The company's purpose is to finance, acquire, dispose of, and manage investments in industrial, commercial, and financing companies in Switzerland and abroad, particularly in the field of the petroleum industry and other industries related thereto. The company may participate in other enterprises, as well as acquire, exploit, manage, and dispose of business premises and intellectual property rights, establish subsidiaries and branches in Switzerland and abroad, and furthermore, perform all legal acts that the company's purpose may entail or that are suitable for promoting its development or that of group companies. The company may grant direct or indirect financing to third parties, including companies in which it is directly or indirectly involved, its direct or indirect shareholders, as well as companies in which such parties are directly or indirectly involved, either through loans or other financing, including within the framework of cash pooling agreements, and may also provide securities of any kind for their liabilities, including through pledges on or fiduciary transfers of the company's assets or through guarantees of any kind, whether for consideration or not.