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04-04-24, 04:36 PM | #3046 |
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Reuters: US sanctions force Lukoil refinery to cut production by 40% Russian oil refineries are reeling under Ukrainian drone strikes and sanctions limiting access to repairs. Russian oil firms are struggling to repair their refineries, which were built with the help of US and European engineering companies, due to Western sanctions imposed after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Reuters reported, citing sources.This offers evidence that Western sanctions combined with Ukraine’s ongoing campaign to strike Russian oil facilities, having the aim of disrupting the Russian war machine, are reaping results. According to five sources familiar with the situation, Lukoil’s NORSI refinery, the fourth-largest in Russia, has been facing difficulties repairing a broken gasoline-producing unit since 4 January, Reuters wrote. The sources revealed that the only company capable of repairing the catalytic cracker, a crucial component for converting heavier hydrocarbons into gasoline, is the American firm UOP. However, UOP withdrew from Russia following the Ukraine invasion. “They (the engineers) rushed around to find spare parts and they couldn’t find anything,” a source close to Lukoil told Reuters. “Then the whole unit just stopped.” As a result of the unresolved issue, the NORSI refinery has cut gasoline production by 40%, according to two sources. The refinery’s current outage is estimated to cost Lukoil nearly $100 million in lost revenues per month, based on Reuters’ calculations. The difficulties faced by Russian refineries have been further exacerbated by Ukrainian drone attacks, which have struck at least a dozen facilities this year, forcing them to shut down some 14% of capacity in the first quarter, industry sources said. “If the stream of drones continues at this rate and Russian air defenses don’t improve, Ukraine will be able to cut Russian refining runs quicker than Russian firms will be able to repair them,” Sergey Vakulenko, an expert on Russia’s energy industry, told Reuters. Russia’s Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak stated last week that the damaged NORSI facilities should resume operations within a month or two, as Russian firms are working to produce the necessary spare parts. However, Honeywell International Inc, the parent company of UOP, confirmed to Reuters that it had not provided any equipment, parts, products, or services to the Nizhny Novgorod refinery since February 2022. Reuters reports that Western companies such as UOP and Swiss engineering group ABB have supplied technology and software to all 40 of Russia’s largest refineries over the past two decades. Each refinery has a combination of Russian and foreign equipment, making repairs and maintenance challenging in the face of sanctions. Earlier, Reuters reported that western sanctions and a tanker shortage had forced Russia’s Arctic-2 LNG project to suspend operations, dealing a blow to its LNG ambitions. https://euromaidanpress.com/2024/04/...duction-by-40/ |
04-04-24, 05:25 PM | #3047 |
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04-05-24, 06:11 AM | #3049 | |
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Russia-Ukraine war: Frontline update as of April 5
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04-05-24, 07:26 AM | #3050 |
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Russia now has 500,000 troops engaged in Ukraine, and could possibly send in another 300,000 this year. I think this would give them decisive advantages at places of their choice. We expect the mud period any time soon, but when the soil has dried again I think we will see a huge Russian offensive, possibly at Kupjansk where reports say the Russians have started to amass ever more forces. At the same time the ammunition situation has become desperate for Ukraine, there are indicationsn that at some parts of the front they just sit in their trenches and try to hold out wihtout any ammo at all. Artillery superiority is said to be beyond 6:1 along all the front of 1200km, so it is safe to assume that in some regions it is not as huge - for the benfit of front sectors of Russia's choice where their artillery ratio is even more advantageous. Ukraine also begs for Patriot missiles, their air defence has severely suffered due to lacking missile reserves, and so the damage done by Russia increases with every day and week, at growing pace as well.
Ukraine will not hold out over this year if things continue to move like this. They will need to give up very signficant amounts of ground, not just tactical withdrawels to stabilize the front. I fear we will see severe operational breakthroughs by Russia this summer and autumn. I think a breakdown of Ukrainian energy grid later this year is possible. This will almost kill their and some Europeans' ambitions to build defence factories on their own ground. Personally I think it is stupid by Europe to want to rebuild civilian structures and build factories while the air defences are growing weaker and weaker and the war still is raging. Lets build these factories for ammo and weapons near Ukraine but on NATO's side of the border so that Russia cannot take them out without opening war with NATO. But maybe that is right what NATO states do not want: raising the risk of a Russian attack or even just accident that would force them to stand by their treaty's words.
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04-05-24, 07:27 AM | #3051 | |
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Ukraine lowers combat call-up age to boost numbers
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Scandals blight Denmark’s buildup of its armed forces as it eyes possible threats from Russia
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04-06-24, 04:02 AM | #3054 | |
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Russia-Ukraine war: Frontline update as of April 6
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04-06-24, 08:28 AM | #3055 |
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Russian warplanes destroyed after drone attack Ukraine Ukraine has hit a fighter jet base in a drone attack on Russia, Reuters news agency reported, based on Ukrainian sources. This reportedly destroyed six Russian aircraft and severely damaged another eight. Russia has not confirmed the attack and the attack cannot be independently verified. Russian state news agency RIA reports only that 53 Ukrainian drones were downed near the air base. The Morozovsk air base where the fighter jets are located is in the Rostov region that borders Ukraine. Ukrainian sources told the BBC that the fighter jets, the Su-27 and the Su-24, are being used on the front lines. Up to 20 soldiers could have been killed in the attack, the sources said.
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04-06-24, 12:02 PM | #3056 | |
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F-16 for Ukraine. Netherlands tells when and how many planes Ukraine will receive
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04-07-24, 11:25 AM | #3058 | |
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Russia's losses in Ukraine as of April 7: 820 invaders and over 50 artillery systems
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04-07-24, 05:45 PM | #3060 |
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It’s not a Ukraine aid bill. It’s H.R. 815 National Defense Authorization Act Supplemental which adds a little over 71 billion dollars to the $966,000,000,000 Defense budget signed into law last December. In the supplemental is 7 billion in economic aid for Ukraine disbursed by the U.S. as needed on a case by case basis. The rest goes to U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. Department of Energy and U.S. Intel weenies Biden & Co already has presidential draw down authority and 6 billion available but Jake is afraid to offer it because he’s in way over his head.
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