Incident Report

Subject:                     FATAL EXPLOSION AT RUSSIAN GAS PROCESSING PLANT

Date of Email report:   Sun 31/10/2010

Report Detail:

One worker has died and another 12 injured when a pipe exploded at a gas processing plant in the Yamal-Nenets region of Russia. A Russian Ministry report says “a valve exploded” causing the incident, which destroyed the control centre and a number of offices on the gas complex. An investigation is underway by the plant operator, Novatek.