LUKOIL Neftohim Burgas

CAPACITY DELIBERATELY EMPTY. No crude processing capacity figure appears on any operator or official page opened in this session: the operator's own General Information and History pages (https://neftochim.lukoil.com/en/About/GeneralInformation and https://neftochim.lukoil.com/en/About/History, English and Bulgarian versions) print no crude throughput figure, and www.neftohim.bg does not resolve (DNS ENOTFOUND). Secondary sources disagree sharply (7 Mt/a vs about 9.5 Mt/a) and none of them is an operator or a Bulgarian authority, so nothing was recorded. 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.