Certain inhabitants of Port Arthur, Texas, received counsel to remain indoors following an occurrence at the Valero petroleum processing plant on Monday, March 23, 2026. (Source: @heavensent_axgel via Storyful) Inhabitants of a Texan municipality received strong recommendations to take cover indoors subsequent to a blast and conflagration at a Valero petroleum refining facility, which propelled…

Serbia’s sole oil refinery, which supplies the vast majority of the country’s fuel but is now under US sanctions because of its majority Russian ownership, could cease operations as early as Tuesday, according to officials. Since last month, the Petroleum Industry of Serbia (NIS) has been hit with sanctions as part of Washington’s crackdown on Russia’s energy sector after the 2022 invasion of…

🔥 Almost simultaneously, two oil refining facilities connected to Russia exploded in Europe

On the night of October 21, two strategic energy sector enterprises linked to Russian oil suffered accidents almost simultaneously — in Hungary and Romania.

➡️ Fire at the MOL refinery in Hungary

The MOL Dunai Finomító oil refining complex in Százhalombatta, near Budapest, was engulfed in a large fire. The enterprise temporarily partially stopped operations. The plant processes oil from Russia.

➡️ Explosion at the Petrotel-Lukoil refinery in Romania

The plant belongs to a subsidiary of the Russian company Lukoil.

According to official data, the explosion occurred in the industrial sewage system during repair work. One contractor employee was injured; his condition is stable.

Plans for a groundbreaking rare earths refinery in East Yorkshire have been scrapped, after the company behind the project decided to seek investment in the US instead. Pensana has spent the past seven years developing a rare earths mine in Angola. The project, one of the largest of its kind in the world, will begin delivering raw materials in 2027. The firm had planned to build a refinery at the…