Reuters: Lukoil’s Volgograd refinery stopped oil processing on October 2 after a drone attack

According to Reuters, the shutdown of the Volgograd refinery could worsen the fuel shortage in Russia, which has already emerged after strikes on oil-processing facilities. The Volgograd Region administration, citing Governor Andrey Bocharov, reported a massive drone attack on the region's industrial infrastructure, but did not specify which facilities were affected.

According to data on the company's website, the Volgograd refinery has a capacity of about 14 million tons of oil per year, or 280,000 barrels per day. The plant accounts for roughly 5% of all oil refining in Russia.

The plant had already suffered serious damage in drone attacks on May 29 and July 31. In the wake of these strikes, Ukraine and Russia intensified attacks on each other's energy facilities, and efforts to end the war, now in its fifth year, have not produced results.

On September 25, Reuters reported that after a drone attack, Lukoil's Perm refinery completely halted processing. At the time, the agency wrote that it was the fourth Russian oil refinery to stop operating after strikes by Ukrainian drones since September 20: before that, the Moscow, Kuibyshev, and Novoshakhtinsk refineries had halted processing.

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