Tesoro Corporation, known briefly as Andeavor, was a Fortune 100[4] 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 company ranked No. 90 in the 2018 Fortune 500 list of the largest United States corporations by total revenue.[5]
Beginning in the late 1990s, Tesoro grew through a series of acquisitions and initiatives that created Tesoro Corporation, the company focusing on the core business of petroleum refining, marketing, maritime transportation and distribution. The first segment involved the operation of six petroleum refineries situated in California, Alaska, Washington, Hawaii, North Dakota, and Utah.[8] For its marketing and distribution segment, Tesoro sold refined gas and fuel products in both bulk and wholesale markets.[8] Acquisitions expanded refining capacity from 72,000 barrels per day (11,400 m3/d) to approximately 664,000 barrels per day (105,600 m3/d).
Prior to its acquisition by Marathon Petroleum in 2018, Tesoro was the third-largest independent petroleum refining and marketing company in the United States. The merger between the two companies formed the largest American refiner by capacity and the fifth in the world.[9]
2003: sells Tesoro Marine Services to Martin Midstream: Tesoro Marine Services were operating fueling and supply terminals servicing US Gulf Coast oil and gas exploration — also made a series of refinery acquisitions that boosted the company's capacity output and positioned it for future expansion in key growth markets throughout the Western United States;
2005: largest capital expansion program in Tesoro Corporation's history and record earnings;
2007: announcement of purchase of Shell's refinery at Los Angeles refinery and approximately 250 Southern California retail stations;
2016: Tesoro purchases Dakota Prairie Refining in Dickinson, North Dakota from WBI Energy; construction of the refinery was completed in the spring of 2015;
2016/17: Par Pacific Inc. rebrands its Tesoro and 76 gas stations as HELE;[16][17]
Corporate logo from 2017 to 20182017: Tesoro announces its change of name to Andeavor following its acquisition of Western Refining;[18] On August 1, 2017, the company changed its ticker symbol to "ANDV" from "TSO";[19]
2018: Andeavor announced its entering into a definitive merger agreement with Marathon Petroleum with Marathon Petroleum acquiring all of Andeavor's outstanding shares;[20] the merger was closed on October 1.[21]
Having taken over BP installations, researchers at the Political Economy Research Institute identified Tesoro as being the 24th-largest corporate producer of air pollution in the United States, releasing roughly 3,740,000 lb (1,700 t) of toxic chemicals annually.[22] Major pollutants emitted annually by the corporation were estimated to include more than 400,000 lb (180 t) of sulfuric acid,[23]
following which the Environmental Protection Agency named Tesoro a potentially responsible party for at least four superfund toxic waste sites.[24]
Tesoro settled and/or closed each of the superfund sites where it was named as one of many responsible parties. Tesoro was listed as a de minimis contributor to a superfund site in Abbeville, LA, and the site has since been closed by the EPA.
Defenders of the Amazon forest in South America cite Tesoro for sourcing some of their crude oil from the Amazon. Three of Tesoro's refineries - Anacortes (WA), LA (CA) and Golden Eagle (CA), were known to process Amazonian crude oil.[26]
^ abPlunkett, Jack W. (2008). Plunkett's Energy Industry Almanac 2009: Energy Industry Market Research, Statistics, Trends and Leading Companies. Houston, TX: Plunkett Research, Ltd. ISBN 978-1-59392-128-6.
