With the founding of Petronord Energie- und Wärmekonzepte GmbH, this company - initially under the name PROVISTA Zweihundertsiebenundsechzigste Verwaltungsgesellschaft mbH - takes over and pushes forward the activities in the end-consumer business that have been ongoing at Mabanaft since the 1980s. Petronord acts as a holding company for medium-sized mineral oil dealers. The beginning of a success story that enables traders to assert themselves in the increasingly competitive energy market in the form of individual participation and cooperation models. In 2014, the company was renamed Petronord GmbH & Co. KG.

At the same time as Petronord Energie- und Wärmekonzepte GmbH is founded, the business operations of Mühlenbruch Stinnes GmbH &Co. KG, which previously belonged to Mabanaft's end-consumer business, are transferred to Petronord. Mühlenbruch Stinnes is a medium-sized company that has been active in the mineral oil trade in the Bremen area for decades at this point. The focus is on the heating oil end-consumer business, whereby the company supplies not only private, but also industrial and commercial customers. With Mühlenbruch Stinnes as number one, the development of the Petronord Group's end-consumer business begins.

Klindworth Mineralölhandel joined the group in October 1998 and Kronol Mineralölhandel in September 1999. With these companies Petronord acquires two Hamburg-based companies whose main focus is on the sale of heating oil products and on tank and heating technology. Klindworth and Kronol's customer base includes both private households and property management companies. From 2001 onwards, Klindworth Mineralölhandel and Kronol Mineralölhandel form one company and trade under the name Klindworth-Kronol.

In December 1998, Petronord's first individual investment model is created, which runs the business activities of Friedrich Wittemöller KG under the name Wittemöller Mineralöle GmbH. Friedrich Wittemöller KG is a long-established family business that has been operating in the market as a distribution partner of Esso AG for decades. In addition to the classic heating oil and diesel business and its own petrol stations, the company focuses on the lubricants segment. Furthermore, Wittemöller Mineralöle has a tank farm on the Mittelland Canal and thus a direct connection to shipping.

Lipps Mineralöle GmbH has been a member of the Petronord Group since November 1999. The family-owned company, founded in 1869, supplies private customers and commercial enterprises with heating oil and diesel fuel from Hagen-Hohenlimburg in the southern Ruhr area, Märkischer Kreis and Sauerland. The lubricants business and the operation of its own card filling stations are also part of Lipps' product portfolio.

The Digol Group - a traditional company in the Fulda area - is one of the first victims of the price war at petrol stations in mid-2000. While OIL! Tankstellen GmbH & Co. KG takes over the group's petrol stations, Petronord acquires the company's trading activities. In addition to private households, Digol supplies customers from the commercial, industrial and agricultural sectors with heating oil, diesel, carburetor fuels and lubricants.

The Petronord shareholding Wittemöller Mineralöle and the companies Hempelmann and Kemena merge to form NEWCo Neue Energie- und Wärmekonzepte. In addition to mineral oil trading, the new group of companies operates card filling stations especially for transport companies, which are now networked throughout Europe under the tankpool24 brand. As an ISO-certified lubricant expert, NEWCo is one of ExxonMobil's largest lubricant partners in Germany.

During the merger of the three companies, the logistics are bundled in Petrocargo Mineralöllogistik. The main customer is initially NEWCo, but Petrocargo also offers export support to other mineral oil companies in the region.

In November 2001, Petronord takes over all 33 petrol stations for commercial heavy-duty transport from Staack Mineralölhandel GmbH and the associated customer base into the newly founded Staack Pooltankstellen GmbH. At the same time, the company becomes a member of tankpool24 and continues to expand its business under the tankpool24 brand.

Founded in 1899, the company Kaiser Söhne GmbH, based in Arnsberg, looks back on a history of more than one hundred years as a mineral oil trader. At the time of the takeover, Kaiser Söhne had belonged to ESSO Rhein-Ruhr for several years. Together with Karl-Josef Brachthäuser from Finnentrop - also a strategic sales partner of ExxonMobil - the company Lipps Mineralöle takes over the company. Kaiser Söhne specialises in the distribution of lubricants and in 2003 Lipps Mineralöle transfers its lubricants business completely to them.

Since 1999, Mabanaft has been operating its end-user business in the Frankfurt area under the name Benol Energieservice. As part of further company acquisitions, Mabanaft's corresponding activities in Karlsruhe and the surrounding area have also belonged to Benol as a branch office since 2001. In 2002, Mabanaft transfers Benol to Petronord. Both Benol in Frankfurt and the Karlsruhe location sell heating oil to end-consumer households and also supply diesel and petrol to commercial and municipal customers as well as industrial companies in addition to heating oil.

