ORLEN Group establishes retail presence in Slovakia

​The first ORLEN Group-owned service station has launched in Slovakia under the Benzina brand. Ten more locations with the red seahorse logo will open in the country by the end of this year. Thus, PKN ORLEN has expanded its retail presence into yet another market. With its stations in Poland, the Czech Republic, Germany, Lithuania and Slovakia, the ORLEN Group operates the largest retail network on Central and Eastern Europe’s fuel market.

ORLEN – 50 per cent of crude oil imported to Poland comes from countries other than Russia

Nearly half of the crude oil imported to Poland by PKN ORLEN already comes from outside Russia. This is an effect of the company’s efforts to diversify oil supplies and steadily develop business cooperation with suppliers from outside Europe, including Saudi Aramco Oil Company.

Tenth anniversary of PKN ORLEN’s strategic decision to invest in Lithuania

​The Mažeikiai refinery accounts for almost a third of all oil throughput at the ORLEN Group. Having put in place numerous optimisation and innovation measures, ORLEN Lietuva has thus emerged as one of the Group’s pillars. The acquisition of the Lithuanian refinery was a strategic decision that enabled the Group’s expansion into Baltic States and balanced the region’s energy security.

ORLEN strengthens ties with Saudi Aramco

​PKN ORLEN can import up to 800,000 tonnes of Saudi crude oil over six months under a contract signed with Saudi Aramco Products Trading Company, a subsidiary of the Saudi oil producer. The contract is an important step that guarantees stability of supply to ORLEN’s refineries in Europe. Under a separate commercial contract, the supplier from Saudi Arabia has committed to purchase heavy fuel oil from ORLEN Lietuva. With that latter contract in place, PKN ORLEN, acting through its Lithuanian-based subsidiary, is strenghtening its strategic relationship with Saudi Aramco also in the area of heavy fuel oil trade.

Engaged in continued diversification efforts, PKN ORLEN is reducing crude oil supplies from across Poland’s eastern border

In line with its policy to purchase the feedstock from a diverse supplier base, PKN ORLEN has reduced the volumes sourced from Rosneft Oil Company by approximately 30%, thereby markedly increasing its diversification capacity.

ORLEN Group service stations to open in Slovakia

​After Poland, the Czech Republic, Germany and Lithuania, the ORLEN Group will also open its service stations in Slovakia. The service station chain in Slovakia will operate under the Benzina brand, which had been present on the Slovak market for a few decades in the past.

ORLEN refineries to process American oil

​PKN ORLEN increases diversification of crude oil supplies across the entire Group. WTI crude from the US will be supplied to ORLEN refineries in the Czech Republic and Lithuania. The Company does not rule out that this source may become a permanent fixture in the ORLEN Group’s supply portfolio.

ORLEN Group’s service station chain in Slovakia has doubled in size this year

​With 2020 drawing to a close, PKN ORLEN is the owner of 20 service stations on the Slovak market. With two new sites under the Benzina ORLEN brand opened recently, customers in Slovakia can now use the attractive Stop Cafe offering at 13 locations. Another 7 stations will be upgraded to the ORLEN Group’s standards in 2021.

PKN ORLEN looking for new opportunities to expand business abroad

Daniel Obajtek, the CEO and President of the Management Board of PKN ORLEN, has met with Mr Ludovic Orban, the Prime Minister of Romania, and Mr Virgil-Danel Popescu, the Romanian Minister of Economy, Energy and Business Environment.