Petrotel-LUKOIL Refinery

ADDED 2026-09-27 FROM THE PIPELINE OPERATOR'S STOCK-EXCHANGE FILING (CONPET S.A. Annual Report 2025 of the administrators, filed with the Bucharest Stock Exchange, file dated 25-03-2026, downloaded and text-extracted 2026-09-27; CONPET is 58.7162% owned by the Romanian State through the Ministry of Energy). CONNECTIONS: 'In Romania, the Lukoil group operates the Petrotel - Lukoil Ploiesti refinery, which uses, for the supply of crude oil, the National Crude Oil Transport System, operated by CONPET S.A.'; the import subsystem carries crude 'from the Oil Terminal Constanta to the refineries in Ploiesti (Petrobrazi and Lukoil), Arpechim-Pitesti terminal and Petromidia refinery' (section 4.1.2, p.16); the Ticleni-Ploiesti Line I and Line II (about 250 km) supply 'the Ploiesti refineries' (pp.41-42). Romanian diacritics are folded to ASCII in this file. STATUS CORROBORATED: 'the activity of the Petrotel - Lukoil refinery was not resumed at the end of the planned overhaul (December 1st, 2025) amid the sanctions imposed by the United States of America'; 'The Petrotel-Lukoil refinery is shut down, and this temporary stoppage reduces the internal crude oil processing capacity'; the refinery 'generated approximately 20% of the transport activity of CONPET S.A.'. The operator calls the stoppage temporary, which supports IDLE rather than CLOSED. The note written on 2026-09-22 follows. CAPACITY EMPTY: no operator or official page printing a capacity figure could be opened; petrotel.ro / lukoil.ro were not reachable via search results and the only quantitative statement found in an opened page is a share of national output, not a capacity. STATUS IDLE, not CLOSED: the refinery 'has been offline since October 2025', having stopped for planned maintenance which was subsequently completed, but operations were not resumed because of complications linked to US sanctions on parent company LUKOIL. A state-appointed supervisor has overseen the company since 12 February 2026, tasked with ensuring compliance with US Treasury OFAC measures. In August 2026 the company moved to enter insolvency proceedings, presented by management as a restructuring mechanism rather than preparation for liquidation, with the stated objective of keeping the refinery technically capable of restarting; management and the state supervisor both favour a restart, and a change of ownership is under discussion with Romanian authorities (https://serbia-energy.eu/lukoils-petrotel-refinery-seeks-insolvency-protection-while-pursuing-restart/, dated 2026-08-26; Tier 3 trade press, used here for a dated corporate event, not for a capacity figure). The same source states Petrotel previously accounted for about 21 percent of Romanian domestic fuel production and is the only one of Romania's refinery sites currently offline. US OFAC added Rosneft, LUKOIL and subsidiaries to the SDN list on 22 October 2025. EEA register lists 'SC PETROTEL LUKOIL SA' as functional for reporting year 2024, which predates the October 2025 shutdown and must not be read as a current status. 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.