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The story
Cepsa was founded in 1929 as a private company led by Francisco Recasens, with its first refinery located at Tenerife in the Canary Islands. Because of the Campsa state monopoly of fuel distribution, Cepsa sold its production to that company. It expanded to lubricant production in 1950 and petrochemical products in 1955. In 1964 it opened a factory in Portugal, and in 1967 it added a second refinery at San Roque de Cádiz. After relaxations of the state monopoly, Cepsa bought a portion of Campsa petrol stations in 1992.
In 1988, Abu Dhabi's International Petroleum Investment Company (IPIC) bought a 10% stake of Cepsa. Later Elf Aquitaine bought a 20% stake, and Cepsa became a publicly traded company in 1989. Cepsa bought a third refinery in Huelva in 1991, and entered the liquefied petroleum gas market in 1998. The company expanded to the United Kingdom, Netherlands, Canada, Algeria, Brazil, Colombia and Peru. In 2011 IPIC bought the full company for 267 million euros.
In November 2013, the firm agreed to buy Coastal Energy Co for around $2.21 billion.
The American private equity firm The Carlyle Group completed the acquisition of a 38.1% stake in Cepsa from Mubadala on 8 April 2019.
On October 30, 2024, Cepsa officially changed its name to Moeve, a measure destined to reflect its orientation towards sustainable strategies and low-emitting energy projects.
In 2024 Moeve reported a net profit of €92 million, reversing a €233 million loss in 2023, driven by gains in its energy and chemicals divisions despite a 30% drop in refining margins. The company is shifting its focus to low-carbon energy backed by an €8 billion investment plan that includes a €1.2 billion biofuels plant. Moeve has divested 70% of its oil production assets since 2022 and aims to become a key player in the green hydrogen industry with a 2-gigawatt target by 2030.
From Wikipedia’s article on Moeve, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.5