As a result of the recent drone attack, the Moscow Petroleum Refinery has slowed down the operation of the unit installation new naphtha refining Euro+.”
RBC-Ukraine reported this to Reuters.
Gerela agencies stated that the plant can resume processing at the plant after repairs in five to six days.
For installation “Euro+” accounts for approximately 50% of the total production capacity of the plant from the primary refining of naphtha, and the CDU-6 crude oil distillation unit has a capacity of 6 million tons of naphtha on the river.
The “Euro+” warehouse is also included installation of a reforming plant with a capacity of 1 million tons per river and a hydrotreatment unit for diesel fuel with a capacity of 2 million tons per river.
The Moscow Refinery belongs to Gazpromneft – the naphtha subsidiary of the Russian gas giant Gazprom.
In 2023, the plant processed 11.6 million tons naphtha, destroying 2.6 million tons of gasoline, 3.3 million tons of gas oil, 2.3 million tons of fuel oil and 0.9 million tons of aviation fuel.
Drone attack on the Moscow Refinery
On the 1st of Wednesday 150 attack drones attacked 16 regions of the Russian Federation.
Zokrema, near Moscow in the Kapotnya region, drones attacked the Moscow Oil Refinery. Mayor of Moscow Sergei Sobyanin stated that a number of unmanned aerial vehicles caused death in the “close technical area” of the enterprise.
It is possible that, for example, Ukrainian kamikaze drones hit the Russian nafta base “Atlas” in the Rostov region near the town of Kamensk-Shakhtinsky.
The Riders couldn’t tidy up the fire for a long time. At the petroleum depot there were repeated vibrations, the fire poured into the new tanks.
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