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Russia Is Struggling to Repair Refineries Due to Sanctions<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Due to the sanctions, Russia cannot access spare parts from Western engineering companies that have provided refinery equipment in the past, leaving Russian refiners struggling to repair damaged units, multiple industry sources in Russia have told\u00a0Reuters<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Western firms including America\u2019s UOP and Swiss ABB have supplied parts and equipment to major Russian refineries in the past. After the invasion of Ukraine, they no longer fulfill new orders from Russia, leaving local engineers scrambling to find spare parts and equipment.<\/p>\n

One example of such difficulty is Lukoil\u2019s Norsi refinery in Nizhny Novgorod on the Volga River. A turbine malfunctioned there in early January and Russian engineers have struggled to have the equipment replaced since then, according to Reuters sources.<\/p>\n

This has left the refinery with a reduced capacity to produce gasoline.<\/p>\n

The malfunction at the refinery compounded last month after\u00a0a fire broke out<\/a>\u00a0at the facility following a drone attack.<\/p>\n

Since all major Russian refineries use at least some part of Western technology, they could struggle to repair equipment and units that broke down or have been damaged by Ukrainian drone attacks, which have intensified in recent weeks and have taken an\u00a0estimated 14%<\/a>\u00a0of Russia\u2019s refining capacity offline.<\/p>\n

Russia claims it can repair all damaged units within two months.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, Russia\u2019s Energy Minister Nikolai Shulginov said that all damaged refineries in the country would be restarted by the beginning of June.<\/p>\n

\u201cRepairs are underway at the refineries. We plan to re-launch a number of refineries after repairs in April-May, possibly before the beginning of June,\u201d Russian news agency\u00a0Interfax<\/a>\u00a0quoted Shulginov as saying.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll facilities that were damaged will be re-commissioned,\u201d the minister added.<\/p>\n

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Russia Is Struggling to Repair Refineries Due to Sanctions Due to the sanctions, Russia cannot access spare parts from Western engineering companies that have provided refinery equipment in the past, leaving Russian refiners struggling to repair damaged units, multiple industry sources in Russia have told\u00a0Reuters. Western firms including America\u2019s UOP and Swiss ABB have supplied […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,5],"tags":[1997,7537,5332,694,14603,821],"class_list":["post-67202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-energy-2","category-geopolitics","tag-economic-sanctions","tag-oil-refineries","tag-oilprice-com","tag-russia","tag-tsvetana-paraskova","tag-ukraine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67202"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67203,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67202\/revisions\/67203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}