[1] The facility was connected by pipeline to the oil fields in the Oltenia Region and to the Port of Constanţa.

[3] Arpechim was founded in 1964 in a strategic industrial zone located in Southern Romania near Pitești.

[4] In the same year the refinery built its first plant specialised in the production of carbon black.

In 1997 the state established Petrom as the national oil company also including the Arpechim Refinery.

[4] In 1999 Arpechim becomes the first refinery in Europe to produce and export diesel with a reduced sulfur content.