The third this week – the Syzran oil refinery has halted operations following a drone attack
Rosneft’s Syzran oil refinery has halted oil processing following damage to processing equipment caused by a drone attack on 18 April. This was reported by Reuters, citing industry sources.
According to them, the plant, which has a capacity of 8.5 million tonnes per year, has emergency-stopped the AVT-6 primary oil refining unit, which accounts for 71 per cent of the plant’s capacity, or 17,100 tonnes per day.
One of the agency’s sources noted that repairs could take between one and two weeks. “There is nothing serious with the units: some damage to auxiliary
equipment and communications. We should fix it quickly,” he said.
The Syzran refinery is part of Rosneft’s Samara group. In 2025, the plant produced 800,000 tonnes of petrol and 1.5 million tonnes of diesel fuel.
This is now the third oil refinery to have shut down due to drone attacks over the past week.
On 16 April, Rosneft’s Tuapse refinery was shut down after it became impossible to ship products via the port of Tuapse. The facility suffered two attacks on 16 and 20 April, resulting in a fire in fuel tanks at the port and damage to infrastructure.
On 18 April, the Novokuybyshevsk refinery also ceased operations, with both primary oil refining units being taken offline in an emergency.
Since the start of the year, at least six oil refineries in Russia have halted fuel production due to drone strikes. These include the Norsy refinery in the Nizhny Novgorod region and the Kinef refinery in the Leningrad region, both of which are among the five largest in the country in terms of capacity.
