Welcome to the N.V. Rotterdam-Rijn Pijpleiding Maatschappij

Foundation

N.V. Rotterdam-Rijn Pijpleiding Maatschappij (RRP) was founded on 3rd April 1958 as a joint venture by a number of oil companies. They wished to transport crude oil over land from the tankers and the storage tanks in the Europoort/Botlek area to the refineries in the Rhine-Ruhr area. For this purpose, pipelines are the most efficient, safe, reliable, and environmentally friendly means of transport. In 1960, the system for the transport of crude oil was commissioned. After the replacement of the Dutch part of the system with a pipeline with a larger diameter (from Europoort), because of required capacity expansion, the existing pipeline was commissioned for product transport in 1968.

Shareholders

As of June 2011, the shareholders are:

Shell Petroleum N.V.	45,6%
Ruhr Oel GmbH	22,2%
BP Olex Fanal Mineralöl GmbH	22,2%
Shell Deutschland Oil GmbH	10%