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Russia’s fourth-largest oil refinery, the NORSI refinery in the Nizhny Novgorod region, suspended operations on Wednesday following a Ukrainian drone attack, Reuters reported, citing industry sources.
The refinery, also known as Nizhegorodnefteorgsintez, is located about 450 kilometers east of Moscow and is owned by Russia’s oil company Lukoil, UATV English reports.
According to the report, the strike damaged the refinery’s main crude distillation unit, CDU-5, which has a processing capacity of 12,000 metric tons per day and accounts for roughly a quarter of the plant’s total refining capacity.
Sources told Reuters that the refinery may be able to resume operations using its remaining processing units in the near future.
NORSI has an annual refining capacity of about 15 million metric tons of crude oil. It produces approximately 5 million metric tons of gasoline, more than 5 million metric tons of diesel fuel, 2 million metric tons of fuel oil, and around 500,000 metric tons of bitumen each year.
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