The largest petroleum products processing plant (SPN) in the south of Russia, Novoshakhtinsky, stopped both primary oil refining units.
This was reported by The Moscow Times with reference to Reuters.
ZPN is the only oil refinery in the Rostov region of Russia, its capacity is 5.6 million tons of oil per year.
On the night of December 19, he attacked with drones, resulting in a large fire at the enterprise.
According to Reuters industry sources:
- The AVT-2.5-2 installation with a capacity of 7.14 thousand tons per day, which accounts for 50% of the plant’s capacity, was under attack. As a result, it had to be emergency shut down;
- an oil product tank also caught fire and a second primary processing unit of similar capacity—7.14 thousand tons per day—was shut down.
Launched in 2009, SPN became the first large refinery built in Russia from scratch over the past 30 years. This is the third time since June of this year that he has stopped work.
- The plant was first attacked by drones in March, then in June;
- as a result, output volumes at the refinery decreased sharply – in January-October it processed 2.7 million tons of oil compared to 4.8 million tons last year.
In general, in January-December, Russian refineries lost 41.1 million tons, or 13% of capacity due to downtime caused by UAV attacks and difficulties with repairs due to Western sanctions on the supply of technology to the Russian Federation. The volume of downtime was 14%, or 5.2 million tons, higher than last year.
Source: The Moscow Times
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