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Caltex
Caltex is a petroleum brand name of Chevron Corporation used in the Asia-Pacific region, the Middle East, and Southern Africa. Headquartered in Singapore, it is also the brand name of non-Chevron petroleum companies in some countries (such as New Zealand, and previously Australia and South Africa) under a trademark licensing agreement with Chevron. Caltex was also the name of the joint venture between Chevron and Texaco which used the Caltex brand name in its operations, until both parent companies merged in 2001 to form ChevronTexaco (later renamed simply to Chevron in 2005). The joint venture was created on 30 June 1936 as California Texas Oil Company Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Bahrain Petroleum Company and was a holding company owning the shares of 5 Texaco marketing subsidiaries: ''The Texas Company (Australasia, China, India, Philippine Islands, South Africa) Ltd.''. In exchange Texaco was awarded a 50% stake in BAPCo. This was followed by Texaco gaining a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ampol
Ampol Limited is an Australian petroleum company headquartered in Sydney, New South Wales. Ampol is the largest transport energy distributor and retailer in Australia, with more than 1,800 Ampol-branded service stations across the country . Ampol also operates in New Zealand through its subsidiary Z Energy. Ampol was first incorporated in 1936 and would later be owned by Pioneer International (now Hanson Australia). The Caltex brand in Australia separately began in 1941 to market petrol in its chain of service stations and was owned by Caltex Australia Limited. In 1995, the Ampol and Caltex operations merged to form Australian Petroleum, equally owned by Pioneer and Caltex Australia. Pioneer sold its shareholding between 1997 and 1998, and Caltex Australia gained full ownership of Australian Petroleum. Caltex Australia then gradually replaced the Ampol brand with Caltex over the next decade. From 2001 until 2015, Caltex Australia was owned equally by American petroleum compan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caltex
Caltex is a petroleum brand name of Chevron Corporation used in the Asia-Pacific region, the Middle East, and Southern Africa. Headquartered in Singapore, it is also the brand name of non-Chevron petroleum companies in some countries (such as New Zealand, and previously Australia and South Africa) under a trademark licensing agreement with Chevron. Caltex was also the name of the joint venture between Chevron and Texaco which used the Caltex brand name in its operations, until both parent companies merged in 2001 to form ChevronTexaco (later renamed simply to Chevron in 2005). The joint venture was created on 30 June 1936 as California Texas Oil Company Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Bahrain Petroleum Company and was a holding company owning the shares of 5 Texaco marketing subsidiaries: ''The Texas Company (Australasia, China, India, Philippine Islands, South Africa) Ltd.''. In exchange Texaco was awarded a 50% stake in BAPCo. This was followed by Texaco gaining a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
GS Caltex
GS Caltex Corporation () is a South Korean Energy and Chemical company jointly owned by Chevron and GS Group. The company was founded in partnership with Caltex in May 19, 1967 as the first private oil company in Korea. The company changed its name from LG-Caltex Oil Corporation to GS Caltex Corporation in 2005 as part of the GS Group split from LG Corporation. By 2009, exports accounted for 54 percent of GS Caltex's sales. The company exports petroleum, petrochemical, and lubricant products to 57 countries (as of 2022). Production base * Yeosu Complex ** Total Area : 6,000,000 m2 ** Products : Petroleum, petrochemicals ** Address : 918 Yeosusandan-ro, Yeosu, Jeollanam-co * Lubricant Plant ** Total Area : 68,100 m2 ** Products : Lubricant, Grease ** Address : Jungbong-daero, Seo-gu, Incheon Business domain * Petroleum: GS Caltex has a daily production capacity of per stream day. The company operate Korea's largest heavy oil upgrading (HOU) facility (274,000 barrels per ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chevron Corporation
Chevron Corporation is an American multinational energy corporation predominantly specializing in oil and gas. The second-largest direct descendant of Standard Oil, and originally known as the Standard Oil Company of California (shortened to Socal or CalSo), it is active in more than 180 countries. Within oil and gas, Chevron is vertically integrated and is involved in hydrocarbon exploration, production, refining, marketing and transport, chemicals manufacturing and sales, and power generation. Founded originally in Southern California during the 1870s, the company was then based for many decades in San Francisco, California, before moving its corporate offices to San Ramon, California, in 2001; on August 2, 2024, Chevron announced that it would be relocating its headquarters from California to Houston, Texas. Chevron traces its history back to the second half of the 19th century to small California-based oil companies which were acquired by Standard and merged into St ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
OTR (convenience Store)
