Welcome to the U.S. Energy Information Administration reveiw of aspects of the Marathon Oil's, which already owns 62 percent, acquisition of Ashland Corporation's 38-percent share of their Marathon Ashland Petroleum joint venture, which was created January 1, 1998, for about $1.1 billion in cash and stock and the assumption of $1.9 billion of debt. For additional information, please call the National Energy Information Center at (202) 586-8800.

U.S. Motor Gasoline Retail Outlets, Marathon Ashland Petroleum Joint Venture

(Number)
Marathon/
Ashland
Petroleum		 Speedway/
SuperAmerica
Corp		 Marathon/
Speedway/
SuperAmerica
Total		 Marathon/
Speedway/
SuperAmerica
Total as a Percent
of U.S. Retail Outlets		 U.S.
Retail
Outlets
3,847 2,006 5,853 3.5% 167,571
Sources: National Petroleum News, Market Facts 2003 (mid-July 2003), pp. 27-29, and 102.

Company-level motor gasoline retail outlet data by state are available in the State-level Detail Table. The information is taken from the National Petroleum News (NPN).   The company totals represent year-end 2002 values.   However, the state totals are collected in the first quarter of each year.   Thus, year 2003 state totals are used as proxies for year-end 2002 state totals.

Although the Energy Information Administration does collect company-level retail outlet information, it is proprietary data and can only be disclosed in aggregates sufficiently large to prevent disclosure of the company-level information.   Consequently, information collected by the National Petroleum News and published in its annual Market Facts is used for this table and the State-level Detail Table

 

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Last Updated on March 19, 2004
By Financial Analysis Team, Office of Energy Markets and End Use, Energy Information Administration
Email: neal.davis@eia.doe.gov