Romania will continue to supply Ukraine with significant volumes of gasoline and diesel this year as well, OMV Petrom director Radu Keprau said. Since the beginning of the war, our country has been the main source of fuel imports from Ukraine.
“There is a report by a Ukrainian consulting group that says that Romania is one of the main suppliers of gasoline to Ukraine, and OMV Petrom played an important role in achieving such a significant share that Romania received in sales from Ukraine. We want to remain a significant supplier in 2024,” Radu Chapreu, head of refining and marketing activities at OMV Petrom, told a news conference.
He reminded that Romania has a production surplus on the gasoline market.
“For us, for OMV Petrom, it was an opportunity to send to Ukraine the volumes that we exported to other directions,” added the representative of OMV Petrom.
Gasoline imports from Romania were the most important external source for Ukraine in 2023, according to A-95 Consulting Group, a local organization specializing in information on crude oil and petroleum products markets, as cited by Economica.net.
Last year, Ukraine imported almost 1.25 million tons of gasoline, which is at the level of last year and 4% less than in 2021. Gasoline was most imported from Romania (25% of the total volume imported to Ukraine), Greece (22%). , Poland (21%) and the Baltic States (13%).
Thus, according to the cited source, in 2023, Romania was the first supplier of gasoline to Ukraine for the second year in a row with 310,000 tons. Transport to Ukraine was carried out by rail, road and sea transport, but most was delivered by rail, 90% of the total.
Almost two-thirds of the gasoline that entered Ukraine from Romania came from OMV Petrom (67% of the total volume), which almost doubled supplies to Ukraine, reaching 206,000 tons. Unicom Oil Terminal became the second exporter with 32,000 tons, and Rompetrol Rafinare (Petromidia Refinery) cut deliveries to Ukraine in half compared to last year.
Romania was also the main supplier of diesel fuel to Ukraine last year, whose export volumes increased by 81% compared to the previous year.
Ukrainian imports of diesel fuel from Romania during 2023 amounted to 1.47 million tons, that is, almost a quarter of the total diesel fuel imports (24%) of the neighboring country at war with Russia, which imported 6.19 million tons.
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