Friday, October 03, 2025

Have Ukrainian Drones Really Knocked Out 38% of Russia’s Oil Refining Capacity? Really!

The Ukraine is most likely not done yet attacking the Russian oil refineries etc.! It just started to attack oil refineries!

The author points at the always idle refinery capacity in Russia making up about 22%. Well, this idle capacity can also be attacked!

Where did this author grab the "38%" figure from? Even if it was only around 25% or 33% it would be devastating too!

Caveat: I did not read the whole article.

"... On paper, Russia can refine 327 million tons of oil every year (or 6.5 million barrels per day). And the capacity of the 16 refineries that have been attacked by Ukrainian drones in August and September is 123 million tons a year—or 38 percent of the total. In other words, 38 percent is the upper limit of potential damage. ...

Every year, Russia refines up to 270 million tons—so at least 22% of the country’s total capacity is always idle (there are various reasons for this, but one is that there is a lot of old equipment in place that just hasn’t been decommissioned). Russian domestic consumption of oil products is about 120 million tons a year, with the rest sent for export. ..."

Have Ukrainian Drones Really Knocked Out 38% of Russia’s Oil Refining Capacity? | Carnegie Endowment for International Peace "Kyiv’s unprecedented strike campaign on Russian oil refineries has inflicted serious—but likely not critical—damage [???] on the country’s ability to produce fuel."

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