At the end of June, Orlen ended the last contract for the supply of oil from Russia

At the end of June, Orlen finished the last contract for the supply of crude oil from Russia, which means that the company and the entire region will not be related to Russian entities with any contracts for the supply of oil – Orlen said in a press release.

“We completed the last (…) contract for the supply of oil from Russia to the Czech Republic. This means that on July 1, 2025, the Orlen group, and thanks to this the entire region will be free from Russian oil. We closed this chapter and together we build a safe future of the region,” said the president of Orlen, Ireneusz Fąfara, quoted in the communiqué.

“Today we are buying oil from around the world. In our refineries, we process the raw material from the Middle East and the Persian Gulf, North Sea, Africa and the Americas. This is what the safety looks like today, which we promised to Poles and the region” – he added.

Ended on June 30, 2025, the contract with Rosneft was the last that Orlen associated with Russian oil. Earlier, other contracts for deliveries from Russia to Poland were completed with a friendship pipeline.

The concern also gave up bringing Russian raw material by sea. Thanks to this from April 2023, 100 percent The raw material processed in the Orlen refineries in Poland and Lithuania comes from alternative directions.

The contract was signed twelve years earlier. He assumed oil supplies to the refinery in Czech Litvinov. However, due to the lack of sufficient capacity of the oil pipelines that allow oil to be imported from alternative directions, Litvinov used the supply of the “Friendship” pipeline.

Therefore, after Russia's full -glass invasion of Ukraine, the Czech government applied to the European Union for release from the need to use sanctions and consent to continue the import of Russian oil to ensure the appropriate supply of oil products to the Czech market.

As indicated, Orlen prepared a plant in Litvinov, which from the beginning of its existence operated based on deliveries from Russia, to the processing of other species of oil.

The concern has conducted a number of technological modifications and tests of various mixtures of raw material. In March 2025, after starting the Tal Plus pipeline, Orlen fully switched to alternative raw materials. Currently, Czech refineries are powered by pus originating, among others from the North and Mediterranean region, Saudi Arabia, South and North Americas and Africa. (PAP Biznes)

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