Editing Repsol (section)

==Company name and origins==
In 1971, the Repsol logo first appeared, as REPESA (Refinería de Petróleos de Escombreras S.A.) brand product, in the [[Grand Prix motorcycle racing|Motorcycling World Championship]] of that year.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.motogp.com/en/news/2011/05/09/repsol-40-years-making-history-in-the-motorcycling-world-championship/155690 |title=Repsol: 40 years making history in the Motorcycling World Championship |date=9 May 2011 |access-date=29 January 2022}}</ref>

Its name derives from the founding company REPESA for its visibility and easy pronunciation in different languages. In 1991, the Instituto Nacional de Hidrocarburos (INH), before the imminent demise of the state oil monopoly, set the goal to create a company of mixed public-private capital, which exploited state oil assets. When looking for a name a survey at street level was performed and the only two words that people recognized and associate with the world of oil were CAMPSA (badge of the former monopoly) and REPSOL; obviously, this last one was chosen to name the new company.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Montero Curiel |first=Pilar |date=2002-06-30 |title=Confusiones de sibilantes en el manuscrito 20241/13 de la Biblioteca Nacional de Madrid |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.3989/rfe.2002.v82.i1/2.143 |journal=Revista de Filología Española |volume=82 |issue=1/2 |pages=45–61 |doi=10.3989/rfe.2002.v82.i1/2.143 |issn=1988-8538|doi-access=free }}</ref>

"A short, round, sonorous and catchy name was searched. As many terms of the language sink their roots in Latin, here the first letters of a small company of lubricants (Repesa) were used, and the term is completed with the star that identifies Spain in the cultures of the north. Repsol is one of the few names of companies that do not obey an acronym or joins that obsession of putting together letters of horrific names. And that was the first hit".<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.elmundo.es/sudinero/noticias/edit-73.html |title=La importancia de llamarse Repsol |date=13 April 1997 |access-date=29 January 2022}}</ref>