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This is a list of major gas station chains in the Philippines. This includes the "Big Three", which refers to the top three companies in the oil industry: Petron, Shell, and Caltex. Historically, Seaoil was part of this grouping. [1]
The largest component of the average price of $2.80/gallon of regular grade gasoline in the United States from 2012 through 2021, representing 54.8% of the price of gas, was the price of crude oil. The second largest component during the same period was taxes—federal and state taxes representing 17% of the price of gas.
Seaoil Philippines, Inc. is a fuel company founded in 1978. The Filipino-owned company offers fuel products ranging from automobile gasoline to industry-specific lubricants and services such as storage and shipping.
Caltex station seen on the side, as the Imperial Japanese Army captures Manila in WW2 (1942) Caltex service station with a Chowking restaurant in Quezon City, Philippines. Caltex was established in the Philippines in 1917 when Texas Company began marketing its products in the Philippines through a local distributor, Wise and Co.
Petron Megaplaza in Makati, Philippines was Petron's headquarters from 1998 to 2010.. Petron's history dates back to September 7, 1933, when Socony-Vacuum Oil Company (Standard Oil of New York) and Standard Oil of New Jersey (also known as Jersey Standard) merged their interests in the Far East into a 50–50 joint venture named the Standard Vacuum Oil Company (Stanvac).
GS Caltex Corporation (Korean: 지에스칼텍스 주식회사) is a South Korean Energy and Chemical company jointly owned by Chevron and GS Group. The company was founded in May 1967 as the first private oil company in Korea.
The Philippines also generates a significant amount of electrical energy from oil, albeit to a lesser degree than compared to coal and natural gas. In 2013, the Philippines sourced 5.97% of its energy from oil-based sources. [7] As of March 2016, there were a total of 212 gas and diesel-powered facilities in the Philippines.
In 2010 the branding remained as Shell whereas the holding company was renamed from Shell NZ to Greenstone Energy. After surveying 17,000 customers the following year, the company changed its name to Z Energy Limited and branded the service stations as Z. [9] The rebranding exercise is believed to cost around NZ$60m, compared to the NZ$10m/year cost of licensing the Shell brand. [10]