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What goes on in Poland on the 15th of September.

What goes on in Poland on the 31st of July.

The new coal-fired unit in the Turów power plant is almost finished. It should be ready to go in the third quarter of this year. However, the license to extract coal from a nearby coal mine will expire in a month. The Czechs are against prolonging it. Where will the coal come from if not […]

​Still this year, the ORLEN brand will be displayed at the Company’s service stations in the Czech Republic, Germany and Slovakia. This is an element of a co-branding strategy providing for joint use of the ‘Benzina’ and ‘star’ local brands with the ORLEN Group’s logotype. As part of these efforts, whose ultimate goal is to […]

Refinery and petrochemical group Unipetrol has long been committed to environmental protection. In 2018 it spent a record-high sum of CZK 1.87 billion in capital and operating expenditure on environmental protection. The amount invested in this area has totalled CZK 6.7 billion over the past five years.

Benzina, the largest network of filling stations in the Czech Republic, is entering the Slovak market. It plans to open the first filling station in Slovakia in Malacky close to the Slovak-Czech border in the spring of this year. Further expansion is planned in cooperation with smaller filling station operators and the company is also […]

What goes on in Poland on the 21st of January.

​PKN ORLEN has finalised a transaction to buy all shares in Unipetrol, its Czech subsidiary. The transaction will enable the Group to better exploit synergies and implement optimisation measures more effectively. It will also bring tangible benefits to the Czech company by significantly strengthening its competitive position in the region.

On September 10, 2018, Warsaw Institute in cooperation with the International Visegrad Fund and think tanks from Central and Eastern Europe organized an international conference.

The roundtable meeting “Energy crisis management: decision-makers and civil society” was held on May 24, 2018 in the office of International Visegrad Fund. It was the second workshop in the project “Energy security and effective strategic communication the civil and governmental actors: V4+Ukraine” sponsored by International Visegrad Fund.