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<strong>Tanzania</strong> <strong>Oil</strong> <strong>companies</strong> <strong>want</strong> <strong>fuel</strong> <strong>testing</strong><br />
A number of oil <strong>companies</strong> operating in<br />
Zambia, including Gapco, Engen and Mogas,<br />
have sent oil samples for international <strong>testing</strong>.<br />
The <strong>companies</strong> have revealed their belief that<br />
petrol supplied by Swiss-based Augusta Energy<br />
between January and March was contaminated.<br />
Three separate samples of petrol have been sent<br />
to the chief government chemist for laboratory<br />
<strong>testing</strong> following complaints by the <strong>Tanzania</strong><br />
Association of <strong>Oil</strong> Marketing Companies. The<br />
<strong>companies</strong> involved claim the oil was blended<br />
with ethanol and has damaged equipment,<br />
leading to financial losses. Augusta Energy<br />
denied accusations of contamination stating<br />
that they only supply <strong>fuel</strong> which has been<br />
tested by responsible agencies.<br />
<strong>Galp</strong> <strong>want</strong>s retailer with 5 million euros<br />
<strong>Galp</strong> Energia is looking for a franchisee or<br />
retailer who will manage and operate two of<br />
its service stations in its Swaziland network.<br />
<strong>Galp</strong>, which is one of the most recognised<br />
filling station brands in Swaziland, is looking<br />
for someone with an unencumbered cash of<br />
5 million euros which will cover the right to<br />
trade and the first consignment of <strong>fuel</strong> stock to<br />
the required <strong>Galp</strong> outlets.Commercial Director<br />
Fannie Mthethwa was quoted in a statement<br />
saying that the successful candidate must be<br />
ready to commence operations 1st May. <strong>Galp</strong><br />
Energia has invested about 210 million euros<br />
in its three-year operation in Swaziland. The<br />
company’s investment includes re-branding,<br />
opening new filling stations, constructing of<br />
a LPG depot and funding different charities.<br />
Trafigura to invest $ 250 million in Nagarjuna<br />
International commodity trader Trafigura<br />
is to invest $ 250 million in Nagarjuna <strong>Oil</strong><br />
Corporation, with $130 million going into<br />
developing a new refinery storage facility in<br />
eastern India. Nagarjuna will also partner<br />
the state government of Tamil Nadu and Tata<br />
Petrodyne Ltd on the project. Work on the<br />
121 000 barrel per day refinery will begin later<br />
this year, with operations expected to begin<br />
in the first half of 2013. Located on the coast,<br />
the new refinery will be able to accommodate<br />
super tankers, which are typically able to carry<br />
up to 2 million barrels of oil each. At present,<br />
Trafigura holds storage facilities capable of<br />
holding more than 45 million barrels of oil<br />
and has been building its capacity steadily.<br />
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PeF begins electronic tracking of <strong>fuel</strong> tankers<br />
As part of the measures to check diversion<br />
of <strong>fuel</strong> tankers and fraudulent claims in the<br />
disbursement of bridging funds to transporters,<br />
Nigerias Petroleum Equalisation Fund<br />
(PEF) has commenced electronic tracking<br />
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pilot <strong>testing</strong>, which commenced on 1st July<br />
2011. The Petroleum Equalisation Fund<br />
(Management) Board was established by the<br />
PEFMB Act to equalise the cost of transporting<br />
petroleum products from depots to filling<br />
stations in order to ensure uniform price of<br />
<strong>fuel</strong> in all parts of the country. The agency<br />
derives its fund from the net surplus revenue<br />
recovered from marketers.<br />
sinopec to cut deliveries to private <strong>fuel</strong> stations<br />
State-owned China Petroleum and Chemical<br />
Corporation (Sinopec Corp) is halting <strong>fuel</strong><br />
sales to private gas stations in some parts of<br />
the country. By cutting deliveries to privately<br />
owned gas stations, their competitors in the<br />
downstream market, Sinopec aims to meet<br />
the expanding demands of its own growing<br />
network, while at the same time pushing<br />
up its sales revenues in a move to offset<br />
losses from its refining business. The oil<br />
giant has been curtailing its <strong>fuel</strong> wholesale<br />
operations for the past year, a crude oil<br />
analyst for Shanghai Cifco Futures said.<br />
Last year, Sinopec reduced the wholesale<br />
deliveries of <strong>fuel</strong> to privately held stations by<br />
13.53 percent, while revenues from its own<br />
gas stations grew by 14.39 percent during<br />
the same period.<br />
Chevron Malaysia to expand its <strong>fuel</strong> retail network<br />
Chevron Malaysia Ltd, the operator of Caltex<br />
petrol stations, is looking to further expand<br />
its network in the country by establishing<br />
100 new service stations in the Peninsular<br />
of Malaysia by 2015, Country Manager Jeremy<br />
Oh has said. The new stations will be<br />
100 percent owned and operated by franchised<br />
retailers, in line with Chevron’s aspiration<br />
Acquisition of Malaysian oil refiner<br />
An affiliate of San Miguel Corp. has completed<br />
the acquisition of ExxonMobil Malaysia’s<br />
65 percent stake in the Malaysian oil refiner<br />
Esso for $ 577.3 million. In a disclosure to<br />
the stock exchange, San Miguel said its affiliate<br />
Petron <strong>Oil</strong> & Gas International Sdn.<br />
(POGI) has acquired 65 percent of Esso<br />
Malaysia Berhad and its other downstream<br />
oil subsidiaries in Malaysia – ExxonMobil<br />
Malaysia SdnBhd and ExxonMobil Borneo<br />
POGI also informed it would implement an<br />
to allow greater business participation and<br />
dedication by retailers. “Currently, we have<br />
422 petrol stations and out of the total, some<br />
60 percent are owned by retailers and the rest<br />
by Chevron. We expect by 2015, 100 more<br />
service stations will be opened and out of the<br />
then total, 90 percent would be owned and<br />
operated by retailers”, said Oh.<br />
unconditional mandatory take-over offer by<br />
POGI to acquire the remaining 35 percent<br />
of Esso Malaysia shares at 3.59 malaysian<br />
ringgit each. San Miguel has diversified its<br />
portfolio in recent years, spinning off its<br />
traditional brewing business and moving<br />
into areas such as domestic power, telecommunications,<br />
infrastructure and energy. The<br />
company owns the Philippines’ largest oil<br />
refiner, Petron Corp with a network of over<br />
1 700 service stations nationwide.<br />
IOC completes first phase of automation<br />
State-owned Indian <strong>Oil</strong> Corporation (IOC)<br />
has completed the first phase of automation<br />
of its petrol pumps across the country and<br />
is “progressing very fast” in this regard, according<br />
to a top company official. Last year,<br />
IOC embarked on a plan to automate all its<br />
petrol stations. In the first phase the oil major<br />
identified about 1 600 petrol stations. “That is<br />
progressing very fast, we have already upgraded<br />
2 000 petrol pumps under this program”, IOC<br />
Chairman and Managing Director R S Butola<br />
said. “All petrol outlets selling more than<br />
200 kilolitres per month have been covered<br />
in the first phase. In the second phase, all<br />
pumps retailing about 100 kilolitres will be<br />
put under automation”, Butola said. IOC has<br />
about 19 000 <strong>fuel</strong> stations across the country<br />
set for automation.
should India regulate petrol prices again?<br />
In order to help the <strong>Oil</strong> Marketing Companies<br />
(OMCs) erase some of their losses,<br />
the Indian government deregulated petrol<br />
prices in June 2010. However the government<br />
still compensates the OMCs for selling<br />
diesel, kerosene and liquefied petroleum<br />
gas at government-fixed prices. In-spite of<br />
deregulation, OMCs like <strong>Oil</strong> India, HPCL<br />
and BPCL still have to get the government’s<br />
approval to raise petrol prices. As a result<br />
Petron acquires esso Malaysia<br />
Petron <strong>Oil</strong> & Gas International Sdn Bhd<br />
(Petron International), an offshore affiliate<br />
of oil refiner Petron Corp., has offered to buy<br />
an additional 35 percent of Esso Malaysia<br />
Berhad for 3.50 malaysian ringgit a share.<br />
Petron International under a “mandatory<br />
takeover” offered to purchase 94.5 million<br />
shares held by other stockholders of Esso<br />
Malaysia. “The mandatory takeover offer was<br />
due to elections the OMCs have been unable<br />
to raise petrol prices for the past 4 months.<br />
OMCs last raised petrol prices in December<br />
2011. Price of Brent crude has increased by<br />
11.06 percent since 1st January, 2012 which<br />
has resulted in significant losses for the<br />
OMCs. According to the oil ministry, OMCs<br />
are losing around 4.86 billion rupee a day<br />
on account of selling petroleum products at<br />
government-mandated prices.<br />
triggered by Petron International’s acquisition<br />
of 175 500 000 Esso Malaysia Berhad (EMB)<br />
shares, representing 65 percent of the voting<br />
shares of EMB”, Petron said in a disclosure<br />
to the Philippine Stock Exchange. Petron<br />
said the tender offer marked its entry “into<br />
the highly-attractive and dynamic Malaysian<br />
market and is a strategic opportunity for the<br />
company to increase its presence in Asia”.<br />
Leading downstream company by 2016<br />
ENGEN Ghana limited is targeting to become<br />
the leading downstream company in the sub-<br />
Saharan region by 2016. ENGEN is focusing<br />
on the downstream refined petroleum products<br />
market and related businesses. The company’s<br />
core functions are the refining of crude oil, the<br />
marketing of refined petroleum products and<br />
the provision of convenience services via an<br />
extensive retail network. ENGEN has pres-<br />
ence in 18 countries in sub-Saharan Africa.<br />
Managing Director, Engen Ghana, Henry<br />
Akoboah said “The vision of the company is to<br />
become the number one downstream company<br />
in sub-Saharan Africa. This means that we<br />
are going to increase our market share and<br />
our presence. That is the reason why we also<br />
acquired Chevron’s assets in seven countries<br />
to expand our operations in the sub-region”.<br />
south Korea expands ‘bargain’ gas stations<br />
South Korea plans to open more “bargain” gas<br />
stations throughout the country to help control<br />
inflationary pressure and lighten living costs<br />
for ordinary citizens. At an economic policymakers<br />
meeting aimed at stabilizing consumer<br />
prices, the finance ministry said up to 433<br />
bargain gas station will be set up increasing<br />
from 385 the number currently in operation.<br />
The bargain gas stations sell <strong>fuel</strong> products<br />
at lower prices than their conventional rivals.<br />
These stations can undercut rivals because<br />
they receive their <strong>fuel</strong> directly from state-run<br />
agencies at cheaper prices. The government<br />
said the presence of such stations helps lower<br />
gasoline and diesel <strong>fuel</strong> prices across the board<br />
through open market competition.<br />
zambia shortlists 14 <strong>fuel</strong> supply <strong>companies</strong><br />
Fourteen foreign firms among them Dalbit<br />
Petroleum and Kuwait’s Independent Petroleum<br />
Group (IPG) have been shortlisted for the<br />
two-year supply of diesel and unleaded petrol<br />
to Zambia. And nine foreign firms have been<br />
shortlisted for the supply of 1.4 million tonnes<br />
of petroleum feedstock to Indeni Petroleum<br />
Refinery over two years. The country is currently<br />
looking for firms to supply diesel and<br />
unleaded petrol side by side with the firm to<br />
supply 1.4 million tonnes of petroleum feedstock<br />
over two years. The tender constitutes<br />
for supply of finished petroleum comprising<br />
15 to 20 percent of the diesel and petrol that<br />
the country consumes. Sources said prominent<br />
bidders included Dalbit Petroleum of Kenya,<br />
Agipol Africa, Addax Oryxl, Trafigula, IPG<br />
