Oil crisis deepens: another Russian enterprise shuts down after drone attack
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The energy crisis in Russia is deepening, in particular, as a result of a fire on September 22, the Astrakhan Gas Processing Plant stopped operating.
This was reported by Reuters.
The fire at the plant, located 1,675 kilometers from the Ukrainian border, broke out after a drone attack.
It is reported that the fire broke out at a condensate production facility that produces gasoline and diesel fuel. Its capacity is 3 million metric tons per year.
According to preliminary forecasts, the company will be able to resume operations in just a few weeks or months.
The St. Petersburg Commodity Exchange has already stopped selling wholesale batches of fuel from the Astrakhan plant.
As a reminder, on September 22, the Russian Ministry of Defense announced an attack by more than a hundred drones , in particular, nine regions of the Russian Federation and the temporarily occupied Crimea were allegedly under attack.
Previously,the Kuibyshev Oil Refinery in Samara stopped operations after a drone attack by the Ukrainian Defense Forces carried out the night before.
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