The accident at the Gazprom Processing plant in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District could have been avoided...

The portal riafan.ru published a news story about a fire at a Gazprom Processing plant in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District, which more than halved gas pumping through the pipeline.

On Thursday, August 5, 2021, a fire broke out at the condensate treatment plant near Novy Urengoy. The fire was contained and no one was injured as a result of the accident. However, work at the facility had to be suspended and the condensate was shut off.

According to Gascade, the European gas transport operator, in the period from 18:00 to 19:00 Moscow time, the pumping of blue fuel through the Yamal-Europe pipeline dropped to over a million cubic meters per hour. Prior to that time, pumping during the day had been at just over 2.1 million cubic meters per hour.

The Gazprom Refinery is the main producer of high-quality hydrocarbon products in the region.

But, according to the available information, the plant is not equipped with SMIS, which is continuously monitoring and preventing emergencies in real time, automatically.

Photo: EMERCOM Department of the YNAO

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