Argos Oil is one of the largest and fastest growing independent oil companies of North West Europe; the company is active in The Netherlands, Belgium

Belgium

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, Luxembourg

Luxembourg

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, Germany

Germany

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 and France

France

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. The headquarters of Argos Oil are located in Rotterdam

Rotterdam

Rotterdam is the second-largest city in the Netherlands and one of the largest ports in the world. Starting as a dam on the Rotte river, Rotterdam has grown into a major international commercial centre...

, The Netherlands.

Argos Oil was founded in 1984 by CEO Peter Goedvolk, the 2010 turnover exceeded € 2 billion, Argos Oil employs more than 550 people.

International Trading

Argos International Trading (AIT) is active in the international trade in oil products. AIT pursues to have a right mix of price, quality and availability of oil products, both for the companies within the Argos group and third parties. Some products traded by AIT are: gas oil, Diesel, Biodiesel, vegetable oils, gasoline, and Gasoline components such as MTBE, ETBE

ETBE

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 and Ethanol

Ethanol

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. To cover the financial risks of the physical trade AIT is also active in over-the-counter financial swaps, the international oil markets, futures and options.

Production & Supply

Argos Production & Suppy is active in the production, storage and logistics of oil and energy products.

For the storage of oil products Argos operates terminals and depots in The Netherlands (Rotterdam Pernis), Belgium (Ghent), Germany (Emmerich) and France (Chalon sur Saône and Beaune la Rolande). The Argos terminal in Rotterdam Pernis is located at a deep water site, is operational 24/7 and has a storage capacity of 650,000 m3 (to be extended to 850,000 m3). The in 2010 acquired Ghent depot has a capacity of 34,000 m3. The facilities in Chalon sur Saône and Beaune la Rolande have capacities of 20,000 m3 and 70,000 m3.

Argos Oil holds a participation in one of the largest Biodiesel and Glycerin manufacturers of Europe with factories in Germany and The Netherlands. One of these plants is located on the Argos Terminal in Rotterdam Pernis. This Biodiesel plant has a capacity of 250,000 tonnes per year.

In Neuss, Germany, Argos Oil operates HummelEnergy, an electricity-generating facility that provides approximately 30,000 households with "green" energy. With the Hummel technology, heat and electricity is generated using slow rotating turbines that run on vegetable oils.

Marketing & Sales

The business units within the Argos Marketing & Sales Division focus on the trade in various oil products, including:

• Argos Wholesale: Business to Business sales of fuels. (NL, BELUX, D, F)

• Argos Service Stations: operating own petrol stations (57 under Argos, Esso, Q8 and Shell brand). Marketing of manned and unmanned Argos retail concepts (tank stations of third parties under the Argos brand), the AtTheCarwash Company wash concept and the Cuba Café coffee concept. (NL, BE, D)

• Argos River bunkers: supply of fuel, lubricants and ship supplies to the coastal and inland waterway transport (4 own bunker ships), national coverage with a focus on the port of Rotterdam. Sales of fuels to inland cruise shipping companies within Europe.

• Argos Ceebunkers: specializes in the supply of fuels and lubricants to international maritime traffic.

• Argos Lubricants: supply of lubricants of the brands Argos Supreme and Anderol Specialty Lubricants directly and via branded resellers (NL, BE, D).

• Argos home heating oil: supply of heating oil in own management (D and F) and via Argos branded resellers (BELUX: 28, D: 1)

• BK-GAS: supply of Autogas (LPG) to filling stations (NL>500, BELUX>100, D>80)

• Installation and maintenance of building heating and energy-related technical equipment.