Portuguese energy companies

Last modified: 2005-08-26 by antonio martins
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Galp (oil and gas)

Logo-on-white company flag of Galp, a portuguese state-owned oil company, who has adopted a new logo last year. I consists of an orange rounded lozenge with a stylized white "G" on it. It is defenitely a frequent sight in Portugal — in tanker trucks, gas (gasoline) stations, butane and propane canisters and pipes, etc. (Approximate rendition — the logo is sometimes like this, with 3D effects, black shadow and yellow glow, some others just the orange outline on white.) The new logo keeps to traditional company color, orange, and the letter from the former logo, but moves away from the oil/gas concept, preparing for diversification and privatization. The company changed also its name to Galp Energia.
António Martins, 23 May 2004

The disposition and shape of the "G" are such that if you look at it you’ll see a burning flame, or at least that’s what the designers intended. This keeps it very well within the oil/gas concept.
Jorge Candeias, 23 May 2004

variant

Advertisement “banner” in frequent use (I even saw it hanging from a company office (in Rua do Alecrim, Lisbon) along with the national flag): higher than wide, with the logo set on a bicolor background, white and orange, divided by a curve line.
António Martins, 23 May 2004

Petrogal

Galp’s former logo featured a large stylized "G", also orange on white, sometimes with additional green lettering. This was inherited from the previous company name, Petrogal, a company dedicated exclusively to oil and gas transport, refining and distribution.
António Martins, 23 May 2004

Sonap

The color orange comes from the still previous company, Sonap (Sociedade Nacional de Petróleos), which had (if I recall correctly) a logo consisting of a white disc on orange.
António Martins, 23 May 2004

E.D.P. (electricity)
Electricidade de Portugal

New logo

Apparently, the company logo was very recently changed: now a red square with a kind of smile, white, on it. It is shown on the opening of http://www.edp.pt/, while the contents still(?) show the old(?) logo. The company name seems to have changed to Energias de Portugal ("energies" replacing "electricity").
António Martins, 02 Aug 2004

Company flag

EDP - Electricidade de Portugal (Electricity of Portugal), was created in the early 1980ies as a state owned company amalgamating preexisting private and public regional companies. It was recently open to private share holding and bound to be split in many sectorial private or semi-private companies. All these operate more or less independently under the brand "Grupo EDP" (the holding company), which is a semioticly strong presence and influence for most of them. (The group as a whole is one of the largest companies in Portugal.) The main part of this semiotic presence is the EDP logo, recreated some twelve yars ago, featuring a stylized turbine (a tri-radial, rotationally symmetrical element) and the lettering "EDP" in bold italic capitals of a sans face; the lettering is some times ommited. Company colors are dark blue on white, or the opposite. All this shows in flags, used mostely in company facilities, the official one apparently being the blue logo and lettering on white. António Martins, 17 Oct 2003

This version was the one chosen for the main entrance of the goup’s HQ recently (re)inaugurated in a central Lisbon plaza.
António Martins, 16 Mar 2004

Variants

I’ve seen also the opposite and also both these variants without the lettering (and perhaps a slightly larger logo).
António Martins, 17 Oct 2003

White logo on blue, with lettering

Blue logo on white, no lettering

White logo on blue, no lettering