Petroleum importation & downstream distribution
A licensed Philippine counterparty for recurring petroleum supply.
Zion Group, Inc. imports, stores and distributes refined petroleum products into the Philippine market as importer of record — building structured, recurring supply relationships with international refiners and trading houses rather than isolated spot transactions.
01 — MANDATE
Recurring, not spot
Zion seeks direct long-term commercial relationships for the recurring purchase of petroleum products, with requirements defined on a monthly or annual basis alongside supplier commercial teams.
02 — STANDING
Importer of record
Through its subsidiary Octex KFR Corporation, Zion holds Department of Energy oil import and downstream licensing and Bureau of Customs importer accreditation, and files customs entries and DOE reporting in its own name.
03 — SECURITY
Bank-backed offtake
Product is released to domestic off-takers only against an irrevocable letter of credit from a top-three Philippine universal bank, or a foreign bank of equivalent standing acceptable to the supplier.
The market
The Philippines represents a significant market for imported petroleum products. Zion’s assessment of that market — and of the refining, supply, trading and international marketing capabilities of the major producers — is that the opportunity lies in a structured relationship focused on recurring requirements rather than isolated spot transactions, supported by domestic licensing, bonded storage and qualified off-takers.
Zion’s objective with any supplier is to be qualified as a commercial customer in the ordinary course, and then to build a sustainable framework for repeat purchases — with the scope to expand as further requirements are identified.
Products of interest
Ten product families across the barrel.
Lead requirement
EN590 10 ppm ULSD
Ultra-low sulphur automotive diesel to EN 590, sulphur content not exceeding 10 mg/kg, verified by independent load-port inspection.
Aviation & gasoline
Jet A-1 · Mogas
Jet A-1 aviation turbine fuel, motor gasoline and gasoline blendstocks.
Gas, marine & heavy
LPG · Bunkers · Bitumen
Naphtha, LPG and natural gas liquids, marine fuels and fuel oil, petrochemicals and industrial solvents, lubricants, asphalt and bitumen.
Discharge & storage
Bonded storage on both sides of the archipelago.
Mindanao terminal
Cagayan de Oro — Villanueva, Misamis Oriental
On Macajalar Bay, serving northern Mindanao and the company’s home market. Nominated capacity confirmed on request.
Luzon terminal
Calaca, Batangas
Serving the Batangas industrial corridor and the Metro Manila hinterland. Nominated capacity confirmed on request.
Handling standard
Applicable Philippine law and prudent industry practice
Inventory records are maintained to a standard sufficient for a supplier or its appointed representative to independently verify volumes received, stored and released against each cargo.
Company
Zion Group, Inc.
A Philippine corporation trading in refined petroleum products, headquartered in Cagayan de Oro City and operating as importer of record and domestic distributor.
Legal name
Zion Group, Inc.Registered business name: Zion777 Group Inc.
Incorporation
Duly organised under the laws of the Republic of the Philippines
Registration numbers
CS-201532978 · 2025090220673-00Company registration numbers of record. Certified copies of the underlying certificates are furnished on request during supplier qualification.
Business address
No. 17 Mabolo St., Carmen (beside the Paper Tree Building), Cagayan de Oro City, Misamis Oriental, Philippines 9000
Licensed subsidiary
Octex KFR CorporationHolder of the group’s Department of Energy oil import / downstream licence and Bureau of Customs importer accreditation.
Authorised signatory
Bernard Go — Chief Executive OfficerFilipino national. Sole authorised signatory for the company.
Mandate
What Zion is set up to do.
Zion exists to bring refined petroleum products into the Philippines on a repeatable basis and place them with qualified domestic off-takers. That means two things held together: a supply-side relationship with refiners and international trading houses that can commit to a recurring programme, and a domestic distribution capability — licences, bonded storage, customs standing and buyer relationships — that makes each cargo land cleanly.
The company approaches suppliers on the understanding that any supply remains subject to product availability, applicable specifications, commercial terms, logistics, credit requirements, regulatory compliance, customer qualification and final approvals. Specific products, technical specifications, trial quantities and recurring monthly or annual requirements are defined with the supplier’s own commercial teams as discussions progress.
Leadership
Who you will be dealing with.
Chief Executive Officer
Bernard Go
Signs for the company and leads supplier relationships at principal level.
