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Rompetrol Rafinare’s financial results, in January - September 2022
Rompetrol Rafinare, a member company of the KMG International Group, recorded, in the first 9 months of the year, a consolidated gross turnover of approximately 4.87 billion dollars and an operational profit (EBITDA) of approximately 327 million dollars, as a result of higher market quotations compared to similar periods last year.
In the first 9 months of 2022, the European refining margin increased by 107.9 USD/MT and averaged 120.5 USD/MT. The indicators were mainly influenced by the continued recovery in demand for refined products.
"Rompetrol Rafinare continues to represent a factor of stability in the industry, at the local and regional level. The January - September 2022 period was a complex one, with challenges in the supply of raw material, with a successfully completed and in the proposed schedule turnaround, and with a complicated context in the Black Sea area. However, we have aligned our production and sales in order to support the increased demand in the country and we have focused on streamlining operational flows and maximizing performance, in safe conditions and environmental protection", said Felix Crudu - Tesloveanu, General Manager of Rompetrol Rafinare.
Between January and September 2022, Rompetrol Rafinare, through the Petromidia N?vodari, Vega Ploie?ti and Petrochemical Division refineries, directed around a third of its obtained products to the external market. The total value of exports exceeded 1.27 billion dollars, amounting to more than 1.28 million tons sold.
Rompetrol Rafinare remained, in 2022, an important contributor to Romania's state budget, with a contribution of almost 440 million dollars in the third quarter of the year and more than 1.13 billion dollars in the first nine months of 2022.
The significant shareholders of Rompetrol Rafinare SA are KMG International (54.63% - directly and indirectly) and the Romanian State through the Ministry of Energy (44.7%).
Refining segment
The refining segment's gross turnover reached almost 1.6 billion dollars in Q3 2022, respectively 4.16 billion dollars in the first 9 months of 2022, and an operational profit (EBITDA) of about 343 million dollars, in the January - September 2022 period.
In the first 9 months of the year, the Petromidia N?vodari refinery processed more than 3.8 million tons of raw materials, achieving a production of approximately 1 million tons of gasoline and 1.97 million tons of diesel and Jet A1 fuels. More than 60% of fuel sales were concentrated on the domestic market.
In the third quarter of the year, the degree of utilization of the refining capacity was at the maximum level, 100%, with a total of 1.5 million tons of raw materials. At the same time, since the beginning of the year, the Petromidia refinery had a degree of utilization of around 85%. The increased raw material processing rate, correlated with the favorable market for petroleum products, supported the achievement of good results in the Petromidia N?vodari refinery.
Thus, in the first nine months of the year, a yield of white products of 85.68%wt and an energy intensity index of 97.61% were recorded.
Regarding the Vega Ploiesti refinery, the only domestic supplier of bitumen for the Romanian market and the only national producer of hexane, the total processing, in the first 9 months of the year, was 267.7 thousand tons, increasing by approximately 20% compared to the first 9 months of 2021.
Also, the degree of utilization of the refining capacity increased by more than 16%, which allowed recording a technological loss of only 0.63% and an energy consumption of 2.32 GJ/t.
The Ploiesti refinery is in perfect synergy with the Petromidia N?vodari refinery - the largest in Romania and one of the most modern in the Black Sea region. Thus, Petromidia fully provides the refinery in Ploie?ti with the finished/semi-finished materials necessary to obtain special products with a high benefit.
Petrochemicals segment
In the first 9 months of 2022, the total polymer production of the Petrochemical Division was 94 thousand tons, up 28% compared to the same period last year. The segment's sales registered an increase of almost 20%, and product deliveries were concentrated, in proportion to 60%, on the domestic market.
The strategy of the Petrochemical segment ensures the company a competitive position on the domestic market, but also on the regional one - the Black Sea and the Mediterranean Sea, Central and Eastern Europe, aiming to maintain the competitive advantage, once the market stabilizes.
The petrochemical segment is the only producer of polypropylene and polyethylene in Romania, constantly managing to increase its market share in secondary product categories as well.
Distribution segment
The consolidated gross turnover for the distribution segment was 2.93 billion dollars in the first 9 months of the year. The operational profit (EBITDA) recorded a value of 41.4 million dollars in January - September 2022, while the net result was a positive one, of about 1.7 million dollars.
In the first 9 months of 2022, compared to the same period in 2021, the average Platts quotations (FOB Med Italy), expressed in dollars (the reference currency), recorded an increase of 92% for diesel, respectively an increase of 60% for gasoline.
Also, against the background of the approximately 13% depreciation of the RON against the dollar (average 9 months 2022 vs. average 9 months 2021), the international quotation of diesel fuel increased in the national currency by 117%, and the international quotation of gasoline increased in the national currency by 81%, compared to the same period in 2021.
The total quantities of fuel sold by Rompetrol Downstream in the January - September period were 1.7 million tons, down in wholesale sales, but with a 3% increase in the retail segment.
At the end of September 2022, Rompetrol Downstream's distribution segment comprised 1,235 sales points, including the network of own stations, partner stations and mobile stations (expres, internal bases of 9 and 20 cubic meters), increasing by 56 units from the number recorded at the end of September 2021.
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