Midia Oil Terminal ( ro, Terminalul petrolier Midia) is an oil import-export terminal located offshore the

Port of Midia The Port of Midia is located on the Black Sea coastline, approx 13.5 NM north of Constanța. It is one of the satellite ports of Constanța and was designed and built to serve the adjacent industrial and petrochemical facilities. The north and ...

Constanța County Constanța () is a county ( județ) of Romania on the border with Bulgaria, in the Dobruja region. Its capital city is also named Constanța. Demographics In 2011, it had a population of 684,082 and the population density was 96/km2. The deg ...

Romania Romania ( ; ro, România ) is a country located at the crossroads of Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern, and Southeast Europe, Southeastern Europe. It borders Bulgaria to the south, Ukraine to the north, Hungary to the west, S ...

. It is one of the biggest oil terminals in the

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that serves as a local hub for crude oil deliveries to the Romanian market. The terminal which started operations in 2008 belongs to the

Rompetrol Rompetrol is a crude oil development, producer, and refiner based in Romania. It also markets and distributes refined petroleum products through its chain of gasoline and diesel fuel stations. Established as a state-owned company in 1974, it w ...

oil company which is owned by

Kazakhstan Kazakhstan, officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a transcontinental country located mainly in Central Asia and partly in Eastern Europe. It borders Russia to the north and west, China to the east, Kyrgyzstan to the southeast, Uzbeki ...

s national oil company

KazMunayGas KazMunayGas (KMG) ( kk, QazMúnayGaz, ҚазМұнайГаз) is the state-owned oil and gas company of Kazakhstan.

. The overall capacity of the import-export terminal is approximately of oil but used capacity is around . Tanker loading capacity is suitable for

Suezmax "Suezmax" is a naval architecture term for the largest ship measurements capable of transiting the Suez Canal in a laden condition, and is almost exclusively used in reference to tankers. The limiting factors are beam, draft, height (because ...

tankers up to . The terminal serves as a supplier for the nearby

Petromidia Refinery Petromidia Refinery is the largest Romanian oil refinery and one of the largest in Eastern Europe, located in Năvodari, Constanța County. It has an annual processing capacity of 4.8 million tonnes/year or . The refinery is supplied with oil thro ...

also owned by

. The construction of the terminal started in 2006 and was completed by 2008 at a cost of US$150 million.

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