Strategic Advisor & Commercial Coordinator
Enrique Díaz
Principal point of coordination in commercial discussions with international suppliers.
Products
Product families of interest.
Zion’s preliminary areas of interest span the barrel, from ultra-low sulphur diesel through to heavy residues. Exact specifications, trial quantities and recurring volumes are agreed with each supplier.
01
EN590 10 ppm / Ultra-Low Sulphur Diesel
The company’s lead requirement and the product against which its supply framework is drafted. Automotive diesel conforming to the EN 590 standard specification.
02
Jet A-1 aviation fuel
Aviation turbine fuel for domestic carriers and into-plane suppliers.
03
Motor gasoline and gasoline blendstocks
Finished mogas grades and blendstocks for domestic blending.
04
Naphtha
As petrochemical feedstock and gasoline blending component.
05
LPG and natural gas liquids
Liquefied petroleum gas and associated NGL streams.
06
Marine fuels and fuel oil
Bunker grades and residual fuel oil for marine and industrial consumers.
07
Petrochemicals and industrial solvents
Chemical and solvent streams for domestic industrial off-takers.
08
Lubricants
Base oils and finished lubricant products.
09
Asphalt / bitumen
Paving and industrial grades for infrastructure programmes.
10
Other heavy products
Additional heavy and residual streams by agreement.
Specification — EN590 10 ppm
How diesel quality is defined and proven.
Standard
EN 590 automotive diesel
Sulphur content
≤ 10 mg/kgThe defining parameter of the grade.
Further parameters
Cetane number · density · flash point · water contentAnd the balance of the EN 590 parameter set, as set out in the full specification sheet attached to each supply agreement. Zion does not publish assumed values for these — they are taken from the supplier’s own specification.
Proof of product
Independent load-port certificate of quantity and qualityIssued by a named, mutually agreed independent inspector — SGS, Intertek, Bureau Veritas or equivalent — prior to vessel departure.
Binding measurement
Load-port certificate, absent manifest error or fraudSubject to a discharge-port survey and the transit tolerance described under Operations.
Licensing & compliance
Standing to import, in Zion’s own name.
Zion’s value to an international supplier rests on being a licensed, accredited counterparty that can act as importer of record and carry the regulatory burden of a Philippine landing.
Company registration
CS-201532978 · 2025090220673-00
Zion Group, Inc. — registered business name Zion777 Group Inc. Registration numbers of record for the Philippine corporation.
DOE oil import / downstream licence
Held by Octex KFR Corporation
Department of Energy licence permitting the import, storage and distribution of petroleum products. Licence number and a certified copy are furnished on request to qualifying counterparties.
BOC importer accreditation
Held by Octex KFR Corporation
Bureau of Customs accreditation permitting Zion to act as importer of record for each cargo. Accreditation number and a certified copy are furnished on request to qualifying counterparties.
Validity
Current and in good standing, maintained throughout the term of any supply agreement
Zion undertakes to notify a supplier promptly of any suspension, revocation or material change to a licence or accreditation.
Verification
Certified copies furnished on request to qualifying counterparties
Provided as part of supplier customer-registration and qualification processes.
Regulatory obligations Zion carries
Importer of record duties.
Bureau of Customs
Customs entries
Accurate and timely filing of all customs entries for each cargo, and the true and correct declaration of value, quantity and classification of the product.
Department of Energy
DOE reporting
Reporting obligations attaching to a licensed downstream oil importer and distributor for each cargo received and released.
Bureau of Internal Revenue
Duties, VAT and excise
Statutory obligations in respect of import duties, value-added tax and excise tax remain with Zion as importer of record, irrespective of which party funds them commercially.
Both parties
Notification
Prompt notice to the supplier of any inquiry, audit or enforcement action by a Philippine regulatory or tax authority relating to a cargo, and good-faith cooperation in responding.
Counterparty compliance
Representations Zion is prepared to give.
Corporate standing
Duly organised and validly existing, with full power and authority to contract, and entry into a supply agreement violating no law, licence condition or binding agreement.
Sanctions
Not, and not owned or controlled by, any person or entity subject to applicable trade or economic sanctions.
Financial crime
Compliance with all applicable anti-money-laundering, anti-bribery and export-control laws in performing any supply agreement.
