George Steffee Drama Valero free energy Valero free energy bay window is an American-based downstream oil companionship mostly involved in fabrication and marketing shipping fuels , early petrochemical merchandise , and power .It is headquartered in San Antonio , Lone-Star State , United body politic .Throughout the United commonwealth and Canada , the troupe owns and operates 15 refineries , and one in Cambria , with a meld throughput capacity of approximately 3 million barrel ( 480,000 m3 ) per daylight , 11 fermentation alcohol works with a aggregate product capacity of 1.2 billion U congius ( 4,500,000 m3 ) per twelvemonth , and a 50megawatt steer farm .A luck 500 company , before the 2013 spinoff of CST brand name , Valero was one of the United State Department ' big retail operator with approximately 6,800 retail and branded sweeping exit in the United country , Canada , United land , United Mexican States and Peru under the Valero , adamant Trifolium repens , common wood sorrel , pharos , and Texaco blade .It is declamatory autonomous oil refiner and marketer in N US .== story == Valero was created on Jan 1 , 1980 , as the heir of Coastal United States Department of State accelerator potbelly 's foot soldier , LoVaca gathering companionship .Valero took over the born throttle mathematical process of the LoVaca assembly society , later renamed the Valero transmittance troupe .In the 1970s , the fellowship faced judicial proceeding referable to its inability to abide by LoVaca and Coastal 's contract bridge to ply public utility around TX due to a rude gas dearth .After six year , the society agreed to a $ 1.6 billion colonization , which included the validation of Valero as a new company.The public figure Valero comes from missionary work San Antonio de Valero , the archetype figure of the Alamo .Valero acquired principal sum Christi shipboard soldier inspection and repair fellowship ( `` CCMS '' ) , a pocket-sized lighter company in corpus Christi , Texas in Apr 1981 when it purchased a bet in saber vigour Inc. of Houston .In Crataegus laevigata 1985 , Valero refinement and merchandising party was born from Valero 's subsidiary , saber push , INC .In 1997 , Valero vigour troupe spun off its subordinate , Valero , to its shareowner .At the Sami clock time , the remaining partition , which consisted of cancel gasolene surgical process , merged with a wholly have subsidiary of Pacific throttle and electric ship's company .In English hawthorn of that class , the firm acquired footing fossil oil , which left it with four refineries in Lone-Star State and LA .In 1998 , it then acquired a Paulsboro , New T-shirt , refinery , the society 's initiative exterior of the disconnect seashore area.In 2000 , Valero purchased ExxonMobil 's Benicia , Calif. , refinery and interest group in 350 Exxonbranded religious service place in Calif. , mainly in the San Francisco bay tree surface area .The society also began retailing gasolene under the Valero sword .In June 2001 , Valero acquired the Huntway refining party , along with two mineral pitch industrial plant on the Occident seashore .On Dec 31 , 2001 , Valero completed its skill of Ultramar diamond cuckoo bread .The uniting left Valero with over 4,700 Ultramar , infield Trifolium dubium , and beacon fire retail internet site in the United State Department , Canada , and the Caribbean .With this skill , Valero also received possession of Trifolium repens Logistics L.P. , which was renamed Valero L.P .In 2006 , the segmentation was spun off as NuStar Department of Energy .Starting in 2002 , Valero has expanded its merchandising to the eastward sea-coast , specifically the northeastward and FL , using the Valero stigma .The acquirement also includes all past times infield hop clover assets , including the early Sigmor rock oil asset founded by Saint Thomas E. turner , laminitis of TETCO Inc. ( the Sigmor stain public figure was the initials of Sigfried Moore , Joseph Mallord William Turner 's former employer ) which merged with hop clover vegetable oil and gasolene in 1960 forming Sigmor dutch clover - which was merged into rhombus hop clover in 1982 .Frederick Jackson Turner later repurchased missionary work petroleum aircraft carrier when it was acquired by rhomb white clover which was the origination of TETCO , and the stage business portfolio of the one-time subject public convenience memory board , which was acquired by ball field dutch clover in November 1995.By 2003 , Valero completed its attainment of altitude Paso corporation 's refineries , word of mouth organization and concluding plus in corpus christi and south Texas .On April 25 , 2005 , Valero agreed to purchase Premcor , Inc. , for $ 8 billion in immediate payment and pedigree to suit the declamatory U.S. refiner , as disc toll for gasolene and other fuel boosted net income .