A Fire Broke Out At The Only Refinery On Russia's Black Sea Coast

The factory in Tuapse came under the attack of the AFU.

On the night of Monday, October 6, a fire broke out on the territory of the Tuapse oil refinery, owned by Rosneft, after debris from a drone fell. According to the operational headquarters of the Krasnodar region, the fire started in the security room, two people were injured, writes The Moscow Times.

The Tuapse refinery is the only oil refinery on Russia's Black Sea coast. The export-oriented enterprise has an AVT-12 primary oil refining unit with a capacity of 12 million tons per year. The refinery does not produce commercial gasoline and low-sulfur diesel fuel for the domestic market, but produces naphtha, fuel oil, vacuum gasoil and diesel fuel with a sulfur content of 0.7%.

This is not the first drone attack on the facility. On May 17, the Tuapse refinery already stopped operations due to a fire caused by a UAV strike. The propane-butane fraction rectification section was damaged then, but the main atmospheric and vacuum columns were not affected. Oil refining at the plant resumed only on July 1.

Earlier, on March 14, the governor of Krasnodar Region Veniamin Kondratiev reported about the fire of a tank with oil products on the territory of the plant also after a drone attack. The fire then managed to be completely extinguished by March 17.

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