This is written on Wednesday about a fire on Sunday because no official channel has written it at all. Both accounts come from exile outlets, and they disagree on the unit. Chronicles, publishing at 07:22 UTC on Monday, says the fire started at the petrol blending unit, rated at 2.3 million tonnes a year, that every water tanker in the city was sent to it and that it was out by 06:00. Turkmen.news, at 10:57 UTC the same day, places it at one of the delayed coking units and says black smoke covered part of the city; whether it was linked to the blackout, it adds, is unknown.
The state's own record of the days before is on turkmenistan.gov.tm, in the readout of the 28 August cabinet meeting posted at 23:30 that night. The deputy prime minister reporting on the oil sector said that 'everything necessary is being done for the reliable power supply of the technological facilities of the Turkmenbashi complex of oil refineries', and the president, 'approving the proposal to carry out capital repairs at the facilities' of the complex, ordered the appropriate measures.
Two days later the power went. CAW reported the blackout on Wednesday morning: roughly 17:20 to 17:30 on Sunday across Ahal, Mary, Lebap and Balkan provinces and Ashgabat, restoration between 19:40 and 00:30 depending on the city, 3 independent channels, no official statement. The refinery sits in Balkan province, the last to come back in that timeline.
This is written on Wednesday about a fire on Sunday because no official channel has written it at all.
The state site's front page for 29 August to 2 September carries the Vietnamese president's congratulations, a new architecture institute for 5,000 students, the road-safety month, a memorandum with the World Wildlife Fund and the exchange's weekly total of $7.27 million. It carries no item on electricity and none on the refinery. The most recent items on the site that name the complex are that 28 August readout and a May decree on a desalination plant to serve it; neither is about a fire.
The complex is the larger of the country's 2 refineries and a source of the refined products the state exchange sells. What a fire at one unit does to that output depends on the unit, and the 2 outlets name different units. What it does to the state's account of itself is already visible: a repair approved on Friday, a fire on Sunday, and by Wednesday a front page about a road-safety month.