ASTRA: Fire breaks out after attack on Russia’s Tinguta pumping station PHOTO/VIDEO

The Tinguta main pump station (GPS), which transports fuel to the Sheskharis terminal in Novorossiysk, was attacked in the Svetloyarsky District of Russia’s Volgograd Region. 

A fire broke out at the site following the incident, ASTRA reports.

The Tinguta pump station, owned by JSC “Transneft – Privolga,” serves a main petroleum pipeline extending 56 kilometres from the Volgograd refinery of JSC Lukoil and enables the transport of up to 3 million tons of diesel fuel annually.

A description of the infrastructure published by the construction company BIN, the general contractor for Transneft, states:

“The main pumping station of the Volgograd oil refinery of JSC Lukoil is used to transport oil through a 56 km main petroleum pipeline to the Tinguta GPS, with a capacity of up to 3 million tons of diesel fuel per year. Further south, via Tikhoretsk and Krymsk, it goes to the Sheskharis transshipment complex of JSC Chernomortransneft, with access to the oil loading seaport of Novorossiysk for supply to the domestic market of the Russian Federation and for export.”

By Vafa Guliyeva