Moscow Oil Refinery confirmed fully halted after Sept 20 drone strike; repairs expected to take weeks

Industry sources confirmed to Reuters that the Gazprom Neft-owned Moscow Oil Refinery in Kapotnya completely stopped crude processing after the overnight Sept 19-20 drone strike set fire to both of its primary units — the AVT-6 crude distillation unit (21,400 tonnes/day, 53% of total capacity) and the integrated Euro+ refining complex (18,800 tonnes/day, 47% of capacity). Repairs are expected to take several weeks. The refinery stopped offering fuel for sale on the St. Petersburg International Mercantile Exchange starting Monday, Sept 21, confirming the shutdown is total rather than partial. The plant, Russia's largest by some measures at 11.6 million tonnes/year and located just 15km from the Kremlin, normally supplies 35-40% of Moscow city's fuel and up to 70% of the wider region's petrol and aviation-kerosene demand, making its full stoppage the most consequential single outage of the crisis to date for the country's largest fuel-consumption market.