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Israel oil company considers building petrochemical
and biofuel plants in Ashdod
Paz oil, Israel‘s second-largest energy company, may build petrochemical, biofuel
and desalination plants on the unused land at a petroleum refinery, Chief
Executive officer Yona Fogel said
Paz is weighing the options for its 275-acre
site in the Mediterranean port city of Ashdod,
Fogel said. The company plans to spend NIS
800 million (US $232 million) this year to
upgrade the refinery, double the capacity of
an electric-power cogeneration plant to almost
100 megawatts and add filling stations to its
chain, he said. Paz became the country’s
only integrated oil company after buying the
Ashdod refinery from the government in 2006.
Its chain of 261 gasoline stations is the biggest
in the nation. Paz is also Israel’s biggest
operator of roadside convenience stores and
supplies fuel to the Palestinian Authority in
the West Bank.
“Our plans for the refinery are huge,” Fogel
said in an interview from the Netanya, Israel
headquarters. “We are looking at many possibilities
for using the refinery’s land to optimize
operations and to better utilize existing
infrastructure.” He declined to give details
for the expansion plan. Paz has a 26 percent
share of Israel’s retail energy market.
ENI selects dresser Wayne for the supply and
service of site management system
dresser Wayne announced that it has signed a three year contract with Italian
fuel retailer ENI to provide supplies, installation and service of the site managements
system, EuroSinp, to service stations operating under the AGIP brand
“We are pleased to expand our strong partnership
with ENI further with this agreement”
says Mirko Spagnolatti, European Product
Manager for Systems in Dresser Wayne.
“With the new agreement we move the systems
standardization in Europe to the next
level, by introducing a common forecourt
controller, the Nucleus Forecourt server and
a standard retail hardened hardware platform
from IBM. To ensure maximum reliability
and security EuroSinp is continuously updated
with the forefront of technology from
Microsoft Windows Embedded for Point of
Sale operating system (WEPOS), Microsoft
SQL Server 2005, and new software features
developed with the latest Microsoft NET
technologies”.
As part of the agreement, Dresser Wayne will
provide stations operating under the Agip
Kenyan state offers to buy Caltex
brand with the Eurosinp site management
solution. This solution allows for management
of the entire site, from point of sale to head
office interface. Regardless of the size of the
site Eurosinp is engineered to maximize uptime
and improve efficiency. Dresser Wayne
is ENI’s only total solutions provider with
contracts in place for dispensers, terminals,
systems, CNG and service.
Dresser Wayne also announced recently the
first installation of it‘s Global Ovation fuel
dispenser in the UK, operated by Spring
Petroleum. An enthusiastic Farook Asmal,
one of Spring Petroleum’s owners, said “The
Global Ovation design looks fantastic on our
forecourt and our customers are delighted
to operate this easy to approach, easy to use
dispenser. It offers us the right combination
of configurability and advanced promotional
The Government of Kenya is in talks with America’s Chevron corporation to buy
its Kenyan fuel marketing business for Sh 3 billion. (US $ 48.4 million)
The takeover bid for the business, which trades
under the name Caltex in Kenya, comes at a
time when the US multinational is planning to
exit from Africa. The company’s operations are
spread over 10 African countries. The Kenyan
and Ugandan operations are up for sale as a
joint unit, putting the Government’s bid for
the local business at a disadvantage against
international and national oil companies that
are said to be pursuing the deal to grow their
market shares in the region. Energy Permanent
Secretary Patrick Nyoike said the Kenya
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Car ownership in the country – at as little as
340 per 1 000 people, compared with as many
as 600 in Europe – leaves room for further
growth, Fogel said. The amount of gasoline
sold per station in Israel is almost twice the
European level on average. Paz plans to add
more of its Yellow convenience stores next to
filling stations to generate additional sales,
Fogel said. The company may also open more
stand-alone Yellow shops after starting its first
in the Tel Aviv suburb of Herzilya. Paz may bid
in a tender this month to operate the stores in
train stations, the executive added.
Fogel joined Paz in October from Bank Leumi
Le-Israel, the country’s second-biggest bank by
assets, which owns a 16 percent stake in Paz.
Outside of Israel, Paz is seeking to acquire
a European company with interests in refining,
filling stations, or convenience stores, or
some combination of these businesses, Fogel
said. Paz prefers a market “close” to Israel
because of the lower cost of transporting fuel
and petroleum products from the Ashdod
refinery, he added.
technologies for our forecourt,“We want to provide
our consumers with the most convenient
fueling experience and the Global Ovation
offers us the means to accomplish this whilst
supporting our business objectives.”
Comments Paul de la Port, Dresser Wayne
UK & Ireland Managing Director “The Global
Ovation is the result of years of work and
comprehensive research on consumer behavior.
In many ways, it marks the beginning of a new
era in retail fueling. Retailers have a new way
to reach their customers through innovative
tools that ultimately help to grow their businesses
and lower their operating costs.”
dresser exhibiting at last month’s exhibition in poland.
Government’s bid was facing stiff competition
from other top private sector contenders
who are eyeing both operations. “We have
asked them to unbundle the two operations
to enable us to bid for the Kenyan operation
in which we are interested,” Mr Nyoike said.
“Our other option is to go into a hybrid kind
of arrangement,” Mr Nyoike added. The array
of potential private buyers have made the sale
difficult for the Government.
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