Russian Ryazan Oil Refinery Stops Operations After Ukrainian Drone Attack

JAKARTA - Russia's Ryazan oil refinery halted its operations after a Ukrainian drone strike on Monday.

The main crude oil refining unit at the refinery, CDU-6, caught fire in the attack. The factory then fully suspended oil processing, sources told Reuters.

Rosneft, the owner of the stall, did not respond to a response request.

The Ukrainian military said on Monday some of their drones had hit the Ryazan oil refinery overnight, with five explosions occurring around it.

The Governor of the Ryazan region, Pavel Malkov, said that through the Telegram messaging application, debris falling from the destroyed Ukrainian drones had sparked fires at industrial companies in the region.

The plant may be back in operation in part in a few days, according to one of the sources speaking to Reuters.

The CDU-6 unit has a capacity of around 170,000 barrels per day, or about 48% of Ryazan's ticketing capacity. The refinery will probably turn on the main CDU-4 and CDU-3 distillation units, while CDU-6 is under construction, the source said.

CDU-4 and CDU-3 have a total distillation capacity of around 145,000 barrels per day, or about 41% of the factory's installed distillation capacity, according to a Reuters source and calculation.

The Ryazan refinery continued some of the oil processing and loaded motorcycle fuel into the train tank on February 11 after being unemployed for 18 days after another Ukrainian drone strike on January 24.

The Ryazan refinery processes 13.1 million metric tons (262,000 barrels per day), or nearly 5% of Russia's total distillation production by 2024.

This generates 2.3 million tons of gasoline, 3.4 million tons of diesel, 4.2 million tons of fuel oil and 1 million jet fuel, according to source data.