About ISSA Global
A family enterprise, fifty-five years in the making.
ISSA Global is the umbrella under which three distinct entities — ISSA Group, ISSA Ventures, and the Michel Issa Foundation — share a single heritage, a single set of values, and a single sense of long-term responsibility.
A Letter from the Family
On building something that lasts.
When our father opened a single service station in Amchit in 1970, he was not building a group — he was building a livelihood, with the values he had been raised on: hard work, fairness, and an obligation to one's town. Everything that followed grew from that.
Over the decades, the work has taken many shapes. Stations became terminals, terminals became a regional platform, and the family came to carry responsibilities far beyond what was first imagined. Through all of it, we have tried to keep the original posture: to operate carefully, to honour our partners, and to remember the communities we come from.
Today, ISSA Global is three things at once. It is an operating group. It is a private investment arm. And it is a foundation that gives back to Lebanon. Each is run on its own terms, but each is held to the same standard — the one our father set, and the one we owe the next generation.
— The Issa Family
Our Story
From a single station in Amchit to a regional group.
ISSA traces its origins to 1970, when Michel Issa opened his first service station in Amchit, Lebanon. What began as a modest, hands-on enterprise grew — patiently and through every period of national difficulty — into one of the country's most established energy platforms.
Through economic upheavals and political turmoil, the family chose to stay, to invest, and to build. New business lines were added when they made sense. Strategic partnerships were entered into with care. Each step extended the original work without departing from its values.
Today, the family's interests are organised under ISSA Global: an integrated operating group, a private investment arm, and a foundation devoted to local development. The names have grown, but the way of working has not changed.
Who We Are
A family, an enterprise, and a sense of place.
ISSA Global is a privately held family enterprise headquartered in Amchit, Lebanon. The family has remained directly involved in the running of the business across two generations, balancing the long view of family ownership with the discipline of institutional management.
A family-run enterprise
Decisions are made with the long horizon of family stewardship — measured in decades, not quarters.
Rooted in Lebanon
Our headquarters, our history, and a meaningful share of our people remain in Amchit and the surrounding region.
Operationally minded
We are operators first. Every part of ISSA Global is built on hands-on management and direct accountability.
Held to one standard
Group, Ventures, and Foundation each pursue their own mandate, but all three are governed by the same set of values.
Our Structure
Three entities, one family.
ISSA Global is organised as an umbrella over three distinct entities. Each has its own leadership, its own mandate, and its own way of operating — and each is held to the same standards of integrity and care.
ISSA Group
Operating businesses
An integrated energy platform spanning trading, distribution, storage, aviation services, and clean-energy infrastructure across Lebanon and the wider region.
02ISSA Ventures
Private investments
The family's investment arm, working quietly across a selective set of opportunities and partnerships outside the operating group.
03Michel Issa Foundation
Local development
An independent non-profit founded in 2012, dedicated to advancing education, livelihoods, and environmental stewardship across Lebanon.
Our Philosophy
How we work.
Build to last
We invest in assets, partnerships, and people designed to outlive any single cycle. Permanence is the default.
Operate with care
Quality, safety, and integrity are not departments — they are how the work is done from the first day to the last.
Keep our word
Our partners — global and local — count on a posture of straightforwardness that has been earned over decades.
Honour the place
The communities we operate in are not a backdrop. They are part of the reason the enterprise exists.
The Story
Fifty-five years, in chapters.
From a single service station on the Lebanese coast to an integrated energy platform across four countries — the story of ISSA Global is a story of patience, partnership, and a willingness to build for the long term.
Chapter 01
Foundation
1970 — 1989
A single station in Amchit becomes the seed of a family enterprise.
1970
GroupThe first station
Michel Issa opens his first service station in Amchit, Lebanon — the quiet beginning of what would become a regional energy platform.
1970Group1982
GroupAmchit, under the IPT banner
The first IPT-branded service station opens in Amchit, establishing the identity the Group would carry for decades to come.
Meet the Group
1982GroupChapter 02
Growth in Lebanon
1990 — 2005
Integrated infrastructure takes shape along the Lebanese coast.
1990
InfrastructureThe Amchit terminal
A storage terminal is built in Amchit, marking a deliberate step from retail into integrated energy infrastructure.
1990InfrastructureChapter 03
Institution Building
2006 — 2012
A headquarters, a foundation, and a research arm — the scaffolding of a group.
2006
GroupA headquarters, and EQUIPT
IPT opens its headquarters in Amchit. EQUIPT SAL is established to design and supply the equipment that keeps stations and terminals running.
Inside the Group
2006Group2011
PartnershipPartnership with TotalEnergies
A strategic partnership with TotalEnergies begins — a long-term alignment that would shape the decade that followed.
2012
MIFThe Michel Issa Foundation
The family's philanthropic work is formalised through the Michel Issa Foundation, extending the Group's sense of duty to Amchit and beyond.
Discover MIF
2012MIF2012
VenturesIPTEC, the research arm
IPTEC is established as the Group's research centre — the earliest signal of a deliberate turn toward clean energy and innovation.
Explore ISSA Ventures
2012VenturesChapter 04
Transition & Regional Expansion
2013 — 2023
A measured turn toward the energy transition, and a deliberate step into the Gulf.
2019
PartnershipFuel Logistics, a joint venture
Fuel Logistics Company SAL is formed with TotalEnergies Lebanon — combining operational reach with the standards of a global partner.
2021
GroupEntering the UAE
ISSA Group crosses the region, opening its first chapter in the United Arab Emirates.
2023
SustainabilityLebanon's first smart EV network
Through EVzone, the Group launches Lebanon's first smart EV charging network — a foundational step in the country's electric-mobility platform.
See our sustainability work
2023SustainabilityChapter 05
ISSA Today
2024 — present
Four countries, seven operating companies, one platform.
2024
InfrastructureHamriyah terminal
Acquisition of an additional terminal in the Hamriyah Free Zone — extending the Group's storage footprint into the Gulf.
2025
GroupA four-country platform
Operations now span Lebanon, the UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Jordan — unified under ISSA Global as an integrated regional energy platform.
See the regional platform
2025Group