Refinaries

Hi tech warfare has taken a giant step forward with the development of the Phoenix Ghost drone. It is small enough to be carried in a soldiers back pack and is assemble in the field. It carries an 8 pound warhead of plastic explosive. It can hover over a target for six hours and has night vision capabilities. It is a suicide drone where the soldier can see the target area and then zoom right in to a critical spot on the target. Such drones were recently used to target a oil refinery in Russia and by hitting a critical spot on a fractionating tower was able to shut down the plant. This could have world wide implications. When a oil refinery is shut down the product backs up in the system and if it is long enough the oil wells in the north must be shut down because there are no storage tanks to accept the over flow. Those wells are located in the permafrost which means that it they stop pumping they may freeze and the water in the system will burst the pipes and the wells would have to be redrilled. The last time this happened it took years and that is when Russia had American and English engineers working on site. This time they are not there and Russian engineers do not have the no how to redrill and restart. This could bring Russian oil exports to a stop and cause the world price to double causing a recession in many countries.