Ukraine’s Defence Forces have struck the largest plant processing oil and gas condensate blend — the Surgut Stabilisation and Condensate Plant — in the Khanty-Mansi region, around 2,400 km from Ukraine’s border.
This was reported by the Telegram channel “Exilenova+”, while the regional governor, Ruslan Kukharuk, also confirmed the fire.
According to “Exilenova+”, the Surgut plant in the Khanty-Mansi region is located roughly 2,400 km from Ukraine’s border. The Gazprom facility processes gas condensate and produces motor and aviation fuel. Its design capacity is 12 million tonnes of feedstock per year.
The Ukrainian monitoring channel Supernova+ reports that the Chernomyrdin Surgut Condensate Stabilisation Plant (Surgut ZSK) is Russia’s largest facility for processing an oil and gas condensate blend, and is owned by Gazprom Pererabotka.
The Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug is one of Russia’s key centres for oil and gas production.
On the morning of 16 October, the region declared a drone threat alert, including, according to reports, in the city of Kogalym north of Surgut.
- Meanwhile, in Moscow on the evening of 15 October and overnight into 16 October, all four airports were closed due to a large-scale attack by Ukrainian drones. More than a hundred flights were cancelled or delayed.
- According to Flightradar24, for several hours civilian aircraft effectively did not fly over Russia’s western regions. Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said nearly 100 drones had been shot down on their approach to the Russian capital.