On 1 January 2003 Petronord, together with the Deglmann family, takes over the business operations of Deglmann Energie GmbH & Co. KG. The new company acquires the end-consumer business of Deglmann Mineralöl GmbH, headquartered in Weiden. Deglmann Mineralöl GmbH is a long-established regional mineral oil trading company and long-standing Shell sales partner. The company operates branches in Weiden, Schwandorf and Regensburg.

Together with Richard Böttcher, Petronord takes over the business operations of Böttcher Energie GmbH & Co. KG as of 1 March 2003. During this, the new company acquires the end-consumer business of Böttcher & Huber, Regensburg. Böttcher & Huber is a mineral oil trading company that has been based in the region for a long time and whose origins can be found in the coal trade. As a now established energy trader, the product range extends from heating oil and pellets to diesel and lubricants.

On 1 January 2004, Mabanaft Austria Holding GmbH & Co. KG acquired a stake in Manfred Mayer MMM Mineralölvertriebsgesellschaft mbH in Austria, with the Mayer family holding the remaining shares. Since the early 1970s, MMM has been supplying households, commercial and industrial enterprises as well as discount petrol stations and heating oil dealers in Burgenland as well as in Vienna, Lower Austria and Styria. The product and service portfolio ranges from heating oils and lubricants to fuels and mineral oil transport. Like the orientation of Petronord's investments in Germany, the involvement in the end-consumer business in Austria initially serves to support the trading business of Mabanaft Austria. From the beginning, Petronord is responsible for the company's technical aspects. Later, the participation of Mabanaft Austria is transferred to Petronord.

The strategic decision of ExxonMobil to distribute lubricants in Austria exclusively through regional dealers leads to NEWCo and Manfred Mayer MMM jointly founding a new company, LSA - short for Lubes Services Austria - in October 2005. From the very beginning, LSA has been one of ExxonMobil's strategic distribution partners in Austria and, as a medium-sized mineral oil trading company, distributes the entire product range of the Mobil and Esso brands for industry, trade, and commerce in large parts of Austria from its headquarters in Vienna.

On 1 January 2007, Petronord acquires the end consumer businesses of Klaus Hartmann GmbH and Digol Energie GmbH. During this, the two companies will be merged under the umbrella of the newly founded company Hartmann Energie GmbH & Co. KG in Oberleichtersbach (Franconian/Bavarian Rhön). The Klaus Hartmann company is a long-established mineral oil trading company and has had a close business relationship with Mabanaft Frankfurt for many years.

Klaus Hartmann took over the business of Digol Energie with its locations in Künzell and Schmalkalden from Petronord in May 2005. With the acquisition of the two companies on 1 January 2007, Digol Energie returns to the Petronord Group as a branch of Hartmann Energie.

Together with Lars Keck, Petronord acquires the end consumer business of Erich Keck e.K. on 1 January 2008 and transfers it to the new company Keck Energieservice GmbH & Co. KG, Brakel. Erich Keck e.K. is an established mineral oil trading company in the region. In addition to the classic heating oil and diesel business, the company is both a shareholder of tankpool24 with 37 petrol stations in the pool petrol station business and a strategic sales partner of ExxonMobil in the lubricants market. With this acquisition, Petronord continues the expansion and diversification of the end-consumer business and continues to build consistently on the regional identity of the shareholdings.

JB GERMAN OIL, based in Wittenburg, joins Petronord in March 2008. The company's focus is on the distribution and production of lubricants. JB GERMAN OIL exports to more than 30 countries in Europe, North Africa and the Near, Middle and Far East. Local trading partners and distributors successfully sell the lubricants supplied by JB GERMAN OIL in those countries.

OILTECH Lubes Service GmbH & Co. KG, based in Düsseldorf, has been active under the umbrella of the Petronord Group since April 2008 and strengthens the lubricants division here. The company has been selling brand-name lubricants in the car dealership and workshop business segment since 2001. The core area of OILTECH's business activities extends from North Rhine-Westphalia through Hesse, Rhineland-Palatinate, Saarland and Baden-Württemberg to Bavaria.

The newly founded company Mabanol has been involved in the lubricants business since April 2010 and is establishing its products on the market under the same brand name. The lubricants are sold nationally in direct business; internationally, Mabanol offers the products to renowned trading partners.

To ensure optimal and professional support especially for business customers around the Mabanol brand, Petronord founds Mühlenbruch Stinnes Schmierstoffservice GmbH & Co. KG, Bremen. The new company's sales territory covers the whole of Germany. Mühlenbruch Stinnes Schmierstoffservice distributes the entire product portfolio of the Mabanol brand, i.e. lubricants for automotive (cars and trucks) as well as for industrial use. The entire range is aimed specifically at mineral oil dealers and trading partners who are or would like to be active in the lubricants sector.

