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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, part of oil major Rosneft, 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.
The Energy Ministry said later in a statement that an oil derrick fell at the deposit and the fire was spreading to nearby wells.
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