Last month, the former owner of the Antipinsky Refinery, Dmitry Mazurov, was arrested upon returning to Russia, Mazurov’s company said, adding only that he was a suspect in a criminal investigation and without giving further details. The general manager Andriasov told Reuters that Russian oil company Surgutneftegaz would be the primary crude supplier to the plant. SOCAR Energoresurs, it said last month, adding that “Such arrangements will keep the company running and maintaining its investment attractiveness.” The Antipinsky Refinery, which has the capacity to process 181,000 bpd according to Reuters estimates, will process crude oil supplied by The pipeline fill-in was set to start from July 8 and tests would be carried from July 9, with. Separately, Russias Komsomolsk refinery was connected via an offshoot to the ESPO pipeline on July 6-7 in order to start receiving crude shipments, a spokesman for Transneft said. Sberbank is in the joint venture SOCAR Energoresurs together with Azeri energy firm SOCAR. Russian refineries have mostly returned from maintenance works. Sberbank, the main creditor of the refinery, bought in June 80 percent in the Antipinsky Refinery. In May, the refinery-which is the only oil-processing plant in the Tyumen region and Ural Federal District and the largest independent refinery in Russia- filed for bankruptcy, after a court in London ordered in April the refinery’s assets frozen because it didn’t have the money to pay for the crude oil it was delivered. Oil delivery to the refinery was suspended, production output discontinued,” a statement from the oil refinery read. “Facing a financial squeeze caused by inefficient solutions of the former management as well as by misguided actions of some off-takers (traders), in April the refinery has been put into recycle mode.
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