Geelong oil refinery up in flames joins 10 others across the world including the US

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In the roughly seven weeks since February 28, 2026, multiple significant fires and explosions have struck fuel refineries and power-related facilities across several countries.

Critical energy infrastructures around the world are engulfed in flames. It happens daily, both in war zones and in countries where there is no official state of war. This article is focused on non-military incidents.

Key Incidents (Non-Military)

March 1, 2026 – Ecuador: A major fire broke out at the country’s largest oil refinery. Details on exact cause remain limited in public reports.

March 17, 2026 – Olmeca (Dos Bocas) Refinery, Tabasco, Mexico: A fire occurred at Mexico’s newest refinery (operated by PEMEX). This was the second incident at the site in quick succession.

An April 9 follow-up fire was confined to a petroleum coke warehouse with no injuries reported.

March 23, 2026, Valero, Texas, USA: An explosion has set fire to an oil refinery in Port Arthur, Texas. Valero Refinery is one of the largest refineries in the United States.

April 14, 2026 – Vedanta Thermal Power Plant, Sakti, Chhattisgarh, India: A boiler explosion at this coal-fired power plant killed 19 people and injured others during routine operations.

April 15-16, 2026 – Geelong, Victoria, Australia: A large structural fire erupted at Viva Energy’s Geelong refinery—one of Australia’s only two operating oil refineries.  The refinery supplies about 10% of Australia’s fuel, prompting temporary supply concerns and imports to offset losses. Officials described it as “unprecedented”.

April 16-17, 2026 – Haripur, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan: A Sui Northern Gas pipeline in the Hattar Industrial Estate ruptured and ignited, triggering a massive fire that engulfed nearby residential quarters.

April 18, 2026 – BP Cherry Point Refinery, Blaine, Washington: Three people were injured in an incident at the BP Cherry Point refinery on Saturday in Blaine, company officials said.

April 20, 2026 – Pachpadra, Balotra, Rajasthan, India: A major fire broke out near the crude distillation unit at the new HPCL Rajasthan Refinery Ltd (HRRL) complex, a $9.5 billion refinery-petrochemical project. An investigation is underway into the technical or operational cause.

April 20, 2026 – Bucharest, Romania: A powerful explosion occurred at the CET Vest district heating/power plant (a key thermal facility serving the city), involving electrical transformers containing 30-40 tons of insulating oil.

April 20-21, 2026 – Homalin, Sagaing Region, Myanmar: A major explosion at the river port along the Chindwin River ignited a blaze that engulfed more than 10 fuel tankers.

April 21, 2026 – Etoile, Texas, USA: An explosion at a Texas natural gas/oil well site set off a large fire that was seen for miles and led to some evacuations.

Impacts

These events have fueled online discussions about potential vulnerabilities in global energy infrastructure, especially amid broader geopolitical tensions and energy market strains.

Russian refinery fires around the same period (e.g., Novokuybyshevsk, Syzran, Tuapse) were explicitly tied to drone strikes and have been excluded here per the focus on non-military cases.

Impacts vary

Australia faces short-term fuel supply tightness; India delayed a major new refinery’s launch; Pakistan saw tragic civilian loss of life; Romania experienced temporary heating disruptions; and Myanmar’s port fire affected fuel logistics.

Broader effects include localised evacuations, air quality concerns from smoke, and calls for heightened safety reviews at ageing or high-volume facilities.

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10 thought on “11 fuel refineries catch fire across the world since March 1”
  1. “Climate Change” hoax limiting oil extraction, wars strangling oil supply chains and sabotage of one oil refinery after another. We are under attack by our own #GloBaalist #NWO governments paving the way for the #GreatReset.

  2. Like it or not, rationgs will be implemented. The “Oil Crisis” is too good an opportunity for The Government to pass up… How about requiring from you your digital ID to be able to get your alloted rations of – food…
    The last of oil shipments have been delivered. That Our Fearless Leaders is touring Asian capitals begging for fuel they cant give is all PR – he has to be seen doing “something”, Meanwhile the
    bureaucrats are busy in the background planning how to exploit “The Crisis”: Dont rule out lockdowns (aka – “covid style lockdowns”)…
    …….
    Once Anzac Day is out of the way……………

  3. We know that these fires are not accidental. They are part of a coordinated attempt by the WEF and its criminal supporters to destroy the very fabric of our society to bring us to our knees so that they can exert total control over us. That is not going to happen. Aussies are not that stupid. And many of us are just ornery enough that we will fight for our freedoms to the last drop of our blood…. or better yet, of their blood. The fact is, the Left is in damage control mode now and they are losing. The genie is out of the bottle and they cannot put it back in. Covid was a comedy of errors that alerted the whole world to their evil plans. And the people are having none of it. We will never, never, never give up our rights or our soveignty. Any politician who cannot understand this is doomed to suffer the karma of their actions. They have been warned.

