HIGHLIGHTED PROJECTS

Manual Classified Vehicle Counts

Manual Classified Vehicle Counts are a key service offered by Petrorex, delivering accurate, site-specific traffic data where automated counting systems are impractical or where detailed vehicle classification is required. Our experienced field staff conduct on-site traffic surveys at strategic locations, recording vehicle movements by class, direction, time period, and turning movements. This service is ideal for complex intersections, forecourts, access points, and feasibility or compliance-driven studies.

What We Count

  • Light vehicles (cars, bakkies)

  • Minibus vehicles (Taxi’s)

  • Heavy vehicles (trucks, articulated vehicles)

  • Buses

  • Motorcycles

  • Custom vehicle classes based on project requirements

Benefits

  • High accuracy in complex traffic environments

  • Detailed vehicle classification beyond automated system capabilities

  • Flexible survey design tailored to site-specific needs

  • Reliable data suitable for regulatory and authority submissions

  • Cost-effective solution for short-term or targeted studies

  • Human oversight allows real-time problem identification and correction

  • Defensible results that support feasibility studies and decision-making

How It Works

  • Counts conducted during peak periods, 12Hrs, 13Hrs,24Hrs, or multi-day (7 Days) surveys

  • Manual data capture using standardized count sheets

  • Trained and supervised field personnel

  • Quality checks to ensure data accuracy and consistency

  • Secure data capture, verification, and reporting

Competitor Service Station Analysis

A strategic Petrorex service that identifies market strengths, gaps and opportunities around your proposed or existing service station. We combine field observations, commercial intelligence and operational bench-marking so you can make confident pricing and merchandising decisions.

What We Analyse

  • Nearby service station locations and catchment overlap

  • Fuel product mix, pricing and promotions

  • Convenience retail offering (product categories, layout, merchandising)

  • Forecourt design and access/egress characteristics

  • Ancillary services (car wash, lube bay, quick-service food, banking)

  • Opening hours, staffing patterns and observable throughput (busy times)

  • Brand positioning, signage and customer experience cues

  • Opportunity gaps (untapped product or service niches)

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How It Works

  • Desktop scoping to identify competitors and catchment area

  • On-site visits and observational audits (photographs, notes, opening/peak times)

  • Mystery-shop where appropriate to assess customer experience and service levels

  • Data synthesis and benchmarking against your service station or target concept

  • Strategic recommendations (pricing, product mix, layout changes, partnership ideas)

Fuel Volume Sales Projection

Fuel Volume Sales Projections are a specialist analytical service offered by Petrorex, providing realistic, defensible forecasts of expected fuel sales volumes for proposed or existing service stations. Using verified traffic data, site characteristics, market conditions and competitor performance, we develop projections that support feasibility studies, investment decisions, and regulatory submissions.

What We Analyse

  • Classified traffic volumes and vehicle composition

  • Site location, access, visibility and circulation

  • Catchment area characteristics and growth trends

  • Competitor service station volumes and market share

  • Fuel product mix (Petrol 93/95, Diesel grades)

  • Operating hours and forecourt capacity

  • Planned developments and future road network changes

Benefits

  • Reliable volume forecasts grounded in real traffic and market data

  • Reduced investment risk through realistic, defensible assumptions

  • Authority-ready outputs suitable for DMRE, municipal and lender review

  • Supports financing with clear, transparent methodology

  • Scenario planning to test sensitivity to traffic growth or competition

  • Improved planning accuracy for tank sizing, pump numbers and staffing

  • Credible decision support for go / no-go investment outcomes

Bankable financial analysis (Including NPV Calculation)

Bankable Financial Analysis is a core feasibility service offered by Petrorex, designed to support investment decisions, funding applications, and regulatory approvals. Our analyses are structured to meet the expectations of banks, investors, and authorities, with transparent assumptions and defensible methodologies. This service converts traffic data, fuel volume projections and operating inputs into a clear financial view of project viability, including Net Present Value (NPV) and related investment metrics.

What We Analyse

  • Capital expenditure (land, construction, equipment, professional fees)

  • Forecast fuel volumes and gross margins

  • Convenience retail and ancillary income (where applicable)

  • Operating costs (staff, utilities, maintenance, logistics)

  • Royalties, levies and regulatory costs

  • Financing structure and repayment assumptions

  • Inflation, escalation and growth rates

  • Project lifecycle and exit assumptions

Benefits

  • Bank-ready financial models aligned with lender expectations

  • Clear investment viability through NPV and IRR calculations

  • Reduced funding risk with transparent, defensible assumptions

  • Decision confidence for investors, developers and operators

  • Supports DMRE and municipal submissions where financial motivation is required

  • Scenario visibility to understand upside potential and downside risk

  • Improved project structuring before capital is committed

 

Comprehensive Feasibility Study & Business Plan

Comprehensive Feasibility Studies and Business Plans are a flagship service offered by Petrorex, delivering a fully integrated, bankable and authority-ready evaluation of proposed or existing fuel retail developments. This service brings together traffic analysis, market research, fuel volume projections, competitor assessments, and financial modelling into a single, structured document suitable for DMRE licence applications, municipal submissions, bank funding, and investor approval.

Scope of the Feasibility & Business Plan

Market & Location Analysis

  • Catchment definition and demand assessment

  • Traffic volumes and growth trends

  • Accessibility, visibility and site constraints

  • Local economic and demographic overview

Competitor & Industry Analysis

  • Mapping and profiling of competing service stations

  • Market share and saturation analysis

  • Product, pricing and service comparison

  • Opportunity and gap identification

Operational & Technical Assessment

  • Forecourt layout and pump capacity assumptions

  • Tank sizing and fuel product mix

  • Operating hours and staffing structure

  • Compliance considerations and operational risks

Financial & Commercial Analysis

  • Fuel volume sales projections

  • Revenue and margin modelling

  • Operating cost analysis

  • Capital expenditure estimates

  • Net Present Value (NPV), IRR and payback calculations

  • Sensitivity and scenario testing

Business Strategy & Implementation

  • Recommended site positioning and branding approach

  • Phased development and rollout strategy

  • Risk identification and mitigation measures

  • Key performance indicators (KPIs)

  • Implementation timeline and milestones

Benefits

  • Single, integrated document covering all feasibility aspects

  • Bankable financial outputs aligned with lender requirements

  • Authority-ready for DMRE and municipal submissions

  • Reduced development risk through data-driven decisions

  • Clear go / no-go guidance for investors and developers

  • Improved funding success with professional, defensible analysis

  • Strategic clarity from concept through to operation

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