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Abhijeet S
Valero Energy Corporation (NYSE: VLO) is a Fortune 500 is an international manufacturer and marketer of transportation fuels, other petrochemical products, and power based in San Antonio, Texas, United States.[1] The company owns and operates 15 refineries throughout the United States, Canada and the Caribbean with a combined throughput capacity of approximately 2.8 million barrels per day, 10 ethanol plants with a combined production capacity of 1.1 billion gallons per year, and a 50-megawatt wind farm. Valero is also one of the US's largest retail operators with approximately 5,800 retail and branded wholesale outlets in the United States, Canada and the Caribbean under the Valero, Diamond Shamrock, Shamrock, Ultramar and Beacon brands.[2]
Strengths
Strengths
- Large refining system
- Leader in conversion capacity and feedstock flexibility
- Strong product portfolio - from refining to marketing & distributing its own products
- Renewable energy portfolio
Weaknesses- Highly dependent on the US market
- Lack of own supply of feedstocks
- Large demand for oil in the US with fewer and fewer places to drill
Opportunities- Growing diesel demand
- Strategic re-focus
- Restructuring retail business
- Manufacturing of private label products
- Growing demand for ethanol
Threats- Rising energy prices
- Government regulations
- Rising competing capacity in the Middle East
- US slowdown and focus on re-usable energy
- US relationship with foreign governments
- Worldwide refining capacity expansions