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MOSCOW, April 7 (Reuters) – NORSI, Russia’s fourth-largest oil refinery, suspended operations on April 5 following a Ukrainian drone attack, two industry sources said on Tuesday.
The temporary closure of the refinery will add further uncertainty to Russia’s energy sector, which has been hit by continuous Ukrainian attacks, including those hitting its major oil exporting terminals on the Black Sea and the Baltic Sea.
Russian authorities said on Sunday that the NORSI oil refinery had caught fire following a drone attack. The governor of Nizhny Novgorod region, Gleb Nikitin, said that two facilities at the plant were hit and that a power station and several houses were damaged during the attack.
According to the Saint-Petersburg International Mercantile Exchange, Lukoil has not been offering to sell gasoline, diesel or fuel oil from the refinery, located 450 km (280 miles) east of Moscow.
The industry sources said on Tuesday that supplies could be suspended until the end of the month.
Lukoil did not immediately reply to a request for comment.
NORSI, which is also Russia’s second-largest producer of gasoline, can process 16 million metric tons of oil per year, or around 320,000 barrels per day.
Reporting by Reuters; Editing by Hugh Lawson
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