbreak In Lebanon
It's reported that in the early morning of October 11th, a gasoline tank located in Lebenon suffered a massive fire outbreak due to operational error during fuel transfers. Image and original story courtesy of industrialfireworld.com and their respective owners....
Lithium Fires On The Rise
Fires caused by lithium battery opereated vehicles and stations have been on the rise since many vehicle manufactures are switching to hybrid and fully electric vehicles. Between Chevy recalling their line of Bolt Electric Vehicles, and a major fire outbreak in a...
Clean Energy leads to more mining.
According to Dr. Michael Moats, professor and interim chair of materials science and engineering at Missouri University of Science and Technology, adaption to cleaner energy sources has reduced coal production. However, it has increased the mining efforts of other...
Will OPEC+ impact oil prices?
Despite the impact of the initial COVID-19 outbreak and intense lockdowns, US oil prices have bounced back from record low numbers in just over a year. US oil statistics for 2020 vs 2021. Source: ycharts.com Oil prices in the United States went negative during the...
Hydropower Plant Suffers Major Fire
The Srisailam Left Bank Hydel Power Station suffered a major fire outbreak that caused several injuries and fatalities on August 20th. A federal investigation is being conducted to find the cause. Preliminary reports suggest an auxiliary transformer exploded that...
Fire Shuts Down Uttar Pradesh Substation.
UPPTC Ltd, located in Uttar Pradesh India, has shut down sectors of the substation due to a 500 MVA transformer fire in the Sector 148. The fire is reported to have started Wednesday, August 19th. Reports indicate the substation sectors will be shut down for over a...
Assam’s Baghjan Oil Well Suffers Huge Explosion
Hindustantimes.com has reported that a damaged gas well that has been spewing an uncontrolled release of gas for over 56 days has exploded, injuring three foreign experts. This explosion is the result of a blowout at Oil India Limited's gas well number 5, which took...
Explosion At Iranian Power Plant
Iran's state news agency IRNA reported on Sunday that an explosion at a power plant in the central Iranian province of Isfahan. The news agency reported the explosion was triggered by faulty equipment. No casualties were reported. The managing director of Isfahan's...