OMV Petrom installed photovoltaic panels at 40 filling stations in Romania to supply them with renewable energy for part of their electricity needs. The photovoltaic (PV) panels produce more than 30,000 kWh of solar energy per year in each filling station, which is the equivalent of an annual average consumption for eight Romanian households per year.

Thanks to the energy produced by the photovoltaic panels, each filling station will contribute to the reduction of the carbon footprint by 8.3 t of carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions each year. The reduction of carbon emissions in the 40 filling stations is equivalent to recycling 2.8 t of waste rather than landfilling. OMV has also already installed PV plants in some filling stations in Slovakia and Hungary. With these measures, OMV contributes to the UN Sustainable Development Goals SDG 7 - Affordable and Clean Energy- and SDG 13 - Climate Action.

OMV reduces the emissions from operations through both conventional ways of reducing CO2 (i.e. energy efficiency, equipment and process improvements) as well as developing ways to power the operations with renewable energy. All greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction projects implemented in OMV operations between 2009 and 2019 have delivered a total reduction of 1.8 mn t CO2 equivalent to date. In addition to powering filling stations with solar enegery, OMV will build Austria's largest ground-mounted solar park at OMV sites in Lower Austria in cooperation with Verbund, which will have a capacity to save approx. 12,000 t of CO2 per year.

About OMV Aktiengesellschaft

OMV produces and markets oil and gas, innovative energy and high-end petrochemical solutions – in a responsible way. With Group sales of EUR 23 bn and a workforce of around 20,000 employees in 2019, OMV Aktiengesellschaft is one of Austria’s largest listed industrial companies. In Upstream, OMV has a strong base in Central and Eastern Europe as well as a balanced international portfolio, with Middle East & Africa, the North Sea, Russia, and Asia-Pacific as further core regions.
Daily average production was 487,000 boe/d in 2019. In Downstream, OMV operates three refineries in Europe and owns a 15% share in ADNOC Refining and Trading JV, with a total annual processing capacity of 24.9 mn tons. Furthermore, OMV has a 36% participation in Borealis, one of the world’s leading producers of polyolefins.
he Company operates about 2,100 filling stations in ten European countries. OMV runs gas storage facilities in Austria and Germany; its subsidiary Gas Connect Austria GmbH operates a gas pipeline network in Austria. In 2019, gas sales volumes amounted to around 137 TWh. Sustainability is an integral part of OMV’s corporate strategy.
OMV supports the transition to a lower-carbon economy and has set measurable targets for reducing carbon intensity and introducing new energy and petrochemical solutions.

About OMV Petrom

OMV Petrom is the largest integrated oil and gas group in South-Eastern Europe, with an annual oil and gas production of approximately 65 mn boe in 2015. The Group has a refining capacity of 4.5 mn tons / year and operates an 860 MW high efficiency power plant and a 45 MW wind park. OMV Petrom is present on the oil products retail markets in Romania and neighboring countries through approximately 800 filling stations as of end of 2015.

OMV, one of Austria's largest listed industrial companies, holds a 51.01% share in OMV Petrom. The Romanian state, via the Ministry of Energy, Small and Medium Enterprises and Business Environment, holds 20.64% of OMV Petrom shares, Fondul Proprietatea (Restitution Funds) holds 18.99% and 9.36% is free float on the Bucharest Stock Exchange.

According to European Commission data, 90% of the European Union`s external trade in goods is maritime and over 400 million passengers transit trough the European ports, annually.