Petrol Ofisi started its operations in 1941 in Ankara as a public enterprise with a team of nine people to purchase and import petroleum and petroleum products to address the needs of the public and private sector as well as of final consumers, to create stocks that would cover the entire country, and to do its marketing. Its symbol is a female wolf blasting flame from her mouth and has its origins in the female wolf Asena, one of the main figures in Turkish mythology.