Russian refineries are coming out of their autumn maintenance programs but are expected to continue running at reduced throughput on poor economics. Receive daily email alerts, subscriber notes & personalize your experience. Register Now Russian refineries processed 21.420 million mt (about 5.04 million b/d) of crude in October, down 11.2% year on year and down 1.4% from September, according to energy ministry data. The decline in throughput was due to seasonal maintenance and poor refinery economics. A number of refineries, including Taneco, Komsomolsk, Volgograd, Norsi, Perm, Ryazan and Taif carried out their autumn maintenance in October. Lower throughput has seen reduced fuel oil output and exports compared with last year’s levels. Russia’s fuel oil production totaled 3.483 million mt in October, down 8.4% year on year. Fuel oil exports in September, the latest available data, fell 5.1% on the year to 2.454 million mt while production in […]