Ukrainians working hard on cutting global emissions, what is the rest of the world doing?
this post was submitted on 18 Sep 2025
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I dunno that burning an oilfield is really the best solution to cutting emissions...
Long term it is.
It's not the oil fields, but refineries and pump stations for the pipes.
While it's burning, it emits a bit more, since the combustion of whatever's in there is less complete. Then it stops.
These are refineries not oil fields. They turn oil into gasoline, diesel, kerosene and much much more.
that tally is wildly optimistic. last time i've checked, one of latest strikes, the one on kirishi, disabled some 30% of capacity (it's too big of facility to have only one oil processing stream, so there are two in parallel. the one disabled had a bit under half of capacity, and the other one is using all slack capacity it had) and only for a month or two. some of strikes listed are from year+ ago
even with that, some 20% of oil processing capability is disabled (or was at some point), and further decrease would mean that decline in oil extraction is needed because export of crude and storage can't keep up. which means that some oil wells would get disused, and if these are down for some time they can't get restarted easily
update: salavat refinery was hit like, 2h ago
Great context addition to the graphic!
There is a little bit of fine print about that if you look closely.
yeah, that's the wildly optimistic bit
Do you mean the equipment will take time to set back up? Oil wells actually produce a bit better for a while after they sit, because pressure gradients slowly equalize.
in 90s, russian oil production dropped by almost half, and rebuilding that output took some 20 years. i thought it was because when you stop using oil well, all these sediments settle and over time it becomes harder to draw oil from it. or was it all undermaintained and they just capped a bunch of wells back then?
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Next? I would love to see the same ones hit hard enough that they're for sure completely knocked out.
There is no such thing as "for sure completely knocked out". If nothing else, you can build a completely new facility on the same plot of land. And that would be "the facility having been repaired". Ukraine is damaging the facilities so that they are off for long enough. And currently it seems that the percentage of Russian oil refinery capacity off line is growing slowly but steadily.
It costs money keeping them off line, but it costs tenfold or hundredfold that much to get them back online. It's a sensible deal!
I mean yeah. I didn't intend to sound unimpressed, I was referring to the tiny asterisk at the bottom of the graphic. I want that factoid about total production to be true, is all.
more damage is done, if they are repairing it, and your hitting the refineries, it makes it more expensive for them.
Expensive damage is good, but if the lack of production can cause logistical issues, that would be even more expensive
Why is the Orsk Refinery burning in blue?
It's flooded due to a poorly constructed dam collapsing
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orsk_Dam_collapse
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