Fuel Origin

Mazeikiai Refinery (ORLEN Lietuva)

Mazeikiai, Lithuania

Mazeikiai Refinery (ORLEN Lietuva) is an operating crude oil refinery in Mazeikiai, Lithuania. It is operated by AB ORLEN Lietuva. Its published capacity is 10 Mt/a, quoted in the unit the publisher used and not converted. Publishers disagree on a point recorded for this site: their readings are quoted below, verbatim, and none is averaged or silently preferred.

Status
Operating
status source
Operator
AB ORLEN Lietuva
Commissioned
1980
Capacity (as published)
10 Mt/a
capacity source · not converted

Publishers disagree - both readings are kept

  • DISAGREEMENT on capacity between two ORLEN-published sources, both opened 2026-09-22.
  • ORLEN Lietuva's own refinery page states 'The design capacity of the Mazeikiai Refinery is 10 million tonnes of crude oil per year' and adds that the efficient operating volume under current conditions is 8 million tonnes annually.
  • ORLEN's 2023 Integrated Report states 'ORLEN Lietuva refinery in Mazeikiai, with an annual production capacity of 10.2 million tonnes, being the only refinery in the Baltic states (Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia)'.
  • The 10 Mt/a design figure from the site operator is used in the capacity fields; the 10.2 Mt/a group figure is dated 2023. capacity_bpd is EMPTY because neither ORLEN source prints barrels per day and no tonnes-to-barrels conversion was made.

Quoted verbatim from the source notes of this row. Nothing is averaged.

Refinery recordVerified
Last verified 2026-09-22Location 56.3814, 22.1764

Owners and operator

Who owns and runs the site, as the cited sources state it. A share that was not published is shown as not published, never as 0%.

NameRoleShareFromToType
AB ORLEN LietuvaOperatornot publishednot publishedcurrentVerified
ORLEN GroupOwnernot publishednot publishedcurrentVerified
Source
Refinery operators and national regulators (cited per row)Verified
Updated 2026-09-21 00:00 UTCConfidenceLowMethodologyno download for this view
No dated ownership change is recorded as structured data for this refinery. Earlier owners, where the sources name them, are described in the source notes at the foot of this page.

Ports and pipelines it is connected to

Infrastructure only. A connection means the berth or pipeline exists; it does not show that any crude or product was received through it.

Mazeikiai Refinery (ORLEN Lietuva) is connected to Butinge Oil Terminal (port), Mazeikiai-Butinge crude oil pipeline (pipeline) and Polotsk-Birzai-Mazeikiai crude oil pipeline (pipeline). A connection means the berth or pipeline exists; it does not show that any crude or product was received through it. Verified

  • connected to Butinge Oil Terminal (Port) Verified LowEvidence: www.orlenlietuva.lt
  • connected to Mazeikiai-Butinge crude oil pipeline (Pipeline) Verified LowEvidence: www.orlenlietuva.lt
  • connected to Polotsk-Birzai-Mazeikiai crude oil pipeline (Pipeline) Verified LowEvidence: www.orlenlietuva.lt
Source
Refinery operators and national regulators (cited per row)Verified
Updated 2026-09-21 00:00 UTCConfidenceLowMethodologyno download for this view

What it runs on

Which crude this refinery processes is not published. Lithuania's crude-import mix is shown as national context - it is not this refinery's intake.

This refinery's crude intake by origin: UNKNOWN

Which crude oil Mazeikiai Refinery (ORLEN Lietuva) runs on is not published, so it is UNKNOWN. Refinery-level crude intake by origin is not public in most of Europe, and we do not allocate a national figure across refineries.

Unknown

National · LithuaniaNational context — not this refinery's own figure

Mazeikiai Refinery (ORLEN Lietuva) is the only operating crude oil refinery we hold for Lithuania, so the national crude-import figure is the closest public evidence of what it runs on. In June 2026, Lithuania's crude imports came mainly from Norway (38%), Saudi Arabia (38%) and the United States of America (24%). This is an inference, not a reported intake: crude produced in Lithuania itself, stock changes and re-exports are not separated out in the import figures.

