OUT OF OILTANKING, ADVARIO IS BORN

Tank Storage Magazine’s publisher Margaret Dunn speaks exclusively to Advario’s CEO Bas Verkooijen and chief growth officer Douglas van der Wiel about the new company’s name, its sustainability goals and what comes next On 5 May 2022, Oiltanking launched its highly anticipated new company, Advario. Advario will concentrate on growth in chemicals, gases and new energies and puts sustainability and environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) at the heart of everything it does. ‘We will be taking a focussed and adaptive approach to find solutions to further enable the energy transition, working closely with our partners’ explains CEO Bas Verkooijen. ‘We have the advantage of being able to build on our strengths as a family-owned business, 50 years of experience and a team of 1,200 inventive, solutions-driven experts who’ve demonstrated time and time again to adapt to changes in the industry. ‘But we cannot do this alone,’ Verkooijen adds. ‘We will of course leverage our core strengths, which are our experience and expertise in designing and building storage and logistics infrastructure and safety excellence. Meanwhile, we are forging close...