The only oil refinery on the Black Sea coast of the Russian Federation stopped the processing of oil and the release of oil products after an attack by Ukrainian drones on the night of January 25. This is stated in the message of the Nasdaq exchange with reference to Reuters sources.
The Rosneft oil refinery in Tuapse is one of the ten largest in the country — up to 9 million tons of raw materials are processed there every year.
As a result of the attack, the vacuum unit at the enterprise burned down, so the plant will not be able to quickly resume production. Sources of the agency report that the repairs will last at least until the end of February — the beginning of March.
Updated 20:20. Reuters has edited its text about the Tuapse Refinery. Now there is no information that the repair of the plant will last until the end of February — beginning of March.
Oil products from the Tuapse Refinery are shipped for export through the Rosneft terminal in Tuapse. In January, 680,000 tons of products were shipped from the plant to customers in Malaysia, China, Singapore and Taiwan.
The attack on the refinery in Tuapse is the fourth drone attack on the oil and gas infrastructure of the Russian Federation in a week. On January 18, an oil terminal in the Leningrad region came under attack. On January 19, a drone attacked an oil depot belonging to "Rosneft" in the city of Klints, Bryansk region.
And on January 21, the arrival of a drone caused a fire at the Novatek terminal in the Ust-Luga seaport in the Leningrad region.
- Tuapse is a Russian resort on the Black Sea coast. The city has a port and a large oil refinery, which was built in 1929, it is the oldest operating in Russia.