By Natali Moss
The agency reported that there was only one company that knew how to repair the gasoline production plant at the NORSI oil refining plant located on the Volga River, about 430 km east of Moscow. According to sources familiar with the incident, the problem was that the company is American. "Engineers rushed in search of spare parts and could not find anything," - said a source close to Lukoil.
Four other sources reported that the installation for catalytic cracking used to convert heavy hydrocarbons into gasoline - from January has been discontinued. It is unknown when it can be repaired due to lack of experience in the Russian Federation. The KK-1 installation is one of the two catalytic cracking installations at the enterprise.
The difficulties were intensified by the attacks of Ukrainian drones, which this year struck at least a dozen Russian oil refineries, sources in the industry reported. According to Reuters estimates, attacks forced Russian oil refineries to close about 14% of capacity in the first quarter.
"If the flow of drones will continue to continue at this rate, and Russian air defense will not improve, then Ukraine will be able to reduce Russian processing plants faster than Russian firms will be able to repair them," - said Sergey Vakulenko, expert on Russian energy. We will remind, on April 4 the expert explained why the Russian Federation misses strokes on the refinery.
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