The Tuapse Refinery () is an

oil refinery An oil refinery or petroleum refinery is an industrial processes, industrial process Factory, plant where petroleum (crude oil) is transformed and refining, refined into products such as gasoline (petrol), diesel fuel, Bitumen, asphalt base, ...

in the Russian city of

Tuapse Tuapse (; , Ṫuapsă ) is a town in Krasnodar Krai, Russia, situated on the northeast shore of the Black Sea, south of Gelendzhik and north of Sochi. Population: Tuapse is a sea port and the northern center of a resort zone which extends sou ...

. It has belonged to the Russian state-owned company

Rosneft PJSC Rosneft Oil Company ( stylized as ROSNEFT) is a Russian integrated energy company headquartered in Moscow. Rosneft specializes in the exploration, extraction, production, refining, transport, and sale of petroleum, natural gas, and pet ...

since 1992.

History

In 1929, construction of the refinery finished and it began operation. Much of the oil originated in Soviet Chechnya at the time. In 1992, Russian president

Boris Yeltsin Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin (1 February 1931 – 23 April 2007) was a Soviet and Russian politician and statesman who served as President of Russia from 1991 to 1999. He was a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) from 1961 to ...

decreed that the refinery would belong to the state-owned

. In October 2013, a new unit at the refinery began service to expand the production capacity. In 2014, six new hydrocracking units were introduced, and the products would fulfill

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s. A similar unit was introduced in February 2015, which produces

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based on European standards. NASA FIRMS 2025-03-14 Tuapse

During the

Russo-Ukrainian War The Russo-Ukrainian War began in February 2014 and is ongoing. Following Ukraine's Revolution of Dignity, Russia Russian occupation of Crimea, occupied and Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation, annexed Crimea from Ukraine. It then ...

, the Ukrainian military conducted numerous attacks on Russian targets, especially oil refineries. The Tuapse refinery was struck on January 25, 2024, and again on May 17. The refinery had to cease operations after the January 2024 attack. On March 14, 2025 the refinery was again struck by Ukrainian drones, causing a reportedly 1,000 square meter fire detected by

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's FIRMS.

References

{{Reflist Oil refineries in Russia Oil refineries in the Soviet Union Buildings and structures in Krasnodar Krai