In January 2011, Petronord starts in an additional business field: the newly founded Mabanol Bitumen GmbH & Co. KG specialises in marketing bitumen and bitumen components to national and international customers as well as end users from various industries. The focus is on industrial applications, road construction and roofing membranes. With Mabanol Bitumen, 20 companies now belong to the Petronord Group.

On 1 July 2011, the company Greiner GmbH becomes part of the Petronord Group. As an Aral brand partner, Greiner GmbH is a long-established regional mineral oil trading company that is also active in the lubricants market in addition to the classic heating oil and diesel business. In addition to the companies Benol and Digol (branch of the company Hartmann), Petronord is thus further expanding its presence in Hessen.

On 1 March 2012, Petronord starts the business operations of the newly founded company Uhlenbruck & Kemmann Energie GmbH. The end consumer businesses of Hermann Uhlenbruck Mineralölvertrieb GmbH, Mülheim, and Eduard Kemmann GmbH & Co. Mineralölhandel, Kaarst, flow into this new company. As a long-established mineral oil trading company, Hermann Uhlenbruck Mineralölvertrieb GmbH is involved in the pool petrol station business as a shareholder of tankpool24 with 19 locations, in addition to the classic heating oil and diesel business. The company Eduard Kemmann GmbH & Co. Mineralölhandel is a strategic distribution partner of ExxonMobil in the lubricants market and this partnership is transferred to the new company.

In order to further strengthen the position of Staack Pooltankstellen GmbH & Co. KG's position in the market, an agreement was reached with TM Handel und Tanklogistik GmbH & Co. KG on another individual form of participation within the Petronord Group. The business operations of TM Handel und Tanklogistik will flow into Staack Pooltankstellen as of 1 January 2013. In return, Thies Mosner will receive a stake in Staack Pooltankstellen. TM Handel und Tanklogistik is a mineral oil trading company operating in Schleswig-Holstein, which is regionally represented in the pool petrol station business as a shareholder of tankpool24 with 14 acceptance locations.

On 1 November 2013, the starting signal is given for a new business field within Petronord. With the founding of EAG Energie Abrechnungs- und Service GmbH in Hiddenhausen, the group has an energy supplier for natural gas and electricity in its own ranks for the first time. Combined with the services of the regional locations active in the heating market, both products become part of the portfolio throughout Germany.

With effect from 1 January 2014, Petronord is expanding its activities to include the business operations of John Schmierstoffe GmbH, Altlandsberg (Brandenburg). The company has been distributing lubricants since 1990 and is one of the established dealers in Berlin-Brandenburg. In addition, John Schmierstoffe also serves customers in the region along the Polish border to Berlin as well as in other federal states. The range of branded products offered includes around 800 lubricants from a wide variety of application areas.

With ZIEGLMEIER Energie GmbH, a traditional company with a long history becomes part of the Petronord Group. It is headquartered in Schrobenhausen and is well known as an energy trading company in the region and established in the distribution of heating oil, wood pellets, natural gas as well as fuels and lubricants. Excluded from the merger is the service station business of ZIEGLMEIER GmbH & Co. KG, which will be continued by Nico Zieglmeier.

On 1 May 2016, Petronord founded Kiessling Energie GmbH & Co. KG. The new company incorporates the Riediger family's long-standing business activities in the mineral oil trading sector. These include, on the one hand, the trade in heating oil and fuels to private and commercial end consumers, which has been successfully operated from Lauterhofen since 1918. In addition, the portfolio includes the independent petrol station and the distribution of various lubricant products to users from industry, trade and crafts as well as to municipal institutions.

On 1 February 2017, the companies Keck Energieservice and Mühlenbruch Stinnes Schmierstoffservice within the Petronord Group jointly participate in the new lubricant company Keck Schmierstoffservice GmbH & Co. KG. The company, based in Brakel, continues the entire lubricants business of Keck Energieservice. The background to this step is the further market concentration as well as the use of synergy effects of the two companies. For example, the entire storage and logistics for Mabanol products will take place in and from Brakel in the future.

The newly founded company NordBit GmbH & Co. KG, in which the Petronord company Mabanol Bitumen GmbH & Co. KG and H&R Refining GmbH hold equal shares, will start the targeted marketing of bitumen and bitumen components on 1 July 2017. NordBit procures and markets the bitumen products from the H&R production sites in Hamburg and Salzbergen, among others. Customers include national and international customers as well as end users from various industries. The focus is on industrial applications, road construction, roof sealing and landfill and dike construction.