Does the national figure describe this refinery?Inferred · lowLowOnly as an inference: it is the country's only operating crude refinery we hold.

Lithuania, June 2026 - latest month with an origin breakdown (COMPUTED)
Producing countryTonnesShareType
Norway302,40038%Calculated
Saudi Arabia300,90038%Calculated
United States of America194,90024%Calculated
Last 12 months held: share of Lithuania's crude imports by producing country
MonthSaudi ArabiaNorwayUnited KingdomAlgeriaUnited States of AmericaAll other origins
2025-0723%34%32%11%-0%
2025-0847%23%21%10%-0%
2025-0940%13%24%22%-0%
2025-1021%61%-18%-0%
2025-1164%24%12%--0%
2025-1256%11%33%--0%
2026-0141%24%24%11%-0%
2026-0250%50%---0%
2026-0373%15%-13%-0%
2026-0429%45%14%-13%0%
2026-0535%36%11%-18%0%
2026-0638%38%--24%0%

"-" means the origin was not reported that month. A PARTIAL month does not add up to 100% because part of the volume was not attributed.

Source
Eurostat (European Commission)Calculated
Period 2026-06 (month)Updated 2026-09-26 13:21 UTCConfidenceOfficialMethodologyno download for this view

Refinery output in Lithuania (national)

What all refineries in Lithuania produced together, as published. This refinery's own output is not published and the national total is not divided between refineries.

National · LithuaniaNational context — not this refinery's own figure

National figure, not this refinery's: Lithuania's refineries together produced 392.8 thousand tonnes of oil products in June 2026. Mazeikiai Refinery (ORLEN Lietuva)'s own output is not published, and the national total is not divided between refineries. Official

June 2026, thousand tonnes as published
Road diesel289.2Official
Heating and other gasoil6.3Official
Naphtha0Official
Fuel oil0Official
Petroleum coke9.5Official
All oil products (total)392.8Official
Last 12 months, thousand tonnes
MonthTotalMOTOR_GASOLINERoad dieselJET_KEROSENE
2025-07852278.2289.777.7
2025-08377.3UNKNOWN288.6UNKNOWN
2025-09311.2UNKNOWN227.4UNKNOWN
2025-10270.3UNKNOWN151.9UNKNOWN
2025-11318.8UNKNOWN270UNKNOWN
2025-12311.9UNKNOWN253.7UNKNOWN
2026-01318.3UNKNOWN267.4UNKNOWN
2026-02295.8UNKNOWN240.6UNKNOWN
2026-03258.1UNKNOWN182UNKNOWN
2026-04326.90256.10
2026-05363.4UNKNOWN279.6UNKNOWN
2026-06392.8UNKNOWN289.2UNKNOWN
Source
Eurostat (European Commission)Official
Period 2026-06 (month)Updated 2026-09-23 10:15 UTCConfidenceOfficialMethodologyno download for this view

Outages and maintenance

Planned and unplanned shutdowns we can cite. There is no public register for EU refineries, so an empty list is not a clean record.

No public outage register exists for EU refineries (docs/DATA_SOURCES.md §L).

No outage or maintenance is recorded for Mazeikiai Refinery (ORLEN Lietuva). No public outage register exists for EU refineries (docs/DATA_SOURCES.md §L). This is a missing record, not a statement that the refinery ran without interruption.

Source
several sources (see each row)Unknown
Updated not publishedConfidenceUnknownMethodologyno download for this view

Strait of Hormuz: Lithuania's direct crude exposure (national)

The share of the country's crude imports that came from origins loading inside the Persian Gulf. Measured per country, never per refinery.

