Jet (brand)
A Jet filling station in Dortmund,
Germany, May 2016
Product typeFilling stations
OwnerPhillips 66
CountryUnited Kingdom
Introduced1954 (1954)
Related brands
MarketsAustria, Germany, United Kingdom
Previous owners
  • Jet Petroleum (1953–1961)
  • Continental Oil Company (1961-1981)
  • DuPont (1981–1998)
  • Continental Oil Company (1998–2002)
  • ConocoPhillips (2002–2012)
TaglineEnergy for tomorrow
Websitejetlocal.co.uk

Jet is the European brand of filling stations which is owned by American-based conglomerate Phillips 66.

Jet filling stations are located in Austria, Germany and the United Kingdom, and formerly in Denmark, Sweden, Ireland and Thailand. In 2006 the owner sold its stations in Belgium, the Czech Republic, Finland, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia to its Russian affiliate, Lukoil. [1]

History

Jet Petroleum was formed in Yorkshire in 1954 by Canadian-born Bill Roberts. Conoco acquired Jet in 1961.[2]

The Jet service station network in Ireland was acquired by Statoil in 1996. Maxol acquired 50 Jet/Statoil-branded sites as a condition of the acquisition.

Parent company Conoco merged with Phillips Petroleum in 2002 to form ConocoPhillips.[3]

In September 2007, Statoil also acquired all Nordic stations; however, they continued to use the Jet brand name[4] until 2014 when the Nordic stations were rebranded to the new brand name Ingo.

ConocoPhillips spun off downstream assets to form Phillips 66, which included the Jet service station brand.[5]

References

  1. ↑ "Oil producer Lukoil to buy gas stations from ConocoPhillips". 11 December 2006.
  2. ↑ "Jet History". Phillips 66 UK.
  3. ↑ "Phillips, Conoco set merger". CNN Money. 19 November 2001.
  4. ↑ "Purchasing JET automated stations in Scandinavia". Stat Oil. 19 September 2007. Archived from the original on 3 December 2007.
  5. ↑ "ConocoPhillips' Board of Directors Approves Spin-off of Phillips 66". ConocoPhillips (Press release). 4 April 2012.
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