Innovative bioproduct made by ORLEN Południe

The ORLEN Group has launched Poland’s first pilot plant for the production of organic lactic acid using microorganisms. The PLN 10m project is sited at ORLEN Południe’s refinery in Trzebinia. Once the pilot is completed, the plant is to be expanded, with the lactic acid output to be ultimately increased to 5,000 tonnes a year. This would cover more than half of domestic demand for the bioproduct, which has a broad range of modern industrial applications, including in chemical, food, cosmetic and pharmaceutical industries.

The ORLEN Group refineries receive oil from alternative supply directions

The ORLEN Group has imported about 130,000 tonnes of Johan Sverdrup crude sourced from Norwegian fields in the North Sea. A tanker carrying the cargo has just arrived at Naftoport in Gdańsk. The ORLEN Group has also made agreements to increase the volumes of oil imported from other non-Russian sources. The measures taken fully ensure continuity of production at the ORLEN Group’s refineries in Poland, the Czech Republic and Lithuania. They are another step in the process of oil supply diversification pursued by the Company over the past four years. As recently as 2013, a whopping 98% of the crude feedstock processed in Płock was REBCO oil sourced from Russia. Currently, the grade accounts for only about 50% of the plant’s crude slate, the balance coming from Saudi Arabia, the US and West Africa, and Norway.