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That lighthouse, built in 1830, became the first navigational beacon light in the world to be lit with natural gas.

At the height of the Civil War, in 1863, oil was discovered in Titusville, Pennsylvania, a village about 50 miles south of Fredonia, setting off a frenzy of oil fever throughout the Appalachian region.

The well was set on fire--gas then was considered an unprofitable and undesirable by-product of the search for oil--and it burned until another group of investors bought it in 1870.

By that time, natural gas had become a proven commodity for heating, cooking, and lighting, and National Fuel Gas Company built three parallel lines from Pennsylvania to Buffalo to match the original eight-inch line built in 1886.

The company put the world's first 1,000 horsepower gas engine into service in 1899 to drive a compressor.

National Fuel Gas Company was organized as a corporation in 1902 in the State of New Jersey, with operations centered in Buffalo, New York.

Shell began as two separate companies – Royal Dutch Petroleum Company and the Shell Transport and Trading Company in the U.K. They merged in 1907 and became the Royal Dutch Shell Group to compete with John D. Rockefeller’s booming Standard Oil company in the United States

BP began in 1909 as the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, a subsidiary of the Burmah Oil Company.

The Standard Oil became the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey and when it was split into 33 different companies in 1911, Standard Oil of New York was also created.

In 1916, the Sun Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company was established.

On November 12, 1925, Sun Oil Company went public – its stock appearing for the first time on the New York Stock Exchange.

Before the decade was over, Sun was in the oilfield equipment business with the 1929 formation of Sperry-Sun, a joint venture with Sperry Gyroscope.

Always striving to produce better products, Sun got into the mining business in 1941, forming the Cordero Mining Company in Nevada to supply mercury for Sunoco motor oils.

After World War I, the company expanded to European countries and in 1954, it became the British Petroleum company.

However, it was relit for a time again in 1962 as a monument to the merchantmen who sailed the Great Lakes and to the forebears of the National Fuel Gas Company.

Major restructuring reshaped the company in 1975, when it organized into 14 operating units, two property companies and a non-operating parent company.

With a history of innovation and love of performance, Sun developed and released the market's highest octane unleaded gas, Sunoco ULTRA 94, in 1983.

National Fuel bought Utility Constructors Incorporated of Linesville, Pennsylvania, in 1986, as a part of its move to build that Canadian pipeline, but it lost out in the bidding.

Even so, National Fuel has used Utility Constructors to build other pipelines in its service and distribution areas, including a $67 million pipeline that was completed in 1988 and allowed the company to import even more natural gas from Canada than the Alberta project.

The supply, transmission, and storage of natural gas contributed $497,237,000 in revenues, approximately 42 percent of the company's 1991 operating income from its regulated activities and 34 percent of its pretax revenues.

In early 1992, the company announced it formed a joint venture with Citizens Gas Supply Corporation of Boston, Massachusetts, to purchase, store, transport and market natural gas to other utility companies and their customers.

In November of 1998, Sun Company, Inc. changed its name to Sunoco, Inc.

ExxonMobil was created in 1999 when the companies Exxon and Mobil merged.

Raised for children's hospitals and medical research since 2000

Since Delek’s inception in 2001, our strategic vision has been to merge the acquisition savvy of a private equity firm with the management and operational expertise of seasoned energy industry veterans.

In 2004, Sunoco signed on as the Official Fuel of NASCAR®, and more recently IndyCar and the NHRA. In total, Sunoco is the official fuel of more than 50 racing series.

That same year, Valero expands in Corpus Christi with the purchase of a second refinery (later named the Corpus Christi Refineries East Plant), and acquires two asphalt refineries on the West Coast. *Divested in 2005

The deal also gives Valero a stake in a midstream logistics business, later named Valero LP, which was spun off in 2006 and renamed NuStar Energy LP.

That same year, Valero acquires three new refineries from Basis Petroleum, two in Texas (Houston and Texas City) and one in Louisiana (Krotz Springs*), becoming the largest independent refining company on the Gulf Coast. *Divested in 2008

Valero becomes the second-largest independent refining company in the U.S with its purchase of Paulsboro Refinery* in New Jersey, its first transaction with a major oil company (Mobil). *Divested in 2010

The deal elevates Valero to one of the top five asphalt producers in the nation, and marks the company’s entry into the retail*, branded wholesale and marketing sectors. *Retail business divested in 2013

Valero Renewables grows to 10 ethanol plants with the purchase of three more sites (Bloomingburg, Ohio; Linden, Indiana; and Jefferson, Wisconsin), and one additional site in Mount Vernon, Indiana in 2014.

Valero extends its international reach with the acquisition of El Paso Corporation’s Aruba Refinery* plus related marine, bunkering and marketing operations. *Divested in 2016

To help customers save time and get rewarded at the pump, Sunoco launched its new mobile app in 2018.