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Hess Oil and Chemical was founded in 1933 by Leon Hess as an operation out of Asbury Park, New Jersey that sold refining leftovers to hotels as heating fuel. [4] [9] In 1938, he purchased land in Perth Amboy for his first oil storage terminal and in 1958 opened the company's first refinery, located in Port Reading. [11]
Map of states containing at least one Speedway fuel station as of December 2019; red indicates Speedway's core Midwestern states prior to its 2012 expansion, green indicates former Hess stations, orange indicates both former Hess stations and states where Speedway was already expanding into organically prior to the Hess purchase, and blue from ...
In 1964, the Hess Company began making small replicas of their trucks to give to customers. The first tanker truck sold for $1.39 in 1964 and is now worth nearly $2,500. [5] [6] The 2014 model was the final Hess Truck to be sold at their gas stations before transitioning to Speedway.
After the war, using a network of smaller terminals, Hess's success continued. In the late 1950s, he built his first refinery; and in 1960, he opened a chain of gas stations. [1] In the early 1960s, he built the world's largest oil refinery at the time on St. Croix in the United States Virgin Islands to take advantage of federal tax benefits.
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The company bought eight Exxon stations in the Winston-Salem area. [3] In 2001, a joint venture began between A.T. Williams and Amerada Hess, and the company was rebranded as WilcoHess. [4] At the time, Williams had 120 gas stations and 21 travel centers, and had expanded to Pennsylvania and Alabama. Hess had supplied Williams for 35 years.
Oil and natural gas exploration and production specialist Hess (NYSE:HES) reported fourth-quarter and full-year 2024 earnings on Wednesday, Jan. 29, that topped analyst consensus estimates ...