Confidentiality
Commercial terms held confidential and not disclosed other than to professional advisors, financing banks, or as required by law or regulatory authority.
Operations
From laycan to reconciliation.
Zion works to a defined cargo lifecycle. Each shipment is confirmed individually under a cargo confirmation that sits beneath an umbrella supply agreement, so volumes, laycans and terms are agreed cargo by cargo without renegotiating the framework.
01
Cargo confirmation
Volume and tolerance, vessel and laycan, load and discharge ports, appointed inspector, and any cargo-specific payment or letter-of-credit terms, signed by both parties.
02
Load-port inspection
An independent inspector — SGS, Intertek, Bureau Veritas or equivalent, named and mutually agreed — issues a certificate of quantity and quality before the vessel departs. This is the proof of product.
03
Documents to Zion
Vessel nomination, bill of lading, certificate of origin and the independent inspection certificate, delivered ahead of the vessel’s estimated arrival at the discharge port.
04
Discharge into bonded storage
Risk passes at the vessel’s permanent hose connection, evidenced by the discharge report and ullage survey. Zion insures product in storage from that point, naming the supplier as loss payee or additional insured to the extent of any retained title interest.
05
Off-taker letter of credit
No product is sold to a domestic buyer until that buyer has posted an irrevocable domestic letter of credit, issued or confirmed by a Philippine universal bank ranked in the top three by assets — or a foreign bank of equivalent standing acceptable to the supplier — for not less than the invoice value.
06
Release against funds
Volume is released from the terminal to the off-taker on the issuing bank’s notice of fund release. Copies of each off-taker letter of credit, or written confirmation of issuance and key terms, are provided to the supplier.
07
Reconciliation
A written reconciliation statement — sale volumes and prices per off-taker, proceeds, costs applied, supporting invoices and bank advices — is delivered within ten business days of each off-taker sale being paid.
Quantity & quality control
How variance is settled.
Binding measurement
Load-port independent inspector’s certificateFinal and binding on both parties absent manifest error or fraud.
Discharge-port survey
Conducted at each dischargeCompared against the load-port certificate to establish transit variance.
Transit tolerance
0.3 – 0.5 %Variance within this band is treated as normal transit and measurement tolerance and gives rise to no claim.
Beyond tolerance
Referred to a mutually appointed independent surveyorWhose determination is final and binding on both parties.
Off-specification product
Notified to the supplier promptly after dischargeParties discuss an equitable price adjustment or other remedy in good faith, failing which the matter goes to the independent surveyor.
Supplier assurances
Visibility Zion is prepared to give a supplier.
Inventory
Records open to inspection
Terminal inventory records sufficient to independently verify volumes received, stored and released against each cargo, inspectable by the supplier or its appointed representative on reasonable notice.
Audit
Right of audit
Sales, inventory and banking records relevant to a supply agreement made available for audit on reasonable notice — and at any time where a material discrepancy is reasonably suspected.
Title
Title retention
Zion will contract on terms under which title to a cargo remains with the supplier until the supplier’s agreed cost basis and share of proceeds have been received in full.
Proceeds
Designated account
Sale proceeds are received into a designated account, with the option of a jointly controlled or escrow arrangement where a supplier requires it.
Contact
Open a commercial discussion.
Zion welcomes introductions to supply, trading and commercial teams, and is prepared to enter a supplier’s prospective customer registration and qualification process.
Office
Address
No. 17 Mabolo St., Carmen
Cagayan de Oro City
Misamis Oriental 9000
Philippines
Cagayan de Oro City
Misamis Oriental 9000
Philippines
Telephone
+63 917-712-0-712
Registration
CS-201532978 · 2025090220673-00
Points of contact
Chief Executive Officer
Bernard Go
Principal-level supplier relationships.
Strategic Advisor & Commercial Coordinator
Enrique Díaz
Day-to-day coordination of commercial discussions.
For suppliers
What is useful in a first exchange.
Product & specification
The grade offered and the governing specification sheet.
Delivery basis
Delivered Philippine discharge port, and the ports you can serve.
Volume & frequency
Indicative parcel size, trial quantity, and the recurring monthly or annual programme available.
Inspection
The independent inspector you appoint at load port.
Qualification
Your customer registration requirements, so Zion can begin assembling the file.