Cova

COVA - Centrale Organisatie Voor Aardolieproducten (Dutch Central Organisation for Oil Products) — The Netherlands' compulsory oil stockholding record: the national stockholding obligation computed under IEA and EU net-import methodology, the composition rules imposed on it (stocks held inside the EU, at least one third in refined products such as gasoline, diesel and jet fuel), and the physical storage portfolio COVA maintains to discharge the part of the obligation not placed on the oil industry itself. Crucially, COVA owns no storage - it leases tankage and cavern space under long-term con…

Cova offers (Alternative, Supply Chain, Reference) — Modest and dense rather than voluminous: 47 consecutive audited financial years of obligation, stockholding, storage-contract and cost data, each year with product-class and location splits, plus a current-figures dashboard. Order 10^3-10^4 structured series-observations (product class x location x year) across the archive - small in count but a continuous four-decade national record with no commercial equivalent..

Sizing genuinely available Rotterdam and north-west European tankage by netting out state-captive capacity, the single most useful output for traders assessing contango capacity in the ARA region; storage-tariff and storage-mode benchmarking for terminal owners, tenants and infrastructure investors using a national-scale lessee's actual contracted terms and cavern-versus-tank cost comparisons; cost-of-security and policy-cost modelling for governments and the EU, since the audited expenditure split between storage and financing is a published benchmark; supply-security and crisis-response analysis of which products and locations the Netherlands can draw and how fast; energy-transition siting analysis, given the observed migration of obligation barrels into underground caverns and across the border into Germany, directly relevant to proposals to repurpose salt caverns for hydrogen and carbon storage; and European oil-balance construction, since Dutch stocks are a large component of OECD European inventories concentrated at one hub.

The data is with 47 years of history.