SUN » Topics » General

These excerpts taken from the SUN 10-K filed Feb 24, 2010.

General

Sunoco, Inc.* was incorporated in Pennsylvania in 1971. It or its predecessors have been active in the petroleum industry since 1886. Its principal executive offices are located at 1735 Market Street, Suite LL, Philadelphia, PA 19103-7583. Its telephone number is (215) 977-3000 and its internet website is www.SunocoInc.com. The Company makes available free of charge on its website all materials that it files electronically with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”), including its Annual Report on Form 10-K, Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, Current Reports on Form 8-K and amendments to these reports as soon as reasonably practicable after such materials are electronically filed with, or furnished to, the SEC.

The Company, through its subsidiaries, is principally a petroleum refiner and marketer and chemicals manufacturer with interests in logistics and cokemaking. Sunoco’s petroleum refining and marketing operations include the manufacturing and marketing of a full range of petroleum products, including fuels and some petrochemicals. Sunoco’s chemical operations comprise the manufacturing, distribution and marketing of commodity and intermediate petrochemicals. The petroleum refining and marketing, chemicals and logistics operations are conducted principally in the eastern half of the United States. Sunoco’s cokemaking operations currently are conducted in Virginia, Indiana, Ohio, Illinois and Vitória, Brazil. Sunoco has entered into an agreement to sell its polypropylene chemical operations, which is expected to close on or about March 31, 2010.

The Company’s operations are organized into five business segments (Refining and Supply, Retail Marketing, Chemicals, Logistics and Coke) plus a holding company and a professional services group. Sunoco, Inc., the holding company, is a non-operating parent company which includes certain corporate officers. The professional services group consists of a number of staff functions, including: finance; legal and risk management; procurement and supply chain; human resources; information systems; health, environment and safety; engineering and technology; facilities management; transaction processing; and government and public affairs. Costs incurred by the professional services group to provide these services are allocated to the five business segments and the holding company. This discussion of the Company’s business and properties reflects this organizational structure. For additional information regarding these business units, see Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations (Item 7) and the business segment information presented in Note 19 to the Consolidated Financial Statements (Item 8).

Sunoco owns and operates three refineries which are located in Marcus Hook, PA, Philadelphia, PA and Toledo, OH. These refineries produce principally fuels and commodity petrochemicals. In the fourth quarter of 2009, Sunoco permanently shut down all process units at a refinery in Westville, NJ (also known as Eagle Point) in response to weak demand and increