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Aegean Marine Petroleum
The City
of Barcelona
Meroil offices
Meroil Terminal
Meroil, which operates the largest Spanish coastline terminal for petroleum products in
the Port of Barcelona, in addition to other activities, was founded in 1993 as an oil operator
with the aim of supplying fuel and related products to service stations, distributors,
industry, and the agriculture sector.
The construction of the reception and fuel distribution terminal in the Barcelona port in
2004, and its later extension completed in 2012, has provided Meroil with the second
largest terminal in Spain, with a surface area of 125,000 m 2 and a storage capacity
of 990,000 m 3 of fuel distributed among 45 tanks. Meroil has established the largest
receiving and distributing terminal of petroleum products on the Spanish coastline and
the second on the Iberian peninsula. It has the most advanced management, quality and
environmental protection systems available.
Construction work on the Barcelona Terminal commenced in May 2003 and was completed
in record time. The first phase was launched in October 2004 and the second
two years later, in October 2006, with the completion of the present storage capacity
in 2012 of nearly 1 million tons.
From left: Jose Maria Massanela, Meloil General Manager; J.J.Metey, AMP Corporate Development Director, Spyros Fokas,
AMPNI General Counsel
View of Barcelona
Barcelona is the capital of Catalonia
and the second largest city in Spain,
following Madrid, with a population
of 1,800,000. The urban area
of Barcelona extends beyond the
administrative city limits with a
population of 5,000,000, being the
sixth-most populous urban area in
the European Union after Paris, London,
the Ruhr, Madrid and Milan.
Barcelona is today one of the world's
leading tourist, economic, trade
fair/exhibition and cultural/sports
centers, and its influence on commerce,
education, entertainment,
media, fashion, science, and the arts
all contribute to its status as one of
the world's major global cities.
Barcelona is a transport hub with
one of Europe's principal ports, Barcelona
international airport, which
handles more than 34 million passengers
annually, an extensive motorway
network and also is a highspeed
rail hub, particularly that
which is intended to link Spain with
France and the rest of Europe as the
second longest in the world.
14 AEGEAN NEWS AUTUMN 2012