UAV attack halts Saratov refinery operations – media
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Rosneft’s Saratov oil refinery has stopped oil refining after a drone attack. Production facilities at the plant were damaged and fires broke out.
This is reported by The Moscow Times.
According to the publication, the plant’s only primary oil refining unit, AVT-6, has not been operating since August 2. The company has also stopped selling fuel on the St. Petersburg Commodity Exchange.
According to preliminary estimates, the restoration of the plant’s operations could take two to three weeks.
The Saratov refinery became the second major Russian oil refinery to halt production in August. Earlier, Lukoil’s Volgograd refinery, which is among the ten largest refineries in Russia and provides about 5% of the country’s total oil refining, also stopped processing oil.
It was previously reported that on the night of July 31, drones attacked several facilities in the Russian Federation . The Volgograd Oil Refinery, as well as the logistics complexes of the Wildberries marketplace in the Volgograd region and Tatarstan, were hit. The attacks resulted in fires at the facilities.
As a reminder, Ryazan also suffered a massive drone attack on the morning of July 30. After a series of explosions, large-scale fires broke out at at least two facilities — the Ryazan Oil Refinery and the sorting complex of the Wildberries marketplace.