Following on from the article in the April issue Fuel Oil News (page 9), in which Marathon Associates examined the changing competitive landscape of oil product markets in Britain, Rod Prowse now trains the spotlight on Ireland... As in Britain, Ireland's market in the early 1990s was still dominated by the vertically integrated international oil companies, as shown on the chart below. The first significant change - in 1992 -was the entry of Statoil, acquiring the BP operation. The Norwegian company strengthened its presence four years later t acquiring the jetoil business from Conoco.
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