CHANGE is in the air. The former Shell Service Station at Vlissengen Road and Lama Avenue, currently being reduced to a pile of rubble, will assume a new life in six months as a bigger, better and modern complex under the Sol brand.

Promising a Retail Visual Identity Evolution (RVIE), CEO of Sol, Ken Figaro, said that the site will feature a bigger station which will hold more vehicles and fuel-up points.
So as not to lose business in the interim, the former operation has set up shop at the Esso service station next door.
In 2007, Sol signed an agreement with Esso for the sale of all its marketing assets and operations in Guyana.
Sol now uses the Shell brand under license across their service station network, and acts as the sole distributor of Shell’s fuels and lubricants. The new service station will
feature the Sol brand and logo, instead of the red and yellow Shell logo.
Sol products include kerosene (middle distillate used in lamps, tractors and power generators), gasoline (marketed under V-power brand), diesel (light distillate for use in high
speed diesel engines), fuel oil (used in power generation and other heavy industry), Solgas (liquefied petroleum gas), lubricants, Avgas and bitumen (used for road surfacing and
roofing).
The Sol Group, the Caribbean’s largest independent oil company, was formed through the acquisition of Shell’s petroleum distribution and marketing businesses in the Eastern
Caribbean, Guyana, Suriname and Belize.
In 2004, Royal Dutch/Shell and the Sol Group signed a Sale and Purchase Agreement and a Trade Mark Licence Agreement relating to the divestment of Shell’s Oil Products
businesses in Barbados, St. Lucia, the Netherlands Antilles, St. Kitts & Nevis, British Virgin Islands, Anguilla, Grenada, St. Vincent, Antigua, Dominica, Belize, Guyana and
Suriname, excluding the aviation business.