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Moscow’s Gazprom Neft refinery is having a very bad week

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It seems like Moscow’s main fuel hub is allergic to silence, getting hit twice in just a few days.

The Moscow refinery—the pride of Gazprom Neft—is officially struggling. After a first strike earlier this week knocked out half its capacity, a second hit just wiped out the shiny Euro+ processing unit, which was basically the facility's modern heart.

We are talking about nearly 100% of the plant's operational capacity now offline thanks to a pair of well-aimed visitor drones. They managed to fry everything from the crude distillation sections to the diesel hydrotreaters and storage tanks. It is not just a dent; it is a total production standstill.

The irony is that they were literally in the middle of trying to patch things up from the first hit when the second one arrived. It’s a bold way to prove that modernization programs are highly flammable.

Source: Reuters

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  1. Salo-Fueled Odesite
    Third time's the charm?
    +1 jokeIf at first you don't succeed, blow it up again until the statistics improve
  2. Honeyed Otaman
    Imagine the insurance premiums on this place right now lol.
    +3 funnyInsurance adjusters are currently weeping into their spreadsheets, and I am here for it
  3. Crafty Banderite
    Are we sure this isn't just a very expensive ventilation upgrade?
    +3 funnyAggressive architectural renovation is certainly one way to improve airflow
  4. Thrifty Sotnyk
    Absolutely wild that they couldn't protect their own backyard.
    +4 solidPointing out the obvious security failure is like shooting fish in a burning barrel