OMV Petrom announces the adoption at the AGOA of July 26, 2022 of the Board’s proposal to distribute special dividends, considering the company’s solid financial position. The level of the special gross dividend is of 0.0450 lei/share, the company announced.

The total gross value of the special dividends to be distributed amounts to over 2.5 billion lei. Dividends will be paid starting on September 2, 2022. From this amount, gross dividends of approximately 530 million lei will be distributed to the Romanian state, which owns, through the Ministry of Energy, 20.6% of the share capital of OMV Petrom S.A. At the same time, the cumulative contribution from dividends to the Romanian state will be almost 1 billion lei in 2022.

On April 27, AGOA approved the distribution of dividends in the gross amount of 1.9 billion lei, for the financial year 2021, payable starting in June. Thus, the total gross value of the dividends granted by OMV Petrom in 2022 amounts to 4.5 billion lei, of which almost 1 billion belongs to the Romanian state.

Autor: Bogdan Tudorache

Active in the economic and business press for the past 26 years, Bogdan graduated Law and then attended intensive courses in Economics and Business English. He went up to the position of editor-in-chief since 2006 and has provided management and editorial policy for numerous economic publications dedicated especially to the community of foreign investors in Romania. From 2003 to 2013 he was active mainly in the financial-banking sector. He started freelancing for Energynomics in 2013, notable for his advanced knowledge of markets, business communities and a mature editorial style, both in Romanian and English.