Sources: Russian Syzran oil refinery was halted on December 5, by a drone attack

Two industry sources reported on Tuesday that the Russian Syzran refinery, located on the Volga River, stopped?oil production on December 5, after it was?damaged by an Ukrainian drone attack.

As peace talks failed to progress, Ukraine and Russia began attacking each other's nuclear energy plants.

The Ukrainian military said that they had carried out long-range attacks overnight on an oil refining plant in the Russian city Syzran, and on the Temryuk Port located in the Krasnodar Region.

Sources said that the drones targeted the CDU-6 crude distillation unit of the plant, which was the primary equipment that had been targeted by drones earlier in August. It required two weeks to repair.

One source said that the most recent repair work might last about a week.

Refinery owner Rosneft failed to respond to an inquiry for comment.

Industry sources claim that oil refining capacity at Syzran was about 90,000 bpd or 4.3 millions metric tons last year, which is well below the?capacity.

Last year, the?plant produced 800,000.00 tons of gasoline and 1.5 million tons diesel. (Reporting and Editing by David Goodman).

(source: Reuters)