Before the year 2000, the petroleum
sector in Cameroon was entirely a prerogative of multinationals. Total, Mobil,
Shell and Texaco are some of the names
of retail stations that were conspicuous.
Some were bought over by others and
new names like Oilibya, Corlay MRS
emerged erasing Shell, Mobil and Texaco. With the liberalisation of the sector
in 2000, nationals joined the sector with
First oil being the first indigenous distributor to be created. Today, a myriad of
distributors have cropped up including
Tradex which has even gone international with filling stations in some CEMAC
countries. According to the Minister
of Water and Energy, Basile Atangana
Kouna, 55 fuel distributors as at January
2017 were present in the local market
amongst which 13 are involved in domestic gas distribution as against six in&nb...
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