ARMO oil refiner
ARMO oil refiner is one of the two oil refiners in Albania.[1] It owns oil refineries at Ballsh and Fier, research center, 11 depots, a small network of fuel stations, and the Vlorë Terminal located in the south coast on Adriatic sea.[2] The CEO of Armo Energy is Rezart Taci.[3] Mr. Taci is also the head of Taçi Oil[4][5]
The Ballsh refinery is the largest refinery in Albania and has a designed capacity 1 million tonnes per year. Fier refinery has a capacity of 500 thousand tonnes per year and is designed mainly to produce bitumen.
In 2008, 85% of ARMO shares was sold to the U.S-Swiss consortium Refinery Associates of Texas and Anika Enterprises SA (other companies were involved in initial talks, but did not participate in the purchase) [6] for €128.7 million.[7][8][9] Other bids were made by Petrofac, Penta Investments and Vitol.[2]
As of the fall of 2012, ARMO Energy employs over 1,500 people and has a refining capacity of 1.5 million tons with a storage capacity of 220,000 cubic meters.[10]
References
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- ^ "Message from Taci Oil CEO Rezart TaciTaçi Oil, International". Archived from the original on 2013-02-03. Retrieved 2012-10-25.
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- ^ "US, Swiss investors buy an Albanian oil refiner". New Europe. 2008-06-23. Archived from the original on 2011-07-22. Retrieved 2009-05-16.
- ^ "U.S. investors win control of Albania's only oil refiner". Forbes. 2008-05-21. Archived from the original on 2010-08-15. Retrieved 2009-05-16.
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