India State oil retailers receive compensation - ErpecNews

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Issue No 7 | October 2010 

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India State oil retailers receive compensation 

to the tune of 3 billion US dollars 

India’s federal government has released 140 

billion rupees (US $ 3 billion) in cash compensation 

for the last financial year to state-run 

oil marketing companies Indian oil Corp. 

ltd., Hindustan Petroleum Corp. ltd. and 

Bharat Petroleum Corp. ltd., oil Secretary S. 

Sundareshan informed. The fuel retailers sell 

gasoline and diesel at government-mandated 

discounted prices to help tame inflation. Gasoline 

prices were deregulated from 26th June, 

1 000 new Yanchang gas stations for China 

as planned, Yanchang Petroleum will develop 

its gas station network through acquiring, 

building and leasing stations as it strives 

to make the size of its sales terminals the 

third largest in China after Petro China and 

Sinopec. Meanwhile, the oil firm attempts 

to have 70 – 80 percent of its oil products 

production sold via its own gas stations. 

PetroChina and Sinopec, China’s largest oil 

AsiA, Middle eAst & AfricA edition 

but diesel fuel prices continue to be controlled 

by the government. The profitability of the 

oil retailers significantly depends on how 

much of their revenue loss is compensated 

by the government. However, subsidies are 

often delayed and the frequency of payment 

is uncertain. The oil companies had gross 

under-recoveries of 460 billion rupees in 

the financial year ended 31st March and the 

government approved a cash subsidy of 260 

billion rupees. of the approved amount 120 

billion rupees has already been released with 

the balance of 140 billion rupees released just 

recently Mr. Sundareshan said. oil companies 

expect their profits to rise, borrowings to fall 

and expansion projects to receive a boost 

after the partial deregulation. The impact 

on earnings is expected from the current 

quarter onwards. 

products retailer, are also trying to expand 

their presence through building gas stations 

in its competitor’s turf. PetroChina in april 

of last year announced a plan to build 300 

gas stations in Sinopec’s turf of Jiangsu 

province before 2015, while Sinopec in return 

claimed to build 300 new gas stations 

in Chengdu and Chongqing, traditionally 

territory of PetroChina. 

TOTaL takeover may 

cool fuel prices 

The taking over of ToTal Kenya assets, 

including a gas refilling station and fuel 

dispensing outlets by State-owned National 

oil, is aimed at providing a stable ground 

for the volatile local fuel prices. National 

oil Corporation of Kenya has concluded 

an asset purchase agreement with ToTal 

Kenya ltd aimed at increasing its market 

share to enable it stabilise prices in the 

country. In the deal Nock will be taking 

over an lPG (liquefied Petroleum Gas) 

filling plant in Nairobi and five filling stations, 

two within Nairobi, one in Mtito 

andei, another in Thika Town and also in 

Garissa Town. oilcom (K) ltd will take 

over the other assets. 

Oando on NSE soon 

There are indications that the Board of 

Directors of oando Plc have concluded 

arrangements to list its oando Marketing 

Division (oMl) as a separate entity on 

the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE). The 

listing, according to stockbrokers will make 

oando Marketing a separate entity from 

oando Plc. oando Marketing is the leading 

retailer of petroleum products in Nigeria 

and sells and distributes one in every five 

litres of petroleum in Nigeria via over 550 

retail outlets, and has operations across West 

africa – Ghana, Togo and Benin Republic. 

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Petronet LNG to see divestment 

The asian Development Bank (aDB) has said 

in a letter that it wants to divest its stake in 

Petronet lNG. The letter was written to the 

promoters of the gas trading and distributing 

company. at present, aDB has a 5 percent 

stake in Petronet and the value of it is 444 crore 

rupees. The bank wants the other stakeholders 

NOCK purchases Total outlets in Kenya 

In the gas deal transaction, National oil will 

take over an liquified petroleum gas filling 

plant located along Nanyuki Road in Nairobi 

on 27th July, Ecuador passed a new Hydrocarbons 

law which aims to expropriate foreigncompany 

operations unless they sign the new 

service contracts which increase state control 

of the industry. “a working draft of the new 

service contracts has been sent to companies”, 

for discussion, Pastor said. Under the new 

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like IoC, oNGC, BPCl and GaIl, to takeover 

this stake. The four Indian fuel companies are 

holding 12.5 percent stake each in Petronet 

and their combined stake in 50 percent. The 

rest stake is divided bet ween aDB and other 

public and financial institution which hold 

5.2 percent and 34.8 percent respectively. 

and five filling stations, two within Nairobi, 

one in Mtito andei, another in Thika and 

also in Garissa town in Eastern Kenya. The 

deal is part of National oil’s strategy to spur 

retail business, a move that is in tandem with 

its statutory mandate to deepen the use of 

petroleum products in the country. at the 

same time, National oil recently concluded 

an asset purchase agreement with Total Kenya 

for some outlets around the country in a bid 

to boost market share and stabilise oil prices. 

Uganda licenses dealers ‘Emarat cares’ 

The Ministry of Energy has launched a cam - 

paign to license all fuel dealers afresh as it embarks 

on bringing the operations of the industry 

in order. according to a source familiar with 

the operations of the industry, stations which 

don’t comply with required safety and quality 

standards may be forced to close shop. Currently, 

the industry has about 1 100 fuel stations. 

News from South america 

Petrol hike rollback in argentina 

The government has ordered a petrol hike 

rollback as published in the official Gazette 

(resolution N° 295 / 2010). The resolution 

warns those who raised prices after 31st July 

must roll them back to that date. according to 

official sources, more than 50 inspectors were 

Emarat is sponsoring a School Feeding campaign 

which was launched by the Dubai Cares 

Initiative, as per the instructions of HH Sheikh 

Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum. The 

campaign aims to provide children in developing 

countries schools with their daily 

needs of nutritious foods that enhance their 

learning process. 

sent out to enforce the order. Shell Chairman 

Juan José aranguren questioned the resolution, 

arguing that “there is no emergency that may 

justify it and contrary to what almost all petrol 

stations say it is the petrol stations which are 

setting fuel prices”. 

