Minerva Bunkering
Minerva Bunkering is a supplier of marine fuels and bunkering services headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland. It was founded in 2019 as a wholly owned subsidiary of Mercuria Energy Group. It quickly absorbed the larger Aegean Marine Petroleum Network (AMPNI), a public company listed on the New York Stock Exchange, when Aegean was acquired by Mercuria, and Minerva Bunkers, another subsidiary of Mercuria founded in 2014 History Roots of Minerva Bunkering go back to Aegean Marine Petroleum Network (AMPNI), established in 1995 by Dimitris Melissanidis in Piraeus, Greece, and Minerva Bunkers Pte Ltd., established in December 2014 by Mercuria in Singapore. Aegean Marine Petroleum Network started to operate with one bunkering station in the Port of Piraeus. The second bunkering station was opened in Gibraltar in 1997, followed by stations in Fujairah (2001), Kingston, Kingston (2005), Singapore (2006), and other locations around the world. In 2006, it was listed in New York Stock Exchange through a public offering. Minerva Bunkers began with a core group of more than 40 marine fuel specialists who came from the bankrupt Danish ship-fuel supplier OW Bunker in December 2014. In August 2018, Mercuria Energy Group acquired almost one-third of AMPNI's shares. In October 2018, an