- Ultramar
"For Ultramar, the Home world of the Ultramarines in the
Warhammer 40,000 universe, seeUltramarines "Ultramar is a Canadian
oil refining andmarketing company formerly known as "Golden Eagle" or "Aigle d'or". Its president isJean Bernier , and its head office is inMontreal . It is a subsidiary ofValero Energy Corporation , which acquired Ultramar's former parent company, Ultramar Diamond Shamrock.The company has recently initiated a progressive "price matching" policy, wherein each participating station has its own competition area. Within these competition areas, each Ultramar gas station closely monitors its competitors' prices and matches them; Ultramar has been known to undercut their competition by as much as 3 tenths of a cent per litre on occasion.
Ultramar is also active in industrial sales and wholesale supply.
History
The company began its Canadian operations in
1961 . Itsrefinery in Lévis,Quebec was built ten years later.From
1979 to1996 , Ultramar grew by acquiring stations from several other companies, includingCanadian Fuel Marketers ,Texaco Canada,Gulf Oil ,Sergaz ,Sunoco andSpur .It acquired the Dartmouth,
Nova Scotia refinery with the purchase of other assets ofTexaco Canada but dismantled and sold the refinery and used the property as a petroleum storage facility.The refinery in Lévis was renamed in honour of retired Ultramar Diamond Shamrock CEO
Jean Gaulin in2001 .The company is considering building a pipeline from its refinery in
Lévis to its distribution centre inMontréal-Est .tatistics
Ultramar has 983
service station s, 87 truck stop facilities and 169,000 homeheating oil customers.It directly employs 3,600 people and indirectly employs 10,000. The refinery in Lévis produces 215,000 barrels (about 34 million litres) per day.
Valero, the parent company, has 17 refineries in the
United States , Canada and the Caribbean, as well as 4,700 retail outlets, and had sales of 55 billionUSD in2004 .References
http://www.ultramar.ca/ Consulted May 16, 2006.
External links
* [http://www.ultramar.ca/ Official site]
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