UFuel helps fuel wholesalers, service-station developers, owners and investors plan, licence, finance, value, buy and sell petroleum businesses in South Africa.
What are you planning?
Choose the service closest to what you are planning. Each route explains the licensing, commercial and operational support that may be required.
Align the licence, products, customers, supply, storage, transport, funding and trading model.
Explore wholesale servicesTest the site, demand, access, licensing sequence, capital requirement and development case.
Develop a stationReview value, volumes, licence position, site rights, lease, equipment and transaction risks.
Assess an acquisitionEstablish a supportable value, protect confidentiality and prepare the business for market.
Explore seller optionsPrepare annual information, assess ownership or entity changes and respond to regulatory requests.
Manage complianceBuild practical wholesale operating knowledge across licensing, pricing, supply, storage, transport, finance and risk.
Explore UFuel AcademyCompare density and marker-screening methods, their limitations and the evidence needed before acting on a result.
Choose a fuel testLicensing and commercial readiness
The application, customer and supplier arrangements, financial assumptions and plan for trading must support one another. UFuel helps clients identify what must be prepared, which requirements are connected and which decisions remain commercial.
Petroleum licence navigator
The correct route depends on what the business will do, where it will operate, whether the project is new or transferred, and what changes are taking place.
Buying and selling prescribed petroleum products in bulk.
Assess wholesale licensing 02The premises from which petroleum products are retailed.
Understand the site licence 03The retail business operating from a licensed site.
Understand the retail licence 04Specialist categories that depend on the exact proposed activity.
Use the licence navigator 05Ongoing information, record and fee obligations after licensing.
Prepare a submissionNot sure which service you need?
UFuel will review the activity, location, current licence position and project stage, then identify the most appropriate service and information required.
Petroleum project experience
UFuel’s project library brings together published petroleum licensing and commercial records from assignments across South Africa. Search by company or project type to find experience relevant to your proposed activity. Project outcomes are stated only where they have been verified.
Search the project libraryUFuel Academy
LEARNThe Petroleum Wholesale Readiness Programme connects licensing, pricing, supply, fuel quality, transport, storage, funding, customers and operations in one practical programme.
Explore the programme
Fuel Testing & Quality Control
Density and marker tests serve different purposes. Each product page explains the intended use, method, limitations and circumstances in which further analysis may be required.
Shop fuel-testing productsIndustry Intelligence Centre
Use UFuel’s Industry Intelligence Centre for fuel prices, zones, legislation, application guidance, annual compliance, terminology and practical industry articles.
Official current-source access plus the retained UFuel historical price archive.
Understand fuel-pricing zones and verify the applicable current source.
Legislation library with clear current-source and historical-document status.
Regulations, amendments and archived policy material with verification notices.
Talk to UFuel
Explain the intended activity, location, current stage and support required. UFuel will identify the most appropriate service before preparing a clear scope and fee proposal.