LUKOIL Neftochim Burgas
Coordinates: 42 ° 32 ′ 44 ″ N , 27 ° 20 ′ 0 ″ E
LUKOIL Neftochim Burgas is a Bulgarian oil and oil processing ( petrochemical ) refinery west of the city of Burgas . It was founded in 1963.
The company is 93% owned by Lukoil Europe Holdings BV The remaining seven percent are owned by the Bulgarian state. The refinery had 2008 sales of 6,875 million leva .
With a processing capacity of 176,800 barrels of crude oil per day (approx. 8 million tons per year), the refinery is the largest in southeast Europe and the largest employer in Bulgaria. In 1999 the refinery was privatized. The Russian Lukoil bought 58 percent of the shares for 101 million US dollars. Other shares were traded on the Bulgarian Stock Exchange. In 2005 Lukoil Europe Holdings bought all traded shares and today controls 93 percent of Neftochim Burgas.
At the end of January 2012, LUKOIL Neftochim Burgas announced that it would make investments of 1.5 billion US dollars by 2015 and create 3,000 new jobs.
New plants for hydrocracking and catalytic reforming are to be built or the existing ones replaced. The new facilities should also reduce air pollution.
- See also: FC Neftochimic ; BK LUKoil Neftomchimic
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- ↑ Лукойл Нефтохим Бургас . Лукойл България. Archived from the original on March 22, 2010. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved on September 11, 2009.
- ↑ Крачка назад от ръба на пропастта . Ню Бизнес БГ. 2009. Retrieved on 11 September 2009.
- ↑ derstandard.at: Hau the Russians. Bulgaria has revoked Lukoil's license and turned off the fuel itself. Retrieved on July 29, 2011 (Bulgarian): "Lukoil Neftochim in Burgas, built in 1964, is the largest refinery in the Balkans (176,800 barrels of crude oil a day)"
- ↑ LUKOIL to buy 6.75% of shares of Burgas refinery from minority shareholders . LUKOIL. 2005. Archived from the original on December 24, 2013. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved on September 11, 2009.
- ↑ Russia's Lukoil Pours USD 1.5 B in Hydrocracking Facility in Bulgaria. Retrieved January 26, 2012 (English).
- ↑ Technip awarded a major refining contract in Bulgaria. Retrieved January 26, 2012 (English).
