Oil deposit in West Siberia catches fire, 8 people hurt

KHANTY-MANSIYSK, Aug 11 (PRIME) -- An oil deposit in Russia’s Khanty-Mansi Autonomous District caught fire at midnight, local time, hurting eight people, a spokesperson for Nizhnevartovsk Oil and Gas Producing Company told PRIME on Friday.

“A fire outbreak of the oil and gas mix and of the drilling equipment occurred at a well of the Van-Yeganskoye deposit during operations of contractor Integra-Bureniye. Eight workers of the contractor had burns of varying degrees,” the person said.

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