An explosion occurred on an oil tanker at the Ust-Luga port in northwest Russia in the morning of Feb. 9, prompting an evacuation of the crew, according to the country's Federal Agency for Sea and Inland Water Transport (Rosmorrechflot).

Authorities in Finland said they are preparing for a potential oil spill in the Gulf of Finland after Russian officials reported an explosion aboard an oil tanker in the northwestern Leningrad region.

A 22-year-old suezmax tanker suffered an engine room explosion in the Russian port of Ust Luga on Sunday, forcing its crew to leave the vessel and go ashore. The incident took place in the morning of 9 February, during engine start-up of the 164,500-dwt Koala (built 2003), according to the governor of Leningrad region Alexander Drozdenko.

The tanker Koala, carrying 130,000 tons of fuel oil, was damaged by an explosion in port in Russia’s Leningrad region in the early hours of February 9, the Telegram channel Baza reported.

SEOUL - One worker was injured and the other went missing Monday in South Korea's oil storage tank explosion, according to Yonhap news agency. The explosion occurred at about 11:15 am local time (0215 GMT) at a factory in Ulsan, some 300 km southeast of the capital Seoul.