When you fill up your car with Ultimate at BP Connect Queenstown, it has come by ship from Perth, Singapore or Amsterdam, been loaded on to a purpose-built truck which has then been driven by at least three different drivers and covered 1300 kilometres. Then it is put into underground storage tanks so that you can buy it. All that and it's still cheaper than most bottled water, litre for litre.
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Our fuel delivery trucks cost over $200,000 to buy, provide 3 - 3.5 year's service and can do up to 330,000 kilometres each in any one year - that's potentially a million kilometres during their lifetime with us.
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BP Connect Papakura has sold 841,796 cups of coffee in 7 years. That is 12,700kg of coffee and 168,359 litres of milk. To produce this milk it would take a herd of 100 cows 46 years of continuous milking.
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Rakiura Motors in Bluff, New Zealand is BP's most southern retail outlet in the world.
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BP has 16 service stations around New Zealand where the forecourt canopy roof structure is actually made up of 100's of solar panels
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20% of the fuels BP sells in New Zealand originate from crude imported from the United Arab Emirates, just one small part of the Middle East.
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BP sells over 200,000kg of chocolate per year. That's equivalent to 71 female Asian elephants a year. Now that's a lot of chocolate!
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Until the 1970's deregulation of the transport industry, BP had fuel depots, with fuel storage tanks, in places like Tehana, Paeroa, Kaikoura and Gore. Transport companies were not allowed to transport goods by road more than 80kms to avoid competition by railways.
Interesting facts about BP and its operations.
