MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia’s seaborne oil product exports fell 17.1% in September from August to 7.58 million metric tons due to less fuel production as various refineries were impacted by drone attacks, data from industry sources and Reuters calculations showed.
Several major refineries were attacked by drones in August and September, including Surgutneftegaz’s Kirishinefteorgsintez refinery, Lukoil’s Volgograd refinery and Rosneft’s Samara group of refineries.
The resulting unplanned outages at a number of key refineries curtailed fuel exports and drove up crude oil shipments, market sources said.
In September, total oil product exports via the Baltic ports of Primorsk, Vysotsk, St Petersburg and Ust-Luga fell by 15.4% month-on-month to 4.36 million tons, data from market sources showed.
Fuel exports via Russia’s Black Sea and Azov Sea ports last month decreased 23.2% from August to 2.52 million tons.
Oil product exports from Russia’s Arctic ports of Murmansk and Arkhangelsk rose slightly in September – by 1.8% on a monthly basis – to 30,200 tons.
Fuel export loadings at Russia’s Far East ports were down 1.5% month-on-month last month to 661,300 tons, data from sources and Reuters calculations showed.
(Reporting by Reuters; Editing by Bernadette Baum)
