Russia's Syzran oil refinery halted by May 21 drone attack, sources say

The local governor said that two people were killed by ‌a drone attack on the town of Syzran ‌in Russia's Samara region while Ukraine said it had struck the area's refinery. The sources said the refinery's CDU-6 crude ⁠distillation unit, ​which accounts ⁠for more than 70% of the plant's capacity, was shut ⁠down after the attack and that repairs could take ​more than a month.

Russia's Syzran ​oil refinery on the ​Volga river has ‌halted operations ​after a Ukrainian drone attack on May 21 damaged a ‌primary processing unit, two industry sources said on Monday. The local governor said that two people were killed by ‌a drone attack on the town of Syzran ‌in Russia's Samara region while Ukraine said it had struck the area's refinery.

The sources said the refinery's CDU-6 crude ⁠distillation unit, ​which accounts ⁠for more than 70% of the plant's capacity, was shut ⁠down after the attack and that repairs could take ​more than a month. Rosneft, which owns the plant, ⁠did not respond immediately to a request for comment.

The plant's ⁠nameplate ​capacity stands at 8.5 million metric tons a year, or 170,000 barrels per day. It processed ⁠4.3 million tons of crude oil in 2024, producing 1.5 ⁠million ⁠tons of diesel, 800,000 tons of gasoline and 700,000 tons of fuel oil, the ‌sources ‌said.