West Oil Group to expand chain of WOG fuel stations to 433 by 2010

Lutsk-based JV West Oil Group is planning by 2010 to expand the chain of WOG fuel stations to 433 stations, Ihor Yeremeyev, the owner of the company, has said in an interview with the A-95 magazine.

"We are going to complete 18 new complexes by April and construct another 41 complexes by the end of the year," he said.

Yeremeyev said the new complexes would be opened mainly in eastern regions.

In the second half of 2008, West Oil Group announced it was planning to expand the chain of WOG fuel stations to 712 stations by 2013.

According to the chain development plan for 2008-2013, it is planned to expand the company's chain in Central and Eastern Ukraine.

West Oil Group's core business is the modernization and operation of fuel filling stations and petroleum storage depots.

Kontinium-Galychyna trade house operates the WOG chain under license, and West Oil Group is the owner of the filling stations.

As of the middle of March, the WOG filling station chain included 374 stations.