and Kenol Kobil.<br />
sanctions boost business for Iranian tanker company<br />
Iranian oil stored at sea is building up due to sanc -<br />
tions which are proving a boon to its tanker oper-<br />
ator. Half of the large crude carriers owned by<br />
NITC are now storing oil instead of exporting it.<br />
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Local <strong>fuel</strong> retailers interested<br />
in Caltex assets<br />
Local players are flexing their muscles to<br />
acquire downstream assets of Chevron Corp.<br />
as the American oil marketing company<br />
(OMC) is considering disinvesting from Egypt,<br />
Pakistan and Australia, industry officials<br />
and analysts said. Chevron (Caltex brand)<br />
has recently announced it <strong>want</strong>s to sell off<br />
its downstream assets consisting of refining,<br />
marketing and retail sales outlets. Chevron<br />
(Caltex) has an extensive presence in Pakistan<br />
with a nationwide retail network consisting<br />
of 538 <strong>fuel</strong> outlets. Industry officials say Attock<br />
Petroleum (APL) and Byco appear to be<br />
the key contenders among existing players.<br />
Fauji Faoundation’s Fauji Fertilisers (FFC)<br />
is also considering acquiring Caltex operations<br />
in Pakistan as the company is actively<br />
pursuing its business diversification plan and<br />
has already ventured in the energy sector.<br />
essar <strong>Oil</strong> to produce<br />
euro-v grade diesel<br />
Essar <strong>Oil</strong> Ltd has commissioned a unit that<br />
will produce Euro-V grade diesel at its Vadinar<br />
refinery in Gujarat. The 4 million tons a year<br />
Diesel Hydrotreater Unit-I (DHDT-I) will<br />
upgrade diesel quality by treating the sour<br />
diesel streams, achieving reduction in sulphur<br />
as well as an improvement in the cetane index.<br />
The project will enhance the refinery’s<br />
capacity to 18 million tons per annum from<br />
current 14 million. The new unit will ensure<br />
that the diesel produced will be capable of<br />
meeting Euro V specifications. Essar <strong>Oil</strong><br />
has already commissioned the Isomerisation<br />
Unit, which was the first expansion unit to<br />
be commissioned, that gives the refinery the<br />
capability to produce gasoline of high octane<br />
rating and almost zero sulphur content.<br />
Nigeria imports of 4.8<br />
billion litres of <strong>fuel</strong><br />
The Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory<br />
Agency (PPPRA) has issued 42 petroleum<br />
product marketers, permits to import a<br />
total of 4.8 billion litres of petrol in the<br />
second quarter this year. This will be the<br />
first open tender announcement since the<br />
partial removal of subsidy in January. Experts<br />
estimate that the country consumes<br />
between 20 and 25 million litres of petrol<br />
every day. Before the issuance of these<br />
permits, the country relied on exchanges<br />
of crude oil for petrol and other products.<br />
<strong>Oil</strong> majors like ExxonMobil and TOTAL<br />
as well as state-owned Nigerian National<br />
Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) are among<br />
the <strong>companies</strong> approved to sell petrol in the<br />
country, the PPPRA said in a statement.<br />
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China <strong>want</strong>s oil company rights protected<br />
China urged Sudan and South Sudan to<br />
protect the rights and interests of Chinese<br />
oil <strong>companies</strong> that have established projects<br />
in the two countries. “Their legitimate rights<br />
and interests deserve substantial protection”,<br />
Foreign Ministry Spokesman Liu Weimin<br />
has said. Liu said the oil industry is an<br />
economic lifeline for both Sudan and South<br />
Sudan, calling on the two nations to remain<br />
rational and appropriately resolve oil disputes<br />
through negotiation. “China will work with<br />
the international community to make efforts<br />
to promote this process”, Liu said, also saying<br />
China hopes both sides will remain “calm and<br />
restrained”, respect each other’s sovereignty,<br />
increase mutual trust, actively cooperate<br />
with international mediation endeavours and<br />
resume negotiations at an early date.<br />
Libyan interests in east Africa shrink<br />
Libyan interests in East Africa continue to<br />
shrink as it emerges that Kenya is pressing<br />
for complete disengagement with Tamoil East<br />
Africa Ltd. This is so that they may review<br />
progress on the proposed Eldoret-Kampala<br />
pipeline. Energy officials in Nairobi have<br />
said that Kenya <strong>want</strong>s the multi-million dollar<br />
deal terminated and the project floated<br />
afresh to attract new partners. Recently<br />
Libya launched a major diplomatic offensive<br />
hoping to persuade authorities in Nairobi<br />
to revive the deal claiming that Tamoil had<br />
already spent $15 million. Now doubts have<br />
emerged as to whether Tamoil still has the<br />
ability to undertake such a critical project<br />
especially after the Uganda government<br />
demanded that the scope of the project be<br />
altered to cater for an additional line to<br />
pump future refined Ugandan oil to export<br />
markets through Kenya.<br />
Nigerian government fund maintenance of refinery<br />
In an attempt to reduce reliance on imported<br />
petroleum products, the Nigerian Federal<br />
Government has provided 94.2 billion naira<br />
(US $ 600 million) for the Turn Around<br />
Maintenance (TAM) of Warri Refining and<br />
Petrochemicals Company (WRPC). Director<br />
of WRPC Samuel Babatunde announced the<br />
TAM, which will take between 2 to 3 years, to<br />
the Senate Committee on Petroleum Resource<br />
(Downstream). Babatunde said the TAM will<br />
be vital due to the current condition of Nigeria’s<br />
pipelines. “We are victims of continuous<br />
pipeline vandals and disruptions, it is a battle<br />
to keep our plants running at even 25 percent.<br />
The refineries are in a terrible state of disrepair<br />
but works are in progress.”<br />
shell wait for government policy change<br />
Shell India has said that it will continue to<br />
operate its <strong>fuel</strong> retail stores as normal and that<br />
it is going to wait for government policy changes<br />
before expanding its operations. Shell operates<br />
between 70 and 80 <strong>fuel</strong> service stations in<br />
the country. “We are operating retail outlets<br />
and we have not shut them. We will continue<br />
operating these outlets and may not expand<br />
unless some policy changes are made”, said<br />
Chairman Vikram Singh Mehta. “My hope<br />
is that the government will allow <strong>companies</strong><br />
to raise prices. This is important because<br />
<strong>companies</strong> need to invest for expansion. Unless<br />
they do that we are going to face a crisis.”<br />
Despite the abolition of direct price controls<br />
in mid-2010, <strong>companies</strong> that wish to deviate<br />
from set crude prices need the government’s<br />
approval to do so.<br />
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PsO win major contract<br />
for <strong>fuel</strong> farm<br />
Pakistan State <strong>Oil</strong> (PSO) have announced<br />
that they have been awarded the contract<br />
for the establishment of a <strong>fuel</strong> farm, maintenance<br />
of hydrant re<strong>fuel</strong>ling system and<br />
re<strong>fuel</strong>ling operations at the New Benazir<br />
Bhutto International Airport (Islamabad).<br />
The contract was awarded after a transparent,<br />
competitive and open bidding process<br />
that took place at the Infrastructure Project<br />
Development Facility (IPDF) headquarters<br />
in Islamabad. The entire procedure was<br />
carried out under the supervision of Civil<br />
Aviation Authority (CAA) representatives<br />
and was conducted between the three prequalified<br />
parties namely Shell Pakistan,<br />
Attock Petroleum and Pakistan State <strong>Oil</strong>.<br />
The IPDF had defined the criteria for the<br />
successful bidder as being pre-qualified in<br />
the initial stage and submitting the highest<br />
proposal amongst all bidding parties. In the<br />
process, PSO was declared as the highest<br />
bidder for the project.<br />
Nagarjuna <strong>Oil</strong> in<br />
pact with IOC<br />
India’s Nagarjuna <strong>Oil</strong> Corp (NOCL) has<br />
signed a <strong>fuel</strong> sales deal with the country’s<br />
biggest refiner Indian <strong>Oil</strong> Corp, a move that<br />
is hoped will reduce import dependence.<br />
India has surplus refining capacity but<br />
its private refiners prefer to export or sell<br />
in local markets through state-run firms,<br />
which only get compensation from the<br />
government for sale of <strong>fuel</strong> at subsidised<br />
rates. The agreement would help cut the<br />
current deficit of about 3 million tonnes for<br />
supplies of gasoline, diesel and liquefied<br />
petroleum gas (LPG) in the state, NOCL<br />
said in a statement. “The NOCL Refinery<br />
is designed to produce around 2.7 million<br />
tons of Diesel, 0.8 million tons of Petrol<br />
and 0.7 million tons of LPG, which would<br />
be sufficient to bridge this deficit”, it said.<br />
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Public oil <strong>companies</strong><br />
receive compensation<br />
Several public oil <strong>companies</strong> in India will<br />
receive compensation of 15 000 rupee<br />
from the government for having to sell<br />
<strong>fuel</strong> below market prices in the last fiscal<br />
quarter. Indian <strong>Oil</strong> Corporation, Bharat<br />
Petroleum Corporation and Hindustan<br />
Petroleum Corporation are obliged to sell<br />
domestic LPG, diesel and kerosene at a<br />
controlled price based on a government<br />
subsidy programme. Over the course of<br />
this year the three <strong>companies</strong> are estimated<br />
to lose 1.38 rupee lakh because of the<br />
subsidy, although the government has said<br />
that more compensation will be paid out<br />
over the course of 2012 – 2013 and that a<br />
budgetary provision has been made. The<br />
government has given no indication that<br />
the private sector-only subsidy will be<br />
removed, despite public <strong>companies</strong> like<br />
<strong>Oil</strong> India and ONGC having to shoulder<br />
some of the burden.<br />
Korean government<br />
<strong>want</strong>s more discount<br />
<strong>fuel</strong> stations<br />
The Korean government is stepping up<br />
its push for discount <strong>fuel</strong> stations to help<br />
lighten household utility bills despite continuing<br />
scepticism over its efficacy and state<br />
intervention in petrol prices. State-backed<br />
self-service stations are a showpiece of the<br />
government’s battle against skyrocketing<br />
oil costs and a supply oligopoly by major<br />
refiners. It aims to set up some 1 300 outlets<br />
by 2015, of which about 430 are in operation<br />
now. However, a growing number of<br />
Koreans are casting doubt on the ambitious<br />
campaign’s effectiveness, calling instead<br />
for a <strong>fuel</strong> tax break.<br />
Guyana takes a firm<br />
stand on health & safety<br />
As part of efforts to ensure that consumers<br />
receive value for their money and at the<br />
same time protect their health and safety,<br />
the Guyana National Bureau of Standards<br />
(GNBS) announced that it will continue<br />
its surveillance at <strong>fuel</strong> stations. This<br />
was disclosed by the head of the Legal<br />
Metrology and Standards Compliance<br />
Department, Shailendra Rai who also<br />
reported on an update on the bureau’s<br />
weights and measures activities for the<br />
first quarter of this year. He said that a<br />
total of 771 petrol pumps, 66 bulk metres,<br />
25 storage tanks and 54 wagon compartments<br />
were verified of which 197 petrol<br />
pumps were calibrated.<br />
CNPC pursue venezuelan joint venture<br />
The Chinese State Council has granted China<br />
National Petroleum Corporation approval<br />
to pursue a joint venture with Venezuela’s<br />
Petroleos deVenezuela. The venture will see<br />
CNPC and PDVSA work together on building<br />
a $ 9.29 billion refinery in Guandong<br />
Province, capable of processing 20 million<br />
tonnes of crude oil annually. CNPC will hold<br />