National · LithuaniaNational context — not this refinery's own figure

National figure, not specific to this refinery: Between 0% and 29% of Lithuania's crude oil imports in July 2026 came from Hormuz-dependent origins. No point estimate is published: the origins concerned export from both inside and outside the Persian Gulf and the split per period is not public. The range describes the country's crude imports; which of them reached Mazeikiai Refinery (ORLEN Lietuva) is not published. Calculated

July 20260-29%CalculatedLow
Source
EIA, IEA and terminal operators (cited per row)Calculated
Period 2026-07 (month)Updated 2026-09-24 07:44 UTCConfidenceLowMethodologyno download for this view

Sources used on this page

  1. https://www.orlenlietuva.lt/EN/Company/OL/Pages/Refinery.aspx- Capacity; Status; Site record
  2. https://industry.eea.europa.eu/- Source notes
  3. https://www.orlenlietuva.lt/EN/Company/OL/Pages/Terminal-and-Pipelines.aspx- Connection: Butinge Oil Terminal; Connection: Mazeikiai-Butinge crude oil pipeline; Connection: Polotsk-Birzai-Mazeikiai crude oil pipeline
  4. https://github.com/oiramix/oil_routes/blob/main/data/reference/REFERENCE_DATA_SOURCES.md- How the refinery list was compiled; National Hormuz exposure
  5. https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/nrg_ti_oilm/default/table?lang=en- National crude imports
  6. https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/cache/metadata/en/nrg_quant_esms.htm- National crude imports (methodology); National refinery output (methodology)
  7. https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/nrg_cb_oilm/default/table?lang=en- National refinery output
Source notes for this refinery (verbatim)

DISAGREEMENT on capacity between two ORLEN-published sources, both opened 2026-09-22. ORLEN Lietuva's own refinery page states 'The design capacity of the Mazeikiai Refinery is 10 million tonnes of crude oil per year' and adds that the efficient operating volume under current conditions is 8 million tonnes annually. ORLEN's 2023 Integrated Report states 'ORLEN Lietuva refinery in Mazeikiai, with an annual production capacity of 10.2 million tonnes, being the only refinery in the Baltic states (Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia)'. The 10 Mt/a design figure from the site operator is used in the capacity fields; the 10.2 Mt/a group figure is dated 2023. capacity_bpd is EMPTY because neither ORLEN source prints barrels per day and no tonnes-to-barrels conversion was made. Commissioned 1980 per the operator page. Connections per the ORLEN Lietuva terminal-and-pipelines page: the Butinge terminal 'can export up to 14 million tons of crude oil a year' and includes 'a crude oil pipeline, which connects the facility with the Mazeikiai Refinery' (Mazeikiai-Butinge, 91.5 km); the Polotsk-Birzai-Mazeikiai pipeline (built 1979, 225.5 km Lithuanian section, 720 mm, 16 million tons a year) also reaches the refinery, with the Mazeikiai-Birzai leg given as a 28-inch line of 16.2 million tons a year. The refinery page notes that Russian crude via the Druzhba trunk pipeline stopped in July 2006 and that crude now arrives mainly via Butinge, plus rail and truck. Coordinates are from the EEA Industrial Emissions Portal (IED Annex I activity 1.2, installation 'AB "ORLEN Lietuva"', reporting year 2024, status functional), https://industry.eea.europa.eu/ - not operator-published.

Record reference_refineries_v1 / orlen-lietuva-mazeikiai, retrieved 2026-09-21 00:00 UTC, payload hash 90ee2c4eb6f2.

How to read the labels
  • OfficialReported directly by an official authority.
  • VerifiedReported by a third party we have verified against a primary record.
  • CalculatedComputed by us from reported inputs. The method is published on the methodology page.
  • Inferred · highNot reported. Inferred from at least two independent physical records.
  • Inferred · mediumNot reported. Inferred from strong indirect evidence, with no explicit confirmation.
  • Inferred · lowNot reported. Plausible from infrastructure or movement data only. Do not read as fact.
  • UnknownNo defensible public evidence establishes this. We are not guessing, and this is not a measurement of zero.