MOSCOW (MRC) -- One worker was killed in an accident at oil company Rosneft's Komsomolsk refinery located in Russia's Far East, the refinery's press-service said in emailed statement on Tuesday, reported Reuters.
The worker was from a contractor firm working on the site, it added. The refinery added in a detailed statement later on Tuesday that the accident had occurred during tests at a pipeline which was undergoing maintenance works.
Production at the site was unaffected, it said.
We remind taht, as MRC informed earlier, in March 2015, Russia's state-owned oil major Rosneft completed the transaction on purchase of 100% of shares of SANORS Holding Limited (Novokuibyshevsk Petrochemical Company).
The transaction was completed after obtaining all the necessary approvals from antimonopoly and regulatory authorities. The purchase of SANORS group of companies is in line with Rosneft Long-term Development Strategy and implies a profound integration of Rosneft oil and gas production and refining assets with existing SANORS Holding petrochemical production facilities. The synergistic effect of the integration will help to strengthen the vector of petrochemical development and increase the added value of production.
Rosneft became Russia's largest publicly traded oil company in March 2013 after the USD55 billion takeover of TNK-BP, which was Russia’s third-largest oil producer at the time.
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