Russia's maritime fuel exports down 17% after drone attacks – Reuters

In September, marine exports of petroleum products from Russia fell by 17.1% compared to August, to 7.58 million tons. This is based on industry sources and our own calculations reports Reuters.

The main reason for the decline was a reduction in fuel production at a number of refineries that suffered from drone attacks.

In August and September, several large refineries were attacked, including Kirishinefteorgsintez, Volgograd refinery Lukoil and samara Refinery Group Rosneft.

As a result of unplanned downtime fuel exports declined at a number of key refineries, while crude oil supplies increased, market participants said.

In September, total exports of petroleum products through the Baltic ports of Primorsk, Vysotsk, St. Petersburg and Ust-Luga decreased by 15.4% month-on-month to 4.36 million tons.

Fuel supplies through the ports of the Black and Azov Seas fell by 23.2% in August to 2.52 million tons.

Exports of petroleum products from Russia's Arctic ports of Murmansk and Arkhangelsk increased slightly in September, by 1.8% compared to August, to 30,200 tons.

Fuel shipments through the ports of the Far East decreased by 1.5% month-on-month to 661,300 tons.

• Ukraine regularly strikes at the occupiers' infrastructure. In particular, on the night of October 4, the Defense Forces an oil refinery was hit in the Leningrad region.
• on October 6, the General Staff reported the defeat of oil terminal in the temporarily occupied Feodosia.
• october 9 Defense Forces korobkovsky gas processing plant was hit and the Efimovka line and production control station in the Volgograd region of Russia.
• on October 11, SBU drones hit an oil storage facility in Bashkortostan, 1400 km away from Ukraine.