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(Bloomberg) — Russian authorities say a fire at the Bashneft PJSC complex, caused by a Ukrainian drone attack on Saturday, is extinguished and the plant will continue to operate as usual.
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Radiy Khabirov, head of Russia’s Bashkortostan region, said late Saturday on Telegram that a fire at the Bashneft complex caused by the strike was quickly extinguished. The attack hasn’t affected production and the plant will continue to operate as usual, he added.
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Ukraine’s military intelligence unit struck Bashneft’s Novoil oil refinery in Ufa, Bashkortostan, on Saturday, according to a person familiar with the operation. Preliminary information shows that a “vacuum column for primary oil refining” was damaged, said the person, who declined to be named because the information isn’t public.
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Khabirov said earlier that a drone attacked the Bashneft complex in Ufa, but didn’t say which of the three oil processing facilities had been hit.
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According to the Rosneft PJSC website, its Bashneft unit has three oil processing facilities in Ufa — the Novoil, Ufimsky and Ufaneftekhim refineries — with a total processing capacity of 23.5 million tons of oil per year.
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The press service for Rosneft didn’t respond to a WhatsApp message seeking comment outside normal business hours.
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Ufa is located about 1,200 kilometers (750 miles) east of Moscow and about 1,400 kilometers northeast of the front lines in Ukraine. It’s further east than Samara, where Ukraine conducted a series of strikes in late August.
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Ukraine has recently intensified attacks on Russian energy infrastructure, including targeting multiple refineries. On Friday, Ukraine claimed to have struck facilities handling almost half of Russia’s seaborne crude exports.
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