Drones attacked the Volgograd oil refinery: analysts reported on the consequences

On the night of Friday, November 13, the Defense Forces attacked the Volgograd Oil Refinery in Russia, which belongs to the Lukoil company, the Dnipro Osint Telegram channel reported.

As the channel reports, at least two crude oil primary processing units were likely hit: ELOU-AVT-1 and AVT-6.

Notably, together they account for about 70% of all primary oil refining capacities of the plant.

"Also, preliminarily, the tank farm was hit," the message says.

At the same time, the Telegram channel Astra reported that despite the nighttime, queues appeared at gas stations in Volgograd due to a drone attack on the refinery.

"It's two o'clock in the morning. What's happening there, Volgograd? Has it started again?" asks the author of one of the videos.

Notably, the governor of Volgograd Oblast, Andrey Bocharov, reported that "as a result of falling UAV debris, local flashes were recorded at an enterprise in the southern industrial zone of Volgograd."

UNIAN previously reported that on November 11, drones attacked one of Russia's largest oil refineries in Omsk. A large-scale fire was recorded on the territory of the industrial zone, which continued to grow. From the moment the first drones arrived, the attack lasted 4 hours. According to local residents, explosions could be heard throughout this time. It is noted that the refinery in Omsk is part of Gazprom Neft and has a design refining capacity of more than 21 million tons of crude oil per year, which accounts for about 10% of Russia's total oil refining volume.

We also wrote that earlier St. Petersburg and the region suffered a massive drone attack. The authorities reported damage to industrial facilities. In particular, in St. Petersburg, mobile internet stopped working amid the attack. Local residents complained that only services from the "white list" were available. According to OSINT analysts, the refinery in the city of Kirishi, Leningrad region (Kirishinefteorgsintez), was hit. This is the second-largest oil refinery in Russia by processing volume and the only such plant in the northwest of the Russian Federation.