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2/9/2024.

/1. Tonight drones attacked Ilsky oil refinery in the Krasnodar region of Russia. 350km from the front line.

/2. Location of the Ilsky oil refinery

(44.8556768, 38.6081725)

/3. I suppose that this is the burning area of Ilsky oil refinery which we see on the video

(44.8603102, 38.6150433)

/4. ELOU AT-6 - the most powerful technological unit for oil refining at the Ilsky Oil Refinery. Launched at the end of 2020.

Columns K-1, K-2 and K-3 are large-sized equipment. K-1 height is 28.5 m, diameter is 3.2 m, assembled weight is about 70 tons. K-2 rises above the ground by 42 m, in diameter - 3.8 m, assembled weight - 140 tons. Column K-3 is 30.5 m, 1.6 m in diameter, weighing 39 tons.

ELOU AT-6 has a claimed capacity of 3.6 million tons of oil per year. It is known that in September 2021, its full load helped the plant process a record volume of raw materials - 490,415 tons of oil. This result is more than 2 times higher than the enterprise’s result in September 2020 (240,378 tons).

https://twitter.com/bayraktar_1love/status/1755861444816494629

“Tonight drones attacked Ilsky oil refinery in the Krasnodar region of Russia”

Shut’em down!

That is quite a revenue stream that was taken off line, and it does not look to me as a layman, like something that can be repaired anytime soon. I assume that a new one would have to be built - probably not this year.

The pace of these refinery attacks (a few a week), is clearly far in excess of the likely capacity to restore such damage. The manufacturing facilities to produce such components are likely far fewer than the number of refining facilities themselves. It would be valuable to hit that restoral ability too, but it might require a lot more explosives to be delivered. Those refineries are loaded with flammable and explosive fuels, that just need to be touched off.

No doubt they are missing the big teams of experts from the oil majors, like Exxon, BP and Total.

Shut down gasoline production before the “election”, and watch the economy lock up.