a 60 percent stake in the new refinery, with<br />
PDVSA controlling the remaining 40 percent.<br />
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The refinery, which the <strong>companies</strong> hope will<br />
eventually produce 50 billion tonnes per year,<br />
will allow CNPC to increase its presence in<br />
the south of the country. CNPC and China<br />
Petrochemical Corp, or Sinopec, together<br />
control 80 percent of the country’s oil industry.<br />
The Chinese government is in the process of<br />
implementing an ambitious five-year plan that<br />
it hopes will lead to the country being capable<br />
of refining 650 million tonnes of oil per year.<br />
samsung Total plan budget <strong>fuel</strong> stations<br />
Samsung Total Petrochemicals Co. is set to<br />
break into the tightly controlled retail petrol<br />
market as part of the government’s across-theboard<br />
drive to rein in skyrocketing gas prices<br />
and revamp Korea’s <strong>fuel</strong> supply structure. A<br />
pan-governmental task force headed by the<br />
Ministry of Knowledge Economy unveiled the<br />
proposal, which also envisages an upsurge in<br />
electronic transactions and tax cuts and other<br />
incentives for new operators of “discount”<br />
Taiwan <strong>fuel</strong> price subsidy ends<br />
The Taiwanese government has announced<br />
the end of <strong>fuel</strong> subsidies pushing up prices by<br />
around 10 percent and drawing condemnation<br />
from opposition parties. “This is a difficult<br />
decision, but we have to do this”, said Economic<br />
Affairs Minister Shih Yen-shiang. “As<br />
a minister, I have to take into consideration<br />
the country’s long-term development, which<br />
has been threatened by the subsidies.” Main<br />
<strong>fuel</strong> stations. The package is the latest in a<br />
string of the government’s measures to boost<br />
competition and pricing transparency in the<br />
local retail <strong>fuel</strong> industry as sky-high pump<br />
prices squeeze budgets of low-income earners<br />
and everyday drivers. The announcement<br />
comes less than a week after President Lee<br />
Myung-bak ordered ministers at a meeting to<br />
look into “if constantly creeping <strong>fuel</strong> prices<br />
stem from an oligopolistic distribution system”.<br />
opposition group the Democratic Progressive<br />
Party demanded the government overhaul the<br />
state-run CPC Corp. Taiwan, the island’s main<br />
oil supplier, rather than hike prices. Minister<br />
Shih said that since the subsidy was introduced<br />
in late 2010, CPC Corp., which controls some<br />
75 percent of the island’s petroleum market,<br />
had generated a loss of 48.6 taiwan dollar<br />
billion ($ 1.64 billion).<br />
TOTAL Philippines plans expansion of network<br />
Fuel retailer TOTAL (Philippines), Inc. will open<br />
20 new stations this year as part of its growth<br />
program. The company currently has 174 retail<br />
stations nationwide with majority of the stations<br />
located in Luzon. The estimated cost for one<br />
station is 30 million peso, according to earlier<br />
reports, an investment which partly goes into<br />
meeting safety standards. The company <strong>want</strong>s to<br />
grow its market share in the country particularly<br />
in areas near its depots. TOTAL earlier said it<br />
<strong>want</strong>s to build more stations so it can eventually<br />
reach a critical mass of 300 to 350 stations. The<br />
company’s market share is about 4.3 percent according<br />
to data from the Department of Energy. If<br />
it meets the critical mass of stations, the company<br />
could grow its market share to about 10 percent.<br />
Qatar Petroleum considers Macedonia<br />
Qatar Petroleum is considering opening<br />
<strong>fuel</strong> stations in Macedonia, a Macedonian<br />
newspaper has reported. The news broke<br />
after a recent visit of a Macedonian government<br />
delegation to Qatar headed by Prime<br />
Minister Nikola Gruevski. The company,<br />
which plans to open 20 <strong>fuel</strong> stations in<br />
the territory of the Balkan country, says<br />
the location of the new <strong>fuel</strong> stations have<br />
already been chosen. Qatar is also interested<br />
in launching studies for possible oil and<br />
natural gas fields in Macedonia, but also<br />
in acquiring 49 percent shares in ELEM –<br />
Macedonian Power Plants.<br />
essar <strong>Oil</strong> renews agreement with Bharat Petroleum<br />
Essar Energy plc, announced that its subsidiary<br />
Essar <strong>Oil</strong> Ltd has renewed a major product sale<br />
and purchase agreement with Bharat Petroleum<br />
Corporation Limited (BPCL). The agreement<br />
gives the two <strong>companies</strong> the option of sharing<br />
each other's distribution infrastructure.
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Fuel retailers must<br />
justify prices<br />
The Austrian Competition Authority<br />
(BWB) has asked the country’s leading oil<br />
<strong>companies</strong> and petrol station managers to<br />
comment on the current price developments.<br />
The BWB announced it had decided to<br />
take a closer look at recent pricing due<br />
to an increasing number of complaints.<br />
The authority is expected to await the<br />
reply of <strong>fuel</strong> retailers before deciding<br />
about a possible examination. If found<br />
guilty firms could face fines amounting<br />
to thousands of euros.<br />
Irish <strong>fuel</strong> industry<br />
<strong>want</strong>s change<br />
The Irish Petroleum Industry Association<br />
(IPIA) has proposed a suite of measures<br />
aimed at tackling the problem of illegal<br />
diesel washing in Ireland. In a statement,<br />
the industry body for Ireland’s <strong>fuel</strong> industry<br />
says that the practice is costing the<br />
Exchequer as much as 155 million euros<br />
annually in lost <strong>fuel</strong> duty. “While other<br />
jurisdictions have to tackle this sort of<br />
fraud, the sheer scale of criminal washing<br />
of diesel is a particularly Irish disease”, it<br />
said. The IPIA’s recommendations include<br />
the introduction of “a strong regulatory<br />
regime” to control the sale of rebated<br />
<strong>fuel</strong>, a new marker for off-road diesel<br />
that is harder to disguise or remove, the<br />
closure of unlicensed filling stations and a<br />
“radical overhaul” of the currently “absurd”<br />
penalties for offending retailers.<br />
Gazprom pledges<br />
to boost gas output<br />
next winter<br />
Gazprom’s Deputy Chief Executive Vitaly<br />
Markelov said the company planned to<br />
raise gas production after the launch of<br />
new fields. This year, Gazprom is set to<br />
commission the huge Bovanenkovo field,<br />
the biggest gas deposit in the Yamal<br />
Arctic region, with reserves of 4.9 trillion<br />
cubic metres of natural gas, enough<br />
to meet global demand for over a year.<br />
Severenergia, a joint venture between<br />
Gazprom’s oil arm Gazprom Neft and<br />
Russia’s top non-state gas producer<br />
Novatek as well as Italy’s Eni and Enel,<br />
are also set to launch Samburg field.<br />
“Taking into account all these launches,<br />
we expect that Gazprom’s output during<br />
winter of 2012 / 2013 could reach around<br />
1.644 billion cubic metres a day ... This<br />
is almost 2 percent higher than the last<br />
winter’s peak”, Markelov said.<br />
statoil pilots new <strong>fuel</strong> station shop format<br />
Leading Scandinavian forecourt retailer<br />
Statoil is piloting a new highway store<br />
format in Norway. Billed as a ‘test lab’, the<br />
site combines a modern interior design with<br />
an extensive food menu and contemporary<br />
seating area. Following a recent public offering,<br />
Statoil Fuel & Retail now operates<br />
as a standalone business concentrating on<br />
downstream operations. Statoil Fuel & Retail<br />
CEO Jacob Schram said that the ‘test lab’<br />
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site offers more seating, a children’s play area,<br />
better toilet facilities and a much broader<br />
menu, including sushi and breakfast products.<br />
“It’s very different to what you usually<br />
see in a <strong>fuel</strong> station”, he says. Statoil Fuel &<br />
Retail operates 2 300 sites in eight European<br />
markets. It has benefited from economic<br />
stability in its Scandinavian heartland and<br />
has a foothold in larger markets in Central<br />
Eastern Europe.<br />
Petrol’s 2011 net income rises to 48 percent<br />
Petrol Group d.d. said profit last year surged<br />
as Slovenia’s biggest energy company sold<br />
more oil products after it consolidated its<br />
units in the Balkans. Net income advanced<br />
48 percent to 52.3 million euros (US $ 68<br />
million) while revenue gained 17 percent to<br />
3.3 billion euros. The main driver was the<br />
rise of sales of <strong>fuel</strong>”, said Aleksander Salkic,<br />
a Petrol (PETG) spokesman. “We have also<br />
Chechnya woos Azerbaijan with oil<br />
Republic of Chechnya has invited Azerbaijan<br />
to tap its oil deposits. “Rosneft’s license<br />
to produce oil in Chechnya has expired.<br />
In this connection, we invite Azerbaijan<br />
to explore new deposits”, said Chechnya<br />
Finance Minister Ali Isayev. According to<br />
media reports, Chechen leader Ramzan<br />
Kadyrov has been annoyed by Rosneft’s slow<br />
response to a request to build a refinery<br />
with an annual capacity of 1 million tonnes,<br />
which would give him more independence<br />
consolidated our units in Montenegro, Croatia<br />
and bought new <strong>companies</strong> in Slovenia.”<br />
Petrol, which plans to increase the number<br />
of <strong>fuel</strong> stations to 527 by 2016, is benefiting<br />
from the acquisitions in the Balkans, where it<br />
has been expanding in the last decade having<br />
signed an MOU with Russia’s OAO Gazprom<br />
Neft (SIBN) to cooperate in the supply and<br />
distribution of oil products in that region.<br />
from Moscow. A Rosneft spokesman declined<br />
to comment. according to Russia’s<br />
Energy Ministry, Rosneft’s Chechnya<br />
subsidiary, Grozneftegaz, produced over<br />
800 000 tonnes of oil last year, accounting<br />
for around 7 percent of the parent company’s<br />
total output. Grozneftegaz’a proven<br />
reserves stand at 60 million tonnes of oil<br />
and 3 billion cubic metres of gas under<br />
Petroleum Resources Management System<br />
classification.<br />
russia’s oil producers actively acquiring<br />
During 2011 many industry players faced<br />
difficulties in the domestic market, some<br />
produced less oil, some failed to upgrade<br />
refineries in time, others did not get the tax<br />
incentives for field development and last<br />
spring’s “gasoline crisis” has drawn sharp<br />
criticism from government officials. This<br />
year, both problems and priorities will largely<br />
remain the same. However Rosneft got top<br />
marks on production, processing and sales<br />
according to the company’s head Edward<br />
Khudainatov referring to their 2011 results.<br />
In the Q4 2011 the company produced a<br />
record of 2 622 000 BOE / day and as a result<br />
has overtaken ExxonMobil as the world’s<br />
leading oil producer. <strong>Oil</strong> and gas condensate<br />
production for the year grew to 122.5 million<br />
tons (+2.5 percent on 2010), natural gas<br />
production – to 12.8 billion cubic metres<br />
(+3.6 percent).<br />
LUKOIL secures loan for Uzbek gas project<br />
Russia’s LUKOIL has signed a deal with<br />
a consortium of banks for a loan of up to<br />
US $ 500 million to develop the Kandym-<br />
Khauzak-Shady-Kungrad gas project in<br />
Uzbekistan. The loan will be used to finance<br />
development of the Kandym fields and to<br />
increase production in the Khauzak-Shady<br />
area. The banking consortium which will<br />
provide the financing includes the Asian<br />
Development Bank, the Islamic Develop-<br />
ment Bank, Credit Agricole, BNP Paribas<br />
and the Korean Development Bank. The<br />
company estimates the project’s recoverable<br />
reserves at 330 billion cubic metres of gas<br />
and is working with an expected production<br />
rate of 11 billion cubic metres per year of<br />
gas. LUKOIL holds a 90 percent stake in<br />
Khauzak-Shady-Kandym, with the remaining<br />
10 percent controlled by state-owned<br />
Uzbekneftegaz.