  4. I’m NOT a conspiracy-theorist! (is there even such a word – bit like the oxy-morn “sovereign-citizen”, isn’t it?) However, I am interested in conspiracies – e.g. I want to know what the gov’t have been told to implement on us that they don’t want us to know about. I am also interested in theories – e.g. from some academics and particularly, those I can see for myself (yeah, I grew up in the era of thinking for myself and comprehension – all which are no longer in the “education system”). Now, there have been and awful LOT of refinery, in particular, fires. Co-incidence? My theory is that that is not possible. All within mere weeks of each other.

  5. As I wrote elsewhere, the Feast of Moloch is a favourite time for Globalists to engineer events such as doing assassinations and so forth, also the claimed birthday of QE2, but she has so many different birthdays I can hardly claim to know. FoM typically ranges from 15th April to 21st. Check out this video from perenially troubled Myanmar https://www.youtube.com/shorts/3dIPyr4yLnU – bizarre
    Since the Globalists swung all their energy into China, Myanmar has been a target. According to Globalists, China is the model society for the future, with totalitarianism, full media censorship, slavery permitted, regulations thrown out the window, and suicide nets under the windows of FoxComm. Australia would do well to figure out the Globalist end-game with China. Thumb-screws might come in handy.

  6. Oh what!!!
    .
    We haven’t figured out the West is being collapsed because it is bankrupt and can NEVER get rid of the massive debt it has accumulated?
    .
    We haven’t figured out the debt holders aka moneylenders are pressing a massive foreclosure and FIRE SALE on us to suck up ALL our hard earned assets for cents in the dollar? Assets which they haven’t already captured from us?
    .
    We haven’t figured out that they’re staging a global war and crisis to help their cause and minimise any opposition from us?

    We still haven’t figured out we’re being fkd? We need much more pain to be convinced?

  7. We are in the thick of a Globalist 2030 Agenda – with their aim being to “control all land, water, minerals, all means of production, all food, all information”…
    Then with the necessary control mechanisms set in place to “move populations into city centres, clearing them out of rural areas”..
    A 2030 Agenda of no sovereignty, no borders, no private property…with limitations and restrictions on mobility”…
    169 Targets.
    230 Indicators.
    17 Sustainable Development goals.
    For starters.

    And how to achieve that?
    With war games and land grabs and control (or destruction) of ALL THE MEANS OF PRODUCTION.

    And by whom?
    That’s why there is silence.

  8. 𝗦𝘂𝘀𝗽𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗼𝘂𝘀 𝗚𝗼𝗼𝗴𝗹𝗲 𝗦𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗲𝘀 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗜𝗦𝗥𝗔𝗘𝗟 𝗼𝗻 𝗔𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗮𝗻 𝗢𝗶𝗹 𝗥𝗲𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗣𝗥𝗜𝗢𝗥 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗧𝗧𝗔𝗖𝗞

    📌 h ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKill5_nXpM

  9. The author said – “… Australia faces short-term fuel supply tightness..”

    Yeah right, if “short term” means YEARS.

    Dream on. Maybe be getting ready for the inevitable FOOD SHORTAGES and IMPOVERISHMENT and LOCKDOWNS now coming at us like a runaway FREIGHT TRAIN. That’s for US, just by the way, not for the pollies and unelected beauracrats and public officials and corporate bigwigs and blood sucking banksters, they’ll be FINE, really they will, they’ll be looked after with everything their hearts could possibly desire, so seriously, just stop worrying about them, folks.

    Another globally engineered “crisis” folks, on top of all the other Globalist BS being shoved down our throats, while the Biblical FLOOD of society-demolishing nation-collapsing Third World immigrants CONTINUES unabated.

    All the better to herd us all into our 15 minute cities and force Digital IDs down our throats and OUTLAW CASH and string the noose of CBDCs around all our throats. Get ready for creepy Bill’s tumor steak and chicken pie and fried cockroaches and maggot milk, folks. And when enough Useless Eaters have their buckets kicked, there’ll be Soylent Green for everyone. Mmmm yummy, finger lickin’ good!

    And all to be enforced by the entrenched corporate ARMIES of shit-for-brains hired mercenary STORM TROOPERS, every-ready to beat Granny to a pulp in the middle of the street and shoot her in the face and kick your front door in and rape your dog and kill your cat and drag YOU and all your family off to the Quarantine Gulag for “processing”.

    If you actually think this present manufactured “crisis” is going quietly away and everything is going “back to normal”, sorry but you’re deluded and you may well not even survive the next few years.

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