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The balmy Trade Winds blow over Tesoro Hawaii, a subsidiary of Tesoro Petroleum, and operator of the 94,000-barrel-per-day Kapolei refinery on the coast of Oahu. The largest of Hawaii's two refineries, Kapolei has distillate hydrocracker, vacuum distillation, and catalytic reformer capabilities, and supplies jet and marine fuels to the trans-Pacific transportation industry that uses Hawaii as a major refueling location. It also serves the local Hawaiian market with gasoline and diesel fuels. Other products include fuel oil, liquefied petroleum gas, and liquid asphalt. The company's Hawaiian assets includes more than 30 Tesoro-branded gas stations.

Tesoro Refining and Marketing manages the refining and marketing businesses of Tesoro Corporation. The parent company's seven refineries have a capacity of 658,000 barrels per day and produce a range of motor fuels and other petroleum products. Tesoro Refining and Marketing markets fuel to 880 branded retail gas stations (including 290 company-owned stations under the Tesoro, Shell, Mirastar, and USA Gasoline brands), in Alaska, Hawaii, and 15 western states. On the wholesale side, it markets 643,000 barrels of oil products per day. It also supplies jet fuel to the vast majority of commercial airlines with routes in the West.

The history of TETCO is largely the history of one man, Tom E. Turner. In fact, the name TETCO is a combination of Mr. Turner's initials and the abbreviated form of "company." Today, Mr. Tom Turner is widely regarded as one of the most important Americans in the history of petroleum retailing. His numerous contributions to the oil and gas landscape of South Texas and the United States are legendry. In recognition of these accomplishments, Mr. Turner was inducted into the prestigious NPN Oil and Gas Industry Hall of Fame in November, 1981. A true pioneer, Mr. Turner's TETCO is the embodiment of his inexorable vision and commitment to provide the very best in service to his customers.

Thai Oil Public Company Limited, Owner and operator of a highly complex refinery which integrated in related to petrochemical production that utilizes modern processing technologies to produce petroleum products predominantly for domestic distribution, Thaioil has expanded into energy-related industries of petrochemicals and lube base production, power generation, as well as marine and pipeline transportation systems for petroleum products and petrochemicals. Owner and operator of a highly complex refinery which integrated in related to petrochemical production that utilizes modern processing technologies to produce petroleum products predominantly for domestic distribution, Thaioil has expanded into energy-related industries of petrochemicals and lube base production, power generation, as well as marine and pipeline transportation systems for petroleum products and petrochemicals.

The oil refinery at Bangchak was completed in 1964. In that same year, the Thai government announced a tax on oil production within the country, so there was only one way to maintain profitability: Expand refining capacity to 20,000 barrels per day. Because the company did not attract enough investment for such expansion, the government offered a 15-year lease on the oil refinery, with the proviso that production capacity must be expanded. Finally, Summit Industrial Corporation (Panama) bid for this lease and successfully expanded production capacity over the next 4 years. A rise in worldwide crude oil prices then led to a global economic crisis. When the Thai government considered adjusting retail oil prices, there were persistent objections from labor unions and student unions, including a demand for the government to nationalize the oil refinery. When the government did so, the oil refinery was found to have deteriorated substantially, requiring large amounts of fuel and accumulating losses of about 4 billion baht.

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