INA sees Croatian investment improving<br />
Croatian refiner INA-Indusrtija Nafte d.d.<br />
majority owned by MOL Nyrt. sees Croatia’<br />
investment environment improving said INA<br />
Chairman Zoltan Aldott. The Croatian government,<br />
which has a 44.84 percent stake in<br />
INA, is also interested in raising the company’s<br />
market share and strengthening its position<br />
in the south-eastern European region. The<br />
firm plans to re-invest all of its 2011 profits of<br />
1.9 billion kuna (US $ 333 million) this year<br />
into developing its gas station network and<br />
its refineries in Sisak and Rijeka, as well as<br />
international and Croatian production. “INA<br />
is one of the few European <strong>companies</strong> that<br />
believes in the future of refineries”, Aldott<br />
said, adding the firm will start an investment<br />
program of about US $ 450 million at<br />
the refineries.<br />
Alimentation Couche-Tard bid for statoil<br />
Statoil ASA’s Board of Directors has decided<br />
to pre-accept, subject to certain conditions,<br />
a cash offer from Alimentation Couche-Tard<br />
for the shares in the listed energy and retail<br />
company Statoil Fuel & Retail ASA at a con-<br />
sideration of NOK 53 per share (adjusted for<br />
any dividends and other distributions after 31st<br />
December 2011). The proceeds for Statoil’s<br />
54 percent stake in the company are estimated<br />
to NOK 8.6 billion (US $ 1.5 billion), assuming<br />
successful closing of the transaction. The<br />
offer delivers a premium of 53 percent to the<br />
current trading price. The parties expect to<br />
complete the transaction during the second<br />
quarter of 2012. As a result of the transaction,<br />
Statoil Fuel & Retail will no longer be<br />
consolidated in Statoil ASA’s accounts.<br />
LUKOIL buys in Belgium & Netherlands<br />
LUKOIL has signed a deal with Dutch Verolma<br />
Groep to acquire 59 gas stations in Belgium and<br />
the Netherlands, but did not disclose financial<br />
details. LUKOIL already has 168 gas stations in<br />
Belgium and in 2009 it bought a 45 percent stake<br />
in the Zeeland oil refinery in the Netherlands<br />
in which French oil major TOTAL holds the<br />
other 55 percent. “Entering the Dutch market fits<br />
with LUKOIL’s gas station expansion strategy”,<br />
Bulat Subaev, Managing Director of LUKOIL<br />
Belgium, said in a statement. Els Ruysen, LU-<br />
KOIL Spokeswoman in Belgium, said the deal<br />
was due to be completed in the second quarter<br />
once cleared by the anti-competition authorities.<br />
russia wastes enough energy to power Britain<br />
The world’s top oil and gas producer may be<br />
watching its energy riches blow away in the<br />
wind. Russia, in 2008, was wasting enough<br />
energy to power Britain for a whole year. It<br />
was then that President Dmitry Medvedev<br />
set a target to reduce energy intensity by<br />
40 percent before 2020. Russian <strong>companies</strong><br />
were 10 to 20 times less energy efficient than<br />
their foreign rivals, he said. Not enough has<br />
changed since Soviet times, critics say and<br />
wide-open windows remain a typical way of<br />
cooling overheated housing blocks. Even today<br />
around one-fifth of Russian boilers date back<br />
to the era of cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin’s space<br />
flight in 1961, or earlier. “We are two and half<br />
times less energy efficient than other comparative<br />
modern countries in Europe”, said Vasily<br />
Belov, head of the energy efficiency cluster<br />
at the Skolkovo Foundation.<br />
Friesacher builds budget station in slovenia<br />
Free Energy Trading (FE) Boss Markus Friesacher<br />
has said his enterprise has started<br />
constructing new no-frill service stations in<br />
Slovenia. The company currently manages 30<br />
low-cost petrol stations across Austria. Customers<br />
pay by credit or bank card at the stations<br />
which do not offer any extra services like a<br />
shop, car wash facilities or toilets. “We invest<br />
a third less in our stations than our rivals do”,<br />
said Friesacher. He said that regular petrol<br />
stations situated near FE service stations<br />
were usually lowering their prices. Asked<br />
for his secret of success, the businessman<br />
said he was trying to underbid them by 1.5<br />
to 2.5 eurocents per litre regardless of the<br />
general price levels.<br />
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YPF expropriation is unjustified<br />
& damaging<br />
Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy has<br />
said that Argentina’s decision to nationalize<br />
Spanish-controlled oil company YPF SA has<br />
no economic justification and damages the<br />
understanding between the two countries.<br />
“This regrettable decision has no economic<br />
justification or any reason”, Rajoy said at the<br />
World Economic Forum’s Latin America<br />
event in the Mexican Pacific resort of Puerto<br />
Vallarta. Argentine President Cristina<br />
Kirchner asked her country’s Congress to<br />
put 51 percent of YP, Argentina’s biggest<br />
oil company, in state hands, ousting flagship<br />
Spanish energy firm Repsol YPF SA<br />
as the majority shareholder. The Spanish<br />
prime minister said the decision by the<br />
Kirchner government, which accuses<br />
YPF of not producing enough from its<br />
concessions, sets a serious precedent and is<br />
negative for everyone. Rajoy said the “good<br />
understanding” with Argentina is broken<br />
following the expropriation.<br />
OMv predicts energy<br />
price jumps in europe<br />
OMV AG Chief Gerhard Roiss has claimed<br />
that psychological aspects often matter more<br />
regarding the price of oil than fundamental<br />
grounds. Roiss called the increase of car<br />
<strong>fuel</strong> prices a “delicate topic”. He said the<br />
price for mineral oil might rather drop in<br />
the future than rise further. But Roiss also<br />
stressed that he was not aware of trustworthy<br />
indicators for the development of oil<br />
prices in the coming years. He said that<br />
the price for energy products and services<br />
like car petrol and household heating could<br />
be twice as high as these days. The former<br />
OMV deputy chief – who has headed the<br />
Viennese company since 2011 – identified<br />
renewable energy sources as key factor for<br />
spiralling expenses.<br />
Hungarian government<br />
keeps excise tax<br />
Hungarian Economy Minister György<br />
Matolcsy has said that the government<br />
does not intend to lower the excise tax<br />
on petrol. Opposition MPs have urged<br />
the cabinet on numerous occasions to<br />
reduce the tax on <strong>fuel</strong>, the highest in<br />
the region. Matolcsy argued that lowering<br />
the excise tax would not significantly<br />
reduce prices at petrol stations and would<br />
cost the budget tens of billions of forints.<br />
Matolcsy also cited an EU directive that<br />
sets a minimum level of excise tax on <strong>fuel</strong>.<br />
High <strong>fuel</strong> prices are not a specifically<br />
Hungarian phenomenon, he said.<br />
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rosneft borrows Us $1 billion<br />
from Gazprombank<br />
OAO Rosneft (ROSN), Russia’s biggest<br />
oil producer, agreed to borrow US $ 1<br />
billion from OAO Gazprombank to fund<br />
operations. With interest, the deal totals<br />
US $ 1.19 billion, the state-controlled<br />
producer said. Tthe state-run natural-gas<br />
exporter and producers net debt climbed<br />
to US $ 15.9 billion at the end of last year,<br />
up 13 percent from the start of the fourth<br />
quarter and 16 percent from the start of<br />
the year, according to its website. Rosneft<br />
is boosting capital spending about 35<br />
percent to a record 480 billion rubles this<br />
year to help counter slowing production<br />
growth. Vladimir Putin called for Russia,<br />
the world’s biggest oil producer last year,<br />
to maintain output at more than 500 million<br />
metric tons (10 million barrels a day)<br />
for at least a decade.<br />
OMv Petrom expects<br />
record profits<br />
The leading Romanian oil company<br />
OMV Petrom (SNP.RO) has announced<br />
estimations for a new record high of its<br />
net profit, to reach 867.8 million euros<br />
in 2012, despite the slighter lower sales<br />
registered by the company and mirrored<br />
in a turnover estimated to decrease by 4.6<br />
percent, at 3.6 billion euros in 2012. The<br />
company forecast that local natural gas<br />
production will reach 5067 billion cube<br />
metres, less by 3 percent compared with<br />
the 5.214 billion cube metres registered<br />
last year. Petrom OMV has a budget of 1.2<br />
billion euros for this year, with 8.6 percent<br />
more compared with previous year. The<br />
largest investments will target operations<br />
and production, but the company also<br />
budgeted 777 million euros for refinery<br />
and marketing.<br />
Gazprom Neft may buy<br />
Hellenic Petroleum<br />
Gazprom Neft, is considering buying a<br />
stake in Greek oil refiner Hellenic Petroleum<br />
CEO Alexander Dyukov has said.<br />
Greece’s top privatisation official said last<br />
month that refiner Hellenic Petroleum,<br />
would be put up for sale by May to boost<br />
a much-delayed privatisation plan. “We<br />
are looking into the possibility of acquiring<br />
this asset. There are two decent plants<br />
with comparatively high capacity and refining<br />
depth”, Dyukov said. He added that<br />
Gazprom Neft’s investment programme<br />
for 2012 will be flat, comparing with<br />
2011. The Greek state owns 35.5 percent<br />
of Hellenic Petroleum.<br />
TNK-BP hydrotreater reconstruction<br />
TNK-BP’s Saratov oil refinery L-24-6 grade<br />
diesel capacity increased by almost 30 percent<br />
to 2.2Mta following reconstruction of its diesel<br />
<strong>fuel</strong> hydrotreater at the Saratov refinery, part<br />
of the large-scale upgrading programme of the<br />
company’s refining assets. The reconstruction<br />
of the two-train facility included the replacement<br />
of reactors, knockout drums, process<br />
equipment and heat exchangers. “With the<br />
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hydrotreater, Saratov oil refinery can now<br />
produce all types of diesel <strong>fuel</strong> with improved<br />
operating and environmental characteristics<br />
of Euro 4 and Euro 5 standards”, says Vitaly<br />
Zuber, Director of TNK-BP refining department.<br />
The company produces over 20 types<br />
of products, including unleaded gasoline,<br />
diesel <strong>fuel</strong>, <strong>fuel</strong> oil of all key grades, bitumen,<br />
vacuum gas oil, technical suphur and naphtha.<br />
Keeping europe dependent on russian <strong>fuel</strong><br />
Western Europe, already dependent on Russia<br />
for 40 percent of its oil and natural gas, is<br />
about to make itself even more dependent.<br />
Russian oil <strong>companies</strong> are buying European<br />
oil refineries, prompted by Europe’s need for<br />
major infusions of cash to offset the major<br />
economic downturn and to bring many insolvent<br />
refineries back into production. The<br />
Russian oil <strong>companies</strong> leading this effort are<br />
Gunvor, Rosneft and LUKOIL. One such<br />
refinery marked for a Russian buy-in is in<br />
Antwerp, Belgium. By acquiring the Antwerp<br />
refinery, the Russians will be expanding oil<br />
refining in Europe with <strong>Oil</strong> coming from<br />
Russia for refining. Another refinery is the<br />
Ingolstadt refinery in Germany on which<br />
Rosneft is bidding. The key both for Belgium<br />
and Germany is that the investor must also<br />
be able to provide the oil for refining. Rosneft<br />
already has other refinery investments in the<br />
Ingolstadt region.<br />
Fuel stations face forced closure in Bulgaria<br />
Some 500 <strong>fuel</strong> stations are facing forced closure<br />
over their failure to install level gauges, according<br />
to Ivaylo Nikolov, Chair of the Association of<br />
Traders at Small and Medium Filling Stations.<br />
In an interview Nikolov explained that a number<br />
of rural areas would be left without <strong>fuel</strong> stations<br />
and people would lose their jobs as a result. The<br />
deadline for the installation of the level gauges<br />
TOTAL extends ties with China<br />
French energy giant TOTAL SA has reached<br />
an agreement with China’s Sinopec on a joint<br />
venture for shale gas and refining. The news also<br />
quoted TOTAL’s Chief Executive Christophe de<br />
Margerie as saying that Chinese authorities now<br />
own a stake of 2 percent in the French company.<br />
TOTAL is in talks for the right to market <strong>fuel</strong><br />
expired on 2nd April alongside the deadline for<br />
the mandatory electronic connection of all commercial<br />
sites to the information system of the<br />
National Revenue Agency (NRA). The revenue<br />
authority has not yet come up with summarized<br />
data on the number of electronic devices already<br />
mounted electronic but tax officials are adamant<br />
that the deadlines are realistic.<br />
and petrochemicals in China produced by a<br />
planned refinery complex in the country’s South,<br />
de Margerie was quoted as saying. TOTAL<br />
reached a pact with China Petrochemical Corp.,<br />
or Sinopec, to search for and produce shale gas,<br />
a potentially lucrative market tapping natural<br />
gas trapped in rock formations.<br />
MOL not quitting gas transit pipeline<br />
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban was<br />
quoted by international media as breaking<br />
the surprising news that MOL is quitting<br />
Nabucco. The Nabucco Pipeline project is<br />
based on a treaty that was signed and ratified<br />
by the transit countries, including Hungary.<br />
The Intergovernmental Treaty establishes a<br />
unique and strong legal framework for lenders,<br />
producers and transportation customers. The<br />
Nabucco shareholder in Hungary is FGSZ, a<br />
MOL subsidiary and they have not had any<br />
indication that this will change. What is more,<br />
in addition to refuting the news about MOL’s<br />
quitting, the Consortium sought to make it clear<br />
that the project for the natural gas pipeline from<br />
Asia to Europe is making steady progress. “The<br />
project is seeing strong progress. The Project<br />
Support Agreements were signed by all transit<br />
countries in June 2011, thus finalizing the legal<br />
framework for the pipeline. In Hungary, three<br />
out of the four environmental permits have<br />
been granted”, the Vienna-based company said.
