In the third quarter, MOL’s retail sales in Romania (including gasoline, diesel, liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) and lubricants) rose 21% by volume, to 166,000 tons, compared to 137,000 tons in the same interval a year before.
Diesel sales, which accounted for the bulk of sales, grew by 14%, by volume, in January-September, to 309,000 tons, and by 19% in the third quarter, to 118,000 tons.
Gasoline sales volume increased by 17% to 112,000 tons in the first nine months of 2015, and by 23% to 43,000 tons in the third quarter of the year.
On a group level, MOL’s retail sales advanced 10%, by volume, in January-September 2015, to 2.9 million tons, due to higher fuel demand in the region of Central and Eastern Europe.
MOL group entered the Romanian market in 1995. The company extended its Romanian gas station network to nearly 200 units early 2015, and is one of the leading suppliers of fuel, fleet solutions, bitumen and petrochemical products.
MOL operates in over 40 countries and has some 27,000 employees. The group has four refineries and two petrochemical units, in Hungary, Slovakia and Croatia. The company also has some 2,000 gas stations in Central and Southeastern Europe, in 11 countries.