Orlen

Orlen SA (formerly PKN Orlen SA (Polish: Polski Koncern Naftowy Orlen Spółka Akcyjna, lit. 'Polish Oil Concern Orlen Public Corporation'), commonly known as Orlen is a Polish multinational oil refiner, petrol retailer and natural gas trader headquartered in Płock, Poland. The company's subsidiaries include the main oil and gas companies of the Czechia and Lithuania, Unipetrol and Orlen Lietuva, respectively. The corporation is a significant European publicly traded firm with operations in Poland as well as Austria, Canada, Czechia, Germany, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Pakistan, and Slovakia. As of July 2026, the largest shareholder of the company is the Polish state (via the State Treasury) with 49.9% of the shares, ahead of Nationale-Nederlanden OFE with 5.2% of the shares. The company is listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange and, as of 2025, its reported revenue constituted over US$74.61 billion. It employs over 67,809 people, owns more than 3,400 service stations in seven countries and markets its products to over 100 countries worldwide. Orlen is the largest company in Central and Eastern Europe and is listed in global rankings such as Fortune Global 500, Platts TOP250 and Thomson Reuters TOP100. PKN Orlen was created in 1999 after the Council of Ministers of Poland in the previous year decided to partially privatise and merge two state-run petrochemical firms: Centrala Produktów Naftowych (CPN), Communist Poland's petroleum retail monopoly, and Petrochemia Płock, the state firm in charge of the oil refineries in Płock, the largest complex of its kind in Poland. After said merger, the company was renamed Polski Koncern Naftowy (PKN), with Orlen added several months later as the consortium's brand name. Orlen SA brand name is derived from orl- for "orzeł" (Polish: eagle) and its adjective "orli", and -en for "energia" (Polish: energy).