Fire Interrupts Oil to Lukoil's Norsi Refinery
Crude oil deliveries to Lukoil's Norsi refinery in the Nizhny Novgorod region have been suspended due to a fire at the facility, a spokesman for Russian pipeline monopoly Transneft said on Thursday. Deliveries of crude oil were stopped at 1415 Moscow time, he added.
Earlier, the Ministry for Emergencies said in a statement that a fire had broken out at the refinery. It said the blaze had started at one of the refinery's storage tanks.
An official in the local administration of Kstovo, the town where the refinery is located, told Reuters by phone that four people had died as a result of the incident.
Lukoil did not immediately comment on the number of people injured or killed during the fire.
Reporting by Olga Yagova
