BP (Germany)

BP (Germany) is the German business of BP, an international energy company. In Germany, it reaches customers through the BP and Aral brands. The company says these brands serve millions of customers daily, through a combination of retail forecourts and business-to-business supply and services. The German operation produces fuels, heating oil and lubricants at a refinery and sells these products to wholesalers, intermediaries and end customers, including through filling stations. Its activities also include aviation fuels and lubricants: Air bp supplies more than 50 airports in Germany. Aral Fleet Solutions provides mobility services for commercial fleets, while BP Coke markets green coke and calcinate in Germany and Europe. The German site also presents Aral as BP’s German filling-station brand. The business is therefore not limited to a single retail or fuel product. Its activities span refining and product marketing, retail fuel, aviation supply, fleet services and other industrial products. The official German site describes the operation as active and reports developments involving its sites and services, including an Aral pulse heavy-truck charging park and a pilot location for a modern motorway service area. These examples indicate activity in mobility infrastructure alongside the established fuel business. The supplied sources do not establish the German operation’s founding date, headquarters, or a separate corporate listing.

BP (Germany) is the country-level business presence of BP. The available sources identify BP and Aral as the brands through which the company serves customers in Germany, but do not provide a founding date or a detailed account of the operation’s origins. The history that can be established from the supplied evidence is therefore principally a description of its current activities and selected reported developments. The German business combines refining and product sales with customer-facing and specialist services. Its official product page says it operates a refinery and makes fuels, heating oil and lubricants, which it sells to wholesalers, intermediaries and end customers, including at filling stations. The same page describes Air bp as supplying aviation fuels and lubricants to more than 50 airports in Germany, identifies Aral Fleet Solutions as a provider of commercial-fleet mobility solutions, and says BP Coke markets green coke and calcinate in Germany and Europe. It also presents BP and Aral as the brands active in Germany, with Aral serving as BP’s German filling-station brand. The German homepage highlights developments across both established energy operations and mobility infrastructure. It reports that Aral pulse has brought five-megawatt charging parks for electric trucks into operation in Germany, and that Aral opened a pilot site for a modern motorway service area in Northeim on the A7. The site also reports the completion of BP’s sale of the Gelsenkirchen refinery to the Klesch Group. These items indicate changes to the footprint and mix of activities, but the supplied materials do not establish the dates of the charging-park opening, pilot launch or refinery transaction. The homepage states that Sebastian Schulte took over leadership of the BP refinery in Lingen on 1 August 2026. This is a site-level leadership appointment, not evidence identifying the chief executive of the overall German business. The supplied sources also do not specify the German operation’s headquarters, establishment date, founders, or separate legal and listed status. Accordingly, this dossier treats BP (Germany) as an active country business within the BP group and does not infer a longer corporate chronology beyond the evidence available.

• Sebastian Schulte takes over leadership of the Lingen refinery

A broad-based German energy and mobility business combining BP and Aral retail brands with refining, wholesale supply, aviation services, fleet solutions and emerging charging infrastructure.

• Fuels, heating oil and lubricants

  Products made at a German refinery and sold to wholesalers, intermediaries and end customers, including through filling stations.

• Air bp aviation fuels and lubricants

  Air bp supplies aviation fuels and lubricants to more than 50 airports in Germany.

• Aral Fleet Solutions

  Mobility solutions for commercial fleets, described by the company as supporting cost reduction and efficiency.

• BP Coke

  Markets green coke and calcinate in Germany and Europe.

• Aral pulse heavy-truck charging

  Charging parks for electric trucks, including sites reported as having five megawatts of capacity.

• Sale of the Gelsenkirchen refineryOther

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