After leaving school at the age of 17, Finch started working as entry level junior at Petrofina.
He competed in nine Cup races in the #32 Fina/Lance Snacks Chevrolet Monte Carlo for Active Motorsports, his best finish a 21st at Charlotte.
Petrofina's U.S. subsidiary, Fina Inc., announced that it will move its headquarters to Houston from Plano, Texas in 2000.
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Petrofina expanded its operations to the United States in 1956 with the purchase of Texas-based Panhandle Oil Company, which was headquartered in Wichita Falls, Texas, where the firm operated an oil refinery and marketed gasoline through service stations in Texas, Oklahoma and New Mexico.
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American Petrofina, as the United States operation was called, further expanded its presence in the US through the purchase of several small oil companies, the largest being the Cosden Oil Company from W.R. Grace in 1963, which gave FINA a very large chain of service stations in Texas and New Mexico along with an oil refinery in Big Spring, Texas.
He actively promoted international consolidation of the sectors in which he was involved, selling Banque Bruxelles Lambert to ING Group, Royale Belge to Axa, Tractebel to Suez, Petrofina to Total S.A., and RTL to Bertelsmann.
Alon USA was formed after Alon Oil Company Ltd, purchased over 1,700 FINA retail stations, an oil refinery, pipelines and terminals in the US from Total S.A..
Subsequently, the developers applied to Croydon Council for permission to construct 47 additional apartments on the site of the derelict Total/Elf/Fina petrol station, also on London Road.