Refinery

Ploiesti Refinery

OMV Petrom ·Ploiesti, RO ·BVB:SNP ·v1.1

A 90,000 barrels per calendar day petroleum refinery in Ploiesti, RO, operated by OMV Petrom. Nelson Complexity 9.

Record

Rated capacity
90,000 bpd (atmospheric crude distillation, calendar day)
Nelson Complexity Index
9
Status
Operating
Operator
OMV Petrom
Parent
OMV Petrom S.A. (BVB:SNP)
Supplier graph
bomforge.com/companies/omv-petrom
Coordinates
44.9500, 26.0200

What coverage reports

303 days since one was reported

Contractor injured after sewer explosion at Lukoil's Ploiesti refinery
2025-10-22 · 1 publisher filed it

1 reported in 12 months

incident 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

7 records19 Feb 2019 to 1 Dec 2025General 5 · Incident 1 · Expansion 1
  1. General Low
    The "Lukoil" refinery in Ploiesti could be temporarily taken over by the Romanian state
    ipn.md · matched ploiesti
  2. General Low
    Vega Ploiesti Refinery marks 120 years of operation
    Agerpres · matched ploiesti
  3. Incident Critical
    Contractor injured after sewer explosion at Lukoil's Ploiesti refinery
    Health and Safety International · matched ploiesti
  4. General Low
    Vega Refinery in Ploiesti, a Pillar of Romanian Energy for 120 Years
    Energy Industry Review · matched ploiesti
  5. General Low
    Time series analysis of the air pollution around Ploiesti oil refining complex, one of the most polluted regions in Romania
    Nature · matched ploiesti
  6. Expansion Medium
    USD 4.2mln Investment in Vacuum Distillation Plant’ Modernization at Vega Ploiesti Refinery
    Energy Industry Review · matched ploiesti
  7. General Low
    Romania's Astra Romana Ploiesti refinery enters insolvency
    Romania Insider · matched 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.