Refinery

NORSI refinery, Kstovo — major units damaged

12 March 2024

Kstovo, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia

What happened

A Ukrainian drone attack caused a major fire at Lukoil's NORSI refinery in Kstovo. The strike took the AVT-6 crude-distillation unit offline, removing a substantial share of the refinery's primary capacity; later industry reporting also identified damage to the catalytic-cracking unit. Russian regional authorities confirmed the fire and said there were no casualties.

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Evidence
Documented
Confidence
High
Infrastructure
Refinery
Latitude
56.1500°
Longitude
44.1800°

Attribution

Attributed to Ukraine

Sources

  1. Russian refining outages mount under surge of Ukrainian drone attacksS&P Global Commodity Insights · Incident reporting