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Austria plans regulation of <strong>fuel</strong> prices<br />
People’s Party’s (ÖVP) Economy Minister<br />
Reinhold Mitterlehner has called for the<br />
creation of a stricter <strong>fuel</strong> price monitoring<br />
programme. Mitterlehner explained that his<br />
ministry plans to set up a “price corridor” valid<br />
for periods such as heavy vehicle traffic like<br />
weekends or holidays. The system will mean<br />
that Austria’s <strong>fuel</strong> stations must not charge<br />
more than the average price they are given<br />
for a seven to ten days period. Mitterlehner<br />
dismissed fears that <strong>fuel</strong> stations would jack<br />
up their prices disproportionally in the time<br />
span when prices were checked. He claimed<br />
that competition would avert such action.<br />
<strong>Oil</strong> not for sale until 2018 says russia<br />
ExxonMobil and their Russian partners Rosneft<br />
have a few billion barrels of oil waiting<br />
to come to market out of the Black Sea and<br />
deep Arctic. Rosneft shattered BP’s hopes<br />
of exploiting Russian Arctic oil last May by<br />
pulling out of a planned joint venture with<br />
the British giant after losing patience with<br />
protracted negotiations. ExxonMobil gladly<br />
took their place. But the oil and gas won’t be<br />
coming to market anytime soon and not until<br />
2018 at the earliest says Russia’s Deputy Prime<br />
Minister Igor Sechin. According to Rosneft,<br />
the estimated oil in place is 35.8 billion barrels<br />
and the estimated natural gas in those fields<br />
is estimated to be close to 10 trillion cubic<br />
metres, or 364 trillion cubic feet.<br />
sainsbury to buy 18 TOTAL filling stations<br />
J Sainsbury plc in the UK is set to buy 18 filling<br />
stations currently under the TOTAL brand<br />
from private equity firm Rontec Investments<br />
LLP, highlighting the continued importance<br />
of <strong>fuel</strong> to supermarkets as they try to attract<br />
cash-strapped customers. The retailer said<br />
the deal is subject to approval from the Office<br />
of Fair Trading, but didn’t say how much it<br />
Cartel to investigate oil <strong>companies</strong><br />
Germany’s competition authority has announced<br />
it has opened an investigation into<br />
five main oil refiners suspected of hampering<br />
smaller filling-station competitors. The Cartel<br />
Office said the five multinational oil <strong>companies</strong>,<br />
which also own most German filling stations,<br />
constituted an oligopoly. Soaring <strong>fuel</strong> prices<br />
have triggered political friction in Germany<br />
with some politicians advocating a form of<br />
price control or additional tax rebates to ease<br />
would be paying for the service stations “The<br />
acquisitions provide a unique opportunity to<br />
support our plans for growth and to extend the<br />
reach of the Sainsbury’s brand”, said Phillip<br />
Bell-Brown, Director of property development<br />
at the company. Currently Sainsbury has an<br />
8.7 percent share of the U.K. <strong>fuel</strong> market,<br />
with 262 outlets.<br />
the strain on commuters. The Federal Cartel<br />
Office in Bonn said independent retailers<br />
which buy petrol and diesel <strong>fuel</strong> from the five<br />
big oil groups had complained they sometimes<br />
had to pay a higher wholesale price than the<br />
retail price at filling stations. Independents<br />
sell about 13 percent of German <strong>fuel</strong> and,<br />
retail <strong>fuel</strong> prices sometimes change two or<br />
three times a day with motorists cruise to<br />
find the cheapest.<br />
exxonMobil continue sale of <strong>fuel</strong> stations<br />
ExxonMobil Corp has put 78 French gas<br />
stations up for sale, part of a wider effort to<br />
sell out of such activities in Europe. Esso<br />
France Chief Executive Francis Duseux has<br />
said there could be an agreement on the sale<br />
of the French service stations within weeks.<br />
ExxonMobil operates a total of 680 gas stations<br />
in France under the Esso brand name. Such<br />
gasoline distribution activities are seen as too<br />
unprofitable to justify tying up ExxonMobil’s<br />
capital and the stations will likely be sold to<br />
operators who would continue to operate under<br />
the Esso brand and be supplied through longterm<br />
contracts. In addition to independents,<br />
potential buyers for the service stations include<br />
Russia’s LUKOIL and Israel’s Delek.<br />
Timico expands Murco Petroleum network<br />
UK managed services provider Timico has rolled<br />
out additional technology to Murco Petroleum<br />
service stations. Murco has added 3G capability<br />
to its existing Timico WAN. The new Timico<br />
Mobile Access Management (MAM) service will<br />
allow systems in all of Murco Petroleum’s network<br />
of service stations across England, Scotland and<br />
Wales to automatically switch to the failsafe<br />
wireless back-up if connectivity is lost during<br />
business hours. Timico has provided Murco with<br />
a Private Wide Area Network (PWAN) to connect<br />
all of its retail sites to head office for seven years.<br />
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welcome Break<br />
signs IT services deal<br />
UK service station group Welcome Break<br />
has signed a three-year IT services contract<br />
with Phoenix to support its network of<br />
27 motorway retail complexes. Contract<br />
covers maintenance, desktops and servers.<br />
The Welcome Break sites cover a total of<br />
265 units, including Starbucks, KFC, Burger<br />
King and Eat In catering units, Waitrose<br />
and WHSmith retail units, Days Inn hotels<br />
and Shell and BP <strong>fuel</strong> forecourts. Phoenix<br />
has been providing IT support to Welcome<br />
Break since 2005. The value of the latest<br />
contract extension has not been disclosed.<br />
David Willock, director of IT at Welcome<br />
Break, said all the company’s site units use<br />
Welcome Break systems and processes,<br />
including electronic point of sale (EPOS),<br />
stock control and payroll.<br />
First automated <strong>fuel</strong>ling<br />
complex in Ukraine<br />
SOCAR Energy Ukraine has opened<br />
the first automated filling complex in<br />
Ukraine – SOCAR Rapid. It will be run<br />
without operators and service station attendants,<br />
“It will feature consistently high<br />
quality <strong>fuel</strong> at a lower price”, a statement<br />
said. Customers can fill cars by brand <strong>fuel</strong><br />
Nano 95, Nano diesel, A 95 and A 92 at<br />
prices lower than usual. One person will<br />
oversee the operation of the equipment,<br />
if necessary, explain the customer rules<br />
for using equipment and monitor the<br />
cleanliness of the area.The station will<br />
operate 24 hours a day all year.<br />
Goodbye my friend<br />
The funeral of Alex Galanis, who was<br />
killed tragically in a motorcycle accident<br />
last month, took place in his home town<br />
of Tonbridge, Kent, UK, on April 19th.<br />
At a special memorial service, held on<br />
the same afternoon, over 400 mourners<br />
packed into the Tonbridge School<br />
chapel to hear readings and sing hymns<br />
to celebrate his life. His family have set<br />
up a website in his name to raise money<br />
for the many charities close to his heart<br />
www.alexgalanisfoundation.org He will<br />
be sadly missed by me a great many other<br />
people. Editor.<br />
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The Co-operative selects<br />
Torex products<br />
Torex, integrated technology solutions to<br />
the retail marketplace, has provided The<br />
Co-operative Group with an innovative,<br />
three tiered solution for their forecourt<br />
business. The Fuel Wrapper solution which<br />
features EFT Link, SMS Reporting and an<br />
IP-Connected Forecourt controller has been<br />
awarded the Retail Systems Award for best<br />
EPOS Innovation of the Year 2011. The<br />
Co-operative added 142 forecourt sites to<br />
its estate when it acquired the Somerfield<br />
business in 2009. There was the desire<br />
to integrate “Fuel” functionality into the<br />
Co-operative’s InControl EPOS system<br />
and Torex was chosen to collaborate in<br />
this endeavour. Torex Fuel Wrapper was<br />
designed specifically to meet the challenges<br />
of a changing landscape as <strong>fuel</strong> and<br />
convenience retailing come together rapidly,<br />
creating the need to combine complex <strong>fuel</strong><br />
POS with all its compliance requirements<br />
with normal convenience POS.<br />
Tokheim relies on its<br />
Ford transit fleet<br />
Tokheim a leading manufacturer and service<br />
provider of <strong>fuel</strong> dispensing equipment,<br />
has taken delivery of a new fleet of Transit<br />
commercial vehicles to help with their<br />
work in supplying and servicing installations<br />
at <strong>fuel</strong> retailers across Ireland. The<br />
contract includes the supply of 15 Transit<br />
models and a total fleet management and<br />
maintenance package covering road tax,<br />
tyre replacement, servicing, vehicle replacement<br />
and repairs. Casey King from<br />
Tokheim Ireland said: “The Transit is our<br />
favoured work vehicle which has proven to<br />
be dependable and <strong>fuel</strong> efficient, helping<br />
to keep our costs down.”<br />
Tanknology names<br />
new vice President<br />
Tanknology Inc a leading Underground<br />
Storage Tank (UST) environmental compliance<br />
services company, has announced<br />
the promotion of Ignacio Allende as the<br />
company’s Vice President of International<br />
Operations and Intellectual Property. Ignacio<br />
previously held the position of Director of<br />
International Operations, where he has been<br />
responsible for all aspects of Tanknology’s<br />
international presence. Under his leadership<br />
Tanknology has gained licensees in<br />
countries including Turkey, Mexico, South<br />
Africa and Nigeria. As a direct result of<br />
Ignacio’s success Tanknology now has a<br />
presence in more than 25 countries, covering<br />
6 continents.<br />
KPs launch Chinese production facility<br />
Swedish Ambassador Lars Fredén and and oil<br />
company VIP guests from Sinopec, Petrochina<br />
and TOTAL attended this launch to celebrate<br />
the start of production of KPS plastic petrol<br />
pipes in Beijing. Also present were specialists<br />
from the Chinese petrochemical standard<br />
organization SEI, from the Chinese test institute<br />
and from the Chinese environmental<br />
protection agency. The Chinese production<br />
facility will supply KPS piping to the Chinese<br />
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market and is prepared for production of<br />
both single and double wall piping. Improved<br />
logistics with production closer to the rapidly<br />
growing Chinese market is the main reason<br />
for establishing a new pipe production hub.<br />
The pipes produced at the Beijing factory<br />
are already approved to EN 14125 by ERA<br />
Technology Ltd, UK and are of the same<br />
high quality as KPS pipes produced in the<br />
Swedish factory.<br />
New user interface improves customer service<br />
Tokheim has announced<br />
that its<br />
point of sale, Fuel<br />
POS, comes with<br />
a brand new graphical<br />
user interface<br />
in its latest release.<br />
The new look is a<br />
shift away from Fuel POS’s traditional blue<br />
screen to a more modern, sleek design. However,<br />
Fuel POS still follows the same intuitive<br />
layout of its predecessors to ensure existing<br />
users require no new training. Peter Van<br />
Nauw, System Product Marketing Director,<br />
says, “The new user interface is the result of<br />
more than a year of research with customers<br />
and design agencies”. Customers liked the<br />
ease of use of Fuel POS, but it was felt that<br />
we could improve its overall look and feel.<br />
