History
Petrobrazi was founded in 1934 in a strategic industrial zone of 440 hectares (4.4 km2) located in Southern Romania near Ploieşti. The first oil processing capacity was established in 1934 and had a processing capacity of 300,000 tonnes/year. In 1962 Petrobrazi becomes the first modern refinery in Romania with the addition of the catalytic cracking and reforming processes. In 1965 the refinery was integrated with the Petrochemical Complex. In 1997 the state established Petrom as the national oil company also including the Petrobrazi Refinery. In 2003 the refinery becomes the first facility of its kind in Romania that has its own cogeneration power plant. With its nominal processing capacity of 7 million tonnes/year, Petrobrazi is the largest Romanian refinery. It is also the most efficient refinery in Romania having a Nelson complexity index of 11.4.
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