Gasoline production in Russia fell by 14% after attacks on refineries

In Russia, due to attacks by Ukrainian drones on oil refineries, the weekly production of gasoline and diesel continues to decrease.

according to given According to Rosstat, in the week from March 18 to 24, Russian refineries produced 754.6 thousand tons of gasoline and 1.648 million tons of diesel. During the third week of March last year, 880 thousand tons of gasoline and 1.770 million tons of diesel fuel were produced, respectively. Thus, according to Rosstat, by the end of March, gasoline production in Russia decreased by 14% year-on-year, and diesel production by seven percent.

Last week “Novaya Gazeta Evropa” calculatedthat by mid-March the Armed Forces were able to disable approximately one-sixth (16%) of Russian automobile fuel production.

In March, objects such as the Rosneft Ryazan Refinery and the Lukoil plant in Kstovo in the Nizhny Novgorod Region were attacked. Both are among the top 10 largest refineries in Russia and supply gasoline to Moscow. They have damaged primary oil processing installations; how long the repair will last was not reported. The Slavyansky Refinery in the Krasnodar Territory, the Syzran and Kuibyshevskiy Refineries in the Samara Region were also attacked.

On given Reuters, after the drone attack on the Kuibyshev refinery in the Samara region on March 23, as a result of which one of its two primary oil refining facilities was disabled, about 45 thousand tons of gasoline and 55 thousand tons of diesel fuel “knocked out” from the market in average monthly terms .

A total of 15 refineries in 10 regions of Russia were attacked since the beginning of the year. Their total processing capacity is 192 million tons of oil per hour, according to The Insider.

Officially, Kyiv did not take responsibility for the attacks on Russian oil plants.

The head of the international oil trader Gunvor Group, one of the major sellers of Russian oil before the invasion of Ukraine, Torbjörn Tornqvist in an interview Bloomberg stated that
Russia loses up to 600,000 barrels of refined oil per day due to drone attacks on oil refineries.
Against this background, the agency writes, diesel fuel futures have quadrupled, and gasoline futures have quadrupled. Exports from Russia fell by several hundred thousand barrels per day, Tornqvist said.

Financial Times edition with reference to three sources writes, that Washington called on Kyiv to stop attacks on Russia’s energy infrastructure. The USA points out that strikes on these objects can lead to an increase in world oil prices and provoke retaliatory measures by Moscow in relation to the energy infrastructure.