NewS – MIddLe eaSt, aFrICa & aSIa Charity through SMS in Saudi arabia The Tas-Helat Marketing Company has partnered the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia charity campaign for young kidney dialysis patients. Koenraad De Bruyne, Retail Director of Tas-Helat, explained that Tas-Helat has offered excellent marketing locations for this charity campaign on major traffic petrol stations. Posters are put strategically visible next to the entrance of our C-Store and / or on the pillar of our pump islands and the poster invites the public to send an SMS of which the value goes to the charity. Phoenix Petroleum set to list shares sold to state pension fund Listed oil retailer Phoenix Petroleum Philippines, Inc. will be listing an additional 7.5 million shares to cover the sale of a 9.7 percent stake in the firm last month to the Social Security System (SSS), the government-run pension fund for private sector workers. The company said in a disclosure to the Philippine Stock Exchange the common shares were sold to the SSS at a subscription price of P5.60 per share. The total transaction value was P42 million. The company had 125 stations at the end of the first quarter. bring your recyclables to adNoC Recycling centres will soon be installed at petrol stations across Abu Dhabi. ADNOC informed that bins for paper, plastics and metal waste would be installed in at least 10 service stations later this year. The aim is to make the practice much more convenient for families who have complained about a lack of recycling facilities in the capital. “Petrol stations are an ideal place to have collection points”, said Craig Halgreen, the Vice President of Global Communications for Borouge, which has been working with ADNOC on the project. “It makes a lot of sense when you have a plastic producer and someone with lots of locations throughout the UAE like ADNOC team up and provide a point of collection and also segregation.” totaL uganda and MtN enter partnership TOTAL Uganda and MTN, Uganda’s biggest telecommunications firm with 6 million subscribers in its network, have signed an enhanced partnership which will place MTN’s products and services in more than 129 TOTAL petrol stations. TOTAL Uganda Managing Director, Mamadou Ngom, said the partnership would take advantage of the fuel company’s extended network fol- Fuel station tendering boosts competition in the Hong Kong fuel market Secretary for the Environment Edward Yau informed lawmakers that two new operators have obtained 24 of the 37 petrol station sites put up for tender since the introduction of new tendering arrangements in June 2003, showing the arrangements have enhanced competition in the fuel market. The share of the three biggest operators in terms of the number of petrol stations has dropped from 93 percent to 74 percent. On the supply of petrol with different octane levels, Mr Yau said the Air Pollution Control (Motor Vehicle Fuel) Regulation specifies that the octane level of petrol for motor vehicles should not be lower than 95. “Using petrol with an oc- emarat launches a charity campaign and a ‘No smoking day’ for women A campaign that aims to collect old clothes in 16 service stations around Dubai has been launched by Emarat. The used clothes will be then distributed to the poor and needy around the world in cooperation with an international charity establishment. Mr. Hussain Kazim, Manager Corporate Communications at Emarat, said that the Corporation endeavors to help the needy and poor everywhere and to support them in any way it can, especially in the areas where poverty prevails. As such, Emarat is very proud to launch this humane initiative that can be a helping hand to those in need. Mr. Kazim also said that the initiative was met with encouragement as was evident in the large numbers of contributions made. 10 LateSt NewS, eveNtS, JobS oNLINe – www.PetroLPLaza.CoM lowing last year’s acquisition of Caltex. “Our objective is to offer more services to our customers at the Bonjour shops. We will have a streamlined relationship which will be fruitful to all our customers by providing an all-in-one solution”, said Ngoum. The initial range will include airtime cards and electronic vouchers. There are plans to expand the range later. tane level that fits the engine performance of vehicles can help reduce air pollution”, he added. The consultancy report on the autofuel retail market issued in 2006 explored the suggestion of supplying petrol with different octane levels. Having considered the size of petrol filling stations as well as the scale of the Hong Kong market, the report did not recommend requiring retailers to simultaneously provide petrol of two different octane levels. On the retail price of petrol, Mr Yau said it is determined by the free market. Suppliers will take a view on the types of products to be provided having regard to customer demand and other market factors. People have deposited all the clothes that they don’t need in the special containers located at the service stations. He further added that more contributions are expected as the awareness of the campaigns is being raised, especially that such initiatives help people dispose of the clothes that they do not need and allow them to participate at the same time in a humane and noble cause, in addition to the protection of the environment. Also, as part of the “World No Tobacco Day 2010” Emarat sponsored a ‘No Smoking Women’ campaign launched by Dubai Municipality. Emirates General Petroleum Corporation sponsors the awareness campaign “No Smoking Women” organized by the Dubai Municipality as participation in the “World No Tobacco Day 2010”, on 31st May 2010 on which Emarat shall cease selling cigarettes and other tobacco products in its various stores and shall launch an awareness campaign in its service stations in Dubai during which all the employees at these stations will wear special T-Shirts with a massage incorporating the slogan of the campaign.
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