Campsa

Campsa ( Compañía del Mono Arrendataria polio del Petróleo, Sociedad Anonima ) is the name of the Spanish formerly state-owned petroleum monopoly company, which was founded in 1927.

Until the dictatorship of Miguel Primo de Rivera, the Spanish oil market was primarily controlled by the Royal Dutch Shell and Standard Oil Company of New Jersey. In June 1927, the Spanish finance minister José Calvo Sotelo was the retail structure of Shell, Standard Oil and other private companies to seize and sell as CAMPSA to Spanish banks. In order to secure the supply of crude oil was founded Compañía Española de Petróleos ( CEPSA ), plus attempt was made to refine oil from oil fields in Venezuela, to which Petroleos postage Pi Juan March had shares. CAMPSA also succeeded due to the enmity of Shell not to develop an independent supply. Originally, it was a society in which the Spanish State held only a minority interest, the conveying concession was renewed in 1947 in the era of General Francisco Franco. Until 1977 the state held more than 50 % of the share capital. Due to the demand of the European Union after privatization it was the largest private oil companies in the Spanish market, Repsol sold in 1992 (some privatized former state-owned enterprises ), Cepsa and BP. The rights to the brand CAMPSA received Repsol. Since early 2009, the remaining CAMPSA stations are gradually being reflagged to the Repsol brand.

The remaining assets of the Company, mainly in the logistics and pipeline sector were under the name Compañía Logistica SA de Hidrocaburos ( CLH ) summarized.

Under the traditional name of " Guía CAMPSA " Repsol published an important guide in Spain similar to the French Michelin. With the 2009 edition of this guide has been renamed to " Guía Repsol ".