By Alex P. Vidal
Two top officials of the TOTAL (Philippines) Corporation came to Iloilo City for the launching on July 26 of the TOTAL Gas station in Brgy. Tagbac, Jaro, Iloilo City.
Chairman Gary Jones and President & Managing Director Anna Whitehouse joined the local executives and representatives from the Department of Energy (DoE) and the French Embassy during the occasion which is the company’s first retail venture outside of Luzon.
Jones, who is also TOTAL Refining and Marketing Director for Asia, delivered the opening remarks followed by messages from French Ambassador Gerad Chesnel and DoE Assistant Secretary Matanog Mapandi.
FIRST FEMALE OIL
FIRM CHIEF
Whitehouse, the first woman oil company president in the Philippines, gave the closing remarks.
Iloilo City Mayor Jerry P. Treñas, Iloilo Governor Niel D. Tupas, Sr., DoE Visayas Field Office Director Antonio Labios, and TOTAL Philippines Vice President for Consumer Sales Dexter Flores also graced the launching program.
TOTAL’s other stations in the Visayas are in Rizal St., Ilawod, Cabatuan, Iloilo and in San Jose, Antique.
The world’s fourth largest oil company has poured an investment of US$80 million in the Philippines since 1997 with 84 service stations in the country. It employs 177 employees.
Both Mayor Treñas and Gov. Tupas hailed TOTAL for investing in Iloilo anew saying the putting up of oil station in Tagbac "will further boost investment opportunities in the city and province."
P22 M FOR CONVERSION
The TOTAL (Philippines) Corporation has also invested P22 million for conversion of six service stations in the country.
Its other businesses in the Visayas are consumer sales (industrial accounts), lubricants (distributorship), and Superkalan LPG (2.7 kg cylinders which is number one in local small cylinder business).
Meanwhile, TOTAL’s lubricant’s partner Elf is the 2005 Formula 1 champion Fernando Alonso of Renault and World Rally champion Sebastian Loeb of Citroen.
TOTAL will also introduce a "Pick-a-Prize Promo" with guaranteed prizes of t-shirts, P400 GC’s, caps, and others.
Established in the Philippines in August 1997, TOTAL Philippines’ oil depot and international terminal facility are located in Alas-Asin, Mariveles, Bataan (capacity: 58 million liters). It’s Manila fuel depot is located at the Manila Harbor Center, Tondo. It started its commercial operations last May 26, 2003 (capacity: 9 million liters expandable to 28 million liters)
TOTAL Philippines shares an LPG terminal located at Tabangao, Batangas (capacity: 45,000 metric tons). /MP mailto:madyaas_pen@yahoo.com
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