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Through SunCoke Energy, Sunoco makes metallurgical-grade coke for major steel manufacturers, with its facilities having the capacity to make 3.7 million tons of coke annually. Sunoco is also the general partner and has a 31-percent interest in Sunoco Logistics Partners LP, a publicly traded partnership which owns and operates 7,600 miles of refined product and crude oil pipelines, according to the news release. Its gas stations are principally supplied by Sunoco-owned refineries with a combined crude oil processing capacity of 505,000 barrels per day, according to the company. Sunoco is a leading transportation fuel provider along the East Coast and Midwest. The company recently acquired 32 retail sites in upstate New York, and signed long-term contracts to sell fuel along the Garden State Parkway in New Jersey and Ohio Turnpike. Sunoco has made significant progress in growing its presence in the Southeast in recent years with large expansions in Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia, the company said. We remain focused on building the brand's reputation in all of our markets," Owens said in a news release. "Our recent success in winning over new distributors has helped Sunoco enter new markets such as Alabama and expand our presence along the I-95 corridor, and in the Midwest and other Southeastern states. Sunoco spokesman Bob Owens said the company, which is the official fuel provider for NASCAR and Indy Racing, is glad that its brand can now be purchased near the historic Talladega Superspeedway. "For them to choose to open the first Alabama location in Bessemer shows a lot about the economic progress taking place in our city."

"Obviously it's exciting to have Sunoco's flagship gas station in Bessemer," Gulley said. Since last year, Sunoco has added 250 new retail locations to its network across the country.īessemer Mayor Kenneth Gulley said the investment by Quality Petroleum in rebranding two gas stations in the city (the McCalla location is in Bessemer city limits), is another example of economic growth in Bessemer. The company hopes to reach partnerships with other gasoline stores interested in having the Sunoco banner this fall.Ĭounting separate agreements reached with Chattahoochee Oil, another petroleum distributor, 13 new Sunoco-branded retail locations will be opening in metro Birmingham this year. Melton said Quality Petroleum is currently converting a gas station on Ninth Avenue in Bessemer to a Sunoco, and the others will take place later this year.

"We think this rebranding as Sunoco will give us a new start." "We started out as Amocos, then BP, and I can tell you the oil spill (by BP last year) did affect our sales some," David Melton, a Quality Petroleum vice president, said after Tuesday's McCalla retail store ribbon-cutting. Quality Petroleum is investing more than $1 million in the conversions.

The Sunoco at 4809 McAdory School Road is operated by Pelham-based fuel distributor Quality Petroleum of Alabama, and is the first of nine former BP gas stations the company is rebranding as Sunoco over the next six to eight weeks. It's the first Alabama outlet for Sunoco, a Fortune 500 company that had a net income of $234 million last year and operates 4,900 fuel stores in 23 states.