The second drone attack in a week on the Moscow oil refinery owned by Gazprom Neft has damaged a second major crude processing unit and triggered multiple fires at the facility.
According to Reuters, citing industry sources, the attack on Thursday damaged the Euro+ integrated oil processing unit, which was commissioned in 2020 as part of the refinery's modernization program.
The Euro+ complex includes a crude distillation section with a nominal capacity of about 140,000 barrels per day, representing 47% of the refinery's total processing capacity. The damaged facility also contains a catalytic reformer and a diesel fuel hydrotreater.
In addition to the Euro+ unit, several secondary installations, inter-unit pipelines, and auxiliary equipment were reportedly damaged.
Storage tanks containing petroleum products were also hit and caught fire.
