Colt L4-1410cc 1.4L SOHC (1984)
ALCOHOL BLENDS:
WHERE THE MAJORS STAND
COMPANY
MARKET
BLEND
Amoco
Iowa, Eastern Nebraska, Southeastern South
10% Ethanol
Dakota and Kansas.
Arco
About 1,400 branded jobber and dealer outlets in
Oxinol: 4.75%
New York and Pennsylvania; wholesales to small
Methanol, 4.57%
refiners, unbranded distributors; owns a 200
Co-solvents
million gallon a year methanol plant.
Ashland
Kentucky, Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, and Iowa; joint
10% Ethanol
venture partner in a 60 gallon a year ethanol plant
at Southpoint, Ohio.
Chevron
About 1,000 stations in Kentucky and Tennessee;
10% Ethanol
83% interest in a 21 million gallon a year
Kentucky ethanol plant.
Conoco
Wholesales ethanol at terminals in Missouri,
10% Ethanol
Illinois, Nebraska, and Kansas. Jobbers sell
blends in Nebraska and Iowa and the company sells
blends through its subsidiary, Western Stores in Iowa.
Exxon
None
None
Getty
Three small regions in Omaha, Nebraska;
10% Ethanol
Northeastern Iowa, and Western Kansas. Owns
100 million gallon a year methanol plant in Delaware
(but not blending).
Gulf
Last year considered owning part of an
None
ethanol plant in North Carolina.
Marathon
None
None
Mobil
None
None
Phillips
Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, and Iowa.
10% Ethanol
Shell
None
None
Sohio
None
None
COMPANY
MARKET
BLEND
Southland
Markets ethanol blends in 14 states, primarily
10% Ethanol,
California, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa,
Oxinol
Kansas, New Mexico, Ohio, Tennessee, and Utah. Testing oxinol in Houston.
Sun
Test marketed oxinol at about 200 branded
None
stations in Pennsylvania.
Tenneco
Tennessee and Florida, owns a 135 million
10% Ethanol
gallon a year methanol plant in Texas, but does not blend methanol.
Texaco
Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Western Tennessee,
10% Ethanol
and St. Louis. Owns 50% of 60 million gallon a year ethanol plant in Illinois.
Union
None
None
Sources:
Information Resources, Inc., Washington, D.C.
