Growing With Singapore | Page 14

BP in Singapore Beyond 2001 In Singapore, where the domestic market was always small, the decision was made in 2004 to sell the refining and retail businesses. Singapore retained its status as the pre-eminent place in the region to do business, with a business friendly government, favourable terms of trade, a highly educated population from whom staff of high quality could be recruited, plus superb transport and communications links to the rest of the world. Since 2001, BP has retained its lubricants blending plant in Jurong, and has developed its Integrated Supply and Trading (IST) business using Singapore as the hub for its trading network for BP creates an inclusive working environment. the Eastern Hemisphere – a geography that covers half the world from the Middle East to New Zealand. IST was formed in 2001, two decades after BP had begun to develop a trading business to manage the flow of oil and gas to its customers around the world. Today, BP's main business activities in Singapore include the oil, gas, chemicals, carbon and finance trading business for the Eastern Hemisphere. As well as the regional headquarters for Shipping, Consumer Lubricants, Industrial Lubricants, Marine Fuel and Lubricants, and Aviation Fuels, from which they serve international markets and customers. For the last 12 years, BP Singapore has been the largest supplier of bunkering volumes in Singapore, based on Maritime Port Authority (MPA) data. BP believes success comes from the energy of our people. Through living our values of Safety, Respect, Excellence, Courage and One Team, we create an inclusive working environment where everyone can make a difference and give their best. BP Singapore’s seven hundred staff are based at the Harbourfront office, and Tepong Marine Lubricants Blending plant in Jurong. 14