Environmental & Social Information • Apr 15, 2025
Environmental & Social Information
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| CONTENTS | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1. | BASIS OF PREPARATION AND REPORTING PRINCIPLES3 | |
| 2. | TERMINOLOGY3 | |
| 3. | PAYMENTS OVERVIEW5 | |
| 3.1 | Payments to governments by country 5 | |
| 3.2 | Payments by country, project and payment category 6 |

This Consolidated Report on Payments to Governments (the "Report") has been prepared in accordance with the Polish Accounting Act of 29 September 1994 (consolidated text: Dz.U. of 2023, item 120, Chapter 6a) (the "Act"). It details payments made to governments by the ORLEN Group (the "ORLEN Group" or "Group") in relation to its extractive activities for the year ended 31 December 2024.
ORLEN S.A., as the Parent entity of the Group, is required to prepare and issue this Report, covering payments made by both the Parent and its subsidiaries which are active in the extractive industry.
Payments disclosed in this Report relate to activities involving the exploration, appraisal, and extraction of hydrocarbons in Poland, Canada, Norway, Pakistan, the United Arab Emirates, and Lithuania, as well as rock salt extraction in Poland.
Any refunds received by the Group during the reporting period have been disclosed as negative values.
For further information on the Group's extractive activities, please refer to the Directors' Report on the operations of the ORLEN Group and ORLEN S.A. in 2024, available at:
http://www.orlen.pl/PL/RelacjeInwestorskie/InformacjeFinansowe/Strony/SprawozdaniaFinansowe.aspx
Government – as defined in the Act, includes Poland's national and local governments, and entities supervised or controlled by these governments. For countries within or outside the European Economic Area (EEA) other than Poland, it includes analogous national, regional, or local authorities and entities supervised or controlled by them.
In 2024, all disclosed payments were made either directly to national, regional, or local governments in the countries listed below, or to entities supervised or controlled by these governments.
Project – under the Act, a "project" represents operational activities governed by a single agreement, such as a lease, licence, or concession, that forms the basis for payment liabilities towards governments in different countries.
Payments under agreements that are substantially interconnected have been aggregated under a single project. For the purposes of this Report, agreements are considered substantially interconnected if they relate to geographically integrated licence or concession operations with aligned objectives. As such, they are generally treated as a single unit for the purpose of conducting exploration and appraisal programmes and developing the infrastructure necessary for the development and extraction of hydrocarbon and rock salt deposits.
Where it was impractical to allocate payments directly to specific projects, such amounts are disclosed as "unallocated payments." Corporate income tax and certain extraction taxes are typical cases in point.
Presentation currency – the presentation currency is the Polish złoty (PLN). Payments are presented in thousands of PLN (PLN '000) and rounded to the nearest thousand.
Foreign currency translation – foreign currency-denominated payments to governments made by the Group's foreign entities for the year ended 31 December 2024 have been translated into PLN using the following average exchange rates for the reporting period (calculated as the arithmetic mean of daily midpoint rates determined by the National Bank of Poland):
EUR/PLN 4.3064 USD/PLN 3.9815 CAD/PLN 2.9072 NOK/PLN 0.3705 UAH/PLN 0.0992
Payment – as defined by the Act, means any payment made in cash or in kind relating to extractive activities. In cases where Group entities participate in exploration and production licences under operatorship agreements but do not act as the operator, payments made to the operator (which is not a governmental authority or entity) are not reported, except when such payments made indirectly through the operator to governments can be clearly identified.
Materiality threshold – payments within the project (whether individual or cumulative) below PLN 425 thousand are not disclosed.

