Fire put out at small oil refinery in Russia's Irkutsk region

MOSCOW,  (Reuters) - A fire broke out at a small oil refinery in the Russian region of Irkutsk on Sunday, but was put out within quarter of an hour, the local Emergency Ministry said.

The fire at the refinery in the Siberian city of Angarsk broke out at 1544 local time (0744 GMT) and was extinguished by 1558 (0758 GMT).

There was an oil spill covering an area of 50 square metres which led to a fire at the facility’s primary crude refining unit, the ministry said.

The refinery was not owned by Russian oil giant Rosneft and was a separate, small facility, a local official said. (Reporting by Ludmila Zaramenskikh and Natalia Chumakova; writing by Tom Balmforth; editing by Andrey Ostroukh)

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