CÔTE D´IVOIRE / IVORY COAST
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Noël Akossi Bendjo, General Director

Interview with Mr. Noël Akossi Bendjo,
General Director
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( Ivorian Refinery Company)

Mr. Noël Akossi Bendjo,
General Director

Contact:
Bd de Petit Bassam
01 BP 1269
Abidjan 01 - Côte d'Ivoire
Tel: (225) 21270160 / 21270427
Fax: (225) 21271798 / 21273217
E-mail: benianh@aviso.ci
Web site: www.sir.ci
IDENTITY CARD

  • Legal Status: Public Limited Company

  • Year of Incorporation: 3 October 1962.


  • - by the Ivorian Government
    - with the assistance of Oil companies

  • Starting date of refinery operations: August 1965

  • Initial processing capacity: 700 000 t/year.

  • Surface area at the starting date: 40 ha.(80 ha)

  • Current surface area: 80 ha


  • MISSION STATEMENT

    La SIR

  • Manufacturing of petroleum products for the Ivorian market

  • Ensure the security of oil supply to Côte d'Ivoire

  • Act as an international, high-performance, competitive and profitable company.


  • MANUFACTURED PRODUCTS

  • Butane gas

  • Ordinary and Super gasoline

  • Lamp oil

  • Kerosine

  • Gas oil

  • Distillate diesel oil (DDO)

  • Fuel oil 180 and 380

  • Heavy vacuum oil (HVO)


  • Current Production units

    -2 Atmospheric distillation units 60 000 bbls/d (3 000 000 t/year)

    -1 Hydrocracker 13 500 bbls/d (680 000 t/year)
    Manpower capabilities

  • Solid educational background

  • Cognate experiences ranging from 15 to 25 years in refinery business

  • Activities of all units carried out 100% by nationals of Côte d'Ivoire

  • Expertise


  • Technical Capabilities

  • Advanced technology: Quality and Flexibility thanks to Hydrocracker

  • Basic know-how

  • Positioning: Refinery with a Surplus in Stream oil

  • Logistic performances (Loading of Tankers 400- 30 000 t)

  • Clear capacity for indebtedness (DLMT = 0. Capital = CFA F 58 billion)


  • Strategic Vision

    Ambitions
    - Become the gasoline station for petroleum products in the sub region

  • volumes

  • reliability

  • regularity


  • -become a petroleum product supplier country beyond the zone
    -become a centre of excellence in skill development
    -become a leverage for the Rotterdam of Africa

    A Coherent Development Plan: PSS

    * Improving Competitiveness through Retraining

    - Technical facilities
    - Quality of accounts, management and human resources

    * Extension of production capacity

    - Increased by 30%
    - Construction of a sea pipeline for tankers up to 50 000 t

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    © World INvestment NEws, 2000.
    This is the electronic edition of the special country report on Côte d'Ivoire published in Forbes Global Magazine.
    August 21th 2000 Issue.
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