Reuters: Ukrainian strike damages processing units at Moscow oil refinery

A second Ukrainian attack on Gazprom Neft's Moscow oil refinery on the night of 17-18 June has damaged oil processing units and sparked multiple fires.

Source: Reuters, citing informed sources

Details: Reuters sources said the attack had damaged the Euro+ combined oil refining unit, which was commissioned in 2020 as part of the refinery's modernisation programme.

The unit accounts for 47% of the refinery's processing capacity, or 140,000 barrels per day.

In addition, auxiliary equipment, oil product storage tanks, pipelines and secondary processing units were damaged.

The AVT-6 primary crude oil distillation unit, with a nominal capacity of around 160,000 barrels per day, or 53% of the refinery's total capacity, was damaged and caught fire during an attack on 16 June.

The sources said the refinery had planned to restart the Euro+ unit in the middle of the week and continue processing crude at around half capacity while the AVT-6 unit was undergoing repairs.

Background: Ukrainian drones penetrated Moscow's layered air defence system and struck the Moscow oil refinery in the Kapotnya district, triggering a major fire at the facility. Russian media outlets described the strike as the largest attack on the Russian capital in the past two years.

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