Frisia oil works

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Trademark of Erdölwerke Frisia AG

The Frisia oil refinery AG were a refinery with associated storage tanks in the port of Emden , whose gasoline also on its own chain of gas stations under the brand name FRISIA (slogan - FRISIA The big brand gasoline at a fair price was sold).

history

The foundation stone for the refinery was laid in 1957 by the Swiss Gottlieb Duttweiler , who wanted to compete with the established oil companies with low prices and therefore needed his own supply for his Migrol petrol stations. Refinery operations began on August 25, 1960. It quickly became apparent, however, that the refinery, which was designed to produce heavy heating oil, could not operate economically, as the sales market had shifted from heavy to light heating oil and gasoline, and other refineries could be supplied directly with the ever-larger super tankers , whereas that Crude oil for the Frisia always had to be transshipped into smaller tankers first due to the port that can only be navigated with relatively small ships (up to 28,000 t).

Despite the opening of another tank farm in the Emden oil port and the conversion to light heating oil, the refinery with the FRISIA gas station network that had meanwhile been set up with around 700 stations was sold to Saarbergwerke in 1965, which was sold to Gulf Oil Corp in July 1970 due to the lack of profitability . resold. Even VEBA , which took over the refinery in August 1973 and resold the petrol station network to Stinnes KG (brand name Fanal ), could not change the Frisia's earnings situation. The Bochumer Mineralölgesellschaft (BOMIN), which had taken over Frisia from Veba at the turn of the year 1977/1978, finally stopped crude oil processing due to the failed plans to convert the refinery into a hydrogenation plant in mid-March 1978 and had to lay off most of the workforce. With the bankruptcy of the BOMIN Group in the spring of 1983, oil processing was finally completely stopped on October 1, 1984 and the number of employees was reduced to around 30 people. The last attempt at resuscitation by the Belgian subsidiary of the oil trader Aectra from Texas / USA , which bought the refinery in July 1990 to set up naphtha production, failed in January 1992 with bankruptcy and the final closure of the refinery.

today

The refinery facilities and buildings on the site next to the VW plant in Emden were demolished in 2001, the floor was renovated and the area was expanded to become the Frisia industrial park, which today mainly houses automotive suppliers. The Frisia tank farm on Eichstrasse in the oil port still exists today and is used to store palm oil and brine.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Website Petrol Maps by Ian Byrne.
  2. ↑ Passing bankruptcy . In: Der Spiegel . No. 7 , 1963, pp. 37 ( online ).
  3. ↑ Veba Group buys Frisia from Gulf Oil . In: Hamburger Abendblatt , July 31, 1973, page 15.
  4. ↑ Raise the curtain on the last act . In: Die Zeit , No. 23/1978.
  5. ↑ Mineralölwirtschaftsverband e. V. mwv.de (PDF; 2.9 MB) Annual Report 2011, p. 37.
  6. ^ Frisia dismisses ( Memento of March 4, 2014 in the Internet Archive ). (PDF; 2.0 MB) In: Hamburger Abendblatt , February 6, 1984, page 17.
  7. ↑ Emden refinery sold . In: Hamburger Abendblatt , July 20, 1990, page 17.
  8. ^ Frisia-Werke in bankruptcy . In: Hamburger Abendblatt , January 28, 1992, page 15.
  9. ^ Website of the company Zukunft Emden GmbH .
  10. ↑ Report Seaport Emden  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.seaport-emden.de  

Coordinates: 53 ° 21 '14.4 "  N , 7 ° 10' 7.7"  E