Orlen

Orlen’s 3,500 fuel stations are a familiar sight in Central Europe, but the Polish energy group operates across much of the petrochemical sector there. It is an oil and gas producer, an oil refiner, a liquefied natural gas importer, an operator of gas-fired power stations and a power distributor. Half-owned by the Polish state, Orlen’s strategy is to expand further into renewables—in common with the rest of the European energy majors—but not at the expense of fossil fuels. The company, headquartered in Płock, Poland, is also planning to expand its gas power and specialty petrochemicals businesses, and its upstream operations in Norway.