Lukoil's largest oil refinery halts operations after drone attack

Artur Kryzhnyi - 3 July, 20:10

The Kstovo oil refinery on 2 July. Photo: The Moscow Times

The Lukoil-Nizhegorodnefteorgsintez oil refinery in Kstovo, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, has halted crude oil processing after a drone attack on 2 July.

Source: The Moscow Times, an independent Amsterdam-based news outlet

Details: The Kstovo oil refinery, Russia's fourth-largest refinery by processing capacity and the country's second-largest petrol producer, was attacked on 2 July. The strike damaged its main AVT-6 primary crude distillation unit, which accounts for 53% of the plant's processing capacity.

Another unit, AVT-5, responsible for 25% of the refinery's capacity, had already been damaged in a drone attack on 24 June. Since Thursday, the plant has suspended wholesale sales of petrol and diesel fuel on the St Petersburg International Mercantile Exchange.

The Nizhny Novgorod oil refinery has the capacity to process 15 million tonnes of crude oil and produce 5 million tonnes of petrol annually.

Background: On the night of 1-2 July, Ukrainian drones damaged the oil refinery in the city of Kstovo, Russia's Nizhny Novgorod Oblast.

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