Terpel

Terpel, formerly known as Organización Terpel S.A. (English: Terpel Organization), is a Colombian oil and gas company.

Terpel

Gas station in Guayaquil, Ecuador
Company type	Public
Traded as	BVC: TERPEL
Industry	Oil and gas
Founded	March 13, 1968, Bucaramanga, Colombia
Founder	Melba Mary Lorza Caicedo
Headquarters	Bogota , Colombia
Area served	Colombia, Panama
Products	Fuels, Lubricants, Petrochemicals
Operating income	5 - 6 Billion USD per year
Owner	Private shareholders (under Empresas Copec Control)
Website	www.terpel.com

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.^[1]

In the last few years,^[when?] Terpel has acquired several companies outside of Colombia, most recently 200 gas stations in Chile.^{[citation needed]}