| Description: | Paz Oil Company Ltd., together with its subsidiaries, refines, produces, stores, imports, markets, and sells petroleum and other products in Israel and internationally. It engages in the transportation, marketing, distribution, and sale of fuels through refueling stations; food and convenience products through Yellow market stores; leasing of stores; and engineering, maintenance, and logistic services. The company is also involved in trading and direct marketing of fuel products to private, commercial, industrial, and institutional customers, as well as to vehicle fleets and the Palestinian Authority. In addition, it markets, distributes, and sells LPG for cooking, heating, and refueling vehicles; produces, markets, and exports sealing and insulation products to construction industry; manufactures and markets products for transportation infrastructure; develops, produces, imports/exports, and markets bitumen-based products and bituminous sheets; markets various sealing and coating liquids, and other products; distributes aviation fuels; and provides refueling services. Further, the company produces, imports, markets, and exports oils for transportation and industry, and automatic lubricating oils, as well as various solvents and raw materials for the perfume and detergent industry; offers process products for the agro industry; markets raw materials for the paint, printing, and construction industries; and produces and markets auxiliary products for cars, fuel additives, lubricating pastes, urea, and cleaning agents for industry, as well as combustible liquid for industry and heating, renewed oil, and recycled solvents. Additionally, it generates and sells photovoltaic electricity; imports crude oil; and offers procurement services. The company was formerly known as The Shell Company of Palestine and changed its name to Paz Oil Company Ltd. in 1960. Paz Oil Company Ltd. was founded in 1922 and is based in Yakum, Israel. |
