Valero Energy Corporation

Valero Energy Corporation (Valero) owns 15 refineries located in the United States, Canada and Aruba. The Company's refineries can produce conventional gasoline, distillates, jet fuel, asphalt, petrochemicals, lubricants, and other refined products, as well as a slate of products, including conventional blendstock for oxygenate blending (CBOB) and reformulated gasoline blendstock for oxygenate blending (RBOB). Valero markets branded and unbranded refined products on a wholesale basis in the United States and Canada through an extensive bulk and rack marketing network. It also sells refined products through a network of about 5,800 retail and wholesale branded outlets in the United States, Canada and Aruba. It also owns 10 ethanol plants located in the Midwest with a combined ethanol production capacity of about 1.1 billion gallons per year. The Company operates in three segments: refining, ethanol and retail.

The company has listed in New York Stock Exchange since January 2,1980. The company has P/E Ratio 24.34, Indicated Annual Dividend 0.20, Beta Coefficient 1.17, Earnings per Share 0.95 and Shares Outstanding566,211,000.

Valero Energy Corp.  shut down the gasoline-making unit at its refinery in Ardmore, Okla., after discovering a leaky pipe, the company said Tuesday.

Valero did not give a target restart date for the fluid catalytic cracking unit at the 87,000-barrel-a-day refinery.

The Ardmore plant produces about 37,000 barrels a day of gasoline and 20,000 barrels a day of distillates, according to the company's website.