Residents of Ryazan have begun complaining about the lack of AI-92 and AI-95 gasoline at gas stations. They’re writing about this on Ryazan Region Governor Pavel Malkov’s VKontakte page, as reported by Govorit NeMoskva. “Does anyone know where we can fill up on 95 gasoline today?
We went to SpetsNeft on Kudryavtseva Street—they don’t have any other grades than 100. The gas station attendant said there’s a moratorium starting today. ‘Full tank’ on Sportivnaya simply means they don’t have 95. Any info on where to go?” a Ryazan resident wrote on social media.
A local resident confirmed to journalists that the city is experiencing gasoline shortages. “Before work, I drove to three gas stations in the Oktyabrsky district and couldn’t find any 95 octane. The attendant at the ‘Full Tank’ gas station told me that discounts on my discount card were no longer valid. A driver picked me up and said that many stations were also out of 92 octane,” the man said. Authorities have not yet officially commented on the situation. The gasoline shortage at gas stations was preceded by an attack by Ukrainian drones on Rosneft’s Ryazan Oil Refinery. According to Reuters sources, the facility has been shut down since May 15 due to infrastructure damage and will remain closed “until the end of June.”
As a result of Ukrainian attacks over the past two weeks, all major refineries in central Russia have significantly reduced their crude processing or shut down operations entirely, Reuters reports . In addition to the Ryazan Refinery, plants in Moscow, Nizhny Novgorod, Yaroslavl, and Kirishi were attacked. The Moscow Refinery and Kirishinefteorgsintez (Kinef) have completely shut down, while Yaroslavnefteorgsintez (YANOS) is operating at a quarter of its nominal capacity. It has not yet been determined whether Nizhegorodnefteorgsintez (NORSI) has managed to maintain operations.
The total capacity of the fully or partially shut down refineries exceeds 83 million tons per year (238,000 tons per day) – about a quarter of Russia’s total. Together, they produced over 30% of all gasoline in Russia and about 25% of diesel fuel, according to the agency’s calculations. Several other Russian refineries, which could have compensated for the lost petroleum product production at the damaged plants in central Russia, were themselves attacked and are also shut down or operating at below full capacity.
In particular, the Permnefteorgsintez Oil Refinery (13 million tons per year) and the Astrakhan Gas Processing Plant (3 million tons of gas condensate) are currently idle, while the Novokuibyshevsk Oil Refinery (8 million tons per year) is operating at approximately a quarter of its capacity.
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