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To: marcusmaximus

A good friend of mine worked for the Strategic Air Command in Omaha. His job was to select targets in Russia that would inflict the most economic damage. I don’t know if it’s still true today, but Russia always built one huge production facility for the entire country. Most production facilities (e.g., petroleum) were located deep in the interior of the country, making it more difficult for planes at the time to get bombers to the targets.

I wonder if that’s still true today and what would happen if they sent an armed drone (or whatever) to hit Russia’s diesel-producing facility.


4 posted on 08/15/2024 7:57:39 AM PDT by econjack
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To: econjack

Or better, a swarm or series of such drones that would overload any defences.


7 posted on 08/15/2024 8:08:57 AM PDT by desertsolitaire ( )
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To: econjack

Your information is in error. No idea how that got imagined.

Russia’s oil refining capacity

Achinsk Refinery (Rosneft), 129,000 bbl/d (20,500 m3/d)
Angarsk Petrochemical Refinery (Rosneft), 194,000 bbl/d (30,800 m3/d)
Antipinsky Refinery (RI-Invest), 114,000 bbl/d (18,100 m3/d)
Khabarovsk Refinery (АО “ННК-Хабаровский НПЗ”::Главная Archived 2017-03-28 at the Wayback Machine), 86,000 bbl/d (13,700 m3/d)
Komsomolsk Refinery (Rosneft), 143,000 bbl/d (22,700 m3/d)
Nizhnevartovsk Refinery (Rosneft), 27,000 bbl/d (4,300 m3/d)
Kstovo Refinery (Lukoil)., in Nizhny Novgorod Oblast.[62]
Omsk Refinery (Gazprom Neft), 362,000 bbl/d (57,600 m3/d)
Perm Refinery (Lukoil), 9 km away from Perm.[63]
Tobolsk Petrochemical Refinery (Sibur), 138,000 bbl/d (21,900 m3/d)
Ukhta Refinery (Lukoil), in the central part of the Komi Republic.[64]
Volgograd Refinery (Lukoil), southern Russia.[65]
Yaya Refinery (NefteKhimService), 57,000 bbl/d (9,100 m3/d)

Notice the Lukoil refineries don’t quote capacity. You have to look them up individually. My recall is they add to about 1.5 mbpd.

Total Russian oil consumption is 3.6 million b/d, ranking 6th in the world behind US, China, India, Saudi Arabia (!!) and Japan.


9 posted on 08/15/2024 8:18:45 AM PDT by Owen
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