The new design ensures a better. experience<br />
for staff through reduced eye fatigue, clearly<br />
marked icons and improved search options.<br />
OPw announce AvANCe <strong>fuel</strong>ling nozzles<br />
OPW Fueling Components EMEA is proud to<br />
announce that its next generation nozzle and<br />
system solution, AVANCE, is now available for<br />
sale across the EMEA region. AVANCE is a<br />
direct result of extensive consumer research<br />
as well as industry customer’s input on how a<br />
next generation nozzle should ideally perform<br />
and look. AVANCE’s technical innovations<br />
claim to be able to increase profitability,<br />
decrease service and maintenance costs for<br />
operators and protect consumers and the environment<br />
during the filling process. AVANCE<br />
is available as a conventional nozzle, a vapor<br />
recovery nozzle and as a fully certified and<br />
complete system solution with AVANCE<br />
hose and AVANCE swivel. The multi-plane<br />
swivel breakaway rotates 360 degrees around<br />
its axis and 70 degrees from side to side. All<br />
components are of course fully backwards<br />
compatible with the installed base in the field.<br />
PriceAdvantage partners with POs provider<br />
PriceAdvantage, a division of Skyline Products,<br />
announced a partnership with AutoGas,<br />
the provider of Point of Sale solutions and<br />
dispenser control systems. A joint customer<br />
with over 100 <strong>fuel</strong> sites has already begun<br />
the implementation plan that will integrate<br />
PriceAdvantage with AutoGas POS and Auto-<br />
Gas Fuel Controller. The expected results are<br />
that they will cut down their pricing process<br />
by 3 hours per day, allowing them to change<br />
prices 2 – 3 per day as opposed to currently<br />
changing prices once a day. PriceAdvantage<br />
receives daily surveys from store managers;<br />
then price proposals are sent for approval and<br />
upon approval PriceAdvantage synchronizes<br />
with the AutoGas POS system and AutoGas<br />
Fuel Controller to ensure that prices are<br />
updated from the store to the street.<br />
Kss Fuels launch ‘Client success’ initiative<br />
KSS Fuels have announced the launch of a<br />
new global initiative designed to help clients<br />
maximize the benefits of their relationship<br />
with KSS Fuels. Client Success is a dedicated<br />
department of industry, pricing and location<br />
intelligence gathering information system,<br />
available to all KSS Fuels clients to ensure<br />
they’re able to get the most value from their use<br />
of KSS Fuels’ products and services. With the<br />
ever-changing dynamics of today’s retail and<br />
wholesale <strong>fuel</strong>s markets, there are short-term<br />
challenges to address as well as opportunities<br />
to finesse <strong>fuel</strong>s strategies and tactics to gain<br />
incremental litres or profit margin. Client<br />
Success is said to augment clients’ existing<br />
capabilities by offering insight, proactive<br />
recommendations or practical support to<br />
ensure they protect their existing business and<br />
capitalize on the opportunities while taking<br />
care of day-to-day operations.
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revolutionary secondary containment system<br />
Franklin Fueling Systems (FFS) has announced<br />
the launch of ‘Gemini’ which they<br />
are calling “a true revolution in fittings design<br />
for secondary contained pipe systems”.<br />
Gemini provides simpler and safer secondary<br />
containment installation as well as materials<br />
and installation cost savings. Gemini works by<br />
splitting the secondary fitting into two pieces,<br />
enabling the installer to slide the secondary<br />
fitting away so that the primary joint can be<br />
fully welded, pressure-tested and inspected<br />
before welding secondary fittings. This process<br />
makes installing secondary containment<br />
more efficient and provides up to a 50 percent<br />
reduction in primary and secondary fittings,<br />
further reducing the number of parts, welds,<br />
time and overall cost. A dedicated website has<br />
been launched to support Gemini, featuring<br />
in-depth product information, multi-lingual<br />
literature downloads and videos introducing<br />
this innovative new product.<br />
Visit www.franklin<strong>fuel</strong>ing.com/gemini<br />
Torex and Gilbarco veeder-root join forces<br />
Torex has announced a new partnership with<br />
Gilbarco Vedeer-Root to offer customers the<br />
latest in integrated Outdoor Payment Terminal<br />
(OPT) technology. For the first time, Torex<br />
EPoS technology is being linked to Gilbarco<br />
Veeder-Root’s modern and flexible stand-alone<br />
FlexPay NP3 OPT. As rising <strong>fuel</strong> prices increase<br />
industry competition and the risk of drive-offs,<br />
FlexPay NP3 OPT technology provides a pre-<br />
pay option. The OPT can also be used to create<br />
a “fast lane” on sites, that allows <strong>fuel</strong>-only<br />
customers to quickly re-<strong>fuel</strong>, pay and leave, thus<br />
increasing throughput. FlexPay NP3 can also<br />
be used in unmanned mode, allowing drivers<br />
to purchase <strong>fuel</strong> 24/7 when the forecourt shop<br />
might be closed. The technology can be installed<br />
in remote rural areas where staffed forecourt<br />
sites might not be an option.<br />
Mepsan leading the way in Georgia<br />
Mepsan say they are the leading petroleum<br />
equipment supplier in the Georgian<br />
Petroleum marketplace having won <strong>fuel</strong><br />
dispenser and automation system tenders<br />
for GULF Company. Gulf Company entered<br />
the Georgian market aggressively<br />
by purchasing Magnati, Senta and ECO<br />
Companies in 2011 and by the beginning<br />
of 2012 had grown into a chain of 130 <strong>fuel</strong><br />
stations. Mepsan’s International Sales and<br />
Marketing Director Batuhan Kıroglu said<br />
that their vision is to become a well-known,<br />
reliable and respected Turkish brand worldwide.<br />
Batuhan expressed that it is not easy<br />
to create a brand but Mepsan has a clear<br />
vision and determination to succeed. “Only<br />
regionally focused and flexible <strong>companies</strong><br />
can grow in the geographical areas in which<br />
we operate” he said “the secret of Mepsan’s<br />
success is based on reliability and being a<br />
true partner, providing satisfaction, detecting<br />
customer needs and offering suggestions”.<br />
Morrison new 10-gallon remote fill box<br />
The Morrison 715 Series is a 10 gallon capacity<br />
remote fill box that provides containment<br />
of small spills during tank filling operations.<br />
All models are supplied with a male threaded<br />
connection inside and outside. The 715 may be<br />
ordered with a factory installed ball valve and<br />
a choice between a female quick disconnect<br />
check valve coupler with dust plug, or a dry<br />
disconnect adaptor and cap. Stainless steel<br />
models also available.<br />
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Neotec launch<br />
new range of Fuel<br />
dispensers<br />
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Neotec Ltd. Greece, has recently launched<br />
the new MPD 8000 Series of electronic<br />
retail <strong>fuel</strong> dispensers. MPD 8OOO Series<br />
is a Low Hose Multiproduct Fuel Dispenser<br />
offering advantages of the latest technology<br />
combined with innovative design.<br />
MPD 8000 Series complies fully with the<br />
highest safety standards and all products<br />
and production facilities have been certified<br />
according EN ISO 9001:2008 ATEX<br />
94/9/EC and MID 2004/22/EC directive.<br />
wayne appointment<br />
in russia & CIs<br />
Wayne, a GE Energy Business and a global<br />
innovator of <strong>fuel</strong> dispensers and technologies,<br />
recently announced the appointment of<br />
Andrei Belomestnykh as Regional Manager,<br />
Russia & CIS. Belomestnykh is a proven<br />
leader in the industry and brings to Wayne<br />
extensive management experience – most<br />
recently with Shell, where he served nearly<br />
12 years in a series of progressive roles in<br />
Russia and Central and Eastern Europe<br />
in both sales and business development.<br />
During his tenure there, Belomestnykh<br />
managed Shell’s retail petroleum portfolio<br />
for the Commonwealth of Independent<br />
States (CIS). In his new role, Belomestnykh<br />
will develop and expand Wayne business<br />
activity within the Russia / CIS region,<br />
focusing his organization on customer development,<br />
revenue growth and profitability.<br />
“Andrei’s leadership and significant expertise<br />
provide him with a keen understanding<br />
of how to build business and innovate to<br />
reach key Wayne audiences”, said Damian<br />
Tracey, president, Wayne EMEA. “Andrei’s<br />
depth of experience will make an immediate<br />
impact as we continue to establish and<br />
strengthen connections in Russia.”<br />
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FeATUre – Bever INNOvATIONs<br />
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From caves to canopies – LED<br />
Remko Delfgaauw talking with Nick Needs at the recent Petroforum event in Singapore<br />
Lighting applications for the retail petroleum industry have been revolutionised over the last few years, with the<br />
arrival of Led technology. In the process several new specialist suppliers have been pushed to the forefront of their<br />
marketplace, almost overnight. One such company is Bever Innovations from the Netherlands, working out of a<br />
back garden shed in 1996, but now dealing day to day with some of the largest oil <strong>companies</strong> in the business. Bever<br />
claims to be the only organisation working 100 percent in the petrol world, which they say is reflected in the unique<br />
features of their products, such as the Luci series Led under canopy Illumination and I-Catcher Led displays which<br />
are now used on petrol stations in over 40 countries. In 2009, the european Union recognised Bever as an official<br />
‘Green Light endorser’ for their efforts in energy efficient lighting.<br />
At the recent PetroForum in Singapore, CEO<br />
Remko Delfgaauw, spoke about the need for<br />
<strong>companies</strong> working in the energy market like<br />
his, to share the responsibility for producing<br />
more environmentally friendly products. As<br />
if he does not have enough to do at the moment<br />
with the rapid growth of Bever, he is<br />
currently discussing the idea of dealers having<br />
leasing agreements with energy suppliers,<br />
where they pay nothing for the technology,<br />
but what they save each month in energy,<br />
is what they would pay each month for the<br />
lease. The idea certainly has a great deal<br />
of merit and for any company wishing to<br />
discuss the matter further, I’m sure Remko<br />
will be happy to talk at length about this<br />
and the many other new concepts he has.<br />
For someone working in the energy market,<br />
Remko has his own self-generating energy<br />
source, which relentlessly drives the company<br />
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forward. I caught up with him for an hour in<br />
Singapore, to find out what makes him tick and<br />
to talk about the subject of his presentation at<br />
the event ‘Understanding the LED Revolution’.<br />
This certainly seemed to be a good place to<br />
start as to be honest I had no idea!<br />
Remko explained. “LED is in fact the fourth<br />
generation of lighting technology. After the caveman<br />
had pioneered fire, incandescent lighting
lighting<br />
followed in 1870, invented by Thomas Edison.<br />
Gas discharge arrived in 1920 i.e. fluorescent<br />
tubes and neon lighting and another 40 years<br />
later in 1960, General Electric discovered Light<br />
Emitting Diode technology, LED. An electrical<br />
reaction occurring when a negative electron<br />
