The Novoshakhtinsk oil refinery in southern Russia has been burning for the fifth day in a row. It is one of the largest suppliers of petroleum products in the region. According to Reuters, following Ukrainian strikes on RF energy facilities, oil prices have risen. www.reuters.com/business/ene...
Burn baby burn π
Burn baby burn.
Geesh, that's a real shame! Other than polution, I dont see a problem.
my thoughts exactly
Burn baby, burn!
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Hope it expands to the entire refinery.
Keep it up Ukraine! πΊπ¦ Yes! Destroy Russiaβs oil infrastructure and you destroy their economy and ability to wage war.
I hope they follow on with some hits on the production facilities.
That Face When the commodities you use to pay for your genocidal war are all highly flammable
It looks to be getting worse.
Must be beyond the local fire bucket brigade's abilities. π₯
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Reuters also said "Ukraine drone hits russian nuclear plant" which is not true. Russia downed a Ukraine drone that fell on a nuclear plant. Reuters used to be associated with TASS in the past.....
If you have any relatives there, tell them to not buy any food for a couple of yrs. Otherwise, welcome π€
I am by no means an expert, but this looks really, really expensive.
It's a storage tank farm. Likely a couple of large storage tanks will need replacement afterwards. But petrochemical facilities are built by code to withstand fire damage so the concrete and a majority of the tanks will be okay.
Still expensive though. Assuming it was full, a tank of crude oil that size is worth about 30 million dollars even at the extremely depressed sale value that Russia is forced to endure. The lost profit, ie finished products coming out of the shut-down refinery would have been worth much more.
Crude oil is not that expensive. At $64/bbl and 0.15 m3/bbl, a 1000 m3 storage tank filled to the top holds crude worth just about $400k. The tank itself would be something like $2-4 million.
The value in striking that particular refinery, which isn't connected to the oil export ports on the black Sea but serves primarily the Russian military and civilian needs in that region (ie it doesn't earn export money), is in denying fuel to the military. Rostov is the hub for Donbas offensive.
Russia runs a very large army conducting an offensive in the Donbas. The Ukrainian strategy over the past months as far as it pertains to strategic attacks targets rail infrastructure and oil production in Southern Russia in order to slow down and limit the Russian supply effort.
hmm. π€¨ The numbers I found said that typically a crude oil refinery would have an onsite storage capacity up to half a million barrels, and 500K * 60$ is how I got to 30$M. I suppose my mistake was thinking that was "A" tank, when in reality it's many tanks
Yeah they have a lot of tanks. And not all of them would be full. Depending on logistics and production planning, a lot may be empty. Inventory is idle product, like in any industry.
I love the smell of Russian oil burning in the morning.
And on the following morning it smells even better
Novoshakhtinsk refinery has been turned to novoshitstinsky.
Misleading - this video is *not* from today.
More current state: bsky.app/profile/noel...
Good for Ukraine bad for the environment
