{"id":67432,"date":"2024-04-20T18:55:10","date_gmt":"2024-04-20T23:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=67432"},"modified":"2024-04-20T18:55:10","modified_gmt":"2024-04-20T23:55:10","slug":"russian-refineries-install-nets-as-protection-from-drone-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=67432","title":{"rendered":"Russian Refineries Install Nets as Protection From Drone Attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Russian oil company Bashneft, part of state-controlled giant Rosneft, has installed metal mesh at its refineries to protect them from drone attacks from Ukraine, Russian media\u00a0reported<\/a>\u00a0on Friday, quoting Radiy Khabirov, the head of the Bashkortostan region where Bashneft is based.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe don’t stop there. There are a number of solutions there, which I won’t talk about yet. They are classified. But believe me, we worry about this very much,\u201d the Bashinform agency quoted Khabirov as saying.<\/p>\n

This year, Ukraine has intensified attacks on oil refineries in Russia, which have reduced Russian refining capacity, and which, reportedly, have the\u00a0White House concerned<\/a>\u00a0about rising international prices.<\/p>\n

The United States has repeatedly urged Ukraine to halt its drone attacks on Russian oil refineries due to Washington\u2019s assessment that the strikes could lead to Russian retaliation and push up global oil prices, the\u00a0Financial Times<\/a>\u00a0reported last month, citing sources familiar with the exchange.<\/p>\n

The drone attacks from Ukraine on Russian refineries could disrupt fuel markets globally, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said last week, estimating that\u00a0up to 600,000 barrels per day<\/a>\u00a0(bpd) of Russia\u2019s refinery capacity could be offline in the second quarter.<\/p>\n

Russia\u00a0has brought back online<\/a>\u00a0some oil refining units in recent weeks, reducing the capacity taken offline by Ukrainian drone hits to around 10%, from 14% at the end of March, calculations by Reuters\u00a0showed<\/a>\u00a0earlier this week.<\/p>\n

The refining capacity in Russia that is currently offline due to drone attacks is now estimated by Reuters at around 660,000 barrels per day (bpd), compared to 907,000 bpd offline at the end of March.<\/p>\n

Still, maintenance and other outages at Russia\u2019s refineries will actually raise the refining capacity that will be offline this month compared to March, according to Reuters\u2019s data and calculations.<\/p>\n

Russia said in early April it could repair all damaged units within two months. Russia\u2019s Energy Minister Nikolai Shulginov\u00a0has said<\/a>\u00a0that all damaged refineries in the country would be restarted by the beginning of June.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Russian Refineries Install Nets as Protection From Drone Attacks Russian oil company Bashneft, part of state-controlled giant Rosneft, has installed metal mesh at its refineries to protect them from drone attacks from Ukraine, Russian media\u00a0reported\u00a0on Friday, quoting Radiy Khabirov, the head of the Bashkortostan region where Bashneft is based. \u201cWe don’t stop there. There are […]<\/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":[3,5],"tags":[12294,1009,21126,694,821],"class_list":["post-67432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-geopolitics","tag-charles-kennedy","tag-drone","tag-oil-infrastructure","tag-russia","tag-ukraine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67432","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=67432"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67433,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67432\/revisions\/67433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}