Fuel reservoir hit at Russia’s Primorsk, NORSI refinery on fire after drone attacks

OIL REFINERY ON FIRE

Also on Sunday, the governor of Nizhny Novgorod region, Gleb Nikitin, said on Telegram that fire had broken out at Russia’s NORSI oil refinery, the country’s fourth-largest, after a drone attack, adding that two facilities at the plant were hit.

He said a power station and several houses were damaged during the attack although there were no injured according to preliminary information.

NORSI, which is also Russia’s second-largest producer of gasoline, can process 16 million metric tons of oil per year, or around 320,000 barrels per day.

Andrey Kravchenko, the mayor of Novorossiysk city, Russia’s largest port on the Black Sea, said an air alert was in effect due to the incoming drone attack threat.

Oil loadings, including at the terminal which handles Kazakhstan oil exports from the Caspian Pipeline Consortium, are usually suspended during such alerts.