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CREdITS NEWS 2 erpecnews European office com-a-tec GmbH Am Krebsgraben 15 78048 VS-Villingen Tel. + 49 (0)7721 9830-0 Fax + 49 (0)7721 9830-70 www.erpecnews.com UK office McLean Events Europe Ltd South Lodge Buildings Westwood Lane Normandy Guildford GU3 2JE Tel. + 44 (0)1483 810670 Publisher McLean Events Europe Ltd Nick Needs nick@erpecnews.com Tel + 44 (0) 7786 607075 News PetrolPlaza.com Bodo Schwarz petrolplaza_editor@com-a-tec.de Tel + 49 (0) 7721 9830-41 Art director Stephanie Klier stephanie.k@com-a-tec.de Tel + 49 (0) 7721 98 30-0 Marketing director Patricia Schuler patricia.s@com-a-tec.de Tel + 49 (0) 7721 98 30-0 Communications Manager Stephen Bozdan stephen@erpecnews.com Tel + 44 (0) 1483 810670 Advertising will be accepted in each issue on a limited basis. 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McLean Events Petrogas to expand operations in Britain Petrogas, which operates the Applegreen chain of petrol stations in Ireland, intends to expand operations in Britain Sources close to the company have revealed that Petrogas expects Britain to play an important role in the company’s further growth. In recent years, the company has expanded significantly. Currently, it has a network of approximately 50 filling stations in Ireland. In addition to this, Petrogas has set up a chain of seven fuel stations in the Greater London area over the past few months. Strikes disrupt transport and government services in Greece Strikes by union groups upset by Greek government privatisation plans and pension reforms, disrupted air transport and state services recently. Greeks have been forced to queue in huge lines outside petrol stations as a ten-day protest in May, by fuel tanker drivers, disrupted transport and goods supplies across Greece. Ships remained anchored at the ports of Pireaus near Athens and in the northern port city of Thessaloniki. State carrier Olympic Airlines cancelled 20 flights and rescheduled another 14. Greek private company Aegean also cancelled 28 flights as air traffic controllers held a four-hour walkout. Bharat Petroleum intends to expand non-fuel businesses in India Bharat Petroleum plans to expand its non-petroleum businesses and in line with this move, has set an ambitious target of taking its current turnover of INR 5.50 billion to INR 15 billion by 2011 As part of its intention to expand non-pet r oleu m businesses, Bharat Petroleum intends to set up highway fuel stations integrated with cinema halls and restaurants. The company has established 400 lukoil and olerex participate in GT oil Estonia‘s auction lukoil and olerex, two large Estonian fuel retailers, have both taken part in the GT oil Estonia’s service stations auctions. Lukoil has purchased a service station in Tallinn and Olerex has acquired a service station in Kiviõli, a transport hub of the North-Eastern Estonian industrial area. “This was the only retail asset of GT Oil we were really interested in”, says Antti Moppel, Marketing Director of Olerex. “The acquisition, together with one more station, scheduled to be built later in 2008, gives Olerex complete coverage of the region.” lATEST NEWS, EvENTS, JoBS oNlINE – WWW.PETRolPlAzA.CoM Malaysia to restrict fuel sales to foreigners Malaysia will temporarily curb petrol and diesel sales to foreign motorists to prevent abuse of subsidies and the ban will be lifted once prices are gradually set at a market level, the domestic Trade Minister said recently. The government is planning a new fuel subsidy mechanism that will eventually allow petrol and diesel to be sold in the country at market prices, Shahrir Samad told reporters at Malaysia’s parliament building. He said a committee, led by the finance ministry, is studying various proposals to ease off the subsidy on the country’s fuel, but did not give a timeframe for implementation. convenience stores at its petrol sites. From the present revenue of INR 2 billion, the company intends to increase it to INR 5 billion in three years. Another initiative ‘Beyond LPG’ intends to reach a turnover of INR 10 billion by 2011 from the current INR 3.50 billion. ‘Beyond LPG’ is a service where branded products are home delivered to Bharat Petroleum customers by, making use of the delivery system for liquefied petroleum gas cylinders that are already in operation.
