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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Schwepps" data-source="post: 322266" data-attributes="member: 3592">You mean Boustead Holdings Petroleum? <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />It's important to know what's behind the brand. BHP (Boustead), Caltex (Chevron), Mobil (Exxon Mobile), Projet (Conoco) etc, are all basically marketing companies here. Are they involved in production and refining here? No. So where do they get their stock from?Take Caltex: they have less than 300 employees here, mostly involved in managing their dealerships, Starshops and lubricant distribution. They started the additive game in the early 90s with Techron. They used to get their fuel from Singapore through ports like Pasir Gudang and Kuantan, but now I wonder whether they get it from the new KVDT built by Petronas and Shell. Effectively they might all be selling Petronas petrol refined in Melaka from our very own Tapis Sweet crude now. Economics.Esso and Mobil...do they still get their stock from Esso's nearly 50 year-old refinery in PD, or KVDT too?Read between the lines of sifu wc's posts <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>