Valero is an international manufacturer and marketer of transportation fuels and petrochemical products, and an independent refiner. The company, headquartered in San Antonio, Texas, is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker VLO and is a Fortune 500 company. It employs approximately 10,000 people across operations in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom.
The company's core industrial base comprises 14 refineries in the U.S., Canada and the UK, with a combined throughput capacity of 3 million barrels per day, producing gasoline, diesel and other refined transportation fuels alongside petrochemical products. Beyond conventional refining, Valero is a large-scale producer of renewable fuels: it runs 12 corn ethanol plants in the U.S. Midwest with 1.7 billion gallons of annual production capacity, making it the world's second-largest corn ethanol producer. Through the Diamond Green Diesel Holdings LLC joint venture, it operates two Gulf Coast plants producing renewable diesel (up to 1.2 billion gallons annually) and Sustainable Aviation Fuel (up to 235 million gallons annually).
Technical work at Valero spans petroleum refining, petrochemical manufacturing, and the production of corn ethanol, renewable diesel and Sustainable Aviation Fuel, at industrial sites on the U.S. Gulf Coast and in the U.S. Midwest as well as the company's refining footprint in Canada and the UK. The company states a focus on safe, reliable and environmentally responsible operations and positions itself in low-carbon transportation fuels.
