In Nizhnekamsk in Russia fire reported in industrial zone with oil refineries after a drone attack
Kyiv • UNN
In Nizhnekamsk (Tatarstan), after the announcement of a UAV attack threat, a fire broke out in the industrial zone where JSC "TAIF-NK" and the oil refinery of "Tatneft" JSC "TANECO" are located. Witnesses reported explosions and a drone falling.
In Nizhnekamsk, Tatarstan, Russia, after a UAV threat was announced, a fire broke out in the industrial zone where TAIF-NK JSC and Tatneft's TANEKO JSC refinery are located, according to an OSINT analysis by the ASTRA Telegram channel, reports UNN.
Details
On the morning of July 8, eyewitnesses reported explosions and a fire in Nizhnekamsk. Around 5 a.m., the city mayor Radmir Belyaev reported a threat of a UAV attack on the cities of Nizhnekamsk, Zainsk, Yelabuga, and Naberezhnye Chelny.
As established by ASTRA OSINT analyst, the enterprise TAIF-NK JSC may have been attacked in Nizhnekamsk. Eyewitness footage shows a UAV falling in the area of the enterprise, which is located next to the Tatneft TANEKO JSC refinery. In the same industrial zone is Nizhnekamskneftekhim PJSC (NKNH).
A video was posted online showing a Ukrainian drone, likely an FP-1, circling over the refinery before the attack.
Around 7 a.m., the mayor of Nizhnekamsk reported: "The massive UAV attack on our district is not stopping. I ask you to take warnings seriously and take safety measures." Less than an hour later, he clarified that according to the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations, the UAV attack threat had been canceled, but the "drone danger" regime remains in effect in Tatarstan.
TAIF-NK JSC is a major oil refining complex in Nizhnekamsk, part of the TAIF group. The enterprise annually processes over 8 million tons of oil and gas condensate into high-quality Euro-5 standard fuels and aviation kerosene.
TANEKO JSC is a modern high-tech oil refining complex in Nizhnekamsk, part of the structure of Tatneft PJSC. The installed capacity of the enterprise is 16.2 million tons of oil per year. The complex is one of the most efficient refineries in Russia: the processing depth reaches 99.6%, and the yield of light oil products is about 90%. The enterprise produces AI-92, AI-95, and AI-100 gasoline, Euro-6 standard diesel fuel, aviation kerosene, marine fuels, base and synthetic lubricants, liquefied hydrocarbon gases, and petroleum coke.
Nizhnekamskneftekhim PJSC (NKNH) is one of the largest petrochemical complexes in Europe. The plant is part of the SIBUR holding and processes raw materials from TAIF-NK and TANEKO, producing rubbers, plastics, and ethylene.
Reminder
On July 6, Ukrainian UAVs struck an oil refinery in Omsk, covering a record distance – approximately 2,500 km in a straight line. A hit was recorded on the territory of the enterprise, followed by a fire.
Fire Point's chief designer Denys Shtilerman said that a new modification of the Ukrainian long-range drone FP-1 was used during the attack on the Omsk refinery. This refinery became the most distant target deep inside Russia to be hit by drones launched from Ukraine.
Fire Point CEO Iryna Terekh called the strike on the Omsk refinery historic. According to her, until that day, it remained one of only two enterprises among the ten largest oil refineries in Russia that had never been damaged by Ukrainian drones. The other such enterprise remains the Angarsk Petrochemical Company in the Irkutsk region.
"Hopes were placed on it for balancing the fuel crisis after the successful campaign of the Ukrainian Defense Forces. To grasp the scale – its capacity is almost double that of the Moscow Refinery," Terekh noted.
She also drew attention to the fact that the Omsk refinery is the only enterprise in Russia that produces cracking catalysts – a key component on which secondary oil refining at other Russian refineries depends.
According to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, this is the last of the 11 largest gasoline producers in the Russian Federation that Ukrainian soldiers have struck. It is the most powerful oil refining enterprise in the Russian Federation (over 21 million tons per year) and specializes in producing a wide range of fuels, oils, and petrochemical products. The plant has one of the highest oil refining depth indicators in the Russian Federation (about 99%). The refinery produces high-octane automotive gasolines (AI-92, AI-95, G-Drive 100), diesel fuel of the "Euro-5" class, aviation kerosene (grades TS-1 and RT). It is also a producer of benzene, paraxylene, and orthoxylene, specialized products and oils, raw materials for carbon black, motor and industrial oils.
The General Staff emphasizes: the Omsk Refinery was involved in meeting the needs of the Russian occupation army.