Ecuador send out new model contracts 

service contracts, private oil companies will 

be paid a production fee while the government 

will own 100 percent of the oil and gas 

produced. Pastor said, “oil companies will 

have until 20th august to make observations 

about the new contracts”. He warned, however, 

that the only target open for discussions was 

over the flat rate production fee to be paid to 

private oil companies, and not about any “more 

general” clauses. The new hydrocarbons law 

fixed a deadline of 120 days from 27th July 

for major operators to make the change over 

to the new service contracts. Smaller petrol 

companies have 180 days.

wOqOd to build new fuel stations in qatar 

Qatar Fuel (WoQoD) announced that it will 

open six new fuel stations by the end of this 

year and seven others in different stages of 

design to be operational in 2011. WoQoD 

Deputy Board Chairman and Managing 

Director Mohammad Turki al Sobaie said 

that Qatar Fuel (WoQoD) will enter into 

reliance resumes fuel retailing in India 

Following the deregulation era, India’s largest 

business conglomerate, Reliance Industries 

ltd have reported that the company has 

resumed the retailing of petro-fuels from 

as many as 162 outlets in Gujarat. With 

the decontrol of petrol pricing, the RIl fuel 

retail outlets now retail Motor Spirit (Petrol) 

at price parity with PSUs. The company 

More fuel stations reconstructed in Sri Lanka 

The Government has taken action to open 

more filling stations in several areas in the 

North, including Kilinochchi and Vavuniya 

to speed up development in the North. The 

Petroleum Ministry reconstructed several filling 

stations from Vavuniya to Elephant Pass, 

MrS extends its investment in Nigeria 

MRS Plc, which officially acquired a 60 percent 

stake in Texaco Nigeria Plc in 2008, 

has extended its investment profile to the 

Benin Republic, Senegal, Togo, Ghana, Cote 

d’Ivoire, South africa, Congo and France. 

Managing Director Mr. Shardhashis Prasad 

stated that the acquisition of Chevron Nigeria 

enhanced MRS’ vision of spreading 

its reach across Nigeria’s borders” and that 

“We are very pleased to acquire Chevron 

Nigeria Holdings (parent company of Texaco) 

and this demonstrates further our vision in 

investing into the future of the downstream 

oil businesses in West africa”. The company, 

Indonesia establishes renewable energy 

The government of Indonesia has been 

considering new and renewable energy developments 

following declining oil production 

that forced them to pull out of oPEC in 

2008. To reduce fossil fuel consumption, 

the government has mandated fuel retailers 

to mix biofuel in their products since 2008. 

Currently, the country produces bioethanol 

and biodiesel. Subsidized premium gasoline 

contains at least 1 percent of bioethanol, 

while subsidized diesel contains at least 

contracts with outside distributors soon in 

order to export a complete range of Qatari 

lubricating oils covering all needs of countries 

in the region. Sobaie further said that the 

company will expand by opening between 80 

to 100 new distribution centres by the end of 

this year across the state. 

said that previously, in times of controlled 

pricing, fuel retailing was a disadvantageous 

business, as the private payers were not 

entitled to get government subsidy. ‘Now, 

with the deregulation of Petrol, there is a 

level playing field and Reliance Petrol will 

now be sold at the same price as that of the 

other oil Companies,’ 

which were destroyed by terrorist activities. 

accordingly, Mankulam filling station constructed 

at a cost of Rs. 8.4 million has been 

re-opened. Construction work is being carried 

out in the filing stations in Hirunorukandi, 

Thunikkai and Uyilankulam. 

whose other equity holders include Zenon 

Petroleum and Gas limited with 19 percent 

and remaining 21 percent being owned by 

other shareholders, has commenced full 

operations and re-branding of all the 625 

Texaco retail outlets it acquired recently. 

While stating that MRS would continue 

to acquire more retail outlets from the independent 

marketers and also build more, 

Prasad said that the essence of the expansion 

was to ensure uninterrupted fuel supply to 

Nigerians and also to position the company 

for healthy competition whenever the sector 

was deregulated. 

5 percent of biodiesel. Indonesia is the largest 

producer of crude palm oil – the source of 

most biofuels – with production estimated to 

hit 21.5 million tons this year. The ministry’s 

directorate general for oil and gas said the 

country produced 4.1 million kilolitres of 

biodiesel per year and 120 000 kilolitres of 

bioethanol per year. The ministry estimates 

biofuel consumption to reach 777 075 kilolitres 

this year. The volume is expected to 

increase to 982 000 kilolitres next year. 


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PetroChina to supply 

Tibet with LNG 

PetroChina Co ltd plans to build a 300 

million yuan ($ 44 million) liquefied natural 

gas (lNG) facility in western China to supply 

Tibet, parent China National Petroleum 

Corp informed. The company would build 

a receiving facility in the Tibetan capital 

lhasa and a 38-kilometre gas grid, as well 

as compressed natural gas filling stations 

for vehicles in the city, it said. 

NNPC open mega 

stations in Nigeria 

Mr Nathan Egba, Bayelsa state Commis - 

sioner for Information, Strategy and orientation, 

said that NNPC had given approval 

for the establishment of two new mega 

filling stations in the state of Bayelsa. He 

said the stations, to be located at ogbia 

town and okordia / Zarama, in ogbia and 

Yenagoa local government areas respec - 

tively, would ensure steady supply of 

petroleum products in the state. He also 

said that the NNPC planned to establish 

a branch office of the Department of Petroleum 

Resources in Yenagoa to ensure 

close monitoring of petroleum supplies 

in the state. 

Super Petroleum to 

construct in Liberia 

The Management of Super Petroleum (SP), 

a petroleum products importation and distribution 

company in liberia has disclosed 

plans to shortly begin the construction of 

a modern gas station network across the 

country. according to the operations Manager 

Mr. ansu S. Kanneh, the modern gas 

station when constructed, will put liberia 

on par with other countries around the 

world in the sale of petroleum products. 

Mr. Kanneh also said that SP is presently 

operating over sixteen (16) filling stations 

around the country as well as in Gbarnga 

and Ganta with plans to extend to other 

counties soon. 

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Emarat denies closure 

of fuel stations 

Emirates General Petroleum Corporation, 

or Emarat, has said technical problems 

that led to partial supply disruptions 

at some of its filling stations had been 

resolved. Denying reports by a section 

of the media that Emarat had closed 

down some of its filling stations as it 

ran out of petrol, the Dubai-based retailer 

said: “The lack of partial supply 

of fuel to some gas stations was due 

to technical problems in the supply 

logistics of gasoline products in the 

major reservoirs.” 

European news 

Orlen eye’s Czech rep. 

Polish oil and gas giant orlen is looking 

for tasty takeover quarry in the Czech Republic. 

orlen would like to strengthen its 

market position in the Czech Rep, which it 

currently operates in under the Unipetrol 

brand. and the timing seems right as Shell 

is planning to back out of the market. But 

the strategy currently seems to be more 

of a hunt for a good buying opportunity 

than a concrete long-term plan. 

