[2] As of February 2011[update], Energy Bank is a small financial services provider in Sao Tome.
[3] Energy Bank Sao Tome & Principe (STP), commenced operation as Oceanic Bank (STP) on 14 July 2008.
A one hundred percent acquisition of the bank was done by Global Fleet (United Kingdom), under the leadership of Dr. Jimoh Ibrahim, OFR - Chairman, which transaction transferred ownership and control of Oceanic Bank in June, 2011.
The shares of stock of Energy Bank are privately owned.
The major shareholders in the bank are (a) the Global Fleet UK, (b) the Nicon Insurance, STP, the two principal shareholders are linked to Jimoh Ibrahim, the Nigerian industrialist and entrepreneur who serves as the bank's Chairman.