The energy for a better life. This is the company’s credo and the main driver of what is known to be the largest oil and gas producer in SE Europe and one of the largest corporations in Romania — more than 13700 people contribute to the fulfillment of OMV Petrom’s vision every day.
OMV Petrom’s involvement extends beyond its own team though; having successfully launched Andrei’s Country (know as ‘Tara lui Andrei’) program for the past 10 years and counting, donating 10 million euros to build the first Paediatric Oncology and Radiotherapy Hospital in Romania are just a few examples. This year, OMV Petrom joins us for the 6th edition of Techsylvania and we’re honored to have started this journey together.
- Tell us more about OMV Petrom’s plans of setting up a digital academy.
The digital academy is part of an OMV-wide initiative to provide education to our people on digital technologies and new ways of working (digital dexterity). There are several layers of initiatives that help people with either initial awareness, basic skills or advanced skills. Masterclasses are for the general audience and provide a day full of external and internal speakers who explain the basic concepts and how they hang together and some basic use cases. From the videos and presentations of these masterclasses, we make computer-based trainings that can be watched by people who were not there. For the next level of providing basic skills to all our people, we are setting up a collaboration with one of the major online training providers like Udemy, Coursera and LinkedIn. In fact, hundreds of people are already following courses privately on LinkedIn.
For the advanced skill levels, we are setting up specialized courses like an Advanced Analytics and Data Science course, together with external specialists in a blended learning concept. Suppliers of advanced software (like Petrel from Schlumberger) we are using are also providing advanced trainings, as are the usual specialist course providers like PetroSkills for Upstream.
So it’s not so much a real separate academy, but more a collection of educational layers that will help all employees to become more digitally dexterous and use technology and innovation to become more efficient and agile.
2. Sustainability is a big part of the OMV Petrom culture. Tell us more about your vision and projects in this area
OMV Petrom is the largest Group in South-East Europe and is active along the entire energy value chain: from exploration and production of oil and gas, to refining and fuel distribution, and further on to power generation and marketing of gas and power. We provide sustainable access to energy needed for modern day-to-day life: light, heat produced from our gas, and fuels for mobility.
Conducting business sustainably is crucial for OMV Petrom in creating and protecting value in the long term, in building trusting partnerships and in attracting customers as well as the best employees, investors, and suppliers.
In 2018, we made efforts to maintain and consolidate our vision on sustainability from the bottom up. Fifteen measurable targets have been set in the five focus areas: “Health, Safety, Security and Environment (HSSE)”, “Carbon Efficiency”, “Innovation”, “Employees”, as well as “Business Principles and Social Responsibility”.
Sustainability means we focus on conducting our business responsibly, efficiently and in an innovative way. We are committed to creating long-term value for the company and our stakeholders while respecting the environment, supporting the communities in which we operate, and striving to support the Sustainable Development Goals.
In terms of Social Responsibility, Andrei’s Country is the social responsibility platform of OMV Petrom, one of the most known CSR initiative in Romania and the amplest program.
Since 2009, through Andrei’s Country, OMV Petrom supports the projects that inspire the Romanian communities to take action and change their lives in key domains: creating new jobs, accessing the non-formal education and nurture the citizenship. Andrei’s Country’s values are the civic spirit, the entrepreneurial spirit, the (non-formal) education and innovation, it can be done spirit.
Andrei’s Country is a large community oriented to finding solutions, a community of those who do not back down from the fight to transform their initiatives into reality. Andrei’s Country believes in people. It believes in the power of those with ambition who succeed to evolve through their own strength and it also believes in the power of those who guide and inspires them.
Andrei’s Country is about projects like: RO SMART, Vocational Romania, Access to Life, Made in Andrei’s Life, Parks of the Future, and the first Trees Planting campaign in Romania, but not only, more details on www.taraluiandrei.ro.
3. This year, OMV Petrom gave an immense example by getting involved in the community with a 10M grant. What determined this decision and do you see this as an example for other companies?
Over the past ten years, OMV Petrom has taken an important role in supporting health initiatives.
In 2011, through OMV Petrom’s social responsibility project ”Access to life”, OMV Petrom supported the expansion of the emergency telemedicine network in 16 hospitals in the country, with the coordination center at the Floreasca Emergency Hospital in Bucharest, providing access for 9.5 million Romanians to emergency medical services. The same project has contributed to the training of Romanian doctors through specialized courses in emergency medicine at European level.
In 2012, the company provided the SMURD Foundation with 3 fully-equipped ambulances.
Between 2014 and 2016, OMV Petrom in partnership with ExxonMobil supported the design and construction of the SMURD Aeromedical Base in Constanta, the most modern unit of its kind in the country. The base has increased the capacity and efficiency of emergency operations of the SMURD Constanta in the entire South-East region of Romania.
In 2017, OMV Petrom supported the SMURD Foundation by acquiring the first neonatal transport incubator for the Emergency Unit of SMURD Constanta, suitable for both helicopter transport and SMURD ambulances.
In 2019 OMV Petrom grants EUR 10 mn sponsorship to the Dăruiește Viață Association project for the construction of the first integrated Pediatric Oncology and Radiotherapy Hospital in Romania. Because is an important need for Romania and because every child deserves a chance in life.
