Gazprom Neft's Launches New Crude Unit at Moscow Refinery

Russia’s Moscow Refinery, owned by oil producer Gazprom Neft, has launched a new crude oil processing unit with an annual capacity of 6 million tonnes, industry sources told Reuters on Thursday.

The unit, which was launched on March 16, would allow the refinery to maintain oil processing levels which otherwise were on track to fall by 600,000 tonnes next month due to planned maintenance works, the sources said.

Gazprom Neft did not immediately reply to a Reuters request for comment.

(Reporting by Maxim Nazarov and Olesya Astakhova; Writing by Katya Golubkova; Editing by Andrey Ostroukh)