Ukrainian Drones Strike Russian Energy Facilities

(Reuters) - Ukraine struck energy facilities in southern Russia with dozens of drones on Monday, triggering fires at a major oil refinery and a gas processing plant and disrupting flights from the Volga to the Caucasus Mountains.

Following is a list of oil refineries and petrochemical and other facilities attacked in the past month:

VOLGOGRAD

Baza, a Russian news Telegram channel that is close to Russia's security services, said a series of explosions were heard in the area around a refinery operated by Russia's second-largest oil producer Lukoil in Volgograd on Feb. 3. 

The refinery is the largest in southern Russia.

The plant has production capacity of some 300,000 barrels per day. It was targeted by Ukrainian drones several times in January as well. 

In 2023 the Volgograd refinery processed 13.508 million metric tons of oil, or 4.9% of the total refining volume at Russian refineries.

ASTRAKHAN GAS PROCESSING PLANT

Baza and other Russian Telegram channels said Ukraine attacked a gas processing plant near Astrakhan on Feb. 3. 

The local governor put out a video on a Telegram channel of him inspecting the plant and a manager telling him that the damage to a gas condensate processing unit was being evaluated.

The plant, controlled by gas giant Gazprom, is capable of processing around 8,340 metric tons of gas condensate per day.

The plant produced 703,000 tons of gasoline, or 1.6% of Russia's total, as well as 492,000 tons of diesel (0.6%) and 299,000 tons of fuel oil (0.7%) in 2023.

SIBUR-KSTOVO

Russian petrochemicals giant Sibur said on Jan. 29 that shipments of products from its Kstovo plant had been suspended after a Ukrainian drone attack.

It produces more than 770,000 tons of olefins and 130,000 tons of aromatic compounds per year.

The plant's products are shipped to further processing, where they are used to make materials for housing and communal services, construction, the automotive industry, packaging, medicine and other industries.   

RYAZAN

Russia's Ryazan oil refinery, owned and run by Rosneft, was set ablaze after a drone attack on Jan. 24.

 According to two industry sources, the refinery suspended operations after the attack.

The plant, with installed capacity of around 350,000 bpd, refines about 12.7 million tons of Russian crude a year (around 317,000 bpd), or 5.8% of Russia's total refined crude, according to industry sources.

In 2024, it produced 2.2 million tons of gasoline, 3.4 million tons of diesel, 4.3 million tons of fuel oil and 1 million tons of jet fuel, according to a source-based data.

ANDREAPOL OIL PUMPING STATION

A Ukrainian drone attack hit Russia's Andreapol oil pumping station, part of the oil export route via the Baltic Sea port of Ust-Luga, causing a fire and oil products to leak, a source in the Security Service of Ukraine said on Jan. 29.

The station is a part of the Baltic Pipeline System-2 network of oil pipelines, connecting the Soviet-built Druzhba pipeline with the Baltic Sea ports.

(Reporting by Reuters; Editing by Alison Williams)