Autonomous system
AS16026 PETROM-NET OMV PETROM SA
Unclassified RIPE
Summary
OMV Petrom
enterprise business infrastructure
One block's netname says only that the registry manages it, and its registrant is the word unknown.
What it's used for
- An oil and gas company's network. Two IPv4 prefixes announced from Romania, no IPv6, seven hundred and sixty-eight addresses, across two observed BGP neighbours.
Notable
- The larger block's netname is the registry's own placeholder, five words saying that the registry manages the address block, and its registrant field contains the word for not known.
- The smaller block is named after the company and registered to an abuse role belonging to a national research institute acting as the local internet registry.
- Neither block lists the company itself as a contact, though the routing record names it as holder.
- The AS handle is the brand, the word for a network, then a street name, a house number written with the local abbreviation, and a city district.
- Six addresses were queried for reverse DNS and none returned a name.
Interesting
- A registry-managed placeholder usually means the block's original assignment records were lost or never transferred, and the registry took custody of the entry rather than deleting it. The addresses keep working; the paperwork underneath is a stub.
- A research institute holding the registry membership is how many countries first got address space. The academic network was there first, so commercial organisations received their blocks through it and the arrangement outlived the reason for it.
This description is AI-generated, best-effort context — not authoritative, and provided without any guarantee of accuracy. Source, and how to suggest an edit.
Interconnection
Peering at a glance
Internet exchanges
No exchange port on file. Many exchanges publish no participant list, so this is not proof of absence.
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-11-05, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 2 prefixes · 768 addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| RO | Romania | 2 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS16026- Registry name
- PETROM-NET
- Registrant
- OMV PETROM SA
- Abuse contact
- domain-admin@petrom.com
- Registered
- 1970-01-01
- Last changed
- 2019-06-12
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 0% valid · 0 valid, 3 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 0 authorising AS16026
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 3 of 3 announcements
- Route objects
- 3 naming AS16026
Reputation
Classification and threat
Unclassified Not in the curated lists. Most of the ~80,000 allocated ASNs are not.
Spamhaus DROP
Not on ASN-DROP The network as a whole is not listed.
No DROP prefixes None of its announced space is on the DROP prefix list.
Spamhaus DROP ("Don't Route Or Peer") lists space and networks run by, or hijacked for, spam and cybercrime operations: 454 networks and 1,854 prefixes, as published 2026-11-06. A short, high-confidence list, so a match is worth taking seriously, and absence from it says little on its own.
FBI IC3
No IC3 indicators Nothing from the FBI IC3 feed.
IC3 threat data is alpha. Absence of an indicator is not evidence of good behaviour, only of absence from this one feed.
Elsewhere