Giant Industries () was an

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company headquartered in

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in the United States. It owned three refineries, located at

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, Gallup, New Mexico, and Grafton, Virginia. Giant also owned a crude oil pipeline in New Mexico, a fleet of oil truck transports, and service stations in New Mexico, Colorado, and Arizona. Giant Industries was acquired by

Western Refining Western Refining, Inc., is a Texas-based Fortune 200 and Global 2000 crude oil refiner and marketer operating primarily in the Southwestern, North-Central and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. Western Refining (WNR) has been publicly t ...

in 2007, which was acquired by

Tesoro Corporation Tesoro Corporation, known briefly as Andeavor, was a Fortune 100 and a Fortune Global 500 company headquartered in San Antonio, Texas, with 2017 annual revenues of $35 billion, and over 14,000 employees worldwide. Based on 2017 revenue, the comp ...

in 2017 to form

Andeavor Tesoro Corporation, known briefly as Andeavor, was a Fortune 100 and a Fortune Global 500 company headquartered in San Antonio, Texas, with 2017 annual revenues of $35 billion, and over 14,000 employees worldwide. Based on 2017 revenue, the comp ...

. In 2018, Andeavor was acquired by Marathon Petroleum. After the acquisition, the Giant brand was phased out and stores were converted to Marathon's now-former subsidiary,

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(Speedway was acquired by

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, parent company of 7-Eleven, in 2021).

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{{Convenience stores in North America Companies based in Scottsdale, Arizona Economy of the Southwestern United States Defunct oil companies of the United States 2007 mergers and acquisitions Marathon Petroleum