Orlen has completely abandoned oil from Russia: it has closed its last contract with Rosneft
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Poland's Orlen will no longer buy Russian oil. The last contract, under which Orlen supplied raw materials to the refinery in Litvínov, Czech Republic, ended on June 30. This is stated on Orlen's website.

"From July 1, 2025, the Orlen Group, and through it 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," said Orlen's CEO and President of the Management Board, Ireneusz Fąfara.

Currently, Czech oil refineries receive oil, in particular, from North Sea and Mediterranean fields, as well as from Saudi Arabia, South and North America, and Africa.

"This is what real energy security looks like, which we promised to Polish citizens and neighbors," Fonfara emphasized.

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Earlier, Orlen had already terminated all contracts for supplies to Poland via the Druzhba pipeline and stopped importing Russian oil by sea. Since April 2023, 100% of the oil processed by Orlen's Polish and Lithuanian refineries comes from non-Russian sources.

The contract for the supply of Russian raw materials to the oil refinery in Litvinov was signed 12 years ago.

Another refinery of the group in Kralupy had already been processing only non-Russian oil. However, due to the limited pipeline infrastructure capable of supplying oil from alternative sources, the plant in Litvínov remained dependent on supplies via the Druzhba pipeline.

Following Russia's full-scale military invasion of Ukraine, the Czech government requested a temporary exemption from EU sanctions to continue importing Russian oil in order to maintain a stable supply to the Czech fuel market.

  • At the end of 2024, the Czech pipeline operator MERO completed the modernization of the Transalpine Pipeline (TAL), which transports oil from tankers in the Italian port of Trieste to Germany, where it enters the Ingolstadt-Kralupy-Litvinov (IKL) pipeline to the Czech Republic.
  • In April 2025, the Czech Republic announced that it had become completely independent from Russian oil supplies for the first time in history.
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