OTR, formerly On the Run, is an Australian chain of petrol stations and convenience stores based in South Australia. Unrelated to ExxonMobil's ''On the Run (convenience store), On the Run'' store branding, the OTR brand was first established in 1999 by the Shahin family (Peregrine Corporation), who were already owning and operating service stations in Adelaide since 1984. It owns OTR and Store 24. In March 2024, OTR was sold to Viva Energy, which retails Shell plc, Shell-branded fuel in Australia. Some Reddy Express, Coles Express sites (also owned by Viva Energy) were or will be rebranded as OTR. Operations OTR is an umbrella brand of 24-hour convenience stores coupled with service stations owned and operated by Viva Energy. Many OTR outlets operate alongside other brands such as Subway (restaurant), Subway, Wok in a Box, Oporto (restaurant), Oporto, Hungry Jack's, Guzman y Gomez and Krispy Kreme. OTR has also developed and launched a series of proprietary food and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 Independent business, independent company until its refining operations merged into Chevron in 2001, at which time most of its station franchises were divested to Shell plc through Shell USA, its American division. It was one of the first gas stations to exist. Texaco began as the "Texas Fuel Company", founded in 1902 in Beaumont, Texas, by Joseph S. Cullinan, Thomas J. Donoghue, and Arnold Schlaet upon the discovery of oil at Spindletop. The Texas Fuel Company was not set up to drill wells or to produce crude oil. To accomplish this, Cullinan organized the Producers Oil Company in 1902, as a group of investors affiliated with The Texas Fuel Company. Men such as John W. ("Bet A Million") Gates invested in "certificates of interest" to an amount of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hanson Australia
Heidelberg Materials is a premixed concrete, aggregates and precast company. Founded in 1949 as Pioneer Concrete and later re-branded to Pioneer International, it was taken over by Hanson UK in 1999. In 2024, Hanson was renamed to ''Heidelberg Materials''. It employs more than 4,000 employees across 300 sites. History In 1949, Pioneer Readymix was founded in St Peters, Sydney. In 1954, it was purchased by Tristan Antico and Kelvin Conley. In 1954, a concrete plant was acquired in Canberra. In 1959 it was listed on the Sydney Stock Market as a public company. As well as acquiring further concreting businesses, it diversified into building materials products. In 1961, Pioneer purchased a pre-mix concrete plant in Hong Kong. In 1962, it commenced operations in the United Kingdom, later opening in Israel (1963) and Italy (1964). In 1965, it formed a joint venture with Shell Australia to enter the asphalt manufacture and supply industry. In the same year, the company diversifi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Golden Fleece Company
Golden Fleece was an Australian brand of petroleum products and service stations operated by Harold Sleigh and Company, a business founded in Melbourne, Australia in 1893 by shipowner and merchant Harold Crofton Sleigh (1867–1933) and manufacturer and shipowner John McIlwraith (businessman), John McIlwraith (1828–1902). According to one account, Sleigh started in the petroleum trade in 1913, when a customer was unable to pay freight on a shipment of motor spirit, and the company took possession of the consignment. He later sold the tins of "motor spirit" at a significant profit, leading to the idea for reselling fuel. In 1917, Sleigh registered the trade name "Golden Fleece" for "illuminating, heating and lubricating oils, including petrol, benzine and kerosene", and the following year was clearly marketing "benzine" as a fuel for motorcycles. Initially, the company sold motor spirit in drums only—the first Golden Fleece pump being installed in 1920. Golden Fleece was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Puma Energy
Puma Energy is a Switzerland, Swiss multinational corporation, multinational mid- and downstream oil company, majority-owned by Singapore-incorporated singaporean company Trafigura. Its operations span around 40 countries across five continents and encompass the supply, storage, refining, distribution, and retail of a range of petroleum products. The firm owns and operates more than 1,900 service stations and of oil storage facilities. The company employs over 3,500 staff and is headquartered in Singapore and Geneva with regional hubs in Johannesburg, San Juan, Puerto Rico, San Juan, Brisbane, and Tallinn. History The ''Puma'' brand was created in Argentina in 1929 by "Compañía General de Combustibles S.A." (CGC). CGC was founded in 1920 to transport and market crude oil and its by-products around the country. By the end of the decade, CGC was operating its own-brand service stations in Argentina under the Puma name. Between 1930 and 1996 Puma brand's profi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gull Petroleum
Gull Petroleum is a petroleum distributor in Australia. Founded in Perth, Western Australia in 1976, it was later owned by Puma Energy and now owned by Chevron Corporation (Caltex). History Gull Petroleum was founded by Keith Mitchell, Mark Quackenbush, and Terry Lockwood in 1976. Mitchell and Lockwood first met each other while working at Golden Fleece. While at Golden Fleece Mitchell made a big impression in the Western Australian oil and gas industry rapidly climbing the Golden Fleece corporate ladder. This led to Mitchell being headhunted by Quackenbush's father, the owner of Western Oil. When Mitchell joined Western Oil, Lockwood followed across with him. It was at this time the three men came together and founded Gull Petroleum. Keith Mitchell came up with the idea to name the company Gull, due to the familiar sounding name of Gulf Oil. The strategic naming of Gull helped to bring familiarity and trust in the Western Australian oil and gas market place. It was durin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reddy Express
Reddy Express, formerly Coles Express, is an Australian chain of convenience stores at Shell Australia petrol stations. Until it became controlled by Viva Energy in May 2023, Coles Express was a trading name of Coles Group. Then in September 2023, Coles Express was renamed Reddy Express. The business venture and corresponding fuel discount offer was launched by Coles Myer (predecessor of Coles Group) on 28 July 2003 in response to the similar offer by rival Woolworths some years earlier, proving attractive to shoppers. Coles Myer purchased the retail business of Shell Australia multi-site franchisees for $94 million. Shell Australia (later also sold to Viva Energy) continue to be the exclusive supplier of fuel products, leases the service station property to Coles, and maintains the presence of the "pecten" and other Shell branding on the price board and other signage. The reasoning behind the term “Reddy” is a stylised version of the word "ready" due to the stores conven ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
