Russia’s Saratov refinery stopped processing crude oil on August 2 after a Ukrainian drone attack damaged production facilities and triggered fires at the plant owned by the country’s largest oil company Rosneft, two industry sources told Reuters.
Roman Busargin, Saratov’s regional governor, said on Sunday that drones had attacked his region, damaging civilian infrastructure in the city of Saratov, but did not identify the facilities affected.
According to the two industry sources, the refinery’s CDU-6 crude distillation unit, its only crude processing unit, was shut down following the Ukrainian strike. The unit has a nominal capacity of 20,000 metric tons of oil per day.
Sources said repairs to restore the CDU-6 unit could take between two and three weeks.
Rosneft did not respond to a Reuters request for comment.
Fuel sales from the Saratov refinery on the St. Petersburg International Mercantile Exchange fell sharply to minimal volumes on August 3 and were suspended on August 4 and August 5, exchange data showed.
The refinery was also hit by a drone attack on July 8, which forced a suspension of crude processing operations. Market participants said the plant resumed operations within a week.
According to industry sources, the Saratov refinery processed about 5.8 million metric tons of crude oil in 2024. It produced 1.2 million tons of gasoline, 1.9 million tons of diesel fuel and 1.0 million tons of fuel oil during the year.
(Reuters)
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