Major Russian oil refinery has ceased all operations since Ukrainian drone attack, Reuters reports

Russia's Syzran Oil Refinery has stopped processing crude oil since it was damaged in a Ukrainian drone strike on 5 December.

Source: Reuters, citing industry sources

Details: Ukraine and Russia are continuing to target each other's energy infrastructure as peace talks stall.

Ukrainian forces said on Friday that they carried out long-range strikes on an oil refinery in Syzran and the Temryuk port in Krasnodar Krai on the night of 4-5 December.

The sources told Reuters that the drones hit the CDU-6 crude distillation unit – key refinery equipment that had previously been targeted by drones in August, when it required two weeks of repairs.

One source said the current repairs could take about a month.

For reference: According to industry sources, oil processing at the Syzran Refinery was well below design capacity last year, at around 90,000 barrels per day, or 4.3 million tonnes.

Last year the refinery produced 800,000 tonnes of petrol, 1.5 million tonnes of diesel and 700,000 tonnes of fuel oil.

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