Vilma Oil

What Vilma Oil does

Vilma Oil SL is a privately held Spanish limited company headquartered in Las Rozas de Madrid, Spain, that trades petroleum products internationally and supplies bunker fuel to maritime customers. Founded in 1996 by experienced entrepreneurs from the international oil trading sector, the company operates across more than 25 countries and handles LPG, Naphtha, Fuel oil, and Gasoil, with stated annual trading volume exceeding 4 million metric tons. Following the 1996 founding, the company expanded operations into the former Soviet Union and has grown continuously, becoming an established counterparty in the international oil trading value chain.

The business model is B2B commodity intermediation: prices are negotiated bilaterally with counterparties and the revenue mechanic is transaction-based on physical product flow. Vilma Oil serves four primary segments on a horizontal basis: petrochemical producers, banks and financial institutions, trading houses, and integrated oil majors. Go-to-market is sales-led and relationship-driven, with no public pricing and no marketing-led acquisition. The company emphasises staff training, careful logistics, and measured price-risk management rather than proprietary technology. In April 2024, Singapore-based TFG Marine acquired majority ownership of Vilma Oil Med to strengthen bunker fuel supply in the Western Mediterranean, providing strategic financial backing and a regional maritime supply focus.

The operating footprint is concentrated around logistics coordination and counterparty risk management in physical oil trade. Vilma Oil maintains a lean team of 50 qualified professionals with continuous internal and external training programs. Beyond core trading, the company supports Fundacion Veron, a Spanish non-profit focused on education and socio-labour integration for vulnerable youth, indicating non-core philanthropic activity rather than a commercial product line. No proprietary digital products, software platforms, APIs, mobile applications, or AI/ML capabilities are disclosed in publicly available materials.

Name

Vilma Oil

Legal name

Vilma Oil SL

Website

https://vilmaoil.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1996

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Vilma Oil is a private Spanish petroleum trading house trading LPG, Naphtha, Fuel oil, and Gasoil across more than 25 countries. Founded in 1996 and majority-owned by Singapore-based TFG Marine since April 2024, it serves petrochemical producers, banks, trading houses, and integrated oil majors with 4M+ metric tons traded annually.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Petroleum Trading and Bunkering

NAICS

Petroleum Bulk Stations and Terminals (424710)

SIC

Wholesale-Petroleum & Petroleum Products (No Bulk Stations) (5172)

akta.pro primary industry

Bunker Trading, Broking & Market Intelligence (TLAHAKAD)

akta.pro secondary industry

Marine Bunkering & Port Fuel Supply (EUALAIAG)

Keywords

• Petroleum products trading
• Bunker fuel supply
• Oil trading services
• Maritime bunkering services
• Petroleum logistics

Headquarters

HQ city

Madrid

HQ country

Spain

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Supply Chain, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Petroleum Products Trading: Vilma Oil trades petroleum products including LPG, Naphtha, Fuel oil, and Gasoil. The company operates as an international oil trading house with established relationships across the trading space. Trading volume exceeds 4 million metric tons annually across more than 25 countries.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

Vilma Oil is an international oil trading house that trades more than 4 million metric tons of petroleum products annually — including LPG, Naphtha, Fuel oil and Gasoil — operating in more than 25 countries. The company complements its trading activity with worldwide bunker fuel supply services, with a particular focus on the Western Mediterranean region, serving petrochemical producers, banks, trading houses, and integrated oil majors.

Product overview

Vilma Oil is an established oil trading company offering a unified portfolio of services centered on worldwide trading and bunker fuel supply. The company operates as a single integrated offering focused on petroleum products trading (LPG, Naphtha, Fuel oil, and Gasoil) with an annual volume exceeding 4 million metric tons across more than 25 countries, complemented by bunker fuel supply services in the Western Mediterranean. The company serves petrochemical producers, banks, trading houses, and integrated oil majors as customers.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Petroleum Products Trading
• Bunker Fuel Supply

Quantifiable outcome

• Trading volume exceeding 4 million metric tons of petroleum products annually
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers4 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• Vitol Group: World's largest independent energy and commodity trader, trading hundreds of millions of MT of crude and products annually. Operates the same product set across the same customer segments at much greater scale.
• Trafigura: One of the world's largest independent commodity traders, with a dominant oil and petroleum products franchise and a co-owner stake in TFG Marine. Directly comparable trading model with vastly greater scale and geographic reach.
• World Fuel Services: Global marine, land, and aviation fuel marketer/trader selling bunkers and petroleum products in 25+ countries. Comparable diversified trading and bunker supply model with public-market scale.

Direct peers

• Gunvor Group: Independent mid-to-large oil and petroleum products trader headquartered in Geneva, trading crude, refined products, and LPG globally. Highly comparable in product mix (LPG, Naphtha, Fuel oil, Gasoil) and trading-house model.
• Bunker Holding: World's largest bunker fuel supplier, headquartered in Denmark. Same bunker fuel supply focus and Western European/Mediterranean customer overlap as Vilma Oil's bunker business.
• BB Energy: Mid-sized independent oil and petroleum products trader headquartered in London, trading LPG, Naphtha, Gasoil, and Fuel oil globally. Closely comparable in product mix and trading-house positioning relative to majors.
• TFG Marine: Singapore-based leading independent bunker fuel supplier and now majority owner of Vilma Oil Med. TFG Marine and Vilma Oil operate in the same bunker fuel supply market, with TFG Marine providing global scale and Vilma Oil providing Mediterranean depth.
• Mercuria Energy Trading: Independent commodities trader with deep oil and petroleum products franchise. Operates the same counterparty mix (producers, banks, integrated majors) across physical and paper flows — directly comparable in business model.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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