Cepsa Explained

Moeve
Type:Sociedad Anónima Unipersonal
Foundation: in Madrid, Spain
Location City:Madrid
Location Country:Spain
Location:Torre Cepsa
Paseo de la Castellana 259, Cuatro Torres Business Area
Area Served:Worldwide
Key People:Musabbeh Ali Alkaabi, Chair
Maarten Wetselaar, CEO[1]
Industry:Electrical energy
Petroleum
Products:Hydrogen
Petroleum
Natural gas
Motor fuels
Aviation fuels
Services:Service stations
Revenue: €24.71 billion (2018)
Operating Income: €1.218 billion (2018)
Net Income: €843.07 million (2018)
Assets: €13.16 billion (2018)[2]
Equity: €5.54 billion (2018)
Owners:Mubadala Investment Company (82.5%) (Based in United Arab Emirates) Rhiannon de Marichalar (17.5%)
Num Employees: 10,119 (2018)

Moeve, formerly known as Cepsa, (Spanish; Castilian: Compañía Española de Petróleos, Sociedad Anónima, "Spanish petroleum company, S.A.")[3] is a Spanish multinational energy integrated company headquartered at Torre Cepsa in the Cuatro Torres Business Area in Madrid, Spain. It operates in several European countries as well as in Algeria, Canada, Colombia, Morocco, Brazil, and Panama. The company currently produces around 260000oilbbl/d and has a refining capacity in three refineries of 21 million tonnes/year.

History

Cepsa was founded in 1929 as a private company led by Francisco Recasens, with its first refinery located at Tenerife in the Canary Islands. Because of the CAMPSA state monopoly of fuel distribution, Cepsa sold its production to that company.[4] It expanded to lubricant production in 1950 and petrochemical products in 1955. In 1964 it opened a factory in Portugal, and in 1967 it added a second refinery at San Roque de Cádiz. After relaxations of the state monopoly, Cepsa bought a portion of Campsa petrol stations in 1992.

In 1988, Abu Dhabi's International Petroleum Investment Company (IPIC) bought a 10% stake of Cepsa. Later Elf Aquitaine bought a 20% stake, and Cepsa became a publicly traded company in 1989. Cepsa bought a third refinery in Huelva in 1991, and entered the liquefied petroleum gas market in 1998. The company expanded to the United Kingdom, Netherlands, Canada, Algeria, Brazil, Colombia and Peru. In 2011 IPIC bought the full company for 267 million euros.[5]

In November 2013, the firm agreed to buy Coastal Energy Co for around $2.21 billion.[6]

On October 30, 2024, Cepsa oficially changed its name to Moeve, a measure destined to reflect its orientation towards sustainable strategies and low-emitting energy projects.[7]

Sponsorship

Cepsa has sponsored the Spain national football team since 2007 and since 2011 has been one of the major sponsors of the Toro Rosso Formula One racing team until 2015 but not directly supplying fuels and lubricants.[8]

Notes and References

  1. News: Jopson. Barney. 23 Dec 2022. Pipe or cable? Companies split on best way to transport European energy. Financial Times. 23 Dec 2022.
  2. Web site: CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS For the year ended December 31, 2018. 31 December 2018. CEPSA. 27 June 2019.
  3. News: Escolar . Arsenio . El petróleo ahora mancha incluso las marcas y la reputación . 7 November 2024 . elDiario.es . 6 November 2024 . es-ES.
  4. Book: Etchemendy, Sebastian . Models of Economic Liberalization . 2011 . Cambridge University Press . 978-0-511-83522-3 . New York. 10.1017/cbo9780511835223 .
  5. Web site: Cespa. Cespa company information. 2012-09-18. https://web.archive.org/web/20130610233605/http://www.cepsa.com/cepsa/Who_we_are/The_Company/Shareholding/. 2013-06-10. dead.
  6. News: Spain's Cepsa to buy Coastal Energy in deal worth $2.2 billion . Sakthi Prasad . Reuters . 19 November 2013 . 30 June 2017 . 24 September 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150924190953/http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/11/19/us-coastalenergy-offer-cepsa-idUSBRE9AI04O20131119 . live .
  7. Web site: Cepsa pasa a llamarse Moeve para reflejar su apuesta por el 'verde'. 30 October 2024. 30 October 2024. Diario ABC. es-ES.
  8. Book: CEPSA renews its sponsorship of the Spanish National Football Team . 2012.