Russia’s Ust-Luga oil export terminal will run at roughly half capacity in September—about 350,000 barrels per day—after Ukrainian drone attacks damaged pipeline infrastructure feeding the port.
The bottleneck traces to strikes on the Unecha pumping station in Bryansk, a key transit node for flows to Ust-Luga and the Druzhba line into the EU. Repair work is under way with no firm timeline for full restoration.
Knock-on effects hit the Druzhba pipeline that supplies Belarus, Slovakia, and Hungary. Slovakia said on Thursday that deliveries resumed in test mode after the outage. Hungary flagged a lower-volume test restart a day earlier.
To limit export losses, Moscow is diverting barrels to Primorsk on the Baltic and Novorossiisk on the Black Sea, though the shift won’t fully replace Ust-Luga volumes.
The curtailment follows a broader campaign of Ukrainian strikes on Russian energy assets, including Lukoil’s Volgograd refinery last week and a multi-day fire at the Novoshakhtinsk plant reported earlier this week.
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