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Ukraine will add bioethanol to petrol from May, seeks first imports from EU
Published by Global Banking & Finance Review®
Posted on April 9, 2025
2 min readLast updated: January 24, 2026
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Published by Global Banking & Finance Review®
Posted on April 9, 2025
2 min readLast updated: January 24, 2026
Ukraine will import bioethanol petrol from the EU starting May 2024 to comply with EU regulations, with initial supplies from Orlen Lietuva.
KYIV (Reuters) - Ukraine will introduce the mandatory addition of 5% bioethanol to motor fuel from May 1 to meet EU sustainability regulations and some European refineries have already started producing fuel for Ukraine, analyst Enkorr said on Wednesday.
The Ukrainian parliament passed a law in June 2024 on the mandatory use of renewable bioethanol in fuel to adapt the country's legislation to EU regulations.
Enkorr said that Lithuania's Orlen Lietuva would deliver the first batch of bioethanol petrol to Ukrainian customers on April 14. The bioethanol content is expected to be 4.8%, which puts it in the 5% or E5 range.
"The main problem is that E5 petrol is not standard for European producers. To produce E5, refineries need to set up separate production facilities. As it turned out, not all plants are ready for this at the moment," Enkorr said.
European refineries traditionally produce E10, or petrol with 10% of bioethanol.
Enkorr said Orlen's refinery in Gdansk, Poland, and Romania's OMV Petrom could also start shipments to Ukraine in mid-April.
Ukraine does not officially disclose the volume of domestic fuel production as most of its facilities have been repeatedly attacked by Russian missiles and drones.
According to analysts, Ukraine imported about 1.2 million tons of petrol in 2024.
(Reporting by Pavel Polityuk; editing by Philippa Fletcher)
The article discusses Ukraine's plan to import bioethanol petrol from the EU to meet sustainability regulations.
Ukraine is importing bioethanol petrol to comply with EU sustainability regulations and adapt its fuel standards.
Lithuania's Orlen Lietuva is supplying the first batch of bioethanol petrol to Ukraine.
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