Preem Petroleum together with Stena Bulk and Concordia Maritime were the main sponsors during the match racing event Lysekil Women’s Match, which was a resounding success with more than 70,000 visitors. The competition ”Preem Lysekil Women’s Match for the Stena Bulk Trophy” is a match racing competition for women with prize money of around SEK 400,000. With this year’s success, Lysekil Women’s Match has shown that it is one of the premier annual attractions on the Swedish West Coast. The competition has become one of the highlights of the summer for both participants and sailing enthusiasts. Entertainment Apart from the match racing, the main attractions during the week were the performances in Havsbadsparken by Martin Stenmarck, Tommy Nilsson and Markoolio. There was also test-and-try sailing as well as diving and sea rescue demonstrations and many visitors took the opportunity to go on board the East Indiaman Götheborg. At the beginning of the week, a well-attended seminar was held on cleaning up wrecks from World War II containing e.g. fuel oil or ammunition.
www.lysekilwomensmatch.se,
 
For more information, please contact:
Lena Alvling    Helene Samuelsson
Stena Bulk AB   Preem AB
Mobile: +46 704 85 50 20   Mobile +46 704 50 12 22
 
PREEM PETROLEUM AB (publ) is the largest oil company in Sweden and accounts for 80 per cent of the Swedish refinery capacity and 30 per cent of the Nordic refinery capacity. A total of 17.3 million m3 of crude oil are refined at its two wholly owned refineries, making Preem the largest refiner in the Nordic region. Preemraff Lysekil and Preemraff Göteborg are two modern and highly efficient refineries, which are leading producers of environmentally classed petroleum products. More than 60 per cent of our production, with a value exceeding SEK 42 billion, is exported, making us one of the major exporters in Sweden. Preem has a nation-wide service network with 490 Preem filling stations and 160 diesel filling stations for heavy traffic. Invoiced sales in 2006 totalled SEK 68 billion.
www.preem.se
 
Stena Bulk – With offices in six countries, Stena Bulk is one of the world’s leading tanker shipping companies, supplying customers with innovative solutions to their transportation and logistics requirements and using, for example, its own technical design department. The company has a regulated fleet of approximately 70 tankers and operates throughout the tanker market. Stena Bulk is also responsible for marketing and operating the Concordia Maritime fleet. Stena Bulk is part of the Stena Sphere. The Stena Sphere is in excess of 16,000 employees and revenue of SEK 46 billion.
www.stenabulk.com and www.thenewsmarket.com/stenabulk
 
Concordia Maritime is an international tanker shipping company listed on the OMX Nordic Exchange in Stockholm. The company has ordered ten tankers, which are being built in accordance with the MAX concept. These vessels, P-MAX, are product tankers of about 65,200 dwt. The MAX concept means that the vessels are designed for maximum loading capacity in shallow waters. They have been designed according to a new concept for safer oil transportation with double main engines in two completely separate engine rooms, double rudders and steering gear, two propellers and double control systems. www.concordia-maritime.se