Gazprom's Astrakhan plant halts fuel output after drone attack – Reuters
That is according to Reuters, citing two industry sources, Ukrinform reports.
They said the plant suspended operations, including a combined unit for processing stable condensate with capacity of 3 million metric tons per year, which produces gasoline and diesel at the facility.
According to the sources, restoring motor fuel output could take from several weeks to several months.
Astrakhan local governor Igor Babushkin reported in his Telegram channel on Wednesday that debris from a Ukrainian drone attack caused a fire at a gas processing plant.
One of the sources said the Astrakhan plant had been offline since September last year and resumed condensate processing and motor fuel production only weeks before the latest attack in April.
The second source said equipment for hydrogen sulphide processing and sulphur recovery was also damaged in the drone attack.
The plant is one of Gazprom's key facilities for gas condensate processing. It processed 1.8 million tons of stable gas condensate in 2024, produced 800,000 tons of gasoline, 600,000 tons of diesel and 300,000 tons of fuel oil, the industry sources said.
On May 13, Ukrainian forces struck the Astrakhan gas processing plant in the Astrakhan region and the Yaroslavsky oil refinery in Yaroslavl, Russia.
