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New businesses and international expansion
New businesses and international expansion
Since 2021, Exolum has continued its international expansion and increased its involvement in new sectors. In aviation, the company has consolidated its presence in countries like Portugal, France and Peru. We also work closely with operators and airlines in strategic alliances to promote the use of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), with the aim of achieving effective decarbonisation of air transport.
Exolum has also strengthened its decarbonisation and diversification strategy by becoming a shareholder in an ammonia storage, import and export terminal located in the Houston Ship Channel in the United States.
The company also actively participates in a number of tech start-ups, managing innovative logistics projects that seek to provide sustainable energy solutions, promoting the decarbonisation of society through the use of renewable hydrogen.
2021
Exolum
Exolum
In 2021, we began operating under the Exolum brand, the result of the transformation the company has undergone in recent years.
We no longer only carry out storage and transport activities for oil products in Spain, but we also provide storage, management and transport services for various liquid products in nine countries, and we have begun to operate in new sectors, such as renewable energies and eco-fuels.
This new stage delivers on our desire to lead into the future, focused on adapting our business to decarbonisation and the energy transition, on the digitalisation of our activities and the fight against climate change.
2020
Acquisition of new terminals
Acquisition of new terminals
2020 saw the CLH Group consolidate growth, with the acquisition of 15 liquid product storage facilities from Inter Terminals. Inter Terminals specialises in the storage of bulk liquid products in Northern Europe.
Its origins date back to 1929, with its first storage terminal at the English town of Imminghan near the North Sea, a short distance south of the Humber Estuary. Under the Simon Storage brand, the company grew to manage new storage terminals in the UK and Ireland.
In 2005, the terminals were acquired by Inter Pipeline, one of the world's leading energy infrastructure companies, dedicated to the transportation, processing and storage of energy products in Western Canada and Europe. In subsequent years, Inter Pipeline continued to expand its liquid product logistics network, with the acquisition of new storage terminals in Germany, Denmark, Sweden and the Netherlands. In order to standardise operation across the network, the subsidiary Inter Terminals was founded.
In 2020, the CLH Group reached an agreement to purchase the terminals in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Germany and the Netherlands. Inter Pipeline continues to manage the Danish and Swedish terminals.
2015
CLH-PS (CLH Pipeline System)
CLH-PS (CLH Pipeline System)
CLH-PS was created in 2015, after CLH purchased GPSS (Government Pipelines and Storage System), a system of pipelines and storage facilities managed until then by the UK Ministry of Defence, from the British Government.
This network was created in the years leading up to the Second World War to deliver fuel to military aircraft and vehicles involved in the conflict. Even during the aerial attack on Britain, the Ministry continued to build new pipelines and tanks, which had the unique feature of being half-buried, to protect them from possible air attacks.
After World War II, most of the system was mothballed until it was brought back into service during the Cold War. It was not until the end of this period, in the late 1980s, that GPSS modernised its business model and opened its infrastructure to the private sector, connecting its logistics system to UK refineries and major airports, provided that the original purpose of supplying fuel for defence purposes remained unaffected and it would not require public investment.
In 2012, the UK Government announced its plans to sell GPSS and amend the legislation to make this possible. CLH was the company chosen for the purchase, after participating in the sale tender organised by the Ministry of Defence.
1993
CLH (Compañía Logística de Hidrocarburos)
CLH (Compañía Logística de Hidrocarburos)
Following the spin-off of CAMPSA's assets, we became CLH (Compañía Logística de Hidrocarburos) and began to focus exclusively on the transport and storage of hydrocarbons in a liberalized market.
To achieve this, we have made great efforts to incorporate the most modern technology, allowing us to automate most of our processes and centralise control of our activities.
In 1993, the aviation branch of activity was spun off and integrated into a newly created company called CLH Aviation.
Since 2012, we have embarked on a major process of diversification and international expansion, extending our activities to new countries such as Oman, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Panama and Ecuador.
1927
CAMPSA
CAMPSA
The company was founded in Spain in 1927, under the name CAMPSA (Compañía Arrendataria del Monopolio de Petróleos), to manage a group of oil-related activities over which the State held a monopoly, such as storage, distribution and retail sale of oil products.
CAMPSA was originally a mixed company until 1977, when the State took a stake of more than 50%.
Spain's entry into the European Common Market in 1986 was preceded by an intense process of legislative reforms to liberalise activities related to oil products, which, among other changes, turned CAMPSA into a company majority-owned by refining companies.
This process culminated in 1992, with the extinction of the Oil Monopoly, after 65 years of existence, and the segregation of CAMPSA's commercial assets in favour of its refining partners (REPSOL, PETRONOR, CEPSA and BP).
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