Teboil
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Oy Teboil Ab is an oil company
Petroleum industry
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 in Finland
Finland
Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...

, engaged in the marketing, sales and distribution of oil
Petroleum
Petroleum or crude oil is a naturally occurring, flammable liquid consisting of a complex mixture of hydrocarbons of various molecular weights and other liquid organic compounds, that are found in geologic formations beneath the Earth's surface. Petroleum is recovered mostly through oil drilling...

 and energy products, and service station
Filling station
A filling station, also known as a fueling station, garage, gasbar , gas station , petrol bunk , petrol pump , petrol garage, petrol kiosk , petrol station "'servo"' in Australia or service station, is a facility which sells fuel and lubricants...

 activities in Finland. It is a subsidiary of the Russia
Russia
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n company Lukoil
LUKoil
Lukoil/LUKoil ; ) is Russia's second largest oil company and its second largest producer of oil. In 2009, the company produced 97.615 million tons of oil; ....

.

History

Teboil was established by Estonian shale oil
Shale oil
Shale oil, known also as kerogen oil or oil-shale oil, is an unconventional oil produced from oil shale by pyrolysis, hydrogenation, or thermal dissolution. These processes convert the organic matter within the rock into synthetic oil and gas...

 company Eesti Kiviõli in Helsinki
Helsinki
Helsinki is the capital and largest city in Finland. It is in the region of Uusimaa, located in southern Finland, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, an arm of the Baltic Sea. The population of the city of Helsinki is , making it by far the most populous municipality in Finland. Helsinki is...

 in 1934 at the name Trustivapaa Bensiini (meaning: "Trust-free
Trust (19th century)
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 Petrol
Gasoline
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"), abbr. TB, from which came the current name in 1966. Another predecessor of Teboil, Suomen Petrooli, was established by German investors in Vyborg
Vyborg
Vyborg is a town in Leningrad Oblast, Russia, situated on the Karelian Isthmus near the head of the Bay of Vyborg, to the northwest of St. Petersburg and south from Russia's border with Finland, where the Saimaa Canal enters the Gulf of Finland...

 in 1932. During the World War II
World War II
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, the ownership of Trustivapaa Bensiini was transferred to German owners and later the company was held by the Ehrnrooth
Ehrnrooth
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's family. After the Continuation War, in 1947 according to the Paris Peace Treaty
Paris Peace Treaties, 1947
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 TB became affiliated and it became the property of the Soviet Union
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....

 state-owned company Soyuznefteexport. In 1966, the company changed its name to Teboil, which came from the pronouncing of its abbreviation TB with addition 'oil'. During these years, the Finnish government enterprise Neste
Neste Oil
Neste Oil is a Finnish oil refining and marketing company producing mainly transportation fuels and other refined petroleum products. Neste Oil shares are quoted on the Helsinki Stock Exchange.- History :...

 held a legal monopoly in the wholesale of oil products, thus also Teboil actually obtained its gasoline and diesel from Neste.

In 1994 Soyuznefteexport was privatized and reorganized into Nafta-Moskva. In 2005, Nafta-Moskva sold Teboil to Lukoil. Teboil acquired JET unmanned stations chain in Finland, from the American
United States
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 company ConocoPhillips
ConocoPhillips
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 in 2006 and they were integrated into the Teboil chain as Teboil Express unmanned stations in 2007. The lubricant
Lubricant
A lubricant is a substance introduced to reduce friction between moving surfaces. It may also have the function of transporting foreign particles and of distributing heat...

 factory and laboratory functions of Teboil was moved to the subsidiary LLK Finland, founded in 2007. The three subsidiaries, Suomen Petrooli, Suomen Tähtihovit and Suomen Tähtiautomaatit were merged to the parent company in 2008.

Service station network

At the end of year 2007 there were 354 business locations, of which 168 service stations, 180 unmanned refuelling stations and 6 boat stations. The renewal of the service station concept launched in 2008 enables the use of K-Plussa
Kesko
Kesko is a Finnish retailing conglomerate. It is engaged in the food trade, the home and specialty goods trade, the building and home improvement trade, and the car and machinery trade...

 cards and brings K-markets into about 70 Teboil stations. The range of café and restaurant services will be improved by around 100 Rolls and Jokes hamburger units. The brand Autoasi ("Of Your Car") works in the car maintenance and spare parts services of Teboil Service Centres. Commercial traffic is served by around 400 refuelling stations, of which about 214 are unmanned diesel points.

Market shares

Teboil is the second-largest oil company in Finland with a 26,2 %. The revenue was €1.7 billion and the number of employees of 520.

Sale shares:
  • petrol 19.5%
  • diesel 27.1%
  • light heating oil
    Heating oil
    Heating oil, or oil heat, is a low viscosity, flammable liquid petroleum product used as a fuel for furnaces or boilers in buildings. Home heating oil is often abbreviated as HHO...

     31.2%
  • heavy heating oil 43.4%
  • liquid gas
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    13.5%
  • lubricants 23.5%
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