Two Key Refineries Supplying Moscow Shut Down After UAV Attacks

On one of them, the infrastructure was severely damaged.

Two major oil refineries supplying Moscow and the Moscow region have suspended operations after a series of drone raids late last week, Reuters reported, citing industry sources (translated by The Moscow Times).

They said Rosneft's Ryazan refinery stopped processing oil from May 15, and Gazprom Neft's Moscow refinery from May 17.

The Ryazan refinery, which processes about 13 million tons of oil a year, providing 5% of Russia's oil refining capacity, had damaged infrastructure, the sources told Reuters. One of them said the facility will stand "tentatively until the end of June."

Since last week, the Ryazan refinery has stopped selling fuel on the stock exchange, and traders working with it are looking for volumes at oil depots in neighboring regions, according to Reuters sources.

The Moscow refinery, located in Kapotnya, with a capacity of about 14 million tons a year, completely halted refining on May 17 - after a large-scale UAV raid on the capital that killed three people and injured 12.

Reuters sources said the refinery's equipment was not damaged, but the refinery halted processing to reduce the threat of negative consequences. It will take several days to resume operations, the agency sources said.

Together, the Ryazan and Moscow refineries produce more than 5 million tons of motor gasoline and more than 6 million tons of diesel fuel a year. They became the eighth and ninth Russian refineries to halt output since early spring. Earlier in May, Lukoil's Permnefteorgsintez and Surgutneftegaz's Kirishinefteorgsintez stopped oil refining. In April, the Syzran, Novokuibyshevsk, Tuapse and Saratov refineries, as well as Lukoil's Nizhegorodnefteorgsintez were idled due to UAVs.

Reuters estimates that in January-May, 11% of Russia's primary refining capacity was idled every day due to UAVs - three times more than in the same period earlier. The volume of oil refining at Russian refineries fell to the lowest since 2009 - 4.69 million barrels per day.

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