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Petron Corp. () is the largest oil refining and marketing company in the Philippines, supplying more than a third of the country’s oil requirements. Petron operates a refinery in Limay, Bataan, with a rated capacity of . From the refinery, Petron moves their products mainly by sea to 32 depots and terminals in the country. They operate a lube oil blending plant at their Pandacan Terminal, where it manufactures lubes and greases. Petron is public company listed on the Philippine Stock Exchange. A 51-percent stake is owned by the Philippine food and beverage giant San Miguel Corporation (SMC) while the Ashmore Group owns 40 percent. The remaining shares—about 9 percent—are held by the public. ==History== Petron's history dates back to September 7, 1933 when the Socony Vacuum Oil Company of New York and Standard Oil of New Jersey formed the Standard Vacuum Oil Company (Stanvac). The end of the venture in the early 1960s split the marketing and refining interests of the company between Mobil (the renamed Socony Vacuum Oil Company) and Esso (the renamed of Standard Oil New Jersey, soon to be Exxon), with its Philippine branch now named ''Esso Philippines'', with offices in Manila and later on in Makati. In 1953, the Philippine national government, partly to promote Claro M. Recto's national industrialization program and partly to respond to increasing international oil prices, attempted to launch a national oil company that caters Filipino consumers with cheap oil. FilOil, the first Philippine oil company was established as a result. In 1973, Esso sold its business to the government which became the Philippine National Oil Company (PNOC). Subsequently, Mobil also sold its share of the refinery to PNOC. The oil refining and marketing units in PNOC, along with FilOil, were eventually merged to form Petrophil, which was later renamed as Petron in 1988. Today the company's industrial earnings have never seen such high gains but still trade within the average global yield. Presently, CEO Ross Arroyo leads the 18th-ranked Philippine Oil Co. within the Eastern Hemisphere. The name ''Petron'' used to be a gasoline brand of Petrophil. Launched in 1974, the name came from petroleum (PET) and research octane number (RON). As part of the government's privatization program, PNOC sought a strategic partner that would give Petron a reliable supply of oil, plus access to state-of-the-art refining technology. The result was a partnership with the world's largest oil producer, Saudi Aramco. On February 3, 1994, PNOC and Aramco Overseas Co. BV signed a share purchase agreement that gave both a 40% stake in Petron. The remaining 20% of Petron shares were sold to the public. On August 11, 2006, a Petron oil tanker, the Solar 1, carrying fuel oil sank, causing the Guimaras oil spill, the biggest oil spill in the Philippine history. At the beginning of 2008, the Philippine National Oil Company (PNOC) and Saudi Aramco each owned 40% of the outstanding stock, with the remaining 20% held by thousands of individual stockholders. In 2008, Saudi Aramco sold its entire stake to the Ashmore Group, a London-listed investment group. Then Ashmore added 11 percent more when it made a required tender offer to other shareholders, for a total stake of 51 percent. As of July 2008, Ashmore, through its SEA Refinery Holdings BV, had a 50.57 percent of Petron's stock. Ashmore's payment was made on December 2008. In December 2008, Ashmore acquired PNOC's 40-percent stake. On December 2008, San Miguel Corporation said it was in the final stages of negotiations with the Ashmore Group to buy up to 50.1 percent of Petron. On March 30, 2012, Petron acquired ExxonMobil's downstream business in Malaysia in with XCEL Petroleum. In January 2013, Petron officially opened their Malaysian operations, rebranding all Esso and Mobil stations across Peninsular Malaysia.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Introducing Petron Corp. of the Philippines, Now in Malaysia )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Petron Corporation」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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