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The Valero Energy Corporation

Valero began a separate company to house its refining and retail divisions in 1997. This company also kept the Valero name. The remaining divisions of Valero consist mostly of natural gas operations and these have been acquired by Pacific Gas and Electric. In 1998 Valero next acquired a refinery in New Jersey. This was Valero’s first refinery acquisition outside of the Gulf Coast area. In 2000 Valero bought a California refinery from ExxonMobil. This gave Valero another refinery and (read more)

Forbes Global 2000 ranked Shell to be the eighth largest company in the world

Shell operates five businesses under the main Shell banner. Those are Exploration and Production, Gas and Power, Refining and Marketing, Chemicals, and Trading/Shipping. Shell operates companies in over 140 countries. Recently Shell has begun to move slowly into the alternative energy market. They now have a small renewable business that has dabbled in solar power, wind power, hydrogen, and forestry. The forestry business was discontinued in 2003. Shell is one of the biggest investors in the so (read more)

Exxon is the world’s largest publicly traded international oil and gas company.

On January 1, 1973, Exxon formally replaced the Esso, Enco, and Humble brand names. Prior to this date, the Esso brand was a trademark of the Standard Oil Company. Esso had been attracting protests from other Standard Oil subsidiaries due to the similarity between the name “Esso” (pronounced S-O) and the name Standard Oil (acronym SO). Because of this, the company was restricted from doing business in some states. In states where this restriction existed, Standard Oil operated under either the (read more)