One Of The Largest Oil Refineries Supplying Moscow Has Halted Three-quarters Of Its Production Capacity

He was attacked by a UAV.

The "Yaroslavnefteorgsintez" oil refinery, located 280 km from Moscow and supplying fuel to the Moscow region among other areas, halted three-quarters of its operations following a drone attack on August 28, according to Reuters, citing two industry sources.

According to them, at the plant—which has a capacity of 15 million metric tons per year and ranks among the top 10 largest in Russia—two of the three primary oil refining units were damaged: AVT-3, with a capacity of 17,140 metric tons per day (40% of the refinery’s capacity) and AVT-4, with a capacity of 14,300 metric tons per day (33%).

Only the AT-4 unit remains in operation; it has a daily capacity of 11,430 metric tons and accounts for 27% of the refinery’s capacity. As of August 31, YANOS, owned by Slavneft, ceased selling petroleum products on the St. Petersburg Commodity and Raw Materials Exchange.

The Yaroslavl refinery, which produces 2.6 million metric tons of gasoline and 4 million metric tons of diesel annually, became the seventh Russian refinery to partially or completely halt fuel production in August. On August 26, Nizhegorodnefteorgsintez (NORSI), a Lukoil subsidiary and the country’s second-largest gasoline producer, on August 25, the Novoshakhtinsk Oil Refinery in the Rostov Region ceased operations.

On August 21, following a drone attack, Lukoil’s “Permnefteorgsintez” (PermNOS), a Lukoil subsidiary; on August 12, Orsknefteorgsintez (OrskNOS), owned by Forteinvest, also halted operations. On August 10, Sibur’s “Zapsibneftekhim” in the Tyumen Region—the country’s largest petrochemical complex, producing 2.5 million metric tons of polymers and 6 million metric tons of LPG annually—shut down. On August 5, Rosneft’s Saratov Refinery ceased oil refining, and on August 3, Lukoil’s Volgograd Refinery did the same.

According to EA Analytics estimates, oil refining volumes in Russia in August remained at their lowest levels since 2002—about 3.8 million barrels per day. At the same time, gasoline production by the end of the month had fallen to 80,000 metric tons per day, compared with average consumption of 115,000 metric tons for this time of year. After several major refineries shut down in late August, the country’s gasoline shortage reached approximately 35,000 metric tons per day, according to Reuters sources.

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