據路透社6月25日報道，俄羅斯國有網絡安全公司Avtomatika JSC擔心，該公司正在出售能夠使以石油設施為目標的無人機失效的系統。在去年9月沙特石油設施遭到襲擊后，這種技術在俄羅斯和國外都很受歡迎。

俄羅斯國營Rostec公司旗下的Concern Avtomatika公司本周接受彭博社采訪時表示，該公司已與數家俄羅斯石油公司簽署了出售其反無人機系統的協議，并正在與俄羅斯石油公司（Rosneft）和最大天然氣生產商俄羅斯天然氣工業股份公司（Gazprom）進行談判。

去年，無人機襲擊了沙特阿拉伯的Abqaiq設施和Khurais油田，導致這個世界最大石油出口國一半的石油生產中斷，突顯出無人機對石油基礎設施的威脅。對沙特阿拉伯主要石油基礎設施的襲擊，數周以來切斷了全球約5%的石油供應，并導致油價飆升，盡管只持續了幾天。

Kabanov對彭博社表示，俄羅斯關切的Avtomatika已經與俄羅斯石油生產商Tatneft和煉油商Slavneft-YANOS達成協議，并希望在6月與一家外國客戶敲定交易。他還稱，這家俄羅斯公司還在與中東、亞洲和非洲的公司談判合同。

該負責人表示，Avtomatika公司生產的系統可以使無人機自動、半自動或與手動使無人機失效，但他沒有詳細說明這些系統是如何工作的。

洪偉立 摘譯自 路透社

原文如下:

Russia Develops Drone-Disabling Systems To Protect Oil Facilities

Russian state-controlled cybersecurity company Concern Avtomatika JSC is selling systems capable of disabling drones that target oil facilities—technology that has become sought-after in Russia and abroad after the attacks on Saudi oil facilities last September.

Concern Avtomatika, part of state-run Rostec Corporation, has signed deals with several Russian oil firms to sell them anti-drone systems and is in talks with the top oil producer Rosneft and the biggest natural gas producer Gazprom, Vladimir Kabanov, General Director at Concern Avtomatika, told Bloomberg in an interview this week.

“Energy infrastructure is basically hardly protected from any physical air attack,” Kabanov said.

Last year, drone attacks on the Abqaiq facility and the Khurais oilfield in Saudi Arabia halted half of the oil production at the world’s top oil exporter, highlighting the threat that unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) can pose to oil infrastructure. The attacks on Saudi Arabia’s key oil infrastructure cut off some 5 percent of global oil supply for weeks and sent oil prices surging, albeit for just a few days.

Russia’s Concern Avtomatika already has agreements with Russian oil producer Tatneft and with refiner Slavneft-YANOS, and is looking to finalize a deal with a foreign customer in June, Kabanov told Bloomberg. The Russian firm is also negotiating contracts with Middle Eastern, Asia, and African companies, he added.

Concern Avtomatika produces systems that disable drones automatically, semi-automatically, or with an operator, the manager says, without elaborating how exactly those systems work.

The terrorist attacks on Saudi Arabia’s oil infrastructure have shown that drones could be a threat to companies around the world, including in Russia, Rostec Corporation’s Executive Director Oleg Yevtushenko said at the signing of Concern Avtomatika’s deal with refinery Slavneft-YANOS last month.

Yevtushenko said even amateur drones could be used for surveillance and reconnaissance or carrying explosives or other weapons. Concern Avtomatika’s anti-UAV systems use unique algorithms that do not interrupt the operation of the surrounding telecommunication systems, Rostec’s boss added.