STARO-UFA REFINERY

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP78T05439A000500090025-4
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• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 12
• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 6, 2001
• Sequence Number: 25
• Content Type: REPORT

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STARO-UFA REFINERY
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1. Staro-Ufa .Refinery is located south of the Novo-Ufa and the
Chernikovsk Refineries,.. all of which are in the Chernikovsk sector of the
Ufa region. It a.s situated adjacent to the Belays. River, approximately
6.2 nautical miles NNE of the Ufa Airfield. The approximate geographic
coordinates at the center of the Staro-Ufa Refinery are 5~+ 50 30N -
56 05 25E (See .Figures 1 and 2).
This refinery is irregular in shape, with maximum dimensions of
approximately 6,800 feet by 6,0@0 feet, and is oriented in a general North-
South direction. The total aria included within:,the refinery is approxi-
mately 30,000,000 square feet or about 1.1 square miles.
The Staro-Ufa Refinery appears to be basically complete. However,
space is available within and adjacent to the plant, especially toward the
north and east, for the construction of additional units or associated
plants .
Additions to the standard petroleum refining processes have been
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ever, fairly extensive expansion of possible petrochemical facilities
associated with this refinery has occurred. Details concerning these
changes are discussed in part b of section 2.
2. Individual sections of the Staro-Ufa Refinery are outlined and
annotated on the overlay to Figure 6 of this memorandum.
a. Identification and analysis of these sections is presented
under the number corresponding to that on the overlay.
(1)
Tank farm, probable crude and final product storage
with possible, crude purification units located near
the center of this area
Tank farm, probable intermediate and final product
storage
Cracking units (two)
Probable gas recovery and fractionation unit
Probable gas treating units (two)
Possible gas treating units (two)
General purpose area with maintenance and shop buildings,
intermediate and final product storage, a small unidentified
processing unit, and a small park area
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(8) Water treatment area with ?settling and spray ponds,
probable pumphouses and a few storage tanks
(9) Possible crude distillation unit
(10) Probable combination unit
(11) Administration area
(12) Area of shop and maintenance buildings
(13) Thermal power plant and associated facilities
(11+) Large rail served multiple purpose area, including:
packaging and shipping area, administration buildings,
probable hydrogen gas generation facilities, possible
asphaltic concrete production, possible lute oil
processing, and additional unidentified processes
(15) Possible lubricating oil refining area
(16) Probable units for crude oil distillation and possible
? cracking and reforming units
(17) Area of unidentified refining units
(18) Possible final gasoline treating units
x(19) Rail tank car loading and unloading racks
(20) Area of small possible petrochemical plants (two), water
treatment ~ilant, and a small tank farm 25X1D
(21) Flare tower
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b. The sites of significant construction activity from
are annotated with letters on the overlay
sheet. A description o these changes, under the letter corresponding
to that on the overlay, follows: 25X1D
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(a) Additions, including laydown tanks and other"equipment
were built in this possible treating area between -
(b) Construction of approximately seven buildings for ~X1 D
unidentified process in this area was in progress in
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appears to be nearing completion on the latest coverage,
is probab]~y connected by pa.peline to the area of >n;denti-
fied construction annotated b on the overlay.
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appears to be complete on coverage
Eight buil ngs, including one with a fairly tall stac=
This area, in which construction
to be complete by the
(d) Ground scarrin for this ossible petrochemical plant
was evident in and construction appears
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3. Stara-Ufa Refinery is served ,by a spur from the Trans-S-Iberian
Railway, by road from Ufa, by docking facilities on the nearby Belays
River, and probably by pipeline. A thermal power plant is located
directly south of the main refining areas and adequate quantities of
water appear to be available from the adjacent river.
1+. Stara-Ufa Refinery has been operating throughout-the period of
time covered by',this report, as indicated by fumes and steam visible at
the power plant, water treating units, various refining units, and the
flare tower.
5. All measurements have beeno made by the CIA/PID/IB Project Ana'1,yst.
They should be considered as approximate and must nod be taken as official
NPIC mensuration data compiled by the Technical Intelligence Division, NPIC.
ENCLOSURES
2 Annotated Maps
(CIA/PID/IB-P-529/65 and P-530/65)
3 Annotated Photos
(CIA/PID/IB-P-531/65 thru P-533/65)
1 Annotated Photo w/overlay
(CIA/PID/I B- P- 5 31+/65
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REFIiRENCES
General Locator Map, USSR - 29656 1-61 (UNCLASSIFIID)
ACIC. US Air Target Chart, Series 200, Sheet 0165-1OA
1st edition, September 58 (CONFIDENTIAL)
CIA. C-RR~+-81,226
CIA~PID PROJECT
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PMOTOGRAPNIC INTELLIGENCE REPORT
STARO-U FA REFINERY
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