In Novoshakhtinsk commissioned the first part of the refinery.

first for 30 years, Russia's largest oil refinery opened in Krasnosulinskom district of Rostov region. Total plant area is 733 square kilometers.

Novoshakhtinsky plant oil can on the first stage of processing 2.5 million tons of oil a year, and later - up to 7,5 million tons.

At full capacity refinery will come until 2016. Amount of investment in the first refinery amounted to 15 billion rubles. Diesel fuel is planned to supply for agriculture in Southern and Central federal districts, as well as for water transport of the Azov-Don basin. For the transportation of oil and products of the plant water transport in Rostov-on-Don on the bank of the River Don built an oil terminal capacity of 10 million tons of oil per year.

Novoshakhtinsky plant oil - this is the third large-scale production, created in the mining areas. The first phase of refinery provided more than a thousand jobs. 75% of employees at the factory - the former miners. As the number of jobs the company will be increased from 1 thousand to 2 thousand. In the early 90-ies of the last century in the Rostov region employed 65 mines, 53 of them today already closed.