An oil pumping station in Russia burned for a week after a drone strike. The company says it's affected shareholders.

• A Russian lipid pumping presumption was ablaze a week aft a drone strike.

• The Caspian Pipeline Consortium accused Ukraine of a "terrorist" onslaught connected it.

• It said lipid transportation is halted and its shareholders are being impacted.

An lipid pumping presumption successful Russia that was targeted by a suspected Ukrainian drone onslaught was inactive connected occurrence a week later, with its genitor institution saying that the losses were hitting its shareholders.

The Kavkazskaya pump station, successful Russia's Krasnodar Krai, was struck successful an overnight onslaught that began connected March 18.

The presumption is portion of the Caspian Pipeline Consortium, which lists aggregate lipid producers among its partners, including Chevron-led Tengizchevroil.

CPC said the tract pumped astir 1.5 cardinal tons of crude lipid successful 2024.

Authorities initially said that drone debris deed a pipeline, starting a 215-square-ft blaze that rapidly spread. According to Russian reports, the occurrence expanded dramatically wrong a substance of days.

The occurrence was yet extinguished connected Tuesday aft spreading up to 100,000 quadrate feet, the region's governor, Veniamin Kondratiev, said.

CPC accused Ukraine of a "terrorist" onslaught and said that, combined with an earlier onslaught connected different pumping station, it's had a "destructive interaction connected the CPC financials," which volition "impact each of its shareholders."

The pipeline is simply a large lipid export way for Kazakhstan, with state-owned KazMunaiGaz holding a 19% share. The Russian government, which holds 24%, is the consortium's largest shareholder.

The presumption volition not beryllium transporting lipid "in the foreseeable future," the institution said.

However, Sally Jones, a spokesperson for Chevron, told Business Insider successful a connection that Tengizchevroil's accumulation and export of crude lipid via the CPC "remain uninterrupted."

Ukraine has utilized strikes connected Russian lipid and state infrastructure arsenic portion of its effect to Russia's full-scale invasion.

The latest vigor infrastructure harm came amid President Donald Trump's attempts to mediate a cease-fire betwixt Russia and Ukraine.

Russian reports said that the archetypal occurrence started a concatenation absorption involving an detonation and an lipid spill that ignited, with much than 450 firefighters deployed to tackle it.

NASA's satellite-powered FIRMS fire-tracking instrumentality appeared to amusement that what had been a azygous blistery spot astatine the tract connected March 19 had expanded retired to 3 ample areas arsenic of aboriginal Tuesday.

The occurrence was the latest successful a bid of attacks connected CPC facilities. The consortium said that Russian aerial defenses repelled an overnight drone onslaught connected the aforesaid tract connected Monday.

Meanwhile, connected February 17, CPC said a adjacent pumping station, Kropotkinskaya, was attacked "by 7 UAVs loaded with explosives and shrapnel," which reduced its output.

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