{"id":31802,"date":"2026-08-11T07:58:58","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T07:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/?p=31802"},"modified":"2026-08-11T07:58:59","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T07:58:59","slug":"russias-largest-oil-refinery-in-the-far-east-catches-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/?p=31802","title":{"rendered":"Russia&#8217;s largest oil refinery in the Far East catches fire"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>A fire broke out at the Komsomolsk Oil Refinery in Komsomolsk-on-Amur, Khabarovsk Krai, Russia. The facility is the country&#8217;s easternmost refinery, a subsidiary of Rosneft, and a key fuel supplier for Russia&#8217;s Far Eastern Federal District.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Local residents reported the fire at around 11 a.m. local time. After analyzing footage from the scene, ASTRA analysts confirmed that the facility on fire was <strong>RN-Komsomolsk Refinery<\/strong>, a Rosneft subsidiary. The cause of the blaze remains unknown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The refinery has been operating since 1942 and has a designed capacity of around <strong>8.5 million tonnes of crude oil per year<\/strong>. It produces gasoline, diesel and marine fuel, granular sulfur and other petroleum products. The facility also produces Arctic diesel fuel designed to operate at temperatures below <strong>\u221255\u00b0C<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The refinery receives crude oil, among other sources, through a branch of the <strong>Eastern Siberia\u2013Pacific Ocean oil pipeline<\/strong>. In recent years, the plant has undergone extensive modernization, including upgrades to its hydrocracking and hydrotreating facilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The refinery is located more than <strong>6,800 km from Kyiv in a straight line<\/strong>, so reports suggesting a possible drone attack or sabotage have not been officially confirmed by either side.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is not the first major fire at the facility. In <strong>April 2025<\/strong>, a technological unit caught fire there, with the blaze covering up to 300 square meters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fire broke out at the Komsomolsk Oil Refinery in Komsomolsk-on-Amur, Khabarovsk Krai, Russia. The facility is the country&#8217;s easternmost refinery, a subsidiary of Rosneft, and a key fuel supplier for Russia&#8217;s Far Eastern Federal District. Local residents reported the fire at around 11 a.m. local time. After analyzing footage from the scene, ASTRA analysts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31803,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31802"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31804,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31802\/revisions\/31804"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsreporters.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}