The company's purpose is to engage in any kind of financial, commercial, industrial, transport, and in particular the following businesses: a) crude oil, naphtha, gasoline, petroleum, kerosene, lubricant oil trade and industry, as well as trade in and industry of petroleum residues and other petroleum derivatives. The exploitation of oil fields owned by the company, for which it holds a concession, and which it has leased, in any country in the world. The purchase, concession, and leasing of any kind of oil fields and associated industries or trading companies. The distillation and refining of oil; the purchase, construction, rental, and operation of suitable facilities. Experimental and other drilling, as well as any kind of mineral exploration. The construction, purchase, and operation of pumping stations and any kind of transportation means related to the main object, such as pipelines, tank trucks, lighters, and tank ships. In the broadest sense, everything related to the trade in oil and its derivatives. b) Direct or indirect participation in any kind of extraction of mineral products and natural resources, as well as in any undertaking for this purpose, in any country and in the broadest sense, as defined in the previous section a) for oil. c) Financial or other involvement in any company and any society whose business object is directly or indirectly related to any branch of the aforementioned industry or trade; the involvement can take any form, in particular through investments, mergers, acquisitions, founding, participation, loans, purchase of shares, bonds, or other securities.