Motiva Enterprises, LLC, is an American company that operates as a fully-owned affiliate of

Saudi Aramco Saudi Aramco ( ar, أرامكو السعودية '), officially the Saudi Arabian Oil Company (formerly Arabian-American Oil Company) or simply Aramco, is a Saudi Arabian public petroleum and natural gas company based in Dhahran. , it is one of ...

. Headquartered in

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, it had a revenue of $500 Million . Motiva operates as a distributor of

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and 76 branded

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s within its operating territory. The company began as a 50–50

joint venture A joint venture (JV) is a business entity created by two or more parties, generally characterized by shared ownership, shared returns and risks, and shared governance. Companies typically pursue joint ventures for one of four reasons: to acces ...

between

Shell Oil Company Shell USA, Inc. (formerly Shell Oil Company, Inc.) is the United States-based wholly owned subsidiary of Shell plc, a UK-based transnational corporation " oil major" which is amongst the largest oil companies in the world. Approximately 18,000 ...

(the wholly owned American subsidiary of

Royal Dutch Shell Shell plc is a British multinational oil and gas company headquartered in London, England. Shell is a public limited company with a primary listing on the London Stock Exchange (LSE) and secondary listings on Euronext Amsterdam and the New Yo ...

) and

(which had previously partened with

Texaco Texaco, Inc. ("The Texas Company") is an American Petroleum, oil brand owned and operated by Chevron Corporation. Its flagship product is its Gasoline, fuel "Texaco with Techron". It also owned the Havoline motor oil brand. Texaco was an Indepe ...

) in 1997.

History

In 1988,

and Saudi Refining agreed to form a joint venture known as "Star Enterprises" in which Saudi Refining would own a 50 percent share of Texaco's refining and marketing operations in the eastern United States and Gulf Coast. In 1997, Shell embarked on two joint ventures with Texaco in which the companies merged their marketing and refining operations.How Saudi Arabia successfully defended its U.S. oil market share
by John Kemp on Reuters, 29 January 2016 The operations in the western and midwestern United States were merged into a company called "Equilon". The Star Enterprises operation and Shell's eastern and southeastern operations were merged into a company called "Motiva". After Texaco merged with

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in 2001, Shell and Saudi Refining purchased Texaco's interests in the joint ventures. Equilon became a fully owned subsidiary of Shell, while Saudi Aramco and Shell each became equal owners of Motiva. In 2016, Motiva obtained an exclusive license for the 76 gasoline brand on the east coast, previously a West Coast-only brand. In March 2017, Royal Dutch Shell plc signed definitive agreements with Saudi Refining Inc. that gave full ownership of refining and marketing joint venture Motiva Enterprises, LLC to Saudi Refining.Motiva Enterprises' co-owners to split U.S. refineries on May 1: sources
on Rueters, 6 March 2017Shell completes sale of Motiva assets to Saudi Aramco
on Hydrocarbon Processing, 5 January 2017

Operations

Motiva Enterprises owns and operates the

Port Arthur Refinery The Motiva refinery is an oil refinery located in Port Arthur, Texas. It is the largest oil refinery in North America. The first processing units of the Port Arthur Refinery were constructed in 1902 by the Texas Company, later Texaco. The root ...

in Port Arthur, Texas. On 25 May 2012, Motiva officially completed its expansion of the refinery to a capacity of making it the largest refinery in North America and the fifth largest in the world. Motiva's products include

diesel Diesel may refer to: * Diesel engine, an internal combustion engine where ignition is caused by compression * Diesel fuel, a liquid fuel used in diesel engines * Diesel locomotive, a railway locomotive in which the prime mover is a diesel engin ...

, gasoline,

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(LPG), aviation fuel, and lubricants which it supplies to American states in the South, Mid-Atlantic, and the Northeast. Marketing outlets include 5200 Shell and 76-branded service stations. There are 24 storage and distribution terminals.

References

External links

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Motiva Announces Progress on Refinery Expansion Project
on Shell US (archived, 25 Jun 2006) {{Royal Dutch Shell Multinational joint-venture companies Oil companies of the United States Companies based in Houston Texaco Former Shell plc subsidiaries