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United Refining Company (URC)
Overview

Update 8/2008

United Refining Company is an independent refiner and marketer of petroleum products.  URC's market includes Pennsylvania and portions of New York and Ohio.

United owns and operates a single refinery in Warren Pennsylvania that was founded in 1902..
Their primary emphasis is gasoline and distillate fuels, but the refinery also produces a full range of petroleum products including kerosene, diesel fuel, Number 2 home heating oil, industrial fuels, liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), propane, and several grades of asphalts.

The refinery was expanded from 60,000 barrels per day to 65,000 barrels per day  in 1982.  It was expanded again to have a processing capacity of 70,000 barrels per day in 2007.

2007 Revenue was about 2½ billion dollars, with an operating income of 170 million and a net income of 85 million

United Refining acquired the brand name of Citgo, when in 2002 it bought a local gas station and convenience store chain called Country Fair, Inc. in Erie, Pennsylvania.  Country Fair has a license agreement with Citgo to use "Citgo's brand Name.

United Refining products are also sold under the Kwik Fill Brand Name