Welcome at APETRA,

As a member state of the European Union and the International Energy Agency, Belgium is obliged to hold one fourth of its annual consumption of petroleum products as strategic stocks. This in order to prevent our economy and our final consumers from being confronted with a scarcity or total lack of motor fuels, heating oil, heavy oil or aviation fuel at the moment of a disruption in oil supply.

On January 26, 2006, the federal Parliament decided to entrust the management of the major part of the strategic stocks to the limited company under public law with social goal APETRA.

This site answers your questions concerning the strategic petroleum stocks, the reasons behind these stocks and their legal basis. On these pages you will equally find information on APETRA - its goals, tasks, organisation, functioning and results.

An overview of the ongoing tender procedures can be found in the chapter ‘ongoing tenders’.

For any additional oral or written questions, click on « contact » for our co-ordinates and an electronic question form. If you wish to be informed of our activities, subscribe to our electronic newsletter at this welcome page.

APETRA NEWS:

Are you interested in working with APETRA for storage capacity, but your company is not yet on the APETRA shortlist for storage companies (www.apetra.be, section "ongoing tenders", subsection "storage capacity"). Send in your candidacy file!!!

Reduction minimum capacity "eligible" storage facility Following the royal decree of 10 May 2010 the minimum capacity for storage facilities that are eligible for the storage of APETRA managed stocks (own products and tickets) has been reduced from 10.000 m3 to 5.000 m3. Owners of storage facilities smaller than 10.000 m3 that respond to this modified minimum capacity and who would like to work with APETRA can send in a request to obtain the status of "eligible depot" for storage facilities located in Belgium: at the Federal Public Service Economy, Directorate general Energy, Boulevard du Roi Albert II, 16 at 1000 Brussels; for storage facilities located in an other EU member state with whom Belgium has a bilateral agreement: at APETRA.

Deadline entry tenders for tickets cat 1 and 2 (Q4 2010 and Q1 2011): Wednesday 8 September 2010, 12 o'clock.

APETRA has meanwhile awarded its first calls for tenders for product replacement. Would you like to undertake product replacement operations for APETRA in the future? Send in your candidacy. For more information: see section "ongoing tenders", subsection "Product replacement".

APETRA is currently buying and will buy in the future finished products and crude oil. Do you wish to participate in future in the APETRA calls for tenders for the delivery of oil in our storage facilities? Then send in your candidacy!!