It is a sticky, viscous, jet-black mass. Most of the time we only come into contact with it in passing, when it smokes, steams and smells – especially now in summer with all the roadworks underway.
What if we could mitigate the effects of global warming by trapping greenhouse gases at their source and putting them deep underground so they never get into the atmosphere? Well, it turns out we can. The technology is called Carbon Capture and ...
It wasn’t too long ago that the question we were asking was “What needs to come first – the electric vehicle or the charging infrastructure?” At the latest since the boom between 2019 and 2021, in which sales of electric vehicles tripled annually, ...
Innovation expert Andreas Leitner on innovation at OMV.
Packaging fulfills many different tasks: It protects products, provides information, needs to be practical for transport, has to appeal to consumers – and, in an ideal world, is easy to recycle.
OMV has set itself ambitious targets: The company plans to become climate-neutral by 2050. Achieving this will require us to rethink technologies and develop innovative methods. The fact that we are making rapid progress in these areas is thanks to ...
It’s common knowledge that the power output of a wind turbine goes up and down. But did you know that there are offshore wind turbines that literally move up and down? Hywind Tampen in Norway is the world's largest floating offshore wind farm and the ...
What do you do when suddenly nothing runs as usual? When the crude oil distillation unit at the Schwechat refinery breaks down in June and the supply to OMV customers and partners is in danger of being interrupted, a plan is worked out immediately. ...
What does a crude oil distillation column look like from the inside? After this summer, Karl Graf knows – and he knows it in painstaking detail. He headed up the team that repaired one of Europe’s largest columns in record time after an incident: 20 ...
Testing facilities, silver columns, long connecting cables, with people in blue overalls or white coats standing in between – this is the technology center (Technikum) of the Schwechat refinery. A wide variety of processes are tested in this ...
How does the gas business actually work? And who are the most important players on the journey from the wellhead to the end consumer? Here’s an overview of gas supply in Europe: From natural gas production to pipeline operators, from major gas ...
