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SAINT PETERSBURG, April 5 All equipment at the refinery damaged in drone attacks is being repaired, the Russian Federation has sufficient competence for this, he told reporters Deputy Prime Minister — Head of the Ministry of Industry and Trade Denis Manturov.
«Where drones fly is mainly through rectification columns, which are simpler in terms of repair, but simply require time to restore. If the issue is whether we repair it or not, of course yes. Everything is repaired. We have full competence» “,” he said, answering a question about the repair of equipment damaged after drone attacks at the refinery.
As the head of the Ministry of Energy Nikolai Shulginov noted earlier this week, repairs at a number of oil refineries are expected to be completed in April-May.
Ukrainian UAVs have attacked several Russian oil refineries since the beginning of March. Among them are factories in the Nizhny Novgorod, Samara, Ryazan regions, and Krasnodar Territory.
Before this, in January, Lukoil reported that it had temporarily stopped the operation of a process unit at a refinery in the Nizhny Novgorod region due to the breakdown of foreign compressor equipment. There was also a fire at the process unit of this enterprise at the end of 2023. At the end of January, a fire was also reported at the vacuum unit of the Tuapse Oil Refinery. On the night of February 9, a fire occurred on the territory of the Ilsky Oil Refinery in the Krasnodar Territory.