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Fire at Belarusian oil refinery Naftan has been put out
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Posted on November 6, 2025
1 min readLast updated: January 21, 2026
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Published by Global Banking and Finance Review
Posted on November 6, 2025
1 min readLast updated: January 21, 2026
A fire at Belarus' Naftan oil refinery was extinguished without injuries. The incident involved diesel fuel at a technological unit.
MOSCOW (Reuters) -A fire at the Naftan oil refinery in Belarus, one of the country's two biggest, has been put out and nobody was hurt, the country's emergency emergencies ministry said on Thursday.
The state Belta news agency said earlier that the fire had been caused by an incident involving diesel fuel at a technological unit.
The Naftan refinery, located in Novopolotsk in northern Belarus, has a processing capacity of more than 200,000 barrels per day.
(Reporting by Vladimir SoldatkinEditing by Andrew Osborn)
An oil refinery is an industrial facility where crude oil is processed and transformed into useful products like gasoline, diesel, and other petrochemicals.
Diesel fuel is a type of fuel derived from crude oil, primarily used in diesel engines found in vehicles, machinery, and generators.
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