Patriciu left Petromidia with €62 mln worth of losses

At the same time, Rompetrol Rafinare registered losses worth RON 261 mln (€61.72 mln), while, in the first six months of 2008, the refinery had an insignificant profit of RON 6.695 mln (€1.82 mln). “The financial results registered by the company in the January-June period have been sharply affected by both the global financial crisis and the volatility of quotations for oil and fuels, and a series of internal macroeconomic factors, such as the depreciation of the national currency,” according to a statement by the Rompetrol group, fully controlled, as of last month, by the Kazakh state-owned KazMunaiGaz company, after businessman Dinu Patriciu sold the remaining 25 percent share package.