A fire at the Valero refinery in Ardmore killed one worker, injured four, prompting a planned lawsuit over possible safety violations.

At least four of the lawsuits, including three filed in state District Court in San Antonio, are each seeking at least $1 million in damages.

A lot has happened in the nine days since a tragic fire at the Valero refinery in Ardmore. Here's what we know so far.

A fire at Petroecuador's Esmeraldas oil refinery, the country's largest, temporarily halted operations after a fire broke out in the charge pumps of one of its units, the state oil company said on Sunday,

Flames engulfed one of the tanks at the Albashneft oil refinery in Novominskaya and burned an adjacent area of about 150 square meters, the Krasnodar Krai Operational Headquarters said.

A fire at the charging pumps of the SEVIA unit forced Ecuador's state firm Petroecuador to preemptively and temporarily suspend operations at the 110,000 barrel-per-day Esmeraldas refinery, the third such incident in nine months.

An oil refinery caught fire in the large rural locality of Novominskaya, Kanevsky District, Krasnodar Krai, russia, as a result of a drone

Firefighters in Krasnodar, Russia, worked to control a fire at a refinery in Novominskaya. The blaze erupted, prompting the deployment of 39 firefighters to tackle the flames engulfing a tank and its surroundings.