Sales of fuel – gasoline, diesel, liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) and lubricants – increased to 267,000 tons in January-June 2015, from 236,000 tons in the year-earlier period.
In the second quarter, sales rose 11% to 146,000 tons.
Diesel sales, which accounted for the bulk, saw a 12% increase to 192,000 tons, while gasoline sales grew 13% to 69,000 tons.
On a group level, retail sales advanced 9%, by volume, in the first half of the year.
This year, MOL has exceeded the threshold of 200 gas stations in Romania after completing the acquisition of 42 filling stations from ENI Romania. MOL is the fourth largest company on the Romanian market, by its gas station chain, being outranked by OMV Petrom, KMG International (Rompetrol) and Lukoil.