Russia’s largest oil refinery in the Omsk region of western Siberia has halted operations following a Ukrainian drone attack, two industry sources said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Monday’s strike\u00a0on the refinery was one of Ukraine’s longest-range attacks of the\u00a0conflict, now well into its fifth year.<\/p>\n
The halt in operations at the plant, which is\u00a0Russia’s top producer of gasoline, is likely to exacerbate fuel shortages across the country.<\/p>\n
“Facilities at the Omsk oil refinery were damaged as a result of [Monday’s] attack. No plant personnel were injured,” Anatoly Seryshev, President Vladimir Putin’s representative in Siberia, said in a statement on\u00a0Tuesday.<\/p>\n
“Damage assessment is currently underway, and competent services have organized restoration work,” Seryshev said,\u00a0without detailing out how the refinery’s operations were impacted.<\/p>\n
Gazprom Neft, which owns the refinery, did not immediately reply to a request for comment.<\/p>\n
According to the sources, a crude distillation unit, CDU-10, which accounts for around 38% of the plant’s production capability with a capacity of 24,580 metric tons a day, caught fire and was damaged in the attack.<\/p>\n
The Omsk refinery stopped selling gasoline and diesel on the St. Petersburg International Mercantile Exchange on Tuesday, according to data from the exchange.<\/p>\n
The sources said another primary processing unit, CDU-11, was also taken offline. It accounts for 37% of the plant’s capacity\u00a0and is able to process 24,000 tons of oil per day.<\/p>\n
While the unit was not hit, some network links essential to its operation were damaged, the sources said. They said CDU-11, which entered operation in 2023, could resume work in the near future.<\/p>\n
The Omsk refinery has two mothballed primary refining units, CDU-7 and CDU-8, with a production capacity of 10,000 tons each. In theory, the plant could restart them.<\/p>\n
According to the source-based information, the Omsk oil refinery processed 22 million tons of oil, or around 440,000 barrels per day, in 2024, producing 5 million tons of gasoline and 8 million tons of diesel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Russia’s largest oil refinery in the Omsk region of western Siberia has halted operations following a Ukrainian drone…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":920400,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5],"tags":[71624,50,270,370350,103],"class_list":["post-920399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world","tag-gasoline","tag-news","tag-oil","tag-omsk","tag-world"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116883263844081518","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=920399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/920400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=920399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=920399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=920399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}