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Tesoro Corporation ( ''aka'': "''Tesoro Petroleum''", or simply as "''Tesoro''") is a Fortune 100〔(www.investopedia.com )〕 and a Fortune Global 500 company headquartered in Texas at San Antonio, with 2013 annual revenues of $37 billion, and over 5,700 employees worldwide. Tesoro is an independent refiner and marketer of petroleum products, operating six refineries in the Western United States with a combined rated crude oil capacity of approximately per day. Tesoro’s retail-marketing system includes over 2,264 branded retail gas stations, of which more than 595 are company-operated under its own Tesoro brandname, as well as Shell, ExxonMobil, ARCO, and USA Gasoline brands. ==History== Tesoro was founded in 1968〔(Tesoro Corporation: Company History )〕 by Dr. Robert V. West Jr,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Robert V. West Jr., 85; founder of independent oil producer Tesoro )〕 primarily engaged in petroleum exploration and production (Tesoro is the word for "Treasure (or Treasury)" in both Italian and Spanish). In 1969, Tesoro began operating its first refinery, near Kenai, Alaska: Tesoro Corp. became the first Fortune 500 company to be headquartered in San Antonio. In the late 1990s, Tesoro grew through a series of acquisitions and initiatives that created Tesoro Corporation, the company focusing on a single core business: petroleum refining and marketing. Acquisitions expanded refining capacity from to approximately . Milestones in the company's history are: * 1998: acquires second refinery (after Nikiski) in Kapolei, Hawaii along with petroleum terminals and approximately 30 retail stations in Hawaii from BHP Americas - also acquires the former Shell refinery at Anacortes, Washington; * 1999: 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tesoro」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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