LUKOIL Neftohim Burgas

CAPACITY (added 2026-09-27) IS THE PERMITTED MAXIMUM OF THE REFINERY INSTALLATION UNDER ITS BULGARIAN INTEGRATED (IED) PERMIT, NOT A CRUDE-DISTILLATION NAMEPLATE. Source: the operator's statutory annual report to the Bulgarian Executive Environment Agency (IAOS, eea.government.bg) for 2025, 'Godishen doklad za 2025 g. za izpalnenie na deynostite, za koito e predostaveno Kompleksno razreshitelno No 6-N2/2015 g., aktualizirano s Reshenie No 6-N2-I0-A4/2023 g.' of LUKOIL Neftohim Burgas AD, dated 'Burgas, mart 2026 g.' (March 2026), published by IAOS on its operators' annual reports page (https://eea.government.bg/godishni-dokladi-po-okolna-sreda-na-operatorite, entry dated 25-06-26) as a ZIP; file '2.GDOS-Point 3.1 -2025.pdf', section 3.1.9 'Proizvodstven kapatsitet na instalatsiite' (p.10 of 15), downloaded and text-extracted 2026-09-27. Row 1 of that table is the installation 'Rafineriya' (IED Annex I activity 1.2), listed as including 4 atmospheric distillation units (AD), 1 atmospheric-vacuum distillation unit (AVD), the bitumen unit, catalytic reforming, hydrotreaters and the catalytic cracker; its 'Maksimalen kapatsitet na instalatsiite saglasno uslovie 4 na KR 6-N2/2015, aktualizirano s Reshenie No 6-N2-I0-A4/2023g.' is '9 000 000 t/g' (tonnes per year), and its 2025 annual production is '4 961 491,782' tonnes. The same table in the 2021 report (https://old.eea.government.bg/bg/r-r/r-kpkz/godishni-dokladi-14/dokumenti-21/copy_of_lukoil_neftohim_burgas_GDOS.pdf, dated May 2022, permit as updated by Decision 6-N2-I0-A2/2019) also gives 9 000 000 t/g, with 2021 production of 4 198 175,549 t. The figure is recorded in its published unit (t/a), with no conversion. It is a permit ceiling for the whole refinery installation, and the table does not say whether it is measured as crude intake or as total feed, so it must not be read as a crude-distillation capacity; the 2025 production figure is output, not crude intake. Secondary sources circulate 7 Mt/a and about 9.5 Mt/a; none is an operator or a Bulgarian authority and neither is recorded. Before 2026-09-27 this field was empty: the operator's General Information and History pages (https://neftochim.lukoil.com/en/About/GeneralInformation and https://neftochim.lukoil.com/en/About/History, re-opened 2026-09-27) still print no crude throughput figure, and www.neftohim.bg does not resolve (DNS ENOTFOUND). The 2025 report's 4.96 Mt of production also corroborates that the refinery operated through 2025. OPERATOR PAGE WORDING on logistics: 'Receipt, storage and processing of different crudes, delivered by tankers to Rosenets Port terminal', with oil then transferred by pipeline to the main production site. Located 15 km from Burgas. CONTROL CHANGE: on 2025-11-14 the Bulgarian cabinet nominated Rumen Spetsov, director of the National Revenue Agency, as special administrator of LUKOIL's Bulgarian assets under an emergency law passed by parliament a week earlier that authorises the government to seize them; the administrator's actions cannot be challenged in court and he may sell shares to a new owner subject to government approval (https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20251114-bulgaria-names-manager-to-take-over-russia-s-lukoil-refinery-after-us-sanctions, 2025-11-14). US sanctions on Rosneft and LUKOIL took effect 2025-11-21 and OFAC issued licences allowing continued transactions with the Bulgarian LUKOIL companies. As of 2026-05-17 the refinery remained under LUKOIL ownership with Spetsov as special commercial administrator, who stated oil deliveries were secured through end-June / early July 2026 and that Bulgaria had a 'historic opportunity' to re-acquire the refinery (https://www.bta.bg/en/news/economy/1127828-bulgaria-has-historic-opportunity-to-re-acquire-lukoil-neftohim-refinery-spec). By mid-August 2026 the special commercial manager is named as Evgeni Simeonov, who told parliament's Economic Policy Commission that processing volumes had been rising since June 2026 and that July 2026 produced the highest profit in five to six years, with crude bought on deferred-payment terms (https://fakti.bg/bulgaria/1076966-lukoil-neftohim-burgas-plavno-povishava-prerabotkata-na-goriva, 2026-08-26). LUKOIL agreed in January 2026 to sell LUKOIL International GmbH to Carlyle; that sale had not closed as of the pages opened here. Owner recorded as PJSC LUKOIL per the operator page; day-to-day control sits with the state-appointed special administrator. Bulgaria founding year not recorded: the operator History page says only 'The history of Bulgarian gasoline starts in 1963', which is not an unambiguous commissioning date for this site. EEA register lists 'Lukoil Neftohim Burgas refinery' as functional for reporting year 2024. Coordinates are from the EEA Industrial Emissions Portal (IED Annex I activity 1.2 'Refining of mineral oil and gas', ProductionInstallation table, reporting year 2024), queried via the EEA DiscoData SQL API on 2026-09-22; see https://industry.eea.europa.eu/ . Not operator-published.