particle enters a positive one. This releases<br />
a photon that in turn gives off instantaneous<br />
light. To be exact, the strict definition of LED<br />
is a diode/semi-conductor converting electrical<br />
current into light or sometimes more simply<br />
put, a digital light”.<br />
I asked Remko why he opted for this ‘almost<br />
introductory’ approach. He countered “My<br />
presentation attempted to answer a few very<br />
simple questions which I think many customers<br />
still have. LED is taking over the world at a<br />
very rapid rate and its fairly difficult for people<br />
to get a grasp on what exactly the LED market<br />
is all about. So for my talk I first worked out<br />
five basic questions. What’s LED? How much<br />
light does an LED give? Where can the biggest<br />
savings be found? What makes or breaks an<br />
LED luminaire? What will the future bring?”<br />
For the uneducated amongst us I had to ask<br />
Remko what a luminaire was and he pointed<br />
out that it is a big flood light, like those used<br />
on forecourt canopies or for perimeter lighting.<br />
The simplistic angle to his presentation<br />
surely paid off when several delegates I spoke<br />
to said that these questions were exactly the<br />
type they were becoming too embarrassed to<br />
ask, proving his point totally.<br />
I asked Remko to talk freely about the benefits<br />
of LED from his perspective and to illustrate<br />
the varying factors applicable to LED in different<br />
parts of the world. Having travelled most<br />
of it during the last few years, he digressed<br />
“The main quality of this lighting type is its<br />
durability. A diode or a semi-conductor is very<br />
small and light so when it gets shaken around,<br />
nothing happens. Because of this it is virtually<br />
shock proof. Semi-conductors also have a very<br />
long life span.<br />
Being turned on and off very quickly is also<br />
a feature of LED, which does not harm it in<br />
any way, whereas a normal lamp would break<br />
much faster in these circumstances. In the life<br />
of a retail petroleum site, say in Asia where the<br />
power supply is unreliable, especially in the rainy<br />
season, surges of power are not conducive to a<br />
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continuous lighting solution. When I was in<br />
India recently I did not see one petrol station<br />
with all its lights in operation at any time. I<br />
believe that LED technology is a great fit for this<br />
part of the world, just because it is so robust”.<br />
In Europe and the western world generally,<br />
where power grids are far more reliable, it is<br />
the cost of electricity that makes LED so attractive,<br />
particularly when prices are predicted<br />
to rise fast in the coming years. Remko told<br />
me that in Australia and South Africa, the<br />
dealers that he speaks to are coping with<br />
increased electricity costs of over 30 percent<br />
per year. I asked him how much of a saving<br />
a petrol station with LED lighting would<br />
make bearing in mind the initial investment<br />
required. He commented “The older metal<br />
halide lamps typically the 400 watt units used<br />
widely on petrol stations today, use 75 percent<br />
more electricity than LED lamps. On a site<br />
which has 18 – 20 such units, the energy savings<br />
would be extremely impressive. There is<br />
also the life span of a bulb to consider with the<br />
normal metalhalide variety lasting typically<br />
only 20 000 hours. The LED equivalent will<br />
last up to 5 times longer.”<br />
As mentioned earlier in this article, Bever<br />
operates only in the petrol station market. I<br />
asked Remko why this was so important to<br />
him. He says “It’s still the cornerstone of our<br />
company. You can’t compare us in size with<br />
the big lighting organisations which turn over<br />
billions of euros each year, but because we<br />
work only in the retail petroleum sector we<br />
know exactly what our customers <strong>want</strong>. For<br />
example our new remote control device like the<br />
one you might use with your television set, can<br />
manage and program our lamps individually<br />
just by pointing and clicking. The remote can<br />
even change the wattage of each lamp if there<br />
is a light imbalance of any sort to make sure<br />
that each part of the forecourt is illuminated<br />
evenly. This device has been developed purely<br />
with the petrol station in mind.<br />
The focus we have in the retail petroleum business<br />
allows us to constantly look for specialised<br />
solutions, not standard ones”. After studying<br />
all the Bever product listings, the one product<br />
feature which caught my eye was the facility<br />
with the Luci series for it to respond to<br />
traffic arriving on the forecourt. A sensor<br />
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automatically ‘sees’ customers at the pumps<br />
and then switches lights from dimmed to full<br />
power, making direct energy and cost savings.<br />
Simple but extremely effective.<br />
Luci series intelligent lighting<br />
A remote control to easily change light settings from<br />
ground level<br />
I suggested to Remko that the colour of light<br />
produced by LED lamps has been an issue<br />
in the marketplace, being maybe too white<br />
and not yellow enough as supposedly <strong>want</strong>ed<br />
by some people. Is there any truth in this I<br />
asked? He said “These days, contrary to what<br />
people might think, we can produce LED light<br />
in any colour you <strong>want</strong>, whether it is for the<br />
shop, where a warmer yellow light might work<br />
better, or for outside on the forecourt, where<br />
a white bright LED lamp promotes a clean<br />
modern environment”.<br />
Looking in the Bever corporate brochure, a<br />
photograph of a huge Shell site in Luxembourg<br />
showed clearly the light differences between<br />
the inside and the outside of a petrol station.<br />
Remko told me that this was an exceptional<br />
project for them on one of the largest petrol<br />
sites in Europe, selling over 300 million litres<br />
of tax advantaged <strong>fuel</strong> per annum. Over 180<br />
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luminaires were installed, which compares to<br />
a typical site usually requiring about 15 – 20.<br />
The saving on this one station alone, utilising<br />
LED lighting, was recently calculated at<br />
40 000 euros per year.<br />
How will you cope with the LED explosion if<br />
it carries on, considering you work all hours<br />
of the day, travelling thousands of miles in<br />
the process, was a question I put to Remko.<br />
He replied “I need to take care of my customer<br />
base and the people in my company. I am aware<br />
that when you move too fast you grow around<br />
the edges, but you lose your core strength and<br />
that’s what I don’t <strong>want</strong> to do. Of course we<br />
<strong>want</strong> to expand, but we <strong>want</strong> to stay only in<br />
Bever Innovations price change unit<br />
this marketplace and develop steadily over the<br />
coming years with a specific focus”.<br />
So what about other products, I asked, mentioning<br />
to Remko that Bever also sells price<br />
change units quite successfully. He pointed<br />
out that it was price signs that caused him and<br />
his partner to enter the LED market back in<br />
2004, carrying out maintenance programmes<br />
for another lighting company from Holland, LTI.<br />
Bever, once established, went on to develop<br />
units, which would show significant increases<br />
in the levels of quality being offered at the<br />
time. Starting off first in the Netherlands<br />
and then securing a contract in Norway with<br />
Kubald. They were then nominated as one of<br />
the ‘Evolution project’ suppliers to Shell in<br />
2007. From this springboard; it seems they<br />
never looked back.<br />
I suggested to Remko that when they received<br />
the Shell contract, it must have been a time<br />
for celebrating with a beer, or two that evening,<br />
but he pointed out that things just don’t<br />
happen in one day. “You cannot say that any<br />
specific point determined our success and like<br />
everyone else we have had contracts signed and<br />
sealed which did not deliver any business for a<br />
long time. It is just the way things are in this<br />
industry”, he told me.<br />
Price change units are still very much part of<br />
the Bever company portfolio of products and<br />
Remko summed the immediate opportunities<br />
by saying. “The marketplace in price sign units<br />
is defined and constant but it does not change<br />
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so fast. It is just that at the moment the LED<br />
market is opening up far bigger opportunities”.<br />
Do you still manufacture your own products,<br />
I asked? He replied, seemingly proud “We<br />
manufacture our price change units and our<br />
Luci lighting systems in our home market. We<br />
buy in the LEDs, but we develop and install<br />
the product intelligence. Every system has in<br />
fact programmable intelligence on board.<br />
We have a very special production facility close<br />
to our offices in Zierikzee, which is a social<br />
factory, operated by workers who often may<br />
be overlooked for permanent positions in the<br />
work chain for a variety of different reasons.<br />
Supporting this initiative is very close to the<br />
ethos of the company and it is definitely a<br />
win-win situation for everyone. The products<br />
manufactured there are of the highest quality”.<br />
It certainly seems that the LED technology<br />
has a bright future, forgive the pun. The question<br />
of how many more suppliers, specialised<br />
or non-specialised will come into the market<br />
to service this huge appetite for lighting<br />
supremacy, remains to be seen. I imagine<br />
though that in any occurrence, Bever will<br />
be there, ahead of the field for a good many<br />
years to come.<br />
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Boeing stage trans-Pacific bio<strong>fuel</strong> flight<br />
Boeing and All Nippon Airways have declared<br />
their first ever trans-Pacific bio<strong>fuel</strong> flight a success.<br />
In the inaugural crossing, a 787 Dreamliner<br />
aircraft flew from the Boeing Delivery Centre in<br />
Everett, Washington, to Tokyo Haneda Airport;<br />
<strong>fuel</strong>led by a mixture of bio<strong>fuel</strong> derived from used<br />
cooking oil and conventional <strong>fuel</strong>. The flight<br />
cut about 30 percent off the standard carbon<br />
emissions for a trans-Pacific flight. 10 percent<br />
Germany’s green energy solutions<br />
Germany’s solution to a large part of its<br />
energy dilemma may lie in a muddy field in<br />
desolate, windswept flatlands in the northeast.<br />
In an area 75 miles north of Berlin that until<br />
now has attracted more birdwatchers than<br />
cutting-edge industries. Start-up Enertrag<br />
AG, with the help of partners Vattenfall,<br />
TOTAL and Deutsche Bahn, is operating one<br />
of the first plants to generate wind power and<br />
convert it into hydrogen. Politicians are said<br />
to be very interested and Hydrogen, among<br />
its many advantages, is predictable. It can<br />
be contained and transported without any<br />
carbon emissions. It can be used to generate<br />
of that reduction was credited to the bio<strong>fuel</strong><br />
used. While the remainder was attributed to<br />
the efficiency of the medium sized Dreamliner<br />
aircraft. Osamu Shinobe, ANA VP hailed the<br />
‘historic flight’ stating that “using sustainable<br />
bio<strong>fuel</strong>s across the Pacific Ocean highlights<br />
how innovative technology can be used to<br />
support our industry’s goal of carbon-neutral<br />
growth beyond 2020”.<br />
power and heat, <strong>fuel</strong> cars or go into natural<br />