German Cartel Office 

appeals court ruling 

Germany’s Federal Cartel office has appealed 

the judgment of a regional court 

in august that overruled its decision to 

block the planned takeover of austria’s 

oMV aG’s 59 petrol stations in eastern 

Germany by France’s ToTal Sa. andreas 

Mundt, president of Germany’s top 

anti -trust authority said that “the cartel 

office still thinks the purchase of the 

oMV filling stations in eastern Germany 

would have given ToTal and four other 

companies that form an oligopoly in the 

German gasoline and diesel sector an 

unacceptable market dominant position“. 

In early august, however, the decision 

to block the deal was overturned by a 

regional court in Düsseldorf, which said 

the transaction wouldn’t fortify or create 

a market dominant position. 

India transport fuel at higher rates 

after briefly maintaining prices at par with 

public sector oil marketing companies following 

the 25th June price hike, private fuel 

retailers Essar oil and Reliance Industries 

are selling petrol and diesel at a premium 

of Rs 0.50 to 2.50 per litre in some states. 

“after the price increase (on 25th June), all 

our outlets had at par pricing for some time, 

but thereafter, differential pricing was introduced 

in few states. Currently, the price 

differential in these states is Rs 0.50 to Rs 

CHEvrON Malaysia replace Star Mart 

Chevron Malaysia aims to open 150 Xpress 

Point stores, its new convenience store brand, at 

Caltex fuel service stations by 2015. The openings 

form part of the retailer’s wider rebranding 

programme. according to Chevron Country 

Chairman, Jeremy oh, the company is looking 

to have 50 Xpress Point stores in the next 12 

months, which will replace the current retail 

outlets under the Star Mart brand. “We have 

160 stores nationwide, representing a strong 

retail network and want to have only one brand 

retailer to take ownership”, said Mr. oh after 

the launch of the first Xpress Point store at a 

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2 per litre for diesel and Rs 2.5 for petrol”, 

said an official at Essar oil, which runs 1 343 

retail fuel outlets. a spokesperson at Reliance 

Industries confirmed the company was selling 

petrol and diesel at a premium in some 

states, depending on the distance from its 

Jamnagar refinery. of its 1 430 retail outlets, 

the company is currently running around 

680. The company is not keen to operate all 

outlets till the government decontrols diesel 

prices as well. 

Caltex fuel service station this week. The fuel 

service stations’ current operators will be given 

the option of either choosing Xpress Point or 

staying with the traditional brand, Star Mart 

or C-Mart. We believe that with these new 

retail outlets we can provide better service. 

Gasoline shortage gripping Uzbekistan 

long lines of drivers must wait hours to fill 

up their vehicles at government-operated gas 

stations. a deepening fuel shortage is abetting 

corruption and spreading widespread frustration 

across the country. apart from being one 

of the top 15 natural gas producers in the 

world, Uzbekistan also possesses substantial 

oil reserves. But Uzbekistan has an inadequate 

infrastructure to pump and refine the crude. 

Gazprom Neft to double investments 

Serbia’s NIS oil monopoly, majority owned 

by Russian group Gazprom Neft, will double 

planned investments in its drive to become the 

regional market leader by 2020, NIS informed. 

NIS Chief Executive Kiril Kravchenko said the 

company would invest around $1 billion by 2014. 

Half of this will be spent on its oil refinery in 

Pancevo and the rest on boosting oil inventories 

and modernising fuel stations. Kravchenko said 

its strategy focuses on increasing refinery output, 

modernising petrol stations and increasing its share 

of the wholesale market to 75 percent. Gazprom 

observers say that Uzbekistan’s three major 

oil refineries operate only at a fraction of their 

capacity because they have not been upgraded 

since the Soviet era. Uzbekneftegaz, the state 

oil-and-gas entity, has been tasked with upgrading 

refineries, but lacking government financing has 

reportedly undermined the company’s efforts to 

implement the task, observers say. Rather than 

protest, some Uzbeks are trying to find alternate 

solutions. a few are reportedly smuggling fuel 

from energy-rich neighboring countries, including 

Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan. In addition, 

a growing number of drivers are installing 

technology that allows car engines to run on 

natural gas rather than gasoline. 

Neft paid 400 million euros ($533.8 million) last 

year for 51 percent of NIS as part of an energy 

pact between Serbia and Russia. It pledged to 

invest 500 million euros in the Serbian company.


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Statoil paves way for filling stations 

Statoil last week signalled it was pushing ahead 

with the planned spin-off of its international 

chain of filling stations as the Norwegian 

energy group sought to sharpen its focus 

on oil and gas exploration. The group said 

it had applied to the oslo Stock Exchange 

for the admission of a new company, Statoil 

Fuel & Retail, paving the way for an initial 

public offering in the fourth quarter of this 

year. analysts said the business could be 

valued at more than NoK 10 billion (US $ 1.6 

billion). The fuel and retail business made 

operating profits of NoK 1.5 billion in 2009. 

The spin-off would underline the shift by oil 

and gas producers away from roadside retail 

UK supermarket Morrisons select fairbanks 

Fairbanks has been engaged to provide its 

services across Morrisons petrol filling station 

network. as part of a comprehensive 

service package, Fairbanks is providing tank 

Turkmenistan to sell gasoline and diesel fuel abroad 

In accordance with the instruction from 

the head of state, the Ministry of oil and 

Gas Industry and Mineral Resources of 

Turkmenistan will consider the selling of 

Turkmenistans gasoline and diesel fuel abroad, 

taking into account the existing demand for 

these fuels. The President of Turkmenistan 

also issued instructions to think of necessary 

measures for the effective ecology friendly 

use of oil products through collection and 

recycling of waste industrial oil. In addition, 

the existing outdated fuel-filling stations 

will be completely replaced with modern 

finland build “green highway” 

The “green highway” will link Turku, Finland’s 

southwestern coast with Vaalimaa 

near the Russian border and will measure 

almost 130 kilometres. In charge of the 

project is the town of loviisa, which is 

located in the east of Helsinki, the one who 

proposed making this road “green”. other 

proposals include installing geothermal 

heat pumps and providing information to 

users about their emission levels and the 

impact they are having on the environment. 

operations, typically among the lowest margin 

parts of their business. The Statoil business 

includes 2 300 filling stations in eight countries 

across Scandinavia, the Baltic states, 

Poland and Russia. It also includes a unit 

that sells lubricants and aviation and marine 

fuels. Statoil on Thursday said it would hold 

on to at least half of the company after the 

IPo, which would go ahead in the fourth 

quarter, subject to market conditions. The 

group, two-thirds owned by the Norwegian 

government, who announced the spin-off 

plan last February, will keep control of its 

refinery business, which supplies the retail 

operation. 

