{"id":67816,"date":"2024-05-02T18:31:20","date_gmt":"2024-05-02T23:31:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=67816"},"modified":"2024-05-02T18:31:20","modified_gmt":"2024-05-02T23:31:20","slug":"ukrainian-drones-hit-major-rosneft-refinery-in-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=67816","title":{"rendered":"Ukrainian Drones Hit Major Rosneft Refinery in Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ukrainian Drones Hit Major Rosneft Refinery in Russia<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Just as Russia had started to bring back some refinery capacity damaged by Ukrainian drone attacks earlier this year, a new wave of drone attacks hit a major refinery owned by Rosneft, for a second time.<\/p>\n

Rosneft\u2019s Ryazan refinery southeast of Moscow caught fire after the overnight drone attack, an anonymous Ukrainian military source with knowledge of the situation told\u00a0Bloomberg News<\/a>\u00a0on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

The refinery in the region of Ryazan, whose main city of the same name is some 120 miles southeast of Moscow, was\u00a0first attacked by drones<\/a>\u00a0in the middle of March. The first attack also led to a fire.<\/p>\n

This year, Ukraine has stepped up attacks on oil refineries in Russia, which have reduced Russian refining capacity, and, 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 in March, citing sources familiar with the exchange.<\/p>\n

As of mid-April, Russia had\u00a0brought back online<\/a>\u00a0some oil refining units, reducing the capacity taken offline by Ukrainian drone hits to around 10%, from 14% at the end of March.<\/p>\n

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

Russia said in early April it can repair all damaged units within two months.<\/p>\n

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<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ukrainian Drones Hit Major Rosneft Refinery in Russia Just as Russia had started to bring back some refinery capacity damaged by Ukrainian drone attacks earlier this year, a new wave of drone attacks hit a major refinery owned by Rosneft, for a second time. Rosneft\u2019s Ryazan refinery southeast of Moscow caught fire after the overnight […]<\/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":[12294,5332,3122,34464,694,821,862],"class_list":["post-67816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-geopolitics","tag-charles-kennedy","tag-oilprice-com","tag-rosneft","tag-rosneft-ryazan-refinery","tag-russia","tag-ukraine","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67816","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=67816"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67817,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67816\/revisions\/67817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}