The Saratov oil refinery, owned by Russian power big Rosneft, has stopped main oil processing after Ukrainian drone strikes on 11 November.

Supply: Reuters, citing two trade sources

Particulars: The sources instructed Reuters that the refinery might stay halted till the tip of the month.

Ukraine has intensified long-range drone assaults deep inside Russia in an effort to disable oil refineries, depots and pipelines that present one among Moscow's key sources of struggle funding.

Ukrainian forces reported on Tuesday that they’d struck the Saratov oil refinery, inflicting explosions and huge fires within the space.

The refinery was additionally attacked on Friday.

A big reservoir caught fireplace on the facility, in response to the sources and a video posted on social media that purportedly exhibits the strikes on the plant.

Quote: "The sources stated the crude distillation unit, CDU-6, the plant's single main processing unit, may very well be broken by the strikes. Its nameplate each day capability stands at round 20,000 metric tonnes, or 147,000 barrels of oil."

Particulars: In 2024, the Saratov oil refinery processed 5.8 million tonnes of crude, about 2.2% of Russia's whole refining quantity, and produced 1.9 million tonnes of diesel, 1.2 million tonnes of petrol and 1 million tonnes of gasoline oil.

Background: A drone assault additionally halted oil exports from Russia's Novorossiysk port on the Black Sea, which generally handles 2.2 million barrels per day, or 2% of world provide.

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