One of Russia's largest oil refineries halts operation because of drone attack

The Slavneft-Yanos oil refinery in Russia's Yaroslavl Oblast (250 km from Moscow), which was hit by a Ukrainian drone attack on Friday 12 December, has halted fuel production.

Source: Reuters, citing industry sources

Details: According to the sources, the fire damaged the AVT-4 unit, which accounts for about a third of the refinery's capacity.

The oil loading rack was also damaged.

As The Moscow Times writes, the refinery – one of Russia's five largest and owned by state giants Rosneft and Gazprom – produced 2.6 million tonnes of petrol, 4 million tonnes of diesel fuel, and 4.7 million tonnes of fuel oil last year. It has become the second major refinery to suspend production in December.

A week earlier, Rosneft's Syzran refinery, with a capacity of 8.5 million tonnes per year, also halted processing following a drone attack.

Background: Long-range drones operated by the Alpha Special Operations Centre of the Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) struck the Filanovsky oil production platform, which belongs to Russia's Lukoil-Nizhnevolzhskneft.

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