Iranian authorities have considered the poor safety measures and the aging infrastructure to be the main reasons behind the explosion.

Libya’s Marsa El-Brega refinery was hit by an explosion and fire during the early hours of March 10th after a gas leak at its methanol plant.

The Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG) Ltd. said it is rectifying the pipelines which exploded in February in Rivers, to ensure resumption of industrial gas supply within mid-March.

Ghana's Tema Oil Refinery has shut down after an explosion at a newly installed $6.21m crude oil heating unit.

South Africa’s Tshwane emergency services said that a fully-loaded tanker, with 55,000 liters of petrol, exploded and emitted a huge fireball into the air at the Watlou depot in Silverton.

Nigerian state oil firm NNPC managed to close a valve of a pipeline in the Niger Delta to contain a gas leak caused by an explosion.

In the largest environmental settlement in the US history, oil and gas giant BP will pay over $20b to the American government over damages caused by an rig explosion and oil spill on April 20, 2010 in the Gulf of Mexico.

Yemeni oil pipelines connecting storage tanks at the southern port of Aden and the city's 150,000b/d refinery were hit by an explosion caused by a roadside bomb on January 15th, causing no damage to the refinery itself, nor to the pipelines.

In response to the Nweni gas explosion on December 25th, which killed a number of people, the Nigerian government is instituting new safety regulations.

A huge explosion at a butane gas depot in south-eastern Nigeria on December 24th has left "tens" of people dead, mostly workers and customers who had come to the plant to fill up their gas bottles to cook meals on Christmas Day.