Rompetrol

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The Rompetrol Group N.V.

Type	Public (BVB: RRC)
Founded	1974/1999
Headquarters	Bucharest, Romania (central office) Rotterdam, Netherlands (headquarters)
Key people	Dinu Patriciu, CEO, Chairman - Rompetrol Group N.V. Philip Stephenson, Deputy CEO - Rompetrol Group N.V.
Industry	Petroleum
Products	Petroleum products, Petrochemicals
Revenue	€2.34 billion (2005)
Website	http://www.Rompetrol.com

The Rompetrol Group N.V. is a Romanian oil company, that operates in several countries of Southeastern Europe:

Romania - 2nd largest oil company, 40% market share
France - 7th largest oil company, 5% market share
Spain - 10th largest oil company, 5% market share
Turkey - 7th largest oil company, 5% market share
Russia - 15th largest oil company, 1% market share
Ukraine - 7th largest oil company, 5% market share
Hungary - 7th largest oil company, 5% market share
Bulgaria - 3rd largest oil company, 15% market share
Serbia and Montenegro - 4th largest oil company, 10% market share
Moldova - 2nd largest oil company, 30% market share
Albania - 4th largest oil company, 20% market share

Rompetrol Group N.V. is the owner of the Petromidia oil refinery in Năvodari, Romania, renamed Rompetrol Rafinare S.A. which was built between 1975 and 1977 and modernized in the early 1990s, currently it has a capacity to process 14,000 tons of crude oil per day.

Rompetrol also owns Vega Refinery, built in 1904 and acquired by Rompetrol in 1999 and it is Romania's sole producer of a wide range of special boiling point spirits (SPBS), Solvents for olefins polymerization, bitumen, heating oil and catalysts for petroleum processing.

In December 2005, Rompetrol Group N.V. acquired French oil company Dyneff S.A., taking control over its oil refining infrastructure as well as its network of petrol stations in France.

The Chairman of the Board and CEO of the Rompetrol group is Dinu Patriciu, and the Dupty CEO is Philip Stephenson.