Alon Brands is gaining some independence, but it won't be going it alone in its new venture. Trading on the 7-Eleven and FINA brands, Alon Brands operates convenience stores and, through its wholesale marketing segment, provides motor fuels, supplies, and services to distributors in the southern US. The company is the largest 7-Eleven licensee in the US, with more than 300 convenience stores located in Texas and New Mexico. Alon Brands is also the sole licensee of the FINA brand for motor fuels in the South Central and Southwestern US. Alon USA Energy formed Alon Brands in 2008 as a holding company for its retail and wholesale marketing segments, with the intention of spinning the company off in an IPO.

Amalie Oil (named after the founders' grandmother) blends and supplies lubricants and other oil products including motor oils, transmission fluids, gear oils, and greases. To control costs, the company also manufactures its own bottles to store its products. Amalie Oil, which markets its products worldwide, has distribution operations in Dallas; Jacksonville, Florida; and Los Angeles. Amalie Oil blends and packages some 200 different products in package sizes ranging from 8-ounce plastic bottles to bulk rail transports.

AMERICAN AGIP Co. Inc. was established in North America in 1987. American Agip is part of the Eni Group, a global company operating in the oil, natural gas, power generation and petrochemicals industries, as well as oil field services and engineering. After having, in 2008, spun off its methanol and petroleum products trading activity to its sister company, Eni Trading and Shipping (ETS), American Agip is now active and exclusively focused on the manufacturing and marketing of quality lubricants.

BP Lubricants USA (formerly Castrol Consumer North America) spends as much time on top of a hood as it does under them. BP Lubricants USA, the Castrol brand sponsor of a variety of drag racing, funny car, and Formula 1 race car drivers, is a distributor of Castrol synthetic lubricants to automotive service providers and retailers in North America. It also provides specialty lubricants, including degreasers, lubes, and transmission fluids, for boating, motorcycling, racing, and snowmobile customers. BP Lubricants USA is a regional unit of Castrol, the UK-based lubricants firm owned by global oil giant BP.

Castrol India Limited is greased up and slip sliding its way through the subcontinent. The company's products include oil and other lubricants used by the automotive, industrial, and marine sectors. Its automotive sector includes petroleum products (under the Castrol and BP brands) used in off-road vehicles, motorcycles (both two-and four-stoke engines), and diesel engines. Castrol India claims a 22% share of the Indian lubricants market (up from 6% in 1991). The company has five manufacturing plants and a network of 270 distributors, which in turn serve more than 70,000 retail outlets. Castrol India is a 71%-owned subsidiary of Castrol Limited, which is part of UK-based oil giant BP.

Center Oil's core business is peddling petroleum. The company is one of the largest private wholesale distributors of gasoline and other petroleum products to customers primarily in the eastern region of the US. Center Oil owns a dozen storage terminals capable of storing 2.8 million barrels of petroleum products. It also has access to 36 terminals in 10 states, as well as access to the Magellan, Texas Eastern, Kinder Morgan Chicago, and Kaneb pipeline systems. Its products are also distributed through a fleet of ships, barges, and trucks.

Chevron Corporation (Chevron) manages its investments in subsidiaries and affiliates, and provides administrative, financial, management and technology support to the United States and International subsidiaries that engage in fully integrated petroleum operations, chemicals operations, mining operations of coal and other minerals, power generation and energy services. Exploration and production (upstream) operations consist of exploring for, developing and producing crude oil and natural gas, and also marketing natural gas. Refining, marketing and transportation (downstream) operations relate to refining crude oil into finished petroleum products; marketing crude oil and the many products derived from petroleum, and transporting crude oil, natural gas and petroleum products by pipeline, marine vessel, motor equipment and rail car. In April 2009, Reliance Industries Limited bought back Chevron Corporation's 5% stake in Reliance Petroleum Limited.

CSV markets and distributes finished petroleum products for home and industry, as well as for resale through a network of retailers and associate marketers. CityServiceValcon name represents the combination of two long-standing petroleum marketers, City Service and Valcon Distributing, with roots in Kalispell, Montana dating to the 1930's. The companies joined forces in October of 2003, combining facilities, product lines and personnel to strengthen CityServiceValcon long-term position in a shrinking field of peers. CityServiceValcon corporate office is located in picturesque Kalispell, near Glacier National Park. Through strategically positioned plants and support offices, CityServiceValcon serve customers from the Pacific Northwest to the Rockies and Plains states.

Formed by the merger of Conoco and Phillips Petroleum, ConocoPhillips is the #2 integrated oil and gas company in the US, behind Exxon Mobil, and consolidated that position by buying Burlington Resources (for a reported $35 billion). The company explores for oil and gas in more than 30 countries and has proved reserves of 10 billion barrels of oil equivalent (excluding its Syncrude oil sands assets). It has a refining capacity of more than 2.6 million barrels per day and sells petroleum at 8,340 retail outlets in the US under the 76, Conoco, and Phillips 66 brands, and at 1,260 gas stations in Europe. Other operations include chemicals, gas gathering, fuels technology, and power generation.

Coulson Oil Company was founded in 1969 and is based in North Little Rock, Arkansas. Coulson Oil Company, Inc. distributes gasoline and diesel fuel to convenience stores and fuel outlets in Arkansas, Tennessee, and Oklahoma. It offers c-store equipment installation, repair, and maintenance services, as well as provides loading, hauling, and delivery services. The company involves in buying, selling, and leasing convenience stores and commercial properties. It also offers pump repair and calibration, RPZ and fuel line testing, line leak/line leak detector testing, environmental compliance assistance, HVAC and refrigeration installation and repair, and EPOS installation and repair services.

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