The Volgograd refinery, owned by russian oil company Lukoil, has halted operations after a series of drone strikes in August.
This was reported by Reuters, citing sources familiar with the situation.
The first attack took place on August 13, disabling the CDU-5 primary oil refining unit with a daily capacity of over 9,000 tons. The very next day, drones struck the plant again, damaging two more units, CDU-1 (18,600 tons/day) and CDU-6 (14,600 tons/day).
According to sources, the plant is not expected to resume operations until mid-September. In 2024, the Volgograd refinery provided about 5% of russia's total oil refining, processing 13.7 million tons of raw materials.
Recall that LUKOIL-Volgogradneftepererabotka is one of the key oil refineries in southern russia, operating since 1957, when the first gasoline was obtained there. Since the early 1990s, it has been part of PJSC LUKOIL.
The enterprise specializes in fuel and lubricant production, processing a mixture of low-sulfur West Siberian and Lower Volga oil grades supplied via the Samara-Tikhoretsk pipeline.
Meanwhile, the Volgograd refinery suspended oil reception after an attack by Ukrainian drones on Thursday, August 14.
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