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Russia's Fourth-Largest Oil Refinery Suspends Operations After Ukrainian Drone Strike
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Russia's Lukoil-Nizhegorodnefteorgsintez oil refinery (NORSI), the country's fourth-largest refinery and second-largest gasoline producer, has suspended operations following a Ukrainian drone strike, according to two industry sources cited by Reuters on June 25.
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According to the sources, the attack damaged the refinery's primary crude distillation unit, CDU-5, which has a processing capacity of 12,000 metric tons per day—approximately one-quarter of the facility's total refining capacity.
Despite the damage, the sources said the refinery may be able to resume limited operations in the near future by relying on its remaining processing units.
About the NORSI refinery
Russia's NORSI oil refinery is one of Russia's largest gasoline-producing oil refineries and ranks as the country's fourth-largest refinery by crude processing capacity.
The facility has a maximum design capacity of approximately 17 million metric tons of crude oil per year. Before coming under repeated drone attacks, it was capable of producing around 5 million metric tons of gasoline, more than 5 million metric tons of diesel fuel, 2 million metric tons of fuel oil, and roughly 500,000 metric tons of bitumen annually. Overall, the refinery manufactures more than 50 different petroleum products.
This is not the first time the refinery has come under Ukrainian attack. In May, Russia’s fourth-largest oil refinery partially suspended operations after a Ukrainian drone strike.
According to Reuters, the strike on May 20 forced the NORSI refinery to shut down its main crude processing unit, AVT-6.
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