PRODUCTS & SERVICES:
Since its establishment, PRIDE PETROLEUM Plc as proved its expertise in petroleum engineering and in various areas of petroleum products distribution and trading.

By its competence PRIDE PETROLEUM has various customers beginning motorists to industrial sector.

THE RETAIL
PRIDE PETROLEUM Plc began the creation of his service stations since 2003.

By the end of year 2008, our plan of development in Côte d'Ivoire is to create about ten service stations.

This retail will be composed of modern service stations in accordance with European and international standards as far as the safety and the respect of the environment is concerned. It will be undoubtedly a reference.

Each of these service stations will be equipped with an automatic system of gauge, permitting to computerize management of stocks.

Electronic distributors of new generation will make it possible to ensure a good service for the marketing of products (Unleaded gasoline, dual purpose kerosene, Diesel Oil).

A space will be arranged in the majority of our service stations for installing automatic teller machines and banking agencies.

CONSUMERS INSTALLATIONS
Storage units are built at the request of our industrial or institutional customers for the delivery on site of the petroleum products necessary to their consumption of:

- Gas Butane
- Unleaded gasoline
- Diesel Oil
- DDO (Diesel Distillate Oil)
- Fuel Oil

Our customers profit of the expertise of PRIDE PETROLEUM in petroleum engineering.

LUBRICANTS
PRIDE PETROLEUM commercializes lubricants of its own brand and offers technical advises lubrication to most of its customers.

This area of expertise will be reinforced with the establishment of the retail.

PRIDE PETROLEUM lubricants are from Chevron Texaco formulation and manufactured in Côte d'Ivoire by a factory belonging to the latter.

LPG AND NATURAL GAS
PRIDE PETROLEUM is one of the rare national oil-bearing companies involved in the distribution of butane in bulk in Côte d'Ivoire.

PRIDE PETROLEUM has its own delivery and means of transport of butane in bulk.

We have installed butane storage tanks for some of our industrial customers.

In medium-term several projects based on the use of natural gas will be developed.

At PRIDE PETROLEUM short-term and medium-term objectives of development, the promotion and the popularization of gas in Côte d’Ivoire and in West Africa are priorities.

BITUMEN
PRIDE PETROLEUM develops a committed trade policy in West Africa which permits it to belong to the most important bitumen trading firms.

The proximity of the refinery where the bitumen is produced by SMB (a plant of bitumen manufactory), located in Abidjan, offers a major commercial asset.

ELECTRONIC MONEY
PRIDE PETROLEUM worked out electronic money for the companies and the private individuals. This electronic smart card enables them to optimize the management of fuel consumption and to profit from various services on our retail (fuels, lubricants, washing,).
 
STORAGE
PRIDE PETROLEUM signed contracts for the storage and the delivery of its products in several petroleum terminals in West Africa.

Thus it profits from significant logistic assets:

- in Côte d'Ivoire with GESTOCI (the state company for petroleum products storage). This company has three significant installations in Abidjan (320 000 m3), in Bouaké (45 000 m3) and in Yamoussoukro (35 000 m3).


- in Benin with the SONACOP which has 5 (five) petroleum terminals for a total capacity of 200 000 m3 whose:

§ the coastal terminal with a capacity of 70 000 m3 of white products in the town of Cotonou,

§ the terminal of the port with a capacity of 20 000 m3 of fuel oil in the town of Cotonou,

§ the petroleum terminal of Semé Kraké with a capacity of 90 000 m3 for the crude oil. A project of extension will in the long term increase this capacity to 400 000 m3

- in Togo with the STSL, whose the capacities are :
§ 323 000 m3 in white products
§ 41 000 m3 in fuel oil
§ And 14 000 m3 in bitumen