21 April 2026

The Novokuibyshevsk and Tuapse oil refineries (both owned by Rosneft) have halted oil refining due to drone strikes, Reuters reports, citing industry sources.

According to the agency’s sources, the Tuapse refinery, the only one on Russia’s Black Sea coast, has been idle since April 16, when drones attacked the port of Tuapse. A second attack occurred on April 20. As a result, port infrastructure and oil storage tanks were damaged, and smoke from the fire had spread for 300 kilometers by Tuesday, reaching Stavropol.

Unable to ship product to the port, the Tuapse refinery shut down its only oil refining unit, with a capacity of 12 million tons per year, Reuters sources told Reuters.

The Novokuibyshevsk refinery, with a capacity of 8.3 million tons per year, stopped operating on April 18. The refinery, which produced 1.1 million tons of gasoline, 1.6 million tons of diesel, and 1.3 million tons of fuel oil last year, was attacked on Saturday. As a result, both primary oil refining units—AVT-11 and AVT-9—were shut down, sources told Reuters.

Earlier this month, the Nizhegorodnefteorgsintez Oil Refinery (NORSI), the fourth-largest refinery in Russia by refining volume and a supplier of fuel to the Moscow region, was targeted by drones. It stopped accepting crude oil on April 5 and, at the same time, stopped listing gasoline and diesel fuel for trading on the St. Petersburg Commodity Exchange. The refinery, with a capacity of 17 million tons per year, produced over 5 million tons of gasoline and the same amount of diesel fuel last year, is expected to be out of operation until the end of April, sources told Reuters.

On March 21, Rosneft’s Saratov Oil Refinery stopped accepting oil due to a drone attack, and on March 26, the Kirishinefteorgsintez (Kinef) refinery in the Leningrad Region, which ranks second in Russia in terms of refining volumes and first in the European part of the country, was shut down.

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