Valero Energy Acquires Premcor

Valero Energy owns and operates petroleum refineries throughout the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. The Company's refineries produce conventional gasolines, premium gasolines, gasoline meeting the specifications of the California Air Resources Board (CARB), diesel fuel, low-sulfur diesel fuel, ultra-low-sulfur diesel fuel, CARB diesel fuel, other distillates, jet fuel, asphalt, petrochemicals, lubricants, and other refined products. Valero markets branded and unbranded refined products on a wholesale basis in the U.S., Canada, the Caribbean, the U.K., and Ireland through an extensive bulk and rack marketing network and through approximately 7,400 outlets that carry our brand names. The Company also owns ethanol plants in the central plains region of the U.S. that primarily produce ethanol. Valero Energy was founded in 1980 and is based in San Antonio, Texas.

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