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Smart Everything: Engineering & Technology

21 August 2019

Romania boasts a strong array of engineering and technology companies - IT has become a strategic sector, outpacing key industries such as agriculture and construction as a share of GDP.

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Turn on the Light: Supply to End Consumers

20 August 2019

The electricity market in Romania has been fully liberalized in 2018, and the gas market caught its moment of freedom under the sun, if only just temporarily, starting with April 1st 2017.

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Ushering Change: Energy Distribution in Romania

20 August 2019

Romania’s power distribution sector was privatized in 2005 and 2006, when five distribution companies were acquired by large European energy firms and granted regional monopolies.

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Opening Borders: Energy Transport Infrastructure

18 August 2019

Romania is presently interconnected with Ukraine, Hungary, Bulgaria and the Republic of Moldova - all these countries currently rely on Russian gas as their only source of supply.

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On the Rise: Renewable Energy Sources

15 August 2019

The renewable energy sector is the one in which Romania has seen the most spectacular investment boom over the past decade – the country presently boasts Europe’s largest onshore wind park.

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Romania’s Energy Mix and the Road to Clean Energy

14 August 2019

Romania’s energy status in the region is an embodiment of its long and rich history, especially in the oil and gas sector which is more than 150 years old.

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Workforce in Romania: A Shrinking Talent Pool

12 August 2019

Romania’s population has been dwindling steadily since the 1990s both because of a decrease in birth rate and a growing appetite for migration.

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Land of Plenty: Romania’s Energy Industry

12 August 2019

Romania boasts a diversified and well-balanced mix of energy sources, which lends it the enviable status of Central and Southeast Europe’s country of lowest dependence on energy imports.

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World’s First: Onshore Exploration and Production

12 August 2019

The first industrial production of oil in the world was registered in 1857 in the Romanian Principalities of Wallachia. In the same year, the first oil refinery was commissioned in Ploiesti.

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Hidden Treasures: OFFSHORE Exploration and Production

12 August 2019

The Black Sea is deemed by geologists to have significant resources of natural gas, with a theoretical potential of becoming a new North Sea.

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A Rocking Boat: Legislation and Regulatory Bodies

12 August 2019

The instability of the legal and regulatory environment in Romania is a major hindrance faced by new investments, and a primary factor in the overall investor risk assessment.

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