alarm monitoring, wetstock analysis and loss 

investigations, supplemented by on-site meter 

calibration and verification services. This is in 

addition to the risk assessment work it already 

undertakes for Morrisons. Mark Todd, Director 

of Petrol at Morrisons, said “Morrisons 

is committed to operating its filling stations 

to the highest standard and the assurance 

Fairbanks offers will complement our internal 

procedures. We’re looking forward to working 

with the team at Fairbanks.” 

stations with electronic equipment. Since 

2008 Turkmenistans car owners have been 

given 120 litres of gasoline or diesel fuel a 

month free of charge, and owners of buses 

and trucks – 200 litres of fuel a month free 

of charge. Fuel in excess of these limits is 

sold for cash. Thus, 1 litre of gasoline grade 

a-80 is sold at 54 tenge (about 12 US cents), 

gasoline grade a-92 – 58 tenge (about 13 

US cents), the same price applies for 1 litre 

of diesel fuel. one litre of the most popular 

gasoline grade a-95 is sold at 62 tenge (about 

16 US cents). 

The highway will have “smart” lighting, 

which is a system that will automatically 

switch off the light at entry points when 

there are no cars and adjust the light 

according to weather conditions. The 

project will get finance from companies 

like Fortum, Neste oil and Ensto. It is 

hoped that construction will start in the 

second half of next year and expects to 

complete in 2016, at a total cost of about 

US $ 900 million. 


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LUKOIL forms Spanish 

storage joint venture 

litasco, the Geneva-based international 

trading and supply arm of Russian oil major 

lUKoIl, has established a joint venture 

with Spain-based oil company Meroil for 

the extension of the existing Meroil terminal 

in the Port of Barcelona. This new capacity 

will further reinforce the lUKoIl group’s 

trading and supply infrastructure in the 

Mediterranean region. The terminal will be 

equipped with the most advanced security, 

oil movement and fuel control systems and 

will be certified for quality as well as, health, 

safety and environmental manage ment. 

The lUKoIl network includes 204 tank 

farms and 6 748 filling stations (including 

franchises), operating under three brands: 

lUKoIl, Teboil and Getty. 

repsol YPf replaces 

POS systems 

Convenience and forecourt store chain 

Repsol is starting a PoS system renewal 

programme for its service station network 

in Spain and Portugal. The project has 

been awarded to Toshiba TEC and covers a 

total of 11 500 PoS systems. With the new 

system, featuring in-built stereo speakers 

and a customer facing touchscreen, delivering 

interactive multimedia presentations 

and promotions at the PoS. The four-year 

replacement programme includes a complex 

roll-out logistics operation, staging 

and implementing localised hardware and 

software configurations as well as third 

party maintenance. 

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advanced additive 

engineered in Germany 

BHPetrol has launched an updated version 

of their RoN95 and RoN97 fuels. The 

new formulation is called BHPetrol Infiniti 

advanced2X 95 and BHPetrol Infiniti advanced2X 

97 and features a new additive 

from a German chemical company which 

BHPetrol calls the advanced additive Compound, 

or aaC. In tests the new BHPetrol 

formulation knocked intake valve deposit 

levels down to a 3 mg / valve. BHPetrol is the 

first customer for the new aaC additive in 

the region. of course, BHPetrol has once 

again stuck to its “double strength” formula, 

adding 800 ppm of the aaC additive to 

both its RoN95 and RoN97 fuel, which 

is the maximum recommended treat rate 

for each drop of fuel. 

Price rise fears prove 

inaccurate in the UK 

The automobile association in the UK has 

claimed that predictions of sharp petrol 

pump price rises by petrol retailers are 

unfounded. Fears that the cost of filling 

up could soar have been denounced by the 

aa, although the organisation did admit 

that the north-south divide for fuel prices 

is growing wider. This follows forecasts by 

the Retail Motor Industry Independent 

Petrol Retailers association (RMI Petrol) 

on 10 august that petrol prices would rise 

by three per cent in the next weeks and 

by eight per cent by early 2011. The latter 

prediction has not yet been challenged 

by the aa. aa public affairs head Paul 

Watters said: “Scaring drivers with false 

predictions of imminent price rises was 

not the retailers’ finest hour.” according 

to the aa, the gap between average petrol 

prices in the north and the south currently 

stands at 1.7 p a litre, in contrast to 0.9 p 

a litre in May this year. 

Gilbarco veeder-root 

partner Tora Petrol 

Gilbarco Veeder-Root announced the formal 

conclusion of a new distribution agreement 

for Turkey with Tora Petrol. The agreement 

was signed by Tora’s Managing Director 

Fatih akin, and Gilbarco Veeder-Root’s 

European Distribution Director andreas 

Wenzel, in July. With the new partnership, 

Tora Petrol becomes authorized distributor 

for the entire Gilbarco Veeder-Root product 

range, including fuel pumps and dispensers, 

automatic tank gauges, leak detection 

systems, and Red Jacket submersible pumps. 

altinbas looking for partners in Turkey's alpet 

altinbas Holding is looking for European 

companies to buy a stake in its Turkish fuel 

retailing unit to help it expanding abroad, 

Chairman Imam altinbas said. The company 

held talks with “many” European companies, 

including Eni Spa and previously lUKoIl 

oao, on buying a stake in alpet aS, he said 

in an interview in Istanbul. “We would like to 

have a group as partner that will expand our 

fuel business in Europe,” he said, declining 

Shell in talks with finnish based St1 

Royal Dutch Shell is in exclusive talks with 

Finland-based energy company St1 for the sale 

of its Swedish and Finnish assets as part of its 

earlier announced plans of selling 15 percent of 

its refinery capacity in Europe and the americas. 

The sale also includes a marketing arm, and its 

network of more than 400 fuel stations, which 

the Netherlands-based oil company hopes to get 

as much as $ 750 million. The Finland assets 

for sale are primarily oil products retail and 

marketing business that include 230 retail sites, 

58 unmanned refuelling stations for commercial 

road transport, its aviation fuel business and 

Gardaí discover illegal fuel plant in Ireland 

Revenue officers and Environmental Protection 

agency personnel assisted by gardaí have 

discovered a huge illicit diesel laundering 

plant as well as an illegal dump in remote 

farmland, in Rebane, Shantonagh, in Co 

Monaghan. about 21 000 litres of illicit diesel 

and 10 filter beds for removing marker dye 

were discovered in the swoop as was a substan - 

tial illegal dump, which is understood to contain 

medical waste. Differences in the price of oil 

Changes in Statoil’s corporate structure 

Statoil aSa will change its organisational 

structure as a response to future business 

opportunities and challenges, and to support 

a continued strong development of the company. 

