What do you do when suddenly nothing runs as usual? When the crude oil distillation unit at the Schwechat refinery breaks down in June and the supply to OMV customers and partners is in danger of being interrupted, a plan is worked out immediately. ...
What does a crude oil distillation column look like from the inside? After this summer, Karl Graf knows – and he knows it in painstaking detail. He headed up the team that repaired one of Europe’s largest columns in record time after an incident: 20 ...
Testing facilities, silver columns, long connecting cables, with people in blue overalls or white coats standing in between – this is the technology center (Technikum) of the Schwechat refinery. A wide variety of processes are tested in this ...
How does the gas business actually work? And who are the most important players on the journey from the wellhead to the end consumer? Here’s an overview of gas supply in Europe: From natural gas production to pipeline operators, from major gas ...
A visit to an OMV filling station and five stops that show how sustainable today’s filling stations are. From green electricity that comes from an onsite solar system and powers an automatic car wash through to soft drinks with efficient ...
High above the clouds, freedom seems limitless. We like to fly and we do it a lot –probably even more in the future. But we are often plagued by a guilty conscience once on board because air travel is CO2 intensive. Now a solution appears to be ...
Hydrogen not only comes first in the periodic table: It is also at the forefront of the climate debate surrounding CO2 neutrality – in industry, the energy sector and for mobility. Thomas Uitz tells us what the element can do, how it is ...
How can we meet the world’s growing energy demand at the same time as reducing CO2? One promising technology is geothermal energy, which allows us to use the earth’s natural heat as a clean source of energy. Nina Romich and Philipp ...
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Sorting and recycling plants are facing the same challenges that we face in front of our bins at home: What is that and how do I sort it properly? In the future, the packaging itself might provide the answer, according to the idea behind the ...
Safety comes first at OMV – this is our golden rule and fundamental understanding, and this goes beyond the work environment for us.
Basic raw materials for the chemical industry are obtained from crude oil. Through complex refinery processes, we can produce substances from these raw materials that are crucial to our daily lives, including plastic. The process comes full circle ...
