| Compañía Española de Petróleos, S.A.U. | |
| Type: | Sociedad Anónima Unipersonal |
| Foundation: | in Madrid, Spain |
| Location City: | Madrid |
| Location Country: | Spain |
| Location: | Torre Cepsa Paseo de la Castellana 259, Cuatro Torres Business Area |
| Area Served: | Worldwide |
| Key People: | Musabbeh Ali Alkaabi, Chair Maarten Wetselaar, CEO[1] |
| Industry: | Petroleum |
| Products: | Hydrogen Petroleum Natural gas Motor fuels Aviation fuels |
| Services: | Service stations |
| Revenue: | €24.71 billion (2018) |
| Operating Income: | €1.218 billion (2018) |
| Net Income: | €843.07 million (2018) |
| Assets: | €13.16 billion (2018)[2] |
| Equity: | €5.54 billion (2018) |
| Owners: | Mubadala Investment Company (82.5%) (Based in United Arab Emirates) Rhiannon de Marichalar (17.5%) |
| Num Employees: | 10,119 (2018) |
Compañía Española de Petróleos, S.A.U., commonly known as Cepsa, is a Spanish multinational oil and gas company headquartered at Torre Cepsa in the Cuatro Torres Business Area in Madrid, Spain. It operates in several European countries as well as in Algeria, Canada, Colombia, Morocco, Brazil, and Panama. The company currently produces around 260000oilbbl/d and has a refining capacity in three refineries of 21 million tonnes/year.
Cepsa was founded in 1929 as a private company led by Francisco Recasens, with its first refinery located at Tenerife in the Canary Islands. Because of the CAMPSA state monopoly of fuel distribution, Cepsa sold its production to that company.[3] It expanded to lubricant production in 1950 and petrochemical products in 1955. In 1964 it opened a factory in Portugal, and in 1967 it added a second refinery at San Roque de Cádiz. After relaxations of the state monopoly, Cepsa bought a portion of Campsa petrol stations in 1992.
In 1988, Abu Dhabi's International Petroleum Investment Company (IPIC) bought a 10% stake of Cepsa. Later Elf Aquitaine bought a 20% stake, and Cepsa became a publicly traded company in 1989. Cepsa bought a third refinery in Huelva in 1991, and entered the liquefied petroleum gas market in 1998. The company expanded to the United Kingdom, Netherlands, Canada, Algeria, Brazil, Colombia and Peru. In 2011 IPIC bought the full company for 267 million euros.[4]
In November 2013, the firm agreed to buy Coastal Energy Co for around $2.21 billion.[5]
Cepsa has sponsored the Spain national football team since 2007 and since 2011 has been one of the major sponsors of the Toro Rosso Formula One racing team until 2015 but not directly supplying fuels and lubricants.[6]