Mazeikiu Nafta started sales of Sulfur-Free grade 95 gasoline

This week Mazeikiu Nafta, the only Refinery in the Baltic States, has offered its customers – wholesale and retail networks – sulfur-free gasoline grade 95.

Sulfur-free gasoline, as called in accordance with the EU requirements, is low-sulfur gasoline containing sulfur compounds up to 10 ppm (10 mg/kg). The Company started producing and supplying gasoline grade 98 to all Lithuanian customers in 2004. In 2005 the Company commenced deliveries of sulfur-free gasoline grade 95 to the Polish and Estonian markets, and with commissioning of the gasoline desulfurization unit in August 2007, all gasoline grade 95 produced by Mazeikiu Nafta and delivered to the markets of the Baltic countries and CIS already meets the EU requirements to be effective on January 1, 2009. The Company will discontinue production of gasoline with the larger sulfur content – gasoline of all grades will be sulfur-free.