Major Safety Disasters from 70's to 2010's
Channel: Offshore, Maritime and Energy
Date: 2023-04-27

The major disasters convered in this video summary includes
1974 - Flixborough, UK - Nypro UK. 
The Flixborough disaster was an explosion at a chemical plant close to the village of Flixborough, North Lincolnshire, England on Saturday, 1 June 1974. It killed 28 and seriously injured 36 of the 72 people on site at the time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flixborough_disaster

1984 - Bhopal, India - Union Carbide
The Bhopal disaster or Bhopal gas tragedy was a chemical accident on the night of 2–3 December 1984 at the Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL) pesticide plant in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India. Considered the world's worst industrial disaster,[1] over 500,000 people in the small towns around the plant were exposed to the highly toxic gas methyl isocyanate (MIC). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhopal_disaster

1988 - Piper Alpha, Scotland - Occidental
Piper Alpha was an oil platform located in the North Sea approximately 120 miles (190 km) north-east of Aberdeen, Scotland. It was operated by Occidental Petroleum (Caledonia) Limited[1] (OPCAL) and began production in 1976,[2] initially as an oil-only platform but later converted to add gas production. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piper_Alpha

2001 - Petrobras P36, Brazil - Maritima
Petrobras 36 (P-36) was at the time the largest floating semi-submersible oil platform in the world prior to its sinking on 20 March 2001.[3] It was owned by Petrobras, a semi-public Brazilian oil company headquartered in Rio de Janeiro. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrobras_36

2005 - Texas City, US - BP
The Texas City Refinery explosion occurred on March 23, 2005, when a vapor cloud of natural gas and petroleum[a] ignited and violently exploded at the isomerization (ISOM) process unit at the BP Texas City refinery in Texas City, Texas, killing 15 workers, injuring 180 others and severely damaging the refinery. The Texas City Refinery was the second-largest oil refinery in the state, and the third-largest in the United States with an input capacity of 437,000 barrels (69,500 m3) per day as of January 1, 2000.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_City_Refinery_explosion

2010 - Tesoro - US
The 2010 Tesoro Anacortes Refinery disaster was an industrial accident that occurred at the Tesoro Anacortes Refinery in Anacortes, Washington on April 2, 2010. Seven workers received fatal burns in an explosion and ensuing fire when a heat exchanger violently ruptured after a maintenance restart.

2010 - Deepwater Horizon - US - BP
The Deepwater Horizon drilling rig explosion was an April 20, 2010 explosion and subsequent fire on the Deepwater Horizon semi-submersible mobile offshore drilling unit, which was owned and operated by Transocean and drilling for BP in the Macondo Prospect oil field about 40 miles (64 km) southeast off the Louisiana coast. The explosion and subsequent fire resulted in the sinking of the Deepwater Horizon and the deaths of 11 workers; 17 others were injured. The same blowout that caused the explosion also caused an oil well fire and a massive offshore oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, considered the largest accidental marine oil spill in the world, and the largest environmental disaster in United States history
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepwater_Horizon_explosion

2013 - Qingdao, Shandong - Sinopec - China 
The 2013 Qingdao oil pipeline explosion occurred on 22 November 2013,[1] when an oil pipeline in Chinese city of Qingdao, Shandong Province, China leaked and caught fire and exploded. The blast killed at least 62 people. At least nine people were detained by the police
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Qingdao_oil_pipeline_explosion