Polish refiner Orlen will not buy Russian oil for its Czech refinery after 30 June, Chief Executive Ireneusz Fafara said on Monday. "We freed Central Europe from Russian oil today," Fafara stated.
The contract with Rosneft for Russian oil to be supplied to the Litvinov refinery in the Czech Republic was the last one linking Orlen to Russian oil, it said in a statement.
"We have concluded the last legacy contract for Russian crude deliveries to the Czech Republic. As of 1 July 2025, the ORLEN Group – and, through this, our entire region – will be free from Russian oil. We have closed this chapter and are jointly building a secure future for Central and Eastern Europe. Today, we purchase crude oil from across the globe. Our refineries process feedstock from the Middle East and Persian Gulf, the North Sea, Africa, and both Americas. This is what real energy security looks like, the one we promised to Polish citizens and neighbours,” said Fąfara.
He added that it became possible through strong partnerships, especially with transmission system operators.
The Czech Republic had said in April that it had become fully independent of Russian oil supplies for the first time in its history following the completion of capacity upgrades on the TAL pipeline coming from the west.
Since Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the Czech Republic government has sought to end its partial dependence on the Druzhba pipeline, which has been delivering supplies from Russia for decades and has accounted for about half the country's annual oil imports.
At the end of last year Czech pipeline operator MERO completed an upgrade along the Transalpine (TAL) pipeline, which carries oil from tankers in the Italian port of Trieste to Germany, where it feeds into the Ingolstadt–Kralupy–Litvinov (IKL) pipeline to the Czech Republic.
Orlen said that currently, Czech refineries are supplied with crude oil from, among others, the North Sea and Mediterranean region, Saudi Arabia, South and North America, and Africa.
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