A shut down of TWENTY percent, is nothing to you?
And high prices of refined products also mean that Russia will now be forced to sell crude at even more dirt cheap prices to both India and China (which I do not believe are scaling back despite Trump's claims, and will just take advantage), who will probably sell refined oil back to Russia for a profit lmao.
All to keep a pointless war going.
And to be precise, it's not a "shutdown" of x%, it is
destruction of x$ (or more like 2 or 3x of what it reported) of Russia's ability to refine crude oil. And since these plants usually have direct, dedicated pipelines to these plants from the oil fields producing for internal refinement, it's not like the Russians can just roll a few valves and divert that crude onward to Sabetta, Dikson, Dudinka, Khatanga, Tiksi, and Pevek, along with other key terminals such as Varandey and Murmansk for export.
Russia is SO fucking geographically huge it would be ridiculous to have some cross-feeding flexible network that can divert "crude oil" to wherever. As we know in Canada, producing sour bitument crude, only certain refineries were designed to handle that specific product. If the Gulf Coast refineries were destroyed, our pipelines from Fort McMurray would be useless as would be the tar sands reserves.
This is why the US can't refine West Texas intermediate (sweet) crude right down the road in Galveston.
Same with Russia selling their various grades of crude to India or China that can no longer be refined in the specific domestic refineries that produce specific products from the specific feedstock crude that was piped to that refinery.
These talking heads we hear on various media wouldn't know Texas Sweet Tea from
Hot Tea.
Russia's petroleum industry is mortally wounded and has no hope of recovering until they lose this war, are brought to their knees begging for food. Then, and only then will the civilized world ever step back into Russia to rebuild their energy industry... and then only on the promise of giving hallf to Ukraine and Europe as war reparations until Ukraine is made whole, rebuilt and the world is fully repaid for their expenses in letting Russia defeat itself.