By Eddah Waithaka
Within a span of fewer than ten years, SICPA has risen to prominence as the foremost provider of comprehensive fuel marking solutions worldwide. Currently, the company offers fraud detection services and revenue enhancement for a staggering volume of over 60 billion liters of petroleum products each year.
Since 2016, SICPA has effectively implemented its Fuel Integrity Solution (FIS) across Europe, Asia comprehensive marking system offers enhanced traceability, monitoring, and fraud detection throughout the entire supply chain.
It addresses a significant issue, the United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research reports that over USD 130 billion in fuels is stolen globally each year, making it the most widely smuggled natural resource.
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SICPA’s robust forensic markers are applied to fuel products at every entry point within a territory. Inspection vehicles, fitted with mobile field analyzers, can accurately assess the marker levels in fuel products in under five minutes throughout the supply chain. Strategic data reporting offers essential insights into fuel consumption and identifies risk patterns linked to fraud detection.
SICPA has gained substantial technological expertise through its fuel marking contracts, supporting governments in reaching their ambitious objectives. These include protecting and enhancing tax collection, fighting illicit activities across the supply chain, ensuring consumers receive expected product quality, and decreasing air pollution caused by the adulteration of substandard products.
SICPA’s FIS empowers governments to effectively counter illicit trade by addressing multiple forms of fraud, including smuggling, underreporting, diversion, dumping, adulteration, and dilution. For instance, in the Middle East, FIS aids authorities in stopping the illegal export of domestic fuel to neighboring countries and preventing its misuse within the local market.
SICPA also gains from a global strategic partnership with Swiss company SGS, recognized as the leading provider of fuel marking operations, field inspection, and testing services. Together, SICPA and SGS have a documented history of successful collaboration that ensures the performance, stability, and strength of their joint fuel integrity initiatives.
“SICPA’s FIS benefits are recognized by governmental authorities worldwide. Based on a century of combined cutting-edge innovations in material, digital and data science domains, we provide public authorities with ultra-fast forensic detection capabilities on the field, allowing court-admissible evidence. Our system also enables governments to manage their strategic oil reserves, preserving their energy independence and helping to maintain national security by avoiding fuel shortages,” says Omar Messlem, Head of Fuel Segment at SICPA.
