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A Sunoco fuel station in Peachtree, North Carolina. Sunoco LP / s ə ˈ n oʊ k oʊ / is an American master limited partnership organized under Delaware state laws and headquartered in Dallas, Texas. Dating back to 1886, the company has transitioned from a vertically integrated energy company to a distributor of fuels and operator of midstream ...
March 12 – A petroleum pipeline ruptured and burned near Corsicana, Texas, forcing the closure of an Interstate highway, and causing some evacuations. [ 167 ] March 26 – A work crew burning the remains of a house near Ladysmith, Virginia ruptured a nearby petroleum products pipeline with a bulldozer, igniting diesel fuel from the line. 2 of ...
Petro-Canada – 1323 stations and 200 Petro-Pass stations across Canada; some acquired from BP (1983), Petrofina (1981) and Gulf Oil in the 1980s; Pioneer Petroleum – 130 stations in Ontario; 7-Eleven brand gasoline; Shell Canada – Canadian unit of Shell with 1800 stations across Canada
Sunoco Products Co. will be laying off 62 workers due to a permanent closure at the company's 1440 Ragan St. facility, according to a WARN filing. The company filed the layoff notice with state ...
The closure impacted 36 employees (and 159 students). ... Sunoco Products Co. Sixty-two workers will be affected by the year-long set of layoffs at Sunoco Products Company's 1440 Ragan St ...
April 6 – A 16-inch crude oil pipeline ruptured, spilling up to 125,000 gallons of crude oil into a stream bed in Kern County, California, forcing a temporary closure of the nearby Golden State Freeway. [95] May 21 – A Sunoco pump station, in Creek County, Oklahoma, leaked about 29,000 gallons of petroleum. [96]
Sunoco was also awarded franchises in the 1980s for the filling stations at the Sideling Hill and (now-closed) Hempfield travel plazas. Gulf had the opportunity to become the exclusive filling station franchisee on the Turnpike after Exxon withdrew in 1990 and Cumberland Farms (owner of the Gulf brand in the northeastern U.S.) was awarded a new ...
The Brontosaurus logo is parodied in the Toy Story and Cars franchise films as being the "Dinoco" gas station chain, perhaps an allusion to gasoline and its origin as a fossil fuel, as well as a portmanteau between the "dinosaur" in Sinclair's logo and the suffixes of the "Amoco", "Conoco", and "Sunoco" franchises. [citation needed]