Today more than 25 percent of the daily 

production comes from Statoil’s international 

portfolio and Statoil have also taken important 

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to comment on whether talks with Eni, Italy’s 

largest oil company, are continuing. altinbas 

may decide on an IPo should a stake sale in 

the fuel unit not succeed, he said. The retailer 

has a 2.7 percent share of the Turkish market, 

trailing Petrol ofisi aS, a unit of oMV aG 

and Dogan Sirketler Grubu Holdings aS 

with a 32.8 percent share, as well as a unit of 

Royal Dutch Shell Plc, which has 18 percent, 

according to the country’s energy regulator. 

its liquid petroleum gas business. By selling 

its assets in Finland, Shell will be completely 

exiting the country as it has already outsourced 

the distribution and marketing of Shell-branded 

lubricants to Univar, a US-based global chemical 

distribution company. 

Total's 800 UK petrol stations may be sold 

U.K. energy company Greenergy is considering 

buying 800 service stations in the U.K. that 

have been put up for sale by the French oil 

major ToTal Sa. Greenergy, partly owned 

by Tesco PlC and Barclays PlC, may bid 

for ToTal's network – which accounts for 

nearly 10 percent of the U.K. market – to gain 

control of the infrastructure behind it, including 

tankers, terminals and the 247 kilometre 

underground pipeline from its lindsey refinery 

in lincolnshire to the Buncefield fuel depot 

in Hertfordshire in the southeast of the U.K. 

on either side of the Border make the illegal 

practice of “diesel washing” highly lucrative 

as the washed oil can then be sold to filling 

stations as motor fuel. The find follows the 

discovery of a diesel laundering plant in south 

armagh close to the louth and Monaghan 

borders earlier last week. Both discoveries 

are part of an ongoing crackdown on criminal 

activity by the revenue and police authorities 

on both sides of the Border. 

steps to grow its portfolio within renewable 

energy. The new organisation will reflect the 

ongoing globalisation of Statoil, leverage it’s 

position on the Norwegian Continental Shelf 

and simplify internal interfaces to support 

safe and efficient operations. The changes are 

planned to take effect from 1st January 2011.

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Gazprom Neft acquires Kazakhstan network 

Gazprom Neft has completed a deal with the 

Kazakhstan company aRNa Petroleum to 

acquire a chain of 20 gas stations as well as 

nine plots of land, the company reported. The 

assets are located in almaty, Taldy-Korgana, 

Taraza and Shymkent. The chain will be 

managed by the limited liability company 

Gazprom Neft-Kazakhstan, a subsidiary of 

Gazprom Neft which was founded in 2007. 

Fuel for the stations will be supplied from 

the omsk refinery. By the end of 2010, all 

SPar austria rolls out Express forecourt stores 

By the end of 2013, the retailer plans to expand 

the current number of six Spar Express 

outlets to 70 stores in austria. Spar started 

piloting the new format in September 2009, 

teaming up with austrian petrol station 

operator Doppler Mineralöle. The first four 

Spar Express forecourt stores opened in 

Texaco sell off European assets 

oil giant Chevron has put its Irish business up 

for sale, and is seeking buyers for its Texaco 

network of petrol stations and the Texoil oil 

brand. The Irish assets will be auctioned off 

as part of a larger disposal of certain European 

assets belonging to Chevron. The US 

multinational has retained Deutsche Bank, 

the German merchant bank, to handle the 

sale. Chevron generates annual revenues 

of 1.4 billion euros through its Irish operation. 

It owns 14 Texaco petrol stations, and 

Salzburg, Graz and linz and are located at 

petrol stations run by Doppler Mineralöle (BP 

or Turmöl). The stores, which are open seven 

days a week have a sales area of 80 square 

metres. The product range comprises 1 500 

items, around 40 percent of the products are 

from Spar (austria)’s private label ranges. 

supplies fuel to a further 200 independent 

petrol stations which trade under the Texaco 

brand. The company also owns Texoil, one of 

the country’s largest fuel distributors, with 

11 depots throughout Ireland. The oil giants 

have gradually withdrawn from Ireland and 

other European markets in recent years, to 

focus more on their exploration and refining 

activities. Shell and Statoil have sold all 

their service stations to Topaz in the past 

five years. 

TaTNEfT expands filling station network 

TaTNEFT-aZS Center in almetyevsk, Tatarstan, 

opened 7 new stations with their total number 

now reaching 270 outlets. Until the end of this 

Shell launches Coffee republic in the UK 

Shell in the UK has signed an agreement with 

Coffee Republic that will see the launch of 

Coffee Republic’s Italian Roasted takeaway 

coffee at up to 450 Shell forecourt stores across 

the country within the next 12 months. as part 

of the roll-out, Coffee Republic has linked up 

of the filling stations will be re-branded 

under the Gazpromneft brand. another 20 

filling stations in almaty and astana will be 

launched in 2011. 

year TaTNEFT aZS-Center plans to commission 

8 more filling stations. TaTNEFT-aZS 

Center is a member of TaTNEFT Group of 

Companies within the block of crude oil and 

petroleum products sale. one of the distinct 

activities of the Company is shipment of gas 

products produced by oao TaTNEFT. The 

filling stations’ network of oao TaTNEFT 

includes 626 stations (including rented). 490 

filling stations are located in the Russian 

Federation and 136 stations in the Ukraine. 

with self-service speciality coffee bar provider 

MyCoffee. Coffee Republic CEo Tariq affara 

said: “This is a new way of reaching our customers 

and an exciting first for the Coffee Republic 

brand ... We are now looking forward to rolling 

out Coffee Republic ‘To Go’ across the country.” 



automechanika news 

at automechanika ElaFlEX presented 

innovations and features related to the ZVa 

nozzles, as well as hoses and accessories for 

gasoline, diesel, autogas and adBlue. The 

new leverassist ® for easier fuel dispensing 

with ZVa Slimline 2 nozzles allows the 

lever to be held open without effort. an 

ideal option for countries where hold-open 

latches are not allowed. The ZVG 2 nozzle 

range is now available in three coupling 

types – aCME, DISH and EURo. Elaflex’s 

recent teaming up with australian based 

l. G. Equipment is rated as a positive 

enhancement. Their GasGuard nozzle 

range perfectly complements the existing 

ZVG range. ElaFlEX also presented their 

new Vapour Recovery Stage II video and a 

display showing the possibilities of the new 

‘Direct Print’ process for manufacturing 

full colour custom made slogan badges for 

nozzles from 50 pieces. 

