Gazprom Neftekhim Salavat handles 2.7 percent of Russia’s oil refining. A single overnight drone attack took it offline.

One of Russia's largest petrochemical complexes, Gazprom Neftekhim Salavat, has halted operations after a Ukrainian drone strike in the early hours of July fourteenth, Meduza reports, citing Reuters and two industry sources. The damage forced the shutdown of two crude distillation units and several secondary processing units, and the sources say repairs could take anywhere from a few weeks to several months. The plant, which produces gasoline, diesel, and kerosene, accounted for about two point seven percent of Russia's refining throughput in twenty twenty-four, though the head of Bashkortostan claimed the main facilities were spared and would restart within days. Meduza notes these recurring strikes have pushed Russian oil refining to a twenty-one-year low and deepened a fuel crisis that has already stretched past a month.

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