Khorasan Petrochemical has recorded 64 million man-hours of work without a fatal accident, with the company’s CEO attributing the achievement to divine grace and the efforts of the company’s past and present CEOs, managers and employees, while stressing the need to maintain safety requirements at every level of the organization.
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Dr. Alireza Nojomi, HSE Director of the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC), has called for stronger readiness among safety and firefighting personnel and equipment, the expansion of process safety management systems, and the implementation of preventive programs to reduce incidents across NIOC subsidiaries.
Oil Minister Mohsen Paknejad said human capital is central to the oil industry’s stability and that firefighters are a main pillar of its resilience chain. He said attention must go to their professional standing, capability, knowledge, skills, and readiness.
An emergency-response drill with the scenario of a fire at oil tank No. 8 was held to assess the readiness of Iranian Offshore Oil Company operations and firefighting crews on Kharg and to raise coordination among units in the Kharg operating area.
The chief executive of Shahid Tondgooyan Petrochemical, speaking at a process safety management (PSM) training course, stressed the need for effective implementation of the system to prevent industrial accidents, protect employees, and achieve safe, stable production.
Abadan Oil Refining Company said smoke rising from the site was caused by a disruption in the water, power, and steam system of one refinery unit.
The chief executive of the West Oil and Gas Production Company said a project to clean contaminated soil in the Naftshahr operating area is using new environmental technologies.
Two backup pumps on the firewater ring of Damavand Energy Assaluyeh have entered service to strengthen safety infrastructure and raise the reliability of the firefighting water network for Phase 2 petrochemical plants in Assaluyeh.
Iran’s Department of Environment applied unusually strict scrutiny to the Sohrab oil field after its experience at North and South Azadegan and is insisting the Oil Ministry guarantee its environmental commitments so damage to the Hoor al-Azim wetland is kept to a minimum, the deputy for marine environment and wetlands said.
A Fajr Energy Persian Gulf project worker was killed in an on-the-job accident in the Mahshahr utilities sector. No official account of the cause or how the accident happened has been released.
Well-intervention operations have been carried out on three South Pars gas platforms to make wells safer and support stable gas production.
Lorestan’s governor has warned that the oil depot in Khorramabad’s Masur district must be moved because it sits too close to residential housing.
Aghajari Oil and Gas Production Company has completed safety work on naphtha and LPG pipelines that supply feedstock to petrochemical units in Mahshahr, Managing Director Seyed Mohsen Dehbanpour said.
The third meeting on transferring experience and lessons from debris removal and reconstruction at four damaged refineries in the South Pars Gas Complex was held with an emphasis on cross-unit coordination and a rapid return of the plants to production.
Jam Petrochemical has been recognized as one of Iran’s Green Industrial Units after being selected among 287 industrial facilities evaluated nationwide—an achievement that goes beyond an environmental accolade for one of the country’s major petrochemical companies, highlighting the link between production, efficiency and corporate responsibility.
Iran has redesigned the development plan for the Sohrab oil field after receiving environmental approval, aiming to minimize disruption to the nearby Hoor al-Azim wetland, the National Iranian Oil Engineering and Construction Company reported.
The CEO of the National Iranian Oil Company dismissed social media reports linking oil pollution and slicks in the sea near Qeshm Island to Iran’s oil facilities, saying the company has only limited facilities in the area and they are currently shut down for maintenance.
The CEO of the National Iranian South Oilfields Company said 13 downhole pumps were installed during the first four months of the current year, with plans to install 40 by year-end.
Firefighters extinguished a fire that broke out early on Sunday at a facility at Aramco's Jazan refinery in southwestern Saudi Arabia, the Saudi Energy Ministry said, adding that there were no injuries.
Greek shipping company GasLog reported that its liquefied natural gas (LNG) carrier GasLog Shanghai remains stable following an incident while exiting the Strait of Hormuz, with all crew members safe and accounted for.
