Terpel
{{Short description|Colombian oil and gas company}}{{Single source|date=June 2024}}{{Infobox company
| name = Terpel
| logo = Logo terpel.jpg
| logo_size = 200px
| image = Terpel Ecuador.jpg
| image_caption = Gas station in Guayaquil, Ecuador
| type = Public
| traded_as = {{BVC|TERPEL}}
| genre =
| foundation = March 13, 1968, Bucaramanga, Colombia
| founder = Melba Mary Lorza Caicedo
| location_city = Bogota
| location_country = Colombia
| location =
| area_served = Colombia, Panama
| industry = Oil and gas
| products = Fuels, Lubricants, Petrochemicals
| revenue =
| operating_income = 5 - 6 Billion USD per year
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| subsid =
| owner = Private shareholders (under Empresas Copec Control)
| homepage = [http://www.terpel.com/ www.terpel.com]
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Terpel, formerly known as Organización Terpel S.A. ({{langx|en|Terpel Organization}}), is a Colombian oil and gas company.
Company history
Terpel was founded in 1968 to help ease the shortage of gasoline in Santander. The Terpel Bucaramanga Company was formed with 20 service stations, with plans to expand to a national scale in the future with the creation of six additional "Terpeles" in different regions of the country. In 2001, the principal shareholders of the Terpeles integrated the seven regional companies to create the Terpel Organization, which was consolidated in 2004.
Terpel started trading on the Colombia Stock Exchange on 19 August 2014. Due to the high trade volume of the stock, the company was included in the COLCAP, which is composed of the exchange's 20 most actively-traded companies, in August 2015.{{cite news|title=Terpel llega al Colcap|url=http://www.mercadodedinero.com.co/Banca/9179-terpel-llega-al-colcap.html|accessdate=14 September 2015|work=Mercado de Dinero|publisher=Ausbank publishing group|date=27 August 2015|language=Spanish|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305114317/http://www.mercadodedinero.com.co/Banca/9179-terpel-llega-al-colcap.html|archivedate=5 March 2016}}
In the last few years,{{when|date=June 2022}} Terpel has acquired several companies outside of Colombia, most recently 200 gas stations in Chile.{{citation needed|date=June 2022}}
References
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