Heavy fire breaks out at Omsk oil refinery after explosion

26 August, 2024 Smoke from the fire at the oil refinery in Omsk. Photo credits: Om1 A massive explosion occurred at an oil refinery in the city of Omsk, followed by a massive fire.

Local mass media reported on this. The fire started on August 26, 2024 at 2:45 p.m. local time after local residents heard a massive explosion at the oil refinery. According to the governor, Vitaliy Khotsenko, the explosion was caused by a fire in the process equipment used on the territory of the enterprise.

According to official information, the fire area is more than 1,000 square meters, and seven firefighting crews are working at the scene to localize the fire. Two people were seriously injured in the explosion.

According to Baza, one victim had a limb torn off, and the other was diagnosed with a closed head injury and contusion. According to unofficial information, the explosion occurred at the AVT-11, which is designed to separate oil into fractions and further process it. The Omsk Oil Refinery in Omsk is owned by the Russian company Gazprom Neft, which supplies its products to the Russian Armed Forces.

Smoke from the fire at the oil refinery in Omsk.

Photo credits: Om1

Militarnyi previously reported that the Conro Trader railway ferry, which had provided fuel to the Russian invaders in Crimea, had sunk in the Russian port of Kavkaz, located on the Taman Peninsula. To fight a large-scale fire that broke out on a ferry in the port of Kavkaz, a fire train and more than 100 people, and 34 units of equipment were sent to the scene. The head of the Temryuksky district of Krasnodar Krai, where the Kavkaz port is located, said that at the time of the attack, the ferry had been carrying 30 tanks of fuel.

There were also crew members on board.