Oil Plant in Russia's Bashkortostan Stopped Its Cat Cracker, Drone Attack

OIL PRICE - MOSCOW, May 11 (Reuters) - Russia's Gazprom Neftekhim Salavat oil processing, petrochemical and fertiliser complex located in the Bashkortostan region has stopped its catalytic cracker after being attacked by a drone on 9 May, two sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.

The catalytic cracker is part of gasoline production chain responsible for 600,000 tons of output of this product at Salavat which in total is capable of producing about 1.5 million tons of gasoline in a year.

"A building with a pumping room for the catalytic cracker was hit. The cracker unit itself stayed secure so nothing is critical. Going to fix it in one to one and a half weeks", a source said on condition of anonymitiy as he was not authorused to talk to media.

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