- CEO
- Asaf Almgor
- Full Time Employees
- 1,492
- Sector
- Energy
- Industry
- Oil & Gas Refining & Marketing
- Address
- Revad. 4 Haifa Israel 3100001
- IPO Date
- Jan 8, 2021
- Business
- Oil Refineries Ltd. (ORL), also known as Bazan Group, operates Israel's largest integrated refining and petrochemical complex in Haifa Bay, producing and marketing a broad range of fuel products, petrochemicals, polymers, and related services primarily for domestic consumption with exports to the Mediterranean basin. The company refines crude oil into gasoline, diesel fuel, kerosene, jet fuel, naphtha, fuel oil, liquefied petroleum gas, and bitumen, which it supplies to fuel and gas marketing companies, transportation, agriculture, industry, and infrastructure sectors; it manufactures aromatics including benzene, toluene, paraxylene, orthoxylene, phthalic anhydrides, and solvents for applications in clothing, packaging, pharmaceuticals, paints, cosmetics, computing, and automotive industries; it produces polymers such as polypropylene, low-density polyethylene, and ethylene/propylene feedstocks via subsidiaries Carmel Olefins Ltd., Gadiv Petrochemical Industries Ltd., and Ducor in the Netherlands; and it provides basic oils, waxes, power, steam, electricity, storage, tanker leasing, and marine transportation services to industrial customers in the Haifa region. Founded in 1959 and headquartered at Sderot HaHistadrut, Haifa, Israel, ORL maintains operations through segments encompassing fuels, polymers, aromatics, Ducor polymers, and other activities including trading and shipping. Recent developments include an ongoing equity buyback program announced in August 2024 with tranche updates through October 2024; a $100 million investment in an acquisition partnership valued at an operating basis of $275 million; a supply agreement with NewMed Energy for condensate from the Leviathan project; and the appointment of Rafael Maman as CEO effective February 2026, succeeding Asaf Almagor after addressing operational challenges such as a June 2025 shutdown due to an Iranian missile strike on its facilities.