founded 1988 1988 headquarters the hague netherlands area served global services oil owner oilinvest group number of employees 1 300 direct employees 2013 parent oilinvest group subsidiaries tamoil nederland b.v. netherlands tamoil italia s.p.a italy deutsche tamoil gmbh germany tamoil s.a. switzerland website tamoil group official website service station in the netherlands holborn refinery germany tamoil is the trading name of the oilinvest group a fuel energy provider within the european downstream oil and gas sector . the oilinvest group refines crude oil and markets refined oil products primarily under the tamoil and the hem brands in europe . the oilinvest group is involved in supplying trading refining and selling petroleum products in italy germany switzerland spain and the netherlands and carries out its trading activities from cyprus . the headquarters of oilinvest netherlands b.v. is located in the world trade center the hague from where it oversees all its investments in the european oil downstream markets . the ceo is mr. asim gusbi . contents 1 history 2 overview 2013 2.1 operations 2.2 refining 2.3 lubricants 3 references 4 external links history edit the origins of the oilinvest group date back to 1988 when the group was established to consolidate a number of european energy investments that were made by the libyan state . the tamoil brand name was born following the acquisition of a refinery and a retail network in italy . during the 1990s oilinvest expanded its tamoil brand rapidly by increasing its position in italy and entering markets in switzerland 1990 germany 1991 spain 1992 and the netherlands 1993 before moving into egypt in 1993 . from 2000 onwards oilinvest expanded its activities in africa in over 19 african countries before selling the african business to another libyan company . oilinvest formally severed its link to the muammar gaddafi government of libya in 2011 by moving most of its stock from the libyan government to a dutch stichting foundation which allowed the company to continue operation despite eu sanctions on libya . 1 as of september 2012 it had returned to 70 % ownership by the libyan national oil corporation and 30 % by the libyan government . 2 overview 2013 edit 6 european countries 2.462 service stations 1.300 direct employees 10.6 billion euro turnover 2.470 retail outlets 4.3 billion liters sales of oil products to end users 8.4 kiloton of oil products to whole sellers 160.000 barrels per day refining capacity trading 60 million barrels of crude oil 12.140 metric tons of lubricants sales operations edit the oilinvest group is currently operating under its tamoil and hem brands in italy germany switzerland spain and the netherlands and carries out its trading activities from cyprus . italy supply logistics wholesale retail lubricant production 1.580 service stations switzerland refining supply logistics wholesale retail 303 service stations germany refining supply logistics wholesale retail 405 service stations spain retail 23 service stations the netherlands logistics retail 151 service stations cyprus trading supply shipping refining edit the oilivest group owns several refineries in europe . the refined products produced by these refineries are sold primarily through the group s retail networks and wholesale channels . lubricants edit the oilinvest group is involved in the blending marketing and trading of lubricants . the group is primarily present in three distinct lines of lubricants automotive industrial and greases . references edit gray block aaron 24 august 2011 . libya s tamoil cuts links with gaddafi state investors . reuters . retrieved 28 july 2015 . yee april 30 september 2012 . europe refiner majority owned by libya rises from ashes . the national . retrieved 28 july 2015 . external links edit tamoil group official website oilinvest retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title tamoil & oldid 742712586 categories oil and gas companies of libyaoil companies of the netherlandsdutch brandsautomotive fuel brandshidden categories official website different in wikidata and wikipedia navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version in other projects wikimedia commons languages deutschfran aisitalianonederlandspolskirumantsch t rk e edit links this page was last modified on 5 october 2016 at 09 26 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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