The story
In 1947, Trust No.21 was established for the construction of a new oil refinery for the processing of oil from the Ishimbai oil field ("Second Baku"). In 1951, the construction of the first stage of the Novo-Ufa oil Refinery was completed. On July 25, 1951, the first gasoline was received at the plant's AVT-1 installation.
Since 1993, it has been an open joint stock company. Since 1994, it has been a member of the Bashkir Petrochemical Company. In 1999, the refining capacity was 8.5 million tons of oil per year with a potential of about 19 million tons. In 2018, the production of Euro-6 gasoline began. In 2020, the plant was switched to the production of aviation fuel of the RT brand of the highest category.
On 13 September 2025, social media videos emerged of the facility reportedly being hit by Ukrainian drones.
From Wikipedia’s article on Bashneft-Novoil, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4