Overview
- Transneft said search teams recovered the bodies of three workers at the Nurlino reservoir park, and crews are still looking for a fourth.
- Three employees of the contractor Geoekokad remain in a Ufa burn center, with two in critical condition and one in moderate condition.
- The company reported that a gas–air mix inside an out-of-service storage tank ignited during cleaning, which triggered an explosion and fire.
- The Bashkir prosecutor’s office launched an inquiry, and the industrial regulator Rostekhnadzor began a technical investigation into the accident.
- Nurlino serves as a major node in the Transneft–Ural pipeline network, and Transneft pledged financial support to families as officials described the blast as a technological accident with no reports of an external strike.