BP has announced that it is to further develop its fuel retail network in Poland The head of BP in Poland has announced that the company will continue to expand its presence in the country, with a particular focus on the motorway sector Bp looking for new sites at Stacja paliw, last month’s retail petroleum exhibition in Warsaw. This is likely to be a shrewd decision; the strong growth in fuel sales in Poland, as well as the large motorway construction projects currently underway, means that the market is full of opportunities for fuel retailers such as BP. The CEO of BP’s Polish division, BP Polska, has vigorously denied rumors that the fuel retailer is to pull out of the Polish market, a move that would have provided the opportunity for GazpromNeft and Lukoil to purchase BP’s service station network. Instead, BP has reinforced its commitment to growing its footprint in Poland and has stated that it expects its revenues from the area to continue increasing in the future. As a consequence of it‘s strong economic results, BP intends to continue investing in the market. It is especially interested in tendering for commissions to build petrol stations on motorways, as well as developing its coffee shop chain, which currently has 112 outlets. Poland has a number of attractive features as a market for fuel retailers. While fuel sales in Western European markets are either stagnant Fuel trafficking on Kosovo-Serbia border Fuel trafficking has emerged across the Kosovo-Serbia border as a result of the price differential between Kosovo and Serbia Petrol stations in the northern Kosovo-Metohija localities including Leposavic, north Kosovska Mitrovica and Zubin Potok, have been selling fuel at lower prices than in Serbia. A news source has reported that truck drivers and border area residents from Serbia are purchasing fuel in Kosovo and saving between RSD 1 500 and RSD 5 000 on a full tank of gasoline. Trafficking is reported to be taking place in private places like garages and cellars. In Kosovo, fuel oil is priced at RSD 80 and petrol is priced between RSD 85 and RSD 95. Prices are known to vary depending on the demand-supply equation. Fuels are being illegally transported from Kosovo to Serbia by way of channels across Mount Rogozina and Lake Gazivode. Fuel supplied to the northern parts of Kosovo comes from Serbian oil refineries. Kosovan fuel traders do not pay excise duty and in 90 percent cases do not pay VAT either, helping fuel prices remain half the Serbian rates. RIl looks at Europe to sell Petro goods Reliance Industries ltd (RIl), which recently said it was shutting down its fuel stations in India, plans to set up a storage and distribution base in Europe in an effort to sell its petroleum products to customers there The Mukesh Ambani-led group is looking at locations in the Antwerp and Gent ports, in the Flanders region of Belgium. It is in talks with the port authorities and specialist tank storage firms such as Oiltanking GmbH to store and distribute products shipped from its 33 million tonnes (mt) a year refinery at Jamnagar in Gujarat. Reliance currently exports about 17 mt a year of products from its refinery, a 100 percent export-oriented unit. By the end of the year, the company will start operations at another US $ 6 billion, 28 mt a year refinery at Jamnagar, making it the largest refining location in the world. Reliance recently closed down its 1 432 fuel stations because it had not been able to compete with state-owned firms that sell petrol and diesel at prices subsidised by the government. Private firms such as Reliance are not eligible for such compensation, but are free to price their products. lATEST NEWS, EvENTS, JoBS oNlINE – WWW.PETRolPlAzA.CoM or falling, fuel sales through the Polish public network have grown by more than 50 percent since 2000. Furthermore, compared to other European markets, Poland offers a much greater potential for players such as BP to expand on motorways. The most significant motorway construction project in Europe is currently underway in Poland, with around 2 000 kilometers of motorway either planned or recently completed. Based on the assumption that there will be a service station for every 40 kilometers of motorway on both sides of the road, there will be space for an additional 100 motorway sites in Poland; a dramatic increase from the current 15 sites. Also, competition law dictates that national fuel retailer PKN Orlen will not be able to retain its status as the sole fuel retailer on most motorways. Polish law requires that, by the time the projects are complete, at least two or three different companies are present on each motorway, giving players such as BP an opportunity to invest. BP’s wish to remain and expand in the Polish fuel retail market is not surprising, especially given the strong growth in fuel sales. Furthermore, the large motorway initiative and the new laws forcing competition into the motorway sector offer the company a rare growth opportunity in an attractive market. lukoil‘s sixth filling station in Macedonia Russian oil major Lukoil has inaugurated its sixth filling station in Stip, Macedonia, as part of its wider plan to launch 15 such sites in the country by the end of 2008. Lukoil has earlier opened filling stations in the Macedonian cities of Skopje, Bitola and Strumica. The Russian company also operates an oil terminal at Stip. Lukoil Macedonia has reportedly examined 71 sites across the country, which are considered suitable for setting up filling stations. EU Commission seeks filling station records from oMv The European Commission has asked Austrian oil company OMV for filling station pricing records, triggering last month‘s suspension of a competition review of a pending OMV deal, a national source stated recently. The Commission suspended its review of the Austrian oil company’s 14 billion euro (US $ 21.68 billion) unsolicited bid for Hungarian rival MOL, last month, without giving a reason. A spokesman for the EU competition watchdog said at the time, that information was missing without providing further details. NEWS 3
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