gas pipelines as an extra ingredient. Hydrogen<br />
has been quoted as the only energy<br />
source that can safeguard energy supply over<br />
long periods.<br />
solar powered hydrogen <strong>fuel</strong> cell buses<br />
San Francisco Bay area transit agency, AC<br />
Transit, recently inaugurated on-site solarpowered<br />
hydrogen generation for <strong>fuel</strong>ling for<br />
the agency’s <strong>fuel</strong> cell buses, using electrolysis<br />
equipment from Proton and a large 500 kilowatt<br />
solar power array. For years hydrogen <strong>fuel</strong> cell<br />
vehicles and the hydrogen economy were to be<br />
the way to clean up the transportation system.<br />
A new project run by AC Transit, the transit<br />
agency covering the eastern half of the San<br />
Francisco Bay Area is implementing on-site<br />
hydrogen production using solar electricity<br />
and water to provide <strong>fuel</strong> for the agency’s<br />
twelve hydrogen <strong>fuel</strong> cell buses.<br />
Hertz introduces CNG vehicle rentals<br />
If you’re traveling to Oklahoma City any time<br />
soon, Hertz will give you the option of renting<br />
a Honda Civic or GMC Yukon that runs on<br />
Compressed Natural Gas. The vehicles will<br />
have a Hertz Neverlost GPS System on-board<br />
that will assist with locating a CNG re<strong>fuel</strong>ling<br />
station. The state also has 70 CNG stations<br />
that are already in use or about to come<br />
south American flight uses bio<strong>fuel</strong><br />
Chile has taken a leading position in the race<br />
for more sustainable commercial aviation. Last<br />
week, a one-hour LAN Airlines flight from<br />
Santiago to Concepción used a bio<strong>fuel</strong> that<br />
reduces carbon emissions. “The traditional<br />
aviation <strong>fuel</strong> comes from oil and it releases<br />
online. Hertz is, of course, playing up both<br />
the green angle and the fact that CNG is a<br />
domestically produced <strong>fuel</strong>. Hertz already<br />
rents CNG vehicles in Italy and the UK and<br />
CNG cars can be rented at a Hertz outlet at<br />
Oklahoma State University, but this marks<br />
the first time that the company has offered<br />
CNG cars at an airport location.<br />
CO 2 when used in planes. When using bio<strong>fuel</strong>,<br />
the CO 2 released is almost the same as<br />
that captured by a plant during its growth,<br />
so there is no additional release of CO 2 into<br />
the atmosphere”, explained Enrique Guzman,<br />
environmental manager of LAN.<br />
Food waste to <strong>fuel</strong><br />
Oslo’s city buses<br />
News<br />
Stale bread, banana peels, coffee grounds and<br />
other food waste will be transformed into green<br />
<strong>fuel</strong> for Oslo’s city buses starting next year.<br />
The Norwegian capital’s new biogas plant will<br />
supply the <strong>fuel</strong> and also provide nutrient-rich<br />
bio-fertilizer for agriculture. The plant will be<br />
able to process 50 000 tonnes of food waste<br />
annually, converting it to environment-friendly<br />
<strong>fuel</strong> for 135 municipal buses as well as enough<br />
bio-fertilizer for roughly 100 medium-sized<br />
local farms. Biogas is a carbon dioxide-neutral<br />
<strong>fuel</strong> produced from biomass such as food<br />
waste, sewage sludge and manure. Currently,<br />
65 Oslo buses are powered by biogas produced<br />
from sludge from the city’s sewage treatment<br />
plant. When the new biogas plant reaches its<br />
full capacity in 2013, the local bus company<br />
will have enough biogas for at least 200 buses.<br />
Fuel cell buses and<br />
cars begin operating<br />
Linde’s newest hydrogen <strong>fuel</strong>ling station has<br />
officially opened at AC Transit’s municipal<br />
bus operating division in Emeryville, CA in<br />
the US. It is <strong>fuel</strong>ling twelve <strong>fuel</strong> cell buses<br />
and up to twenty passenger cars a day. This<br />
is the first public hydrogen station in the San<br />
Francisco Bay area. It offers fast <strong>fuel</strong>ling at<br />
both 700 bar and 350 bar pressure with a<br />
delivered gas temperature of -40°C. Daimler<br />
tested <strong>fuel</strong> cell cars at the station on several<br />
occasions to show that it successfully meets<br />
all requirements; the station can fill four <strong>fuel</strong><br />
cell vehicles back-to-back at a fill time of three<br />
to four minutes per car. The station is one of<br />
two being supplied by Linde North America,<br />
a member of the Linde Group, to AC Transit.<br />
Athens converts to CNG<br />
The city is studying the possibility of buying<br />
garbage trucks powered by compressed natural<br />
gas with the idea of changing the city’s fleet of<br />
vehicles to the alternative <strong>fuel</strong> source in the<br />
next few years. The City Council has approved<br />
a resolution to seek prices for compressed<br />
natural gas <strong>fuel</strong>ling stations, equipment and<br />
vehicles. The city would like to reduce its<br />
dependence on foreign <strong>fuel</strong> sources and spend<br />
less money on <strong>fuel</strong> for city vehicles. The city’s<br />
<strong>fuel</strong> budget this year is based on a $ 3.50 per<br />
gallon price, but the price of compressed<br />
natural gas is about only $1.40 a gallon.<br />
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Us looking to use its<br />
natural gas reserves<br />
The price of natural gas in the US has slumped<br />
below US $ 2.00, reaching its lowest level in<br />
more than a decade. It has quickly turned into<br />
a favourite among consumers, <strong>companies</strong> and<br />
futures’ traders. The problem now is what to<br />
do with it? The country’s supply of natural gas<br />
is growing faster than demand with analysts<br />
worrying the country’s underground storage<br />
facilities could reach capacity by this autumn.<br />
“The main problem the US is facing now is<br />
where to store all that gas, which is a lot<br />
less safe to store than oil, for example”, says<br />
Vladimir Rozhankovsky, Head of Research at<br />
Nord Capital in Moscow. U.S. possesses a 4.1<br />
trillion cubic feet storage system.<br />
ALAN Brands remove<br />
the FINA name<br />
Seeking to signal a change physically, but to<br />
also dispel any sense of instability, ALON<br />
Brands Inc. officially unveiled its new <strong>fuel</strong><br />
brand, ALON. At the same time, it is retiring<br />
the FINA name in favour of its corporate<br />
parent’s identity. ALON Brands began removing<br />
the FINA name at its branded locations<br />
in eight states last month. In its place, the<br />
ALON brand has emerged, retaining the<br />
red-white-and-blue graphic imagery, but now<br />
more closely tied to its supply roots with its<br />
parent, Alon Israel <strong>Oil</strong> Co. Ltd.<br />
Quantum receives over<br />
Us $ 700 000 in orders<br />
Quantum Fuel Systems Technologies Worldwide,<br />
Inc., a global leader in natural gas, hydrogen<br />
and hybrid electric vehicle technologies, announced<br />
it has received additional purchase<br />
orders exceeding US $700 000 for its ultra<br />
light-weight composite high pressure compressed<br />
natural gas (CNG) storage tanks for<br />
applications in heavy duty and light duty fleet<br />
vehicles. Alan Niedzwiecki, President and<br />
CEO of Quantum, stated, “The low natural<br />
gas prices, combined with the availability of<br />
new EPA-compliant natural gas trucks from<br />
major OEMs is prompting many corporations<br />
to re-evaluate their fleet strategies to include<br />
clean natural gas trucks. Natural gas vehicles<br />
are an ideal solution to meet corporate ‘greening’<br />
and sustainability goals, while also benefiting<br />
from tremendous savings in <strong>fuel</strong> costs.”<br />
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Coles stops transmission of pump prices<br />
Retail giant Coles is refusing to release its daily<br />
petrol prices to the RAA <strong>fuel</strong>-finder website. The<br />
company that supplies the data to RAA said<br />
ColesExpress had made a “strategic decision” not<br />
to release the information. RAA senior analyst<br />
Chris West said the group was disappointed.<br />
“Transparency in <strong>fuel</strong> pricing is what motorists<br />
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need to identify where they can access the<br />
cheapest price”, he said. “They (ColesExpress)<br />
are major competitors and it would have made<br />
sense for them to continue to provide their prices<br />
as a point of comparison and try and attract<br />
potential customers, but they have chosen to<br />
do that and that is their prerogative.”<br />
Gulf <strong>Oil</strong> expands partnership in Texas<br />
Less than a year since announcing its return<br />
to its Texas roots, Gulf <strong>Oil</strong> said that it is<br />
continuing its expansion in the Lone Star<br />
state through a partnership with Petroleum<br />
Wholesale LP. The agreement calls for an<br />
immediate re-branding of 50 service stations<br />
in the Houston area. Gulf’s new partnership<br />
with Petroleum Wholesale, a 41 year old,<br />
privately held, full service distributor offering<br />
branded and wholesale motor <strong>fuel</strong>s to retail<br />
convenience stores and travel centres in ten<br />
states in the south western United States, also<br />
calls for adding 15 new Gulf locations each<br />
year for the next 10 years.<br />
Outcast and Gilbarco display film ratings<br />
Outcast, which provides television at the pump<br />
announced it will display film ratings from<br />
Flixster – a popular mobile movie application<br />
used by more than 29 million people every<br />
month. The information will be seen on over<br />
13 000 screens nationwide, including top-ofthe-line<br />
dispensers from their partner, Gilbarco<br />
Veeder-Root. Nathan Gill, Chief Revenue<br />
Officer from Outcast said: “With Flixster at<br />
the pump, we can keep our active audience<br />
informed about the most talked about movies<br />
of the week.” “Gilbarco is pleased to offer our<br />
customers using Applause TV with Outcast<br />
yet another outstanding content offering”, said<br />
Chris Whitley, Vice President Marketing at<br />
Gilbarco. “Outcast Media continues to bring<br />
retailers the best content to build loyalty with<br />
<strong>fuel</strong>ling customers.”<br />
ePA approves e15 and 10 000 blender pumps<br />
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency<br />
approved the first applications for registration<br />
of ethanol for use in making gasoline that<br />
contains up to 15 percent ethanol known as<br />
E15. To enable widespread use of E15, the<br />
Obama Administration has set a goal to help<br />
<strong>fuel</strong>ling station owners install 10 000 blender<br />
pumps over the next 5 years. In addition, both<br />
through the Recovery Act and the 2008 Farm<br />
Bill, the U.S. Department of Energy and U.S.<br />
Department of Agriculture have provided<br />
grants, loans and loan guarantees to spur<br />
American ingenuity on the next generation<br />
of bio-<strong>fuel</strong>s.<br />
ArCO installs inOvationTv at 138 sites<br />
ARCO has signed to have inOvationTV<br />
installed at 138 of its stations immediately<br />
through a partnership with Gas Station TV<br />
(GSTV), a national away-from-home televi-<br />
sion network at the pump and Wayne, a GE<br />
Energy Business and global innovator of <strong>fuel</strong><br />
dispensers and technologies. The new stations<br />
will add more than three million monthly<br />
impressions to the GSTV Network. As part<br />
of this relationship, ARCO is also making<br />
inOvationTV available at no charge to any of<br />
its 1 400 retailers that qualify. inOvationTV<br />
is available as a retrofit to existing Wayne<br />
Ovation <strong>fuel</strong> dispensers, or can be included<br />
at no charge with new Ovation dispenser<br />
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