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In his meeting with the Head of the Union of Oil and Gas Workers … Mr. Chairman of the Board of Directors asserts: "Were going in the right direction" 04/26/2021 | 03:45pm EDT Send by mail : Message : Required fields The Chairman of the Board of Directors of the National Oil Corporation (NOC), Eng. Mustafa Sanalla, met on Monday April 26, 2021, at the headquarters of the Arabian Gulf Oil Company in Benghazi, with the Head of the Union of Oil and Gas Workers, Mr. Saad Dinar Al-Fakhri, in the p...

17 February, 2021Somalia’s ratification of Convention 190 and six other International Labour Organization (ILO) conventions is the result of a successful campaign by trade unions to improve labour standards in the country. The Federation of Somali Trade Unions (FESTU) says the ratification will benefit workers during the current Covid-19 pandemic and will assist in “resilient social and economic recovery.” IndustriALL affiliate, the Somalia Union of Petroleum and Gas Workers (SUPEGW), whi...

There are probably -- pretty hard to tell, but three or four in this exact area completely incinerated. this is what hundreds of families in malibu, thousand oaks, calabasas, areas north and west of los angeles city, lots of families are going to be experiencing. just utter heart break over the next 24 to 48 hours as they are slowly allowed back in here. you can see gas workers here to my right. thats one of the reasons some people arent allowed back in. there is no power. there are gas leaks. i...

You can see whats left of this house. you can see, you know, a couple of walls, a burned out car. other than that, its really completely, completely unrecognizable. i want to show you one more thing. well have to scoot under this power line thats down right here. across the street you see a flame there. thats because the gas is on. it should -- you would think it would be easy to turn the gas off. well, turns out its actually not. the shut-off valve is near those flames, and workers obviously do...

Growing. what seems odd is you can just look over to the left here, some of the homes are completely destroyed, and then others are still standing. there are no residents in this area because, obviously, they are still evacuated, but we were in oak park yesterday, and we spoke to one woman who lost her house. she was the only one or one of the only ones on her block to lose her house and we spoke to her yesterday. listen. >> im glad that my family is safe. its difficult trying to, you know, get ...

A busy street before coming to a stop. officials say a gas leak was the result of an explosion in illinois. in romeoville. authorities say two gas workers were injured. one serious, they say no residents were hurt. several units around the area were evacuated as a precautionary measure. and down it goes, people turned up on the banks of the arkansas river to seat broadway bridge. officials say nothing really went wrong here. one man said the 93-year-old bridge was built so well it could have...

Conditions. places like minneapolis went from the 70s down to the 40s over the next 48 hours. and the northeast temps will not cool off until friday, but when they do, back to 60 degrees. >> new this morning, investigators trying to determine what caused a deadly plane crash on a city street in connecticut. the faa said a small plane went down in hartford, connecticut. the small plane erupted into flames. one person died and another person taken to the hospital identified as the pilot. the plane...

Theres so many pgw, no way it could be any of my friends. when i woke up the next morning, heard the news, it was heartbreaking. >> four gas workers and a firefighter suffer injuries. the blast destroys several buildings in the area, including the apartment building of nearby resident jim mcnickel. he loses everything he owns. >> i dont know how anybody can recover from something like this. my life went up in flames that night. >> after being so close to such a large explosion, cameraman jeff ni...

Metal shards and roofing going to cut me or hit me right in the body. >> falling debris isnt the only thing to worry about. nichols fears there could be another explosion. >> part of you wanted to flee, because your instinct is to run away from these things, especially getting hit with a heat wave in the face. part of you as a journalist, as a videographer, wants to stay. >> the fire, fueled by the leaking gas, continues to burn uncontrollably. nichols records the dramatic scene and soon learns ...

To think. youre just trying to get the firefighter out of there. >> when gas workers arrive on the scene, officer su learns the cause of the explosions. >> i spoke to the edison supervisor and he said theres a type of short that had happened down in the vault. so what was going on was the main power was sending surges, test surges, to the lines and that was causing the explosions. >> the vault is an underground box that houses electrical equipment. captain wolf and firefighter boyle are transpor...