Fuel production in Russia is declining due to damage to key processing units at refineries as a result of Ukrainian drone attacks.
In the last week of March, Russian oil refineries reduced gasoline production to 110.7 thousand tons per day, which is 12% lower than the average in February, and diesel fuel production decreased to 231 thousand tons per day day, which is 3.5% lower. in February. The Russian publication Kommersant writes about this with reference to Rosstat data.
It was noted that fuel production in Russia is declining due to damage to major processing units at refineries as a result of Ukrainian drone attacks.
In particular, the processing lines stopped at the Ryazan Refinery (AT-6 and AVT-4), Kuibyshev Refinery (AVT-4 and AVT-5) and Syzran Refinery (AVT-6) of Rosneft, as well as in Nizhny Lukoil’s Novgorod Refinery (AVT-6).
It is also reported that Russian oil companies are already repairing damaged installations, but their return to full operation will continue until approximately mid-June.
Therefore, Russian oil companies were ordered to increase production in other capacities, and they also sold gasoline from reserves, so after a sharp increase in prices in mid-March, gasoline in Russian stock exchange fell slightly in price last week.
“Gasoline has run out of stock. Production has dropped without the market noticing,” Kommersant said.
But this week prices continued to rise, influenced, in particular, by the psychological impact of the drone attack on the Nizhnekamsk refinery. Yesterday, April 3, A-95 gasoline in the European part of the Russian Federation rose in price on the stock exchange by 1.5% per day – up to 65.4 thousand rubles. per ton.
Let’s recall that on April 2, drones attacked the TANECO oil refinery complex in the Russian city of Nizhnekamsk.
Previously, drones disabled one of Russia’s most powerful oil refineries, LUKOIL-Nizhnegorodnefteorgsintez. It processes 5% of the country’s oil.
Source: korrespondent
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