Russia's oil and gas infrastructure has not been affected after a 6.7-magnitude earthquake hit the Tyva region in East Siberia late Tuesday, an energy ministry spokesman said Wednesday.
"No damages have been registered as of 0800 Moscow time [0400 GMT], oil and gas infrastructure, including refining facilities, works as normal," the spokesman said.
Russia's national oil pipeline operator Transneft confirmed that the earthquake did "not affect the work of pipelines, including that of the East Siberia-Pacific Ocean pipeline," a company spokesman said.
Rosneft, which owns refineries in neighboring Irkutsk and Krasnoyarsk regions, also said operations at the company's facilities had not been affected, including its major greenfield project in East Siberia, the Vankor field, which is located to the north of Tyva.
"All the facilities are working as normal," a Rosneft representative said.
The earthquake occurred at 7:21 p.m. Moscow time (1521 GMT) Tuesday, and its epicenter was some 100 kilometers to the east of the city of Kyzyl in the Tyva Republic, which borders Mongolia, the Ministry for Emergency Situations said.
Weaker earthquake shocks were also registered in Russia's Khakasia, Altai, Krasnoyarsk, Irkutsk, Kemerovo and Novosibirsk regions, the ministry added.