For Petrotec a booth – with an image 

centered on the new technologies – was 

the chosen path to demonstrate its product 

portfolio in this year’s edition of automechanika. 

Introduced for the first time 

representing “state-of-the-art” technologies 

was the Progress range of fuel dispensing 

pumps, including the new Eco Dispenser 

– Green Pump, which uses photovoltaic 

panels as an alternative and clean energy 

source. Petrotec also displayed its retail 

automation systems, with a big focus on 

aSK, a revolutionary technology for forecourt 

equipment remote management and 

breakdown diagnostics. 

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OPw, fafNIr sign distribution agreement 

oPW Fueling Components, a Dover Company, 

announced that it has reached a long-term, 

private label distribution agreement with 

FaFNIR, GmbH to distribute FaFNIR’s 

VaPoRIX Vapour Recovery Performance 

Monitoring system as part of its new aTEX 

and TUV Certified Next Generation CVS2 

Central Vacuum Stage II Vapor Recovery 

System. This innovative vapour recovery 

solution is ideally suited for retail petroleum 

Tokheim invests in fairbanks Environmental 

Tokheim announced that it has invested in 

Fairbanks Environmental ltd and has signed 

a partnership agreement to help Fairbanks 

develop its business globally. Bob Conlin 

and Steve Jones, Fairbanks Joint Managing 

Directors said, “we believe that this partnership 

gives us the best possible opportunity to 

deliver our services in new markets, whilst 

franklin fueling Systems acquire Petrotechnik 

Franklin Fueling Systems has announced 

that it has completed the acquisition of all 

outstanding shares of PetroTechnik limited 

(“PetroTechnik”) for cash. Don Kenney, President 

of Franklin Fueling Systems, stated, “The 

acquisition of PetroTechnik and its subsidiaries 

in the UK, France, Brazil, India and China, 

doubles Franklin Fueling’s global pipe and 

containment sales, doubles our revenue in 

Europe and increases our overall non-U.S. 

sales by fifty percent. “Franklin Fueling Systems 

is now able to supply customers globally 

with both the UPP brand electrofusion pipe 

certified to European (EN) standards, as 

well as the market leading aPT brand flexible 

pipe certified to U.S. (Ul) standards. 

Electrofusion pipe is the preferred technology 

fujitsu chosen by Shell 

as IT provider 

Fujitsu has been chosen by Shell as it’s future 

IT solution provider and support services 

at its service stations across 19 countries. 

Currently, IT support for forecourt controllers, 

PoS, payment card machines and back 

office systems is handled by multiple suppliers. 

Fujitsu will not only support existing 

and new IT, but will also be responsible 

for the roll-out and deployment of new site 

systems. Support of the 19 countries will 

be served by three global Fujitsu service 

centres based in North america, Europe 

and asia Pacific. 

marketers who are faced with upgrading to 

Stage II vapour recovery in order to meet newly 

legislated EU and other global vapour recovery 

compliance requirements. FaFNIR’s Managing 

Director, Rene albrecht, commented, “With 

this combined offering, petroleum operators 

receive not only a greatly enhanced vapour 

recovery and compliance solution but also 

a system that will deliver unprecedented 

RoI value”. 

maintaining our independence and allowing 

us to keep day to day operational control of the 

business”. “We are very happy to team up with 

Fairbanks, believing that our new relationship 

will accelerate the growth of Fairbanks, whilst 

giving Tokheim’s customers opportunities to 

access Fairbanks unique services”, said Patrick 

Berthon, Tokheims President. 

outside the U.S. Kenney concluded, “We are 

pleased that PetroTechnik has the confidence 

in Franklin to continue its shared vision of 

commitment to its customers. John Boudry, 

Chief Executive officer of PetroTechnik, 

will provide consulting services throughout 

the integration.” Mr. Boudry added, “This 

union is a wonderful step forward for the 

entire industry as a whole. I think it speaks 

to the globalization of the industry when 

two companies from different regions of the 

world come together in order to provide their 

customers with as broad a product offering 

as possible. Both customer bases will greatly 

benefit from this acquisition, which will also 

provide vast growth potential for two industry 

leading lines of pipe.” 

‘Hey you’ gets a visit 

from the Governor 

The state of Baden-Württemberg Governor 

Stefan Mappus visited Hectronic in Bonndorf 

to see the “HeDu”-project (Hey you), which 

is an innovative educational cooperation 

between Hectronic and Dunkermotoren. The 

lack of specialized young workers is a great 

problem for the companies in the Black Forest 

and for this reason Hectronic and Dunkermotoren 

have started cooperating to opti - 

mize their professional educational system 

by using synergy effects. Governor Mappus 

were visible delighted about the “HeDu”- 

project and the innovation of Hectronic. 


LGE joins ELafLEx 

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dresser wayne 

wins Nucleus approval 

from valero 

Dresser Wayne has announced that the 

Nucleus point-of-sale system has been 

approved by Valero Energy for implementation 

at Valero-branded fuel sites across the 

US. The Nucleus PoS system is expected 

to support revenue generation with merchandising 

functionality, such as discount 

combinations and loyalty programs. Dave 

laCaille, Director for the convenience 

store channel at Dresser Wayne, said: 

“Valero’s approval represents a winning arrangement 

from several perspectives. Fuel 

retailers benefit from the Nucleus system’s 

business-enhancing features and regulatory 

compliance, and Dresser Wayne can 

expand its presence from fuel dispensers 

on Valero-branded forecourts to include 

the PoS systems in stores”. 

also ... SaxS-KTT to 

partner dw in Germany 

Dresser Wayne has announced plans to 

form a comprehensive distribution relationship 

in Germany with SaXS- KTT, 

the German operation of the austrian 

fuel-station maintenance provider KTT 

Kremsmüller Tankstellentechnik Group. 

Combining the strengths of two industry 

leaders, the alliance provides fuel retailers 

with a trusted resource for complete site 

fuel-dispenser and point-of-sale (PoS) 

system provisioning as well as 24 / 7 maintenance 

and service. 

In an effort to mutually strengthen the distribution 

of their lPG refuelling component 

product ranges, l.G.Equipment becomes 

a member of the ElaFlEX HIBY group. 

ElaFlEX HIBY Tanktechnik GmbH & 

Co, based in Hamburg / Germany acquired 

a stake in lPG nozzle manufacturer 

l.G.Equipment Pty. ltd. (lGE), based 

in Sydney / australia. The company designs, 

manufactures and distributes the 

‘GasGuard’ lPG nozzle range. “This deal 

is a perfect synergy”, said Philip Treloar, 

Managing Director of l.G.Equipment. 

