Petrotel Lukoil Refinery Ploiești

A 68,000 barrels per calendar day petroleum refinery in Romania, RO, operated by Lukoil. Status: closed.

Record

Rated capacity

68,000 bpd (atmospheric crude distillation, calendar day)

Status

Closed

Operator

Lukoil

Parent

Lukoil PJSC (MOEX:LKOH)

Supplier graph

bomforge.com/companies/lukoil-romania

Coordinates

47.0179, 24.5718

Notes

Multiple recent news items (Feb-Apr 2026) indicate the refinery is non-operational. Romania is planning to restart/operate the facility, the government is taking over management, and statements reference bringing refineries 'up' suggest current shutdown. The Carlyle Group takeover and restart discussions all point to current non-operation.

What coverage reports

128 days since one was reported

Romania will restart the Lukoil refinery, with the consent of the USA
2026-04-15 · 1 publisher filed it

1 reported in 12 months

operations 1

2024-092026-08

stories filed per month · red = a disruption

These are counts of what publishers filed about this plant, not an operating status. A quiet month means nobody named this facility that month, which is a fact about coverage and not about the plant. Where this site states how a refinery is running it says so in the facts table above, from the curated dataset, and cites it there.

Wire

1. 15 Apr 2026 Operations Critical
   Romania will restart the Lukoil refinery, with the consent of the USA
   ipn.md · matched petrotel, ploiesti
2. 6 Jan 2017 General Low
   Petrotel LukOil Ploiesti refinery takes steps to avoid dissolution
   The Romania Journal · matched petrotel, ploiesti

Every item names this facility by city or plant name in its headline or summary. Operator-only mentions never attribute. Headlines and links belong to the publishers named.