{"id":2637,"date":"2011-06-21T12:18:54","date_gmt":"2011-06-21T12:18:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/?p=2637"},"modified":"2011-06-21T12:18:54","modified_gmt":"2011-06-21T12:18:54","slug":"trafigula-group-takes-over-bp-malawi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/2011\/06\/21\/trafigula-group-takes-over-bp-malawi\/","title":{"rendered":"Trafigula Group takes over BP Malawi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/bp-logo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/bp-logo-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"bp-logo\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2638\" \/><\/a>British Petroleum (BP) Malawi has become part of a US$296 million acquisition of Trafigula Group&#8217;s PUMA Energy that bought BP assets in five Southern African countries of Malawi, Zambia, Botswana, Namibia, and Tanzania. BP Malawi was co-owned by BP Africa and Malawi&#8217;s conglomerate Press Corporation Limited (PCL).<br \/>\nBP Africa announced last year that it was selling its 50% stake in BP Malawi giving an opening for PUMA Energy, a Swiss-based international petroleum giant owned by the Trafigula Group.<\/p>\n<p>The PUMA Energy take-over of the BP Malawi operations ended a 48-year old existence in Malawi.<\/p>\n<p>A statement issued by BP Southern Africa&#8217;s CEO Sipho Maseko on Monday, 13 June 2011, said his company handed over BP Malawi to Puma Energy early last month after collaborating to minimise any disruption during transition.<\/p>\n<p>He said over time the BP branding in petrol stations will also be changed to PUMA Energy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British Petroleum (BP) Malawi has become part of a US$296 million acquisition of Trafigula Group&#8217;s PUMA Energy that bought BP [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2638,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[757,755],"class_list":["post-2637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news","tag-bp","tag-fuel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}