In 2024, the Group identified the following payment categories:
Under the Act, these are taxes levied on income, production, or profits of companies, excluding taxes levied on consumption such as value added taxes, personal income taxes, or sales taxes.
This category includes corporate income taxes, extraction taxes, and production-related mining fees, calculated based on extracted volumes or profits earned from specific production licences.
Royalties represent payments made for non-current exploration and production assets, i.e. the rights to explore for and extract natural resources, such as crude oil, natural gas, and other minerals.
The Group incurred royalties related to crude oil, natural gas, and natural gas liquids (NGLs) in Canada, as well as oil condensate and natural gas in Pakistan.
Royalties for crude oil were paid in kind, whereas royalties for other resources were settled in cash. Payments in kind were valued based on the delivered volume and the benchmark price for the relevant grade of crude oil, as published by the Alberta Department of Energy.
This category includes fees paid by the Group for obtaining and maintaining exploration and production concessions.
This category comprises the following payments:
In Poland: primarily fees for obtaining mining rights (mining usufruct), environmental charges (e.g., fees for discharging wastewater into water or soil, abstracting surface water for mining purposes, and emissions of gases and particulate matter into the atmosphere), fees related to the exclusion of land from agricultural use, fees under geological and mining law calculated based on the volumes of gas and condensates extracted, and stamp duties;
In Canada: contributions to reclamation funds;
In Norway: acreage and natural resource fees payable to the State in relation to awarded production licences; In the United Arab Emirates: rental fees.
This category includes mandatory annual payments made to the government of Pakistan at rates specified in the applicable hydrocarbon concession agreements. These payments fund social welfare programmes in concession areas, including anti-narcotics initiatives, sports promotion, rehabilitation services for children with disabilities, improvements to educational facilities, drinking water supply, healthcare, road infrastructure, and scholarships for local students.

| Country/government | Taxes Royalties | Concession | Other fees and | Infrastructure | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| fees | considerations | improvements | ||||
| Poland | 399,403 | - | 922 | 42,237 | - | 442,562 |
| National government | 274,251 | - | - | 39,706 | - | 313,957 |
| Ministry of Climate and Environment | - | - | - | 39,255 | - | 39,255 |
| Revenue authorities (tax offices) | 274,251 | - | - | 451 | - | 274,702 |
| Local governments | 89,235 | - | 766 | 1,735 | - | 91,735 |
| Municipalities | 73,082 | - | 511 | 1,599 | - | 75,192 |
| Counties | 13,843 | - | 128 | 1 | - | 13,971 |
| Voivodships (provinces) | 2,310 | - | 128 | 135 | - | 2,572 |
| Entities supervised by national or local | 35,918 | 797 | 36,870 | |||
| government authorities | - | 156 | - | |||
| National Fund for Environmental Protection | 35,918 | - | 85 | - | - | 36,003 |
| and Water Management | ||||||
| Polish Waters State Water Management Agency |
- | - | - | 797 | - | 797 |
| Energy Regulatory Office | - | - | 71 | - | - | 71 |
| Lithuania | 7,228 | - | - | - | - | 7,228 |
| National government | 7,228 | - | - | - | - | 7,228 |
| State Tax Inspectorate (LR VMI) | 7,228 | - | - | - | 7,228 | |
| Canada | - | 56,638 | - | 2,217 | - | 58,855 |
| Regional governments | - | 44,056 | - | - | - | 44,056 |
| Alberta Department of Energy 1 | - | 44,056 | - | - | - | 44,056 |
| Entities supervised by regional | 12,582 | 2,217 | 14,799 | |||
| government authorities | - | - | - | |||
| Alberta Energy Regulator 2 | - | - | - | 2,217 | - | 2,217 |
| Alberta Petroleum Marketing Commission 3 | - | 12,582 | - | - | - | 12,582 |
| Pakistan | 94,314 | 52,805 | - | - | 597 | 147,716 |
| National government | 94,314 | 52,805 | - | - | 597 | 147,716 |
| Federal Board of Revenue 4 | 94,314 | - | - | - | - | 94,314 |
| Director General Petroleum Concessions | - | 52,805 | - | - | 52,805 | |
| Social Welfare Obligation Kirthar JV | - | - | - | - | 597 | 597 |
| Norway | 3,247,275 | - | - | 1,107 | - | 3,248,382 |
| National government | 3,007,028 | - | - | 1,107 | - | 3,008,135 |
| Norwegian Tax Administration | 3,007,028 | - | - | - | 3,007,028 | |
| Norwegian Offshore Directorate 5 | - | - | - | 1,107 | - | 1,107 |
| Entities supervised by national government authorities |
240,247 | - | - | - | - | 240,247 |
| Petoro 6 | 240,247 | - | - | - | - | 240,247 |
| United Arab Emirates | - | - | 754 | - | - | 754 |
| Entities supervised by national | - | 754 | - | - | 754 | |
| government authorities | - | |||||
| Ras Al Khaimah Petroleum Authority | - | - | 754 | - | - | 754 |
| 3,748,220 | 109,443 | 1,676 | 45,561 | 597 3,905,497 |
1 The Alberta Department of Energy is responsible, among other duties, for selling licence rights for crude oil and natural gas exploration and production, collecting rental fees for these licences, and collecting royalties on natural gas and natural gas liquids (NGLs) extracted in the province.
2The Alberta Energy Regulator oversees, among other responsibilities, the collection of fees contributing to the land reclamation fund.
3The Alberta Petroleum Marketing Commission is the entity responsible for selling crude oil received by the province in kind.
4The Federal Board of Revenue is the Government of Pakistan's agency responsible, among other tasks, for collecting taxes and duties.
5 Formerly known as the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate, the Norwegian Offshore Directorate is a government agency responsible for regulating petroleum resources on the Norwegian Continental Shelf. Its mission is to ensure the optimal allocation of petroleum resources while minimising environmental impacts.

