Two months after it was damaged by fire, Sisak refinery is not back in business, daily Vecernji List writes.

Worst-case scenario predicts that the refinery could resume operations as late as 1 November. Until then, the locally-drilled oil will have to be refined somewhere else, possibly in Hungarian company MOL’s facility in Százhalombatta near Budapest.

Such a scenario could mean that Sisak would be left without oil to refine, and thus jobs, the daily writes. The Sisak facility refines all Croatian oil, which makes up 90 per cent of its total annual business of 1.7 million tonnes.

Croatian oil company Ina, however, has denied these speculations.

"We are not reducing the processing capacity in Sisak, but the refining has been suspended until repairs [of damages caused by the fire] are done, which could last several months. On the other hand, the domestic oil production has not stopped, and that oil must be stored somewhere," Ina’s communications department writes.

The most likely destination for this oil are storage areas in Crnac village right next to the refinery.