Corporate responsibility report / Responsible brand - PKN Orlen

Corporate responsibility report
D. Eng. Stanisław Szafran
Secretary of the Museum of Oil and Gas Industry
Foundation Council in Bóbrka
/ Involvement in organizations and associations
In 2009, PKN ORLEN continued its active involvement
in organizations and associations, treating this as a significant
element of functioning on the Polish and Euro pean
economic arena. The Company representatives were
active in 41 organizations, associations and other external
institutions. The list of organizations participated
by PKN ORLEN in 2009 is available at www.orlen.pl.
What is so special about the Museum of Oil and Gas
Industry in Bóbrka?
Bóbrka is a place which, thanks to nature and activities
of wise people, was given a pioneer role in the development
of Polish and world oil industry. It was here that
Ignacy Łukasiewicz, the creator of oil industry, established
in 1854 the first crude oil mine in the world with Tytus
Trzecieski. The entire production of the mine was directed
to processing in distilleries and to one of the oldest
refineries in the world, built in 1856 by Ignacy Łukasiewicz
in Ulaszowice, and later in Polanka, Chorkówka
and other places.
This museum of mining, oil and gas industry is the biggest
in Europe and one of the biggest in the world.
It presents all aspects of operations related to oil geology
and geophysics, drilling, bore-hole exploitation,
natural gas industry and some branches of refinery
industry and oil products distribution. Exhibits presented
in the museum are original or reconstructed artefacts:
mining excavations, oil mine buildings from the 2 nd half
of the 19 th century and drilling and exploitation devices,
appliances, measurement equipment and historical
objects, as well as archival documents, which make
this place a worldwide unique panorama of oil mining.
The main advantages resulting from the participation
include: opportunity to acquire knowledge, access to current
information on normative act drafts concerning
the refinery and petrochemical industry on the Polish
and European market, ability to influence the shape
of final legal regulations by consulting and evaluating
governmental and parliamentary legal act drafts, access
to research results and technical solutions from abroad,
participation in seminars and conferences, preferential
participation conditions in paid trainings for members
of a given organization, promotion of PKN ORLEN.
PKN ORLEN is active on the European scene through
its direct involvement and active participation in European
oil industry associations. Particularly worth emphasising
is the Company’s involvement in the work of EUROPIA
(Euro pean Refining Industry Association), an association
which brings together all major oil corporations
on the European market representing over 90% of crude
oil processing capacities in the EEA. In cooperation with
other European oil Companies PKN ORLEN participates
in the implementation of the mission of the Association.
This consists in constructively contributing to the development
of policies whose purpose is to ensure safe and
sustainable manufacture, supply and use of oil products
by providing support in the form of knowledge to competent
experts of EU institutions and state administration,
as well as public opinion.
These objectives are also served by scientific and technical
research which PKN ORLEN participates in together with
other members of CONCAWE (Conservation of Clean Air
and Water in Europe) – an association whose members
include nearly all oil companies form the EEA. The work
of CONCAWE is a source of objective information
on the impact of the European oil industry on the natu-
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