OMV invests 13m euros in petrol stations

OMV will invest 13 million euros this year in order to develop its own fuel retail network, according to Rainer Schlang, head of the OMV division in charge of operations in Romania, Bulgaria and Serbia. The company intends to open eight to ten new stations this year, part of its target for 2008 of 100 stations in Romania, and to reach a market share of around 10%. OMV currently runs 68 filling stations, some 7% of the market. On Friday the company launched a new product at one of its petrol stations in Oradea: AdBlue, which is aimed at the latest generation trucks that feature SCR technology. The OMV filling station, which is located on Oradea’s ring road, is the first in Eastern Europe to have an AdBlue fuelling pump. OMV has only four other such stations Europe-wide and intends to open two more in Serbia and Bulgaria this year. They expect the number of AdBlue-enabled stations to reach 67 by 2007. ZF