10.21.2014

Crude oil decline to some $80 a barrel puts pressure on investments and authorities must be very careful when it comes to levying taxes in the oil industry, said Gabriel Selischi, responsible for more

09.30.2014

Romanian Mineral Resources Agency (ANRM) will hold early next year an international auction to lease 36 oil blocks, energy minister Razvan Nicolescu stated Tuesday. more

09.23.2014

The almost EUR1 billion investments carried out in the past two years in two of Romania’s largest refineries, Petromidia and Petrobrazi, are likely to completely wean the local market off imports of more

09.19.2014

Conpet Ploiesti, the company that manages the system of oil transport through pipelines, considers expanding into warehousing activities, in a bid to generate additional revenue from services provided more

09.16.2014

OMV Petrom (SNP.RO), the largest local oil company, can produce about 47% of the fuel Romania needs, following completion of the EUR600 million upgrade at its Petrobrazi refinery (Ploiesti). This is more

09.12.2014

Romanian state-run oil transporter Conpet Ploiesti (COTE.RO) and Serbian oil transporter Transnafta will carry out, in the next three months, an economic analysis regarding the feasibility of an oil more

09.11.2014

Lukoil Lubricants East Europe, part of Russian oil group Lukoil, has launched several types of motor oil for vehicles running on gasoline and liquified petroleum gas (LPG) and targets RON860 million more

08.22.2014

The pipeline that was supposed to connect Constanta harbor to Central Europe refineries is still just a project on paper, so that the future of harbor operator Oil Terminal is still tied, at least on more

08.14.2014

Romanian oil storage and shipment firm Oil Terminal (OIL.RO) Thursday said its sales rose 4% to 50.9 million lei (EUR11.4 million) in January-June, from RON48.9 million in the corresponding period a more

07.23.2014

Austria’s OMV, which controls Romania’s leading oil and gas company Petrom (SNP.RO), invested EUR41 million to start activities at the OMV Petrom Global Solutions service center of Romania. more

07.16.2014

Romania’s largest oil and gas company OMV Petrom (SNP.RO) Wednesday said the Marina 1 exploration well identified a new oil reservoir on the continental shelf of the Black Sea. more

07.14.2014

Romania’s second largest oil group Rompetrol plans to sell its in environmental services unit Ecomaster to Oil Depol Service, a local company that provides industrial and environmental clean-up more

06.17.2014

TIAB, a unit of the French Vinci group, is aiming for a slice of the business of EU-funded irrigation systems development, and of the upgrades of the hydrocarbon exploration and drilling systems, amid more

06.12.2014

Adrian Porumboiu, the owner of Racova, one of the largest farming groups of Romania, is in advanced talks to sell his vegetable oil plant in Vaslui County (NE Romania). more

06.02.2014

Lukoil Romania, which owns a 300 filling station network, saw revenue tumble by over 17% last year, after the Russian-held business had advanced gradually since 2009, getting beyond the level reported more

05.30.2014

Ploiesti-based Petrotel refinery, owned by Russia’s oil group Lukoil, refined 1.89 million tons of oil last year, 15% fewer than in 2012, according to the reports of the company. more

05.21.2014

Expur, a major player on Romania’s vegetal oil market, will complete, in autumn, the relocation of industrial equipment taken over from Cargill in early 2013 in the wake of the deal by which it also more

05.14.2014

Romanian oil storage and shipment firm Oil Terminal (OIL.RO) Wednesday said it has swung to a first quarter net profit, helped by a 15.8% increase in sales. more

05.13.2014

KazMunayGas International (the former Rompetrol), Romania's second largest oil group, says the fuel price hike has had a relatively low impact on its sales, with demand in its filling stations sliding more

05.08.2014

Petrom, Romania’s only oil and gas producer, is set to step up exploration activities on the medium and long term after the company has focused, since privatization, on deposits already under more

04.25.2014

Agribusiness company Biochem, controlled by Chimisliu family, acquired a 44,000-ton grain storage capacity in Dragalina, Calarasi county, from Piraeus Bank. The capacity had come to be owned by the more

04.24.2014

Romania's minister-delegate for energy Razvan Nicolescu said Thursday a decision on new royalties for oil and gas should be made after the presidential election at the end of this year. more

04.07.2014

Romgaz Medias (SNG.RO), the largest natural gas producer in Romania, is in talks with a US company to sell 50% of its stake in two oil blocks in Poland. more

03.11.2014

Confind company of Campina (Prahova), a producer of oil industry equipment and installations controlled by businessman Ioan Simion, acquired 240 hectares of farmland and wants to continue purchases to more

03.05.2014

Vegetable oil producer Expur, the domestic subsidiary of Sofiproteol, France’s largest agribusiness group, reached EUR254 million in revenue in 2013, up 14% from 2012. more