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OSCAR Downstream, the biggest independent player on the local oil market, a EUR1.47 billion business in 2023 owned by businessman Alin Niculae, is likely to launch the first OSCAR-branded filling station in the second half of this year.
One of the most dangerous greenhouse gases is leaking into the atmosphere relentlessly from the EU’s easternmost edge. Invisible plumes of methane escape from Romania’s oil fields, gas pipes, rusting storage containers and even a well next to a playground. The job of finding the leaking gas, with more than 80 times more warming power than carbon dioxide in the short term, falls to James Turitto from the nonprofit Clean Air Task Force. He has found more than 70 leaks using a special infrared camera capable of detecting the odorless gas. “It felt like every well in Romania is leaking,” s...