6Petoro is a Norwegian state-owned company responsible for managing the State's Direct Financial Interest (SDFI) in exploration and production licences for oil and natural gas on the Norwegian Continental Shelf.
* In 2024, the Group paid royalties in kind totalling 45,719 boe of crude oil, valued at PLN 12,582 thousand (approximately CAD 4,328 thousand), net of a negative adjustment of PLN (187) thousand relating to prior periods.
| Country/project | Taxes Royalties | Concession | Other fees and | Infrastructure | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| fees | considerations | improvements | ||||
| Poland | 399,403 | - | 922 | 42,237 | - | 442,562 |
| Unallocated payments | 332,307 | - | - | 28,385 | - | 360,692 |
| Rock salt extraction | 10,187 | - | - | 797 | - | 10,984 |
| Exploration for and appraisal and production of hydrocarbons |
56,909 | - | 922 | 13,055 | - | 70,886 |
| Edge | 1,482 | - | 922 | 3,177 | - | 5,581 |
| Miocen | 24 | - | - | 632 | - | 656 |
| Rozewie | - | - | - | 748 | - | 748 |
| B-8 | 43,860 | - | - | - | - | 43,860 |
| B-3 | 11,543 | - | - | 265 | - | 11,808 |
| Kosakowo | - | - | - | 609 | - | 609 |
| Rokietnica | - | - | - | 5,587 | - | 5,587 |
| Pyzdry | - | - | - | 541 | - | 541 |
| Szamotuły-Poznań | - | - | - | 625 | - | 625 |
| Mogilno II | - | - | - | 871 | - | 871 |
| Lithuania | 7,228 | - | - | - | - | 7,228 |
| Unallocated payments | 7,228 | - | - | - | - | 7,228 |
| Canada | - | 56,638 | - | 2,217 | - | 58,855 |
| Kakwa | - | 34,076 | - | 1,129 | - | 35,205 |
| Central Alberta Oil | - | 1,576 | - | - | - | 1,576 |
| Ferrier | - | 13,195 | - | 1,088 | - | 14,283 |
| South Alberta | - | 7,791 | - | - | - | 7,791 |
| Pakistan | 94,314 | 52,805 | - | - | 597 | 147,716 |
| Unallocated payments | 3,861 | - | - | - | 3,861 | |
| Kirthar | 90,453 | 52,805 | - | - | 597 | 143,855 |
| Norway | 3,247,275 | - | - | 1,107 | - | 3,248,382 |
| Unallocated payments | 3,007,028 | - | - | 1,107 | - | 3,008,135 |
| PL029 (Sleipner West) | 3,500 | - | - | - | - | 3,500 |
| Gina Krog | 236,747 | - | - | - | - | 236,747 |
| United Arab Emirates | - | - | 754 | - | - | 754 |
| Ras Al Khaimah | - | - | 754 | - | - | 754 |
| 3,748,220 | 109,443 | 1,676 | 45,561 | 597 3,905,497 |

This Consolidated Report on Payments to Governments was authorised for issue by the Management Board of the Parent on 14 April 2025.
signed digitally on the Polish original
………………………..………….. Ireneusz Fąfara President of the Management Board
signed digitally on the Polish original
………………………..………….. Marek Balawejder Member of the Management Board
signed digitally on the Polish original
………………………..………….. Witold Literacki Vice President of the Management Board
signed digitally on the Polish original
………………………..………….. Wiesław Prugar Member of the Management Board
signed digitally on the Polish original ………………………..…………..
Robert Soszyński Vice President of the Management Board
signed digitally on the Polish original ………………………..………….. Magdalena Bartoś Vice President of the Management Board
signed digitally on the Polish original
………………………..………….. Artur Osuchowski Member of the Management Board
signed digitally on the Polish original
………………………..………….. Ireneusz Sitarski Vice President of the Management Board
signed digitally on the Polish original
………………………..………….. Marcin Wasilewski Member of the Management Board
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