Petrofina
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thumb|Fina logo on the company's former head office in Brussels thumb|right|A Fina petrol station in Trondheim, [[Norway in 1998.]] thumb|right|A closed Fina petrol station in Florida, US. Petrofina was a Belgian oil company. It merged with Total in 1999 to form TotalFina, which after subsequent mergers has changed its name back to Total. In the United States, Fina's former refining and marketing operations are now owned by Delek US.
Key facts
- Company.name
- Petrofina
- Company.logo
- Fina enamel advert sign at the den hartog ford museum pic-092.JPG
- Company.type
- public
- Company.fate
- Merged with Total S.A. to form TotalFinaElf
- Company.revenue
- $
- Company.industry
- Petroleum
- Company.products
- Fuels, lubricants
- Company.homepage
- n/a
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Wikidata facts
- Country
- Belgium
- Headquarters
- Brussels metropolitan area
- Parent organization
- TotalEnergies
- Industry
- petroleum industry
- Followed by
- TotalEnergies
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- Commons category
- Petrofina
- inception
- 1920-00-00
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 1999-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
7 sectionsContents
- History
- Fina in the United States - "Pink Air" and "Pflash"
- US Fina assets now owned by Alon USA
- BMW Motorsport
- NASCAR sponsorship
- References
- External links
thumb|Fina logo on the company's former head office in Brussels thumb|right|A Fina petrol station in Trondheim, [[Norway in 1998.]] thumb|right|A closed Fina petrol station in Florida, US. Petrofina was a Belgian oil company. It merged with Total in 1999 to form TotalFina, which after subsequent mergers has changed its name back to Total. In the United States, Fina's former refining and marketing operations are now owned by Delek US.
==History== Petrofina was founded on 25 February 1920 by Auguste Diagre, Hector Carlier his brother Fernand and Aloys Van de Vyvere as an Antwerp-based group called Compagnie Financière Belge des Pétroles, but changed to PetroFina to reflect their telegraphic address name.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Petrofina” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.