​OMV Petrom, the largest integrated energy company in Southeast Europe, announces a partnership with Vulcangas Romania to open compressed and liquefied natural gas filling stations. The first of these is estimated to be commissioned in 2025 and will be installed at the Petrom station in Chitila Sat, Ilfov County. This station is intended for both passenger and heavy vehicles. The following stations will be installed depending on the development of demand for LNG and LNG in Romania.

• The gas station for LNG and LNG will be operational in 2025
• Using LNG/CNG instead of traditional fuels can help reduce carbon emissions by 15%.

Radu Căprău, member of the Directorate responsible for processing and marketing activities: “Thanks to this partnership, we continue to diversify the mobility offer for medium and long-haul freight transport, supporting the development of the LNG and CNG market. Natural gas can be a viable option for the transition to cleaner transportation.”

Constantino Amadei, manager of Vulcangas Romania: “We appreciate the cooperation with OMV Petrom aimed at bringing our knowledge and experience in the supply of liquefied natural gas and compressed natural gas to the Romanian market. Our focus on innovation, sustainability and service based on quality and safety for all our customers makes us share the same values ​​with our partner OMV Petrom. With all these tools and shared values ​​at hand, we can together become important players in the Romanian LNG and CNG market.”

CNG/LNG trucking generates approximately 15% less carbon dioxide emissions, 50% less sulfur oxide emissions and almost no heavy particulate emissions. The autonomy of a truck running on LNG/LNG can reach 1,600 kilometers.

About OMV Petrom

OMV Petrom is the largest energy company in Southeast Europe with annual group crude oil and gas production of approximately 43 million boe in 2022. The group has a processing capacity of 4.5 million tonnes per annum and operates a highly efficient 860 MW power plant. In the market of retail distribution of petroleum products, the Group is represented in Romania and neighboring countries through approximately 780 gas stations under two brands, OMV and Petrom.

OMV Petrom is a company in which Romanian shareholders own more than 42% of the shares (of which the Romanian state, through the Ministry of Energy, owns 20.7%, and 21.7% is owned by Romanian pension funds, which include almost 500,000 individuals). investors and other Romanian organizations). OMV Aktiengesellschaft, one of Austria’s largest listed industrial companies, owns 51.2% of OMV Petrom, with the remaining 6.4% held by other foreign investors. Of the total number of OMV Petrom shares, 28.1% are freely traded on the Bucharest Stock Exchange.

OMV Petrom is the largest contributor to the state budget, with approximately €39 billion representing commissions, taxes and dividends paid between 2005 and 2022. During the same period, the company invested approximately 17 billion euros. In 2022, taxes paid by OMV Petrom provided 7% of Romania’s fiscal revenues.

Since 2007, OMV Petrom has integrated the principles of corporate responsibility into its business strategy. Between 2007 and 2022, the company has committed around 120 million euros to community development in Romania, focusing on environmental protection, education, health care and local development.

On 29 July 2020, OMV Petrom announced its support for recommendations issued by the Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures (TCFD), the Task Force on Climate Change-Related Financial Disclosures, on the risks and opportunities associated with connected with the climate. change. OMV Petrom reports annually on the progress made in implementing these recommendations.

About Volcanoes RomaniaSocietà Italiana Gas Liquidi SP.AND

Vulcangas Romania is a subsidiary of Società Italiana Gas Liquidi SPA, founded in 1978 by the Fabbri family, a leading supplier of natural gas and automotive LPG solutions in Italy.

Società Italiana Gas Liquidi SPA “Vulcangas”, headquartered in Rimini, is a leading company in the small LNG distribution sector in Italy and Europe, continuously working for more than 40 years to offer the best services to its customers.

Respect for nature is one of the values ​​of Vulcangas identity. Investments in research and innovation led the company to open a renewable energy division and, since 2013, a liquefied natural gas (LNG) division. Only two years later, in 2015, the company opened the first LPG station, modernizing its own gas station with conventional fuels in Rimini.

In 2018, after launching its own fuel card for vehicles running on liquefied or compressed natural gas, Vulcancard continues its expansion in this market. In October 2020, Vulcangas made the first delivery from the biorefinery, transported and released the first quantity of bio-LNG in Italy for consumption.

The entire Bio-LNG supply chain is certified from the Biorefinery to the end user through the Vulcancard scheme.

Today, Vulcangas, the owner of several LNG stations owned in Italy and abroad, is the first Italian LNG commercialization operator, continuously supplying more than 7,500 tons of LNG from the Fos-sur-Mer, Ravenna, Krk, Zeebrugge, Rotterdam terminals. supplying CNG and CNG to Italian and European customers.

Vulcancard is a card designed for CNG, LNG and Bio-LNG vehicles, accepted at 90 gas stations in Italy and 50 stations throughout Europe (www.lngcorridor.com).

Article supported by OMV Petrom