{"id":7727,"date":"2025-11-17T08:02:38","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T08:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=7727"},"modified":"2025-11-17T08:02:38","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T08:02:38","slug":"three-companies-reportedly-compete-to-take-over-lukoils-romanian-refinery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=7727","title":{"rendered":"Three companies reportedly compete to take over Lukoil&#8217;s Romanian refinery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Along with the American investment fund Carlyle, which is said to want Lukoil&#8217;s assets under a global deal and is already active in Romania through the Black Sea Oil and Gas company as the third largest gas producer in Romania (10%), there are at least two other companies interested, according to Romanian minister of energy Bogdan Ivan.<\/p>\n<p>So far, there are at least three companies that have officially expressed interest in the Lukoil gas station network and the Petrotel refinery, confirmed the minister of energy on November 14.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are companies that have expressed their intention only in the fuel station network, and other companies only in the Petrotel refinery. Now, it is obvious that it is a commercial offer between [sic!] two private entities that I hope will have a finality,&#8221; the minister mentioned, specifying that the countries from which the companies come are Romania, the US, Greece, and Hungary.<\/p>\n<p>Subsequently, it can be safely assumed that, along with Carlyle, the Hungarian Mol and Greek Hellenic Petroleum groups could also be interested.<\/p>\n<p>In Romania, Lukoil owns the Petrotel Ploie\u0219ti refinery, with a capacity of 2.5 million tons per year and a network of 320 distribution stations, the second largest in the country.<\/p>\n<p><em>iulian@romania-insider.com<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>(Photo source: Facebook\/Rafinaria Petrotel Lukoil)<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Along with the American investment fund Carlyle, which is said to want Lukoil&#8217;s assets under a global deal and is already active in Romania through the Black Sea Oil and Gas company as the third largest gas producer in Romania (10%), there are at least two other companies interested, according to Romanian minister of energy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}