The extensive lPG as nozzle, hose and 

breakaway coupling product program, 

along with the imminent introduction of 

a new High Flow GasGuard nozzle will 

extend the opportunities for the distribution 

network. “lGE will continue to design, 

produce and distribute lPG nozzles, at 

their present location, with Philip Treloar, 

as lGE’s Managing Director.” 

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erpec delegates at Automechanika 2010 

as always, automechanika delivered a well 

organised showpiece event for the masses, 

included in which are the exhibitors and 

visitors from Hall 10 and the car wash delegations 

which frequented the outdoor car 

wash showground. Messe Frankfurt reported 

that visitors came from 180 countries, to 

see 4 486 exhibitors from 76 nations and 

that 155 000 visitors attended in 6 days. 

There were the usual grumblings of dissatisfaction 

from some exhibitors that they 

the ever smiling Air-serv team reported good business throughout the show 

fabrizio lavieri putting the finishing touches to the Bennett + sauser stand 

thomas ochmann pausing for a moment to give us a picture on the Brugg stand 

had to by enlarge talk to each other at the 

weekend, but nothing which had not been 

said many times before in previous years. 

The suggestions out there are that automechanika 

would benefit from staging 

a 3-day long exhibition focused more 

specifically towards the interests of retail 

petroleum equipment suppliers and the 

industry visitors who come to see them. 

The shortness of hotel accommodation in 

Frankfurt, leading to extortionate prices 

being charged during the fair is also a problem 

which has to be faced. From talking 

to the organisers, Messe Frankfurt, they 

are clearly aware of the situation, but as to 

whether they are able to change their format 

for just one part of their market, remains 

to be seen. Interestingly, Messe Frankfurt 

will be at erpec for the first time next year 

so perhaps this will be the perfect place to 

discuss the whole issue. 

one of the biggest stands in Hall 10 of course belongs to dresser Wayne 

the star of the istoBAl stand, the M'neX, making its debut at the show 

elAfleX Managing director stefan Kunter in deep conversation 

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Md of eurotank, edward Wheeler finds time to relax whilst business goes on ... and on. A last minute sales huddle by the franklin team, before the visitors arrive 

fAfnir, busy at the show, which recently announced an important tie up with oPW 

the unmissable colours of fibrelite dominate their lively looking stand 

the huge Kärcher presence, looking more like a truck garage than an exhibition stand 

Gilbarco Veeder-root. surely one of the busiest stands throughout the show. 

A rare moment of peace for Hectronic, who again sported German traditional dress 

All smiles from KPs sales director staffan Helleday 


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fabrice chapelain at the end of another busy day for lafon Ask us anything ... was one of the themes on the Petrotec booth 

Batuhan Kiroglu and erpec's stephen Bozdan talking nozzels on the MePsAn stand 

it's simply a matter of style, for italian pipe manufacturer nuPiGeco 

richard Quarmby of Brulines and oPW's Bora filipovic on the ever crowded oPW stand 

christ – one of the major exhibitors in the newly redesigned outdoor car wash area 

there can be no mistaking what PWM are promoting at Automechanika 

the stylish and welcoming appeal of the scheidt & Bachmann stand 

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A good show for sGB, with President Jost Berg running things from a wheelchair A colourful display as always from italian car wash manufacturer ceccatto 

françois Meersseman taking a few moments out to do his emails on the cGH stand 

Possibly the busiest, maybe the loudest, but certainly the most enjoyable stand to be on 

sandra and Aljona waving the flag for erpecnews, PetrolPlaza and erpec 

Petrotechnik's charles smith always wears this jacket on the last day of the show. Why??? 

durapipe's Alain rondeau asking clients to guess what's in the bag. Piping possibly? 

the biggest stand in the whole of Automechanika belongs to Washtec 


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Efforts to establish more than 75 new renewable 

fuel filling stations across California over 

the next two years got underway last week. 

Celebrations were held in oakland, at the 

first of 20 new alternative refueling stations 

planned for the Bay area. It was announced 

that the program, called the low Carbon Fuel 

Infrastructure Investment Initiative (lCFI3), 

will be supported by a US $ 10.9 million grant 

from the US Department of Energy and the 

SunHydro announced an agreement with 

Toyota Motor Sales, USa, Inc. (TMS) to 

place ten Toyota advanced Fuel Cell Hybrid 

Vehicles (FCHV-adv) in the Connecticut area 

this fall. The vehicles will support the new 

SunHydro solar-powered hydrogen fueling 

station, located at Proton Energy Systems’ 

headquarters in Wallingford, Conn. Proton 

ExxonMobil Personal Cardholders can earn 

a $ 50 Restaurant.com dining certificate. 

This fall, Exxon and Mobil retailers and 

Citi are giving cardholders the opportunity 

to earn a dining certificate that can 

be used at thousands of restaurants and 

online merchants. ExxonMobil Personal 

The United States, home to one of the world’s 

largest supplies of natural gas, is lagging 

behind the rest of the world in using it as a 

transportation fuel. actually, it’s “light years 

behind” the rest of the world, West Slope 

Colorado oil and Gas association Executive 

Director David ludlam told the Grand 

Junction area Chamber of Commerce. The 

association this year launched the “Missing 

Miles Initiative” with the goal of making it 

possible to travel across Colorado in a vehicle 

USA News 

75 bio-fuel filling stations in California 

California Energy Commission. Propel Fuels, 

which is putting in the new “Clean Fuel 

Points”, will match the grant with US $ 16 

million of private investment. The installation 

of greener filling stations is expected to 

create more than 450 jobs in the state, and 

see the displacement of 39 million gallons 

of petroleum. Propel’s Clean Fuel Points are 

designed to dispense both E85 ethanol fuel 

and biodiesel. 

SunHydro to receive Toyota fuel cell vehicles 

Energy Systems is the world leader in on-site 

hydrogen generation, and its equipment will 

be used at the SunHydro station. “This is a 

big step for Connecticut, our country, and the 

overall evolution of alternative fuels in the 

U.S.”, said Tom Sullivan, SunHydro founder 

and Proton Energy Systems owner. “We are 

very excited to partner with Toyota on this 

initiative, which will help connect people with 

hydrogen fuel cell technology”, said Sullivan. 

