Volgograd refinery: thermal anomalies and satellite views
Refinery in Russia at 48.494, 44.626. Volgograd refinery, refinery in Russia, watched from orbit: last NASA FIRMS thermal anomaly 1 Oct 2026, 1 in 365 days; latest Sentinel-2 view 18 Oct 2026.
1 Oct 2026last thermal anomaly
1thermal anomalies, 365 days
18 Oct 2026latest view
Latest view, 18 Oct 2026
Thermal anomalies
1 in 365 days, newest first.
1 Oct 2026, 18:33 ET · thermal anomaly
| What the market did | 1 Oct 2026 close | 2 Oct 2026 move, range | 5 Oct 2026 move | Flip | Call wall | Put wall | Net gamma $Bn |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| USO | 150.01 | -1.8% 142.15 to 148.05 | -2.2% | 150.74 → 145.19 | 150 → 150 | 140 → 140 | 0 → 0 |
| XLE | 62.67 | +0.4% 61.97 to 62.92 | +1.0% | 60.51 → 61.94 | 63 → 65 | 61 → 63 | 0.02 → 0.01 |
| GLD | 382.76 | -0.7% 378.16 to 385.19 | -0.2% | 382.23 → 379.37 | 383 → 380 | 382 → 379 | 0.07 → 0.03 |
What the market did: the option books of the ticker tier for the session before the reading and the two from it on (a reading outside the hours belongs to the next session): the close-to-close move, the day's range, and the volume book's flip, walls and net gamma before and after. Context beside the reading, not its cause and not a signal; one site and one reading are a sample of one.
FIRMS detections a day, last 90 daysamber: a thermal anomaly
21 Aug 2026 to 19 Oct 2026. A day the series does not hold is a gap, not a zero.
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What this reading can say. A thermal anomaly means NASA's FIRMS satellites saw more heat at the site than it usually shows, at the moment they passed. It does not say why: flaring, a process upset, maintenance and a fire read alike. What it cannot. A fire put out between two passes is never seen, cloud and smoke hide heat, and a site that flares gas every day reads hot on its own, which is why each site is measured against its own normal. A quiet site is no reading at all, never a statement that nothing happened. A site view is a dated Sentinel-2 image: context for a reading, never proof of damage. The SWIR view shows heat and burn scars that true colour cannot.
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