The Refining Industry in South-Eastern Poland in 1944-1989

The purpose of the article is to present the activities of the oil refineries in Jedlicze, Jasło and Gorlice in 1944-1989 in the context of their post-war reconstruction, modernisation, technological development and technical progress. It presents the results of crude oil refining at three south-eastern refineries and indicates their share of nationwide refining. The structure of refinery production (the range of products produced) and issues of economic efficiency of oil refining plants were also analysed. A separate space is devoted to describing the failed refinery consolidation process in 1976-1981. The article concludes with the gradual marginalisation and regression of the development of the south-eastern refineries in Jedlicze, Jasło and Gorlice after the petrochemical combines in Płock and Gdańsk were launched.