Exolum has also strengthened its decarbonisation and diversification strategy, having become shareholder of an ammonia storage, import and export terminal in the Houston Ship Channel (US).

Additionally, the company actively participates in different technological start-ups and manages innovative logistics projects aimed at providing sustainable energy solutions, boosting the decarbonisation of society through the use of renewable hydrogen.

We no longer merely perform oil product storage and transportation activities in Spain, but also provide storage, management and transportation services for diverse liquid products across nine countries, and have expanded into new sectors such as renewable energy and eco-fuel.

This new era was prompted by our intention to remain at the forefront in the future, focused on adapting our business to decarbonisation and the energy transition, digitalising our activities and the fight against climate change.

In 2020, the CLH Group reached an agreement to purchase the terminals located in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Germany and the Netherlands. Inter Pipeline continues to manage the terminals located in Denmark and Sweden.

This network had been created in the years prior to the Second World War to supply fuel to military aircraft and vehicles used in the war. During the offensive, the Ministry continued to construct new pipelines and tanks, which were unusual because they were partially underground to protect them from potential air raids.

When World War II ended, most of the system fell into disuse until it was recommissioned during the Cold War. It was not until the end of this period, in the late eighties, that GPSS modernised its commercial model, opening up its infrastructure to the private sector, connecting its logistics system to the UK’s refineries and to the main airports, under the condition that its initial aim of supplying fuel for defence purposes and not requiring the investment of public funds remained unaffected.

In 2012, the British government announced its plans to sell GPSS, changing the legislation in order to make this possible, and CLH was the company chosen for the purchase after participating in the tender process organised by the Ministry of Defence.

In 1997, the spin-off of the aviation business took place, thus creating a new company in the group, CLH Aviación.

Starting in 2012, we began to undertake an important process of diversification and international expansion, extending our activities to new countries such as Oman, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Panama and Ecuador. 

Spain’s entry into the European Economic Community in 1986 was preceded by an intense process of legislative reform to liberalise oil-related activities, prompting CAMPSA to become a company in which refineries were the majority shareholders, among other changes.

This process was completed in 1992, leading to the end of the oil monopoly after 65 years in existence and the distribution of CAMPSA’s commercial activities to its refinery partners (REPSOL, PETRONOR, CEPSA and BP).