Our History

Petroplus was established in 1993. Some of the following milestones helped us develop into an important player in the European midstream oil market.

1993
Petroplus International B.V. is founded.

July 1998
Petroplus is listed on the Euronext Amsterdam.

May 2000
We acquire the Cressier/Switzerland refinery and its associated wholesale marketing business from Shell Switzerland.

December 2000
We acquire the Teesside refinery and its wholesale marketing businesses from PIP Ltd.

March 2005
We reacquire private status and are delisted from the Euronext Amsterdam.

May 2006
We recruit a new management team, including Thomas D. O'Malley as our new chief executive officer and chairman of our executive board.

June 2006
We acquire European Petroleum Holdings N.V., including the BRC refinery in Antwerp, Belgium, and related supply and distribution assets from Sovereign Holding Limited (Bermuda).

August 2006
We sell Petroplus Tankstorage, Frisol, Oxyde Chemical, 4Gas and other non-core assets. We also changed our country of incorporation from Bermuda to Switzerland.

November 2006
Petroplus launches initial public offering on the Swiss stock exchange.

March 2007
We acquire the Ingolstadt refinery in Germany and the associated Bayern Marketing business.

May 2007
We acquire the Coryton refinery in the United Kingdom.

March 2008
Petroplus acquires the Petit Couronne and Reichstett refineries located in France.

March 2008
Petroplus enters into a partnership ("PBF") with the Blackstone Group and First Reserve, to pursue acquisitions of crude oil refineries in the United States.

September 2009
Jean-Paul Vettier is appointed CEO of the Company.

November 2009
The Teesside refining operations are suspended and process to convert site into a marketing and storage terminal begins.