Russia's Fifth Major Refinery Shut Down

Rosneft's Kuibyshev refinery was attacked by drones.

Rosneft's Kuibyshev refinery halted oil refining on August 28 after an attack by unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), Reuters reported, citing two industry sources.

According to the agency's interlocutors, at the refinery, which has a capacity of 7 million tons per year, both primary oil refining units - each with a capacity of 10,000 tons per day - were damaged.

Also at the refinery, which is part of Rosneft's Samara group and produced 800,000 tons of gasoline and 1.3 million tons of diesel last year, some secondary processes were damaged, the sources said.

The Kuibyshev refinery became the fifth major refinery to halt production in August due to drone attacks. On August 2, the Novokuibyshevsk refinery (also part of Rosneft's Samara group) shut down after a UAV strike, while the Saratov refinery stopped accepting feedstock on August 11. On August 15, the shutdown of Lukoil's Volgograd refinery, the largest in southern Russia, became known. On the same day, after a drone attack, the Syzran refinery stopped accepting crude for processing.

In addition, on August 2, the Ryazan refinery, the largest of Rosneft's refineries, which sells fuel to the Moscow region, shut down about half of its capacity. The fate of the Novoshakhtinsk refinery, the only one in the Rostov region, which burned for five days after the UAV attack, remains unclear.

Reuters estimates that Russian oil companies have lost 17% of their refining capacity due to drones. The amount of idle refinery capacity in August set a historic record of 6.4 million tons, or 23%.

Till then, Reuters sources said, there has been no comparable drop in fuel production in Russia yet. They said oil companies cut output in August by only 5% as problems at affected refineries were offset by increased utilization of operating refineries.

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