OMV Petrom SA (Bucharest, Romania) has invested €1.5 million at the Petrobrazi refinery to streamline the lighting system of ten industrial ramps, where crude oil and feedstock is unloaded and oil products are loaded.
The old lighting system at the refinery’s supply ramps was decommissioned and conventional lighting fixtures were replaced with about 1,000 new LED fixtures. The new LED-based lighting system will halve the annual amount of electricity used by the refinery at the industrial ramps, resulting in an annual reduction of about 100-ton of carbon emissions. The reduction in emissions is equivalent to the volume of carbon dioxide sequestrated annually by about 18,000 trees.
“We have an essential role in providing the energy that Romania needs and we want to contribute through various solutions to reduce the carbon emissions in all our business segments. We continue our environmentally friendly initiatives on the entire value chain, which include both the implementation of new technologies and an efficient energy management during operations”, said Radu Căprău, member of OMV Petrom Executive Board, responsible for Downstream Oil.
Petrobrazi has a total crude oil processing capacity of 4.5 million tons per year and, starting in 2005, OMV Petrom has invested approximately EUR 1.8 billion in the refinery. One third of this investment contributed to the reduction of the environmental impact. Last year, the company announced an investment supporting biofuels capacity.