On 1 July 2017, Petronord acquires a stake in the petroleum company PS Olje AB, thus becoming active in Sweden for the first time. The Swedish PS Olje is a regionally established company active in three areas: heating oil and diesel trading, lubricants business and operation of unmanned petrol stations. Its headquarters in Halmstad is located between Malmö and Gothenburg in southern Sweden. The simultaneous acquisition of Energi & värme i Blekinge by PS Olje is in line with Petronord's objective to further expand its trading business in Sweden. This new branch of PS Olje offers promising opportunities for the further expansion of the service station business.

As of 1 August 2017, the Petronord Group is expanding to include another company: the Austrian company LTH Tank- und Haustechnik GmbH. LTH is based in Purkersdorf (west of Vienna) and is established in the field of tank protection, tank cleaning and heating system construction in Austria. These business activities are a perfect complement to the service portfolio in the heating oil end-consumer business.

With the investment in the lubricant supplier Swelube AB, Petronord continues the growth of its group in Sweden as of 1 September 2017. The focus of Swelube's business activities is the supply of automotive lubricants to B2B customers. The company is headquartered in Angered, with the delivery area covering the entire Scandinavian region - with a focus on Sweden.

On 1 January 2018, Petronord acquires the family business Brennstoffhandel Joachim Schmidt e.K. in Ascheberg. Schmidt has been supplying the region between Münster and Dortmund with fuels for more than 60 years. Today, the portfolio includes diesel, AdBlue, firewood and pellets in addition to the main business of heating oil.

Since 1 January 2018, HWU Lubtec GmbH & Co. KG has been committed to lubricant customers in North-West Germany as a strategic brand sales partner of ExxonMobil at the Kaarst and Lübbecke sites. The expertise and know-how of the energy supplier Hempelmann Wittemöller GmbH, a high-performance family business with over 100 years of history, and Uhlenbruck Energie GmbH & Co.KG, a reliable company with a long tradition in mineral oil products, are combined under the name HWU Lubtec. Thus, the new company offers its customers more than 60 years of experience with Mobil high-performance lubricants and profound industry knowledge.

With the investment in the company Stockholms Diesel & Oljehandel AB, the Petronord Group continues to grow and strengthen its presence in Sweden as of 1 October 2018. The main focus of Stockholms Diesel & Oljehandel AB is to distribute diesel and heating oil to business customers and private end consumers in the Stockholm area. In addition, one of its two subsidiaries is active in the lubricants business and offers customers a wide range of high-quality products.

With the acquisition of the company Heinz Vöge Mineralölhandel e.K., the Petronord Group's network in North Rhine-Westphalia is growing. Vöge is active in a region that directly borders the sales territories of other Petronord companies: Schmidt Energiehandel in the north (Ascheberg-Herbern), Lipps Energie in the south (Hagen-Hohenlimburg) and Uhlenbruck Energie in the southwest (Mülheim a. d. Ruhr).

As a branch office of the Schmidt company, Vöge optimally complements its business activities. Vöge was founded in Hamm in 1962 and operates a classic end-consumer business with heating oil, diesel and lubricants. An automatic filling station with diesel and AdBlue rounds off the portfolio.

Petronord intensifies its business activities in Sweden and acquires shares in NB Oljor with effect from 1 June 2020. This is now Petronord's fourth investment in a Swedish company. NB Oljor is a regionally established trading company with headquarters in Västerås, southern Sweden. The focus of NB Oljor's business activities is the distribution of heating oil, diesel fuel and lubricants to private end users and commercial customers. In addition, five automatic filling stations currently round off its product portfolio.

The Petronord Group continues to grow in Sweden. On 1 July 2020, it will acquire shares in Fundins Olja AB as a strategically sound addition to its existing network. This new Petronord participation in Sweden is headquartered in Tranås, in the province of Jönköpings län, and also has locations in Jönköping, Västervik and Linköping. In addition to the sale of heating oil, diesel fuel and lubricants to private end consumers and commercial customers, the company's portfolio also includes 17 automatic filling stations.

Petronord acquires shares in the trading company Runes AB, which is headquartered in Emmaboda, through the investment company PS Energi AB as of 1 January 2022. The business activities of the family-run company focus on the distribution of diesel fuels. In addition, Runes operates a petrol station network with seven automatic petrol stations and one classic roadside petrol station. The sale of heating oil and lubricants rounds off the portfolio. This new acquisition is an excellent addition to PS Energi's sales territory, strengthens the group's market position in south-eastern Sweden and is another step towards solid growth.