Petrofina

Petrofina
Company typepublic
IndustryPetroleum
PredecessorCompagnie d'Anvers
Hydrofina Edit this on Wikidata
SuccessorTotalEnergies Edit this on Wikidata
Headquarters
Belgium Edit this on Wikidata
ProductsFuels, lubricants
Revenue$
Websiten/a
Fina logo on the company's former head office in Brussels
A Fina petrol station in Trondheim, Norway in 1998.
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.[citation needed]

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,[1] but changed to PetroFina to reflect their telegraphic address name.[citation needed]

In 1981, Petrofina sold its Canadian retail operations in eastern Canada to the Canadian government and became part of Petro-Canada.[2]

Petrofina merged with Total S.A. of France to form TotalFina and with Elf in 2000 to form TotalFinaElf. The company's current name is TotalEnergies (since 2021).[3][4]

  1. ^ Vassiliou, Marius S. (24 September 2009). The A to Z of the Petroleum Industry. Scarecrow Press. p. 392. ISBN 978-0-8108-7066-6.
  2. ^ Giniger, Henry (3 February 1981). "Canada Buying Unit of PetroFina." The New York Times. Retrieved on 1 June 2017.
  3. ^ "Total merges with Petrofina". BBC News. 1 December 1998. Retrieved 13 August 2024.
  4. ^ "Merger of TOTAL with PetroFina in 1999". Total: Publications. Retrieved 1 October 2020.