Russia manages to launch terminal in Ust-Luga after drone strike: operates at one-third capacity

Russian energy company Novatek has partially resumed gas condensate processing at its complex in the Baltic port of Ust-Luga. This was reported by the company with reference to market sources writes Reuters.

Work was suspended last weekend due to a fire that broke out after the attack by Ukrainian drones. According to the agency's sources, one of the three units of the complex was launched at full capacity on August 26.

The Ust-Luga complex has three processing units with a capacity of 3 million tons per year each, accepts stable gas condensate from Siberia and processes it into light and heavy ligroin (motor fuel), jet fuel, fuel oil and gas oil. Products from the plant are exported by sea.

Drone attack provokes fire at the complex on the morning of August 24as a result, all operations, including fuel exports, were completely suspended on Sunday.

Repair of two other damaged units at Novatek Ust-Luga, the sources said, can last for months.

According to Novatek, from January to June 2025, the complex processed 4.2 million tons of gas condensate.

This is not the first successful Ukrainian attack on Novatek's Ust-Luga facility. on January 21, 2024, as a result of drone strikes a large-scale fire broke out. on January 24, he resumed operations, but only as a transshipment facility condensate to tankers.

Processing of stable gas condensate at Novatek's Ust-Luga plant was restored only in mid-February.

• Earlier it became known that repair work ahead of schedule the Volgograd Oil Refinery will be shut down twice in August was subjected to drone attacks. The largest refinery in southern Russia has accelerated repairs to cover fuel shortage.