Drone strikes are not in the rush -following two major refineries of Russia

Rosneft Refinery Ryazan Oil Refining Company has suspended the refinement of the oil of about half a capacity, and Novokuybyshevsky refinery has completely stopped working from August 2 after the first drone attack from March 2025. Reuters wrote about it on Monday, July 4.

Ryazan refinery with a capacity of 13.7 million tons of oil per year is the largest in Rosneft, is part of the top 5 largest in Russia and provides fuel, including the Moscow region. The capacity of Novokuyshevsk refinery, the most used in Rosneft’s Samara group, is 8.3 million tons of oil per year.

According to Reuters, in the Ryazan refinery, after the drone attack, the installation of primary oil processing of an auto-3 with a capacity of 8600 tons per day and Aut-4 with a capacity of 11,400 tonnes per day was stopped. The plant continues to process raw installation materials of AT-6 with a capacity of 23,200 tons per day (48% of the power of refineries).

With novokuybyshevsk refinery, an atmospheric (main) column of the main oil installation that AVT-11 is damaged.

Last year, due to attacks of drones and repair problems, Russia’s oil refinement fell to a 12-year minimum-267 million tons. Exports of oil products were reduced by 9%, up to 113.7 million tons. The Russian government’s response is the classification of statistics. In May, the Ministry of Energy stopped transferring fuel -making data to Rosstat, and in August the “Grifing Secret” was imposed on statistics of making diesel fuel.

Remember that fuel in Russia continues to grow rapidly in the Russian wholesale market, despite the government’s decision to completely inhibit the export of gasoline somehow until the end of August. In August-September, Russia faced a repetition of a fuel crisis.