“The placement of the fuel cell vehicles in the 

Connecticut market will increase awareness 

of fuel technology and spur development 

of much-needed infrastructure prior to our 

dining-out just got easier with ExxonMobil 

U.S. trailing in natural gas for transportation 

fEaTUrEd STOrY – bUNCEfIELd 

Georgia plans for new 

fuel stations 

In what’s being hailed as the solution to the 

“chicken and egg” dilemma of which comes 

first, natural gas-fueled vehicles or the filling 

stations for them, atlanta Gas light Co. is 

pushing a plan to build a statewide network 

of stations near large fleet customers. aT & T, 

UPS, the Georgia Ports authority and the cities 

of augusta and Brunswick are lining up to 

be among the first. Even though natural gas 

is more plentiful in the United States than 

gasoline, burns cleaner and is cheaper, most 

americans have had little opportunity to use 

it to fuel their vehicles. Policy experts liken 

the situation to the old saw about “which came 

first, the chicken or the egg?” 

Global Partners acquires 

Mobil in U.S. 

planned market introduction in 2015.” Global Partners lP has closed on the first 

leg of a $ 200 million acquisition of 221 

Mobil-branded retail gas stations and supply 

Cardholders who register will earn a $ 50 

dining certificate if they purchase 100 gallons 

of gasoline within 90 days of the date 

of registration. offered by Restaurant.com, 

this certificate can be redeemed online at 

more than 15 000 restaurants and online 

merchants nationwide. 

powered by compressed natural gas. The goal 

is about to be realized with the construction 

of a filling station that will serve Grand Junction 

and Mesa County vehicles, as well as 

the buses of the Grand Valley Transit system. 

Filling stations in Rifle and Battlement Mesa 

also are coming online, ludlam said. The 

Grand Junction station is being constructed 

with the help of grants from Encana, one of 

the largest natural gas producers in Colorado 

and in the United States. 

rights for Massachusetts, New Hampshire 

and Rhode Island. all stations will continue 

to operate under the Mobil brand as part of 

a long-term branding agreement between 

ExxonMobil and Global Partners. of the 221 

stations covered under the transaction, 179 are 

located in Massachusetts, 22 in Rhode Island 

and 20 in New Hampshire. The stations sold 

approximately 370 million gallons of gasoline 

and diesel fuel in 2009. 

bP faces pressure to 

change US name 

‘after the disastrous Gulf of Mexico oil spill 

BP still remain stoic in the face of pressure 

from declining U.S. sales, boycotts, and 

protests from station owners. BP is facing 

pressure to rename its service stations but 

for station owners, changing brands isn’t easy, 

having spent tens of thousands of dollars 

in the past to be part of a well-established 

brand name.’ 

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Shell biofuels jv deal 

Brazil’s Cosan, the world’s biggest cane sugar 

and ethanol producer, should soon finalize a 

deal with oil giant Royal Dutch Shell over a 

$12 billion joint venture in biofuels, Cosan’s 

Chief Executive Marcos lutz said last week. 

The two companies signed a memorandum 

of understanding in February. at that time 

it was estimated the deal could be concluded 

in up 180 days. once the deal with Cosan is 

completed, it will mark the biggest-ever foray 

into biofuels by an oil major. The venture, 

which would create the No. 3 fuel distributor 

in latin america’s largest country, underscores 

cane ethanol’s lure as an alternative 

to gasoline. The 50 – 50 joint venture, with 

almost 4 500 filling stations nationwide, will 

better position Cosan and Shell to compete 

with the two top players on the Brazilian fuel 

distribution market, state oil giant Petrobras 

and Ipiranga, a unit of Brazil’s Grupo Ultra. 

drink can drive! 

Giving a heightened sense of virtue to whisky 

drinkers everywhere, scientists in Scotland 

have discovered a way to produce biofuel out 

of the two main by-products of the golden brew 

Using samples from the Glenkinchie Distillery, 

a producer of a popular Scotch single malt 

whisky, researchers from Edinburgh Napier 

University have produced butanol, which gives 

30 percent more power output than ethanol. 

The butanol is produced using “pot ale”, the 

leftover fluid from the copper stills, and “draff”, 

the used grains. The whisky industry, which 

draws in over $5 billion a year, produces 

bountiful amounts of both waste products 

each year. The scientists behind the innovation 

say that there is high potential for the new 

biofuel, which will hopefully be available in 

gas stations alongside regular gasoline soon. 

ALTERNATIVEFUeL News 

Italian stations install hydrogen fuel pumps 

European clean energy company acta has 

announced their plans for creating a network 

of solar-powered hydrogen fueling stations 

throughout Italy. The new pumps will work by 

harnessing solar energy to produce hydrogen 

fuel from water through the process of electrolysis. 

Using hydrogen has several advantages 

over using batteries. It doesn’t require long 

recharges and it makes emission-creating 

production lines unnecessary. and because it 

can work in tandem with batteries in a vehicle, 

it can easily become an alternative fuel in 

its own right. Italy has always been a strong 

Spain’s green scheme stalls 

The stated goal of having 2 000 electric vehicles 

on Spanish roads by the end of year will 

be unachievable. It was supposed to be the 

centrepiece of Spain’s green agenda: within 

four years a million electric cars would take to 

the roads, with battery top-up points sprouting 

up in petrol stations and disused telephone 

supporter of solar power & new legislation in 

the country makes it mandatory for all new 

fuel stations to have a minimum amount of 

photovoltaic panels installed, and to make 

available a gaseous alternative to traditional 

fuel like petrol and diesel. 

dresser wayne produce electric vehicle charger 

at automechanika last month Dresser Wayne 

demonstrated its ongoing commitment to green 

fueling technologies by exhibiting a full-scale 

concept model of an electric vehicle (EV) 

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booths across the country. “Electric vehicles 

are on their way”, said Prime Minister José 

luis Rodríguez Zapatero as he unveiled the 

plans in april. “let us get ahead and get them 

here sooner.” But figures released this week 

showed that Zapatero’s green dream is some 

way from realisation: in the first seven months 

of the year, only 16 electric cars were registered 

for use on Spanish roads. Even that was a 

sixteen fold increase on 2009, when just one 

electric car was registered. The failed attempt 

to kickstart Spain’s electric car market comes 

despite pledges of 80m euros of subsidies for 

those who buy by the end of next year – with 

the government funding 20 percent of the 

purchase, or up to 6 000 euros, on each car. 

charger. The company will focus primarily on 

DC fast-charge solutions for the independent 

retail-petroleum space, where charging time 

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www.opw-fce.com 

www.planova.com 

www.psdcodax.com 

www.ruudlighting.net & www.ruudled.net 

www.scheidt-bachmann.com 

www.secu-tech.at 

www.sloanled.com 

www.stc-norway.com 

www.tammerneon.com 

www.tanknology.com 

www.tebodin.com 

www.tokheim.com 

www.washtec.de 

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