Fireworks in Samara: drone strike brings Kuibyshev refinery in Russia to a standstill
Yesterday’s drone strike on the Kuibyshev oil refinery in Russia’s Samara region has led to its shutdown, Russian media outlet Astra reports, citing its own sources.
They said that as a result of the attack on March 23, the company’s AVT-4 unit, which is responsible for primary oil processing – its separation into separate fractions – was damaged. As a result, the company’s production cycle has been suspended.
The refinery’s design capacity is 7 million tons of oil per year. The refinery processes oil produced by Rosneft in Western Siberia and the Samara region. The plant specializes in the production of gasoline, diesel fuel, liquefied gas, and sulfur.
The Kuibyshev refinery on the outskirts of Samara is one of the enterprises of Rosneft’s Samara group that it acquired as a result of the redistribution of Yukos’ assets in 2007. On March 23, drones attacked two of them – the Kuibyshev refinery and the Novokuibyshevsky refinery.
- According to Reuters, another refinery of the Samara group in Syzran has been out of service since March 16 as a result of a drone strike.
- The Ryazan refinery is operating at 36% of its capacity and the Nizhny Novgorod refinery at 64%, both of which were also attacked by drones.
- Russia’s oil refining has fallen to a 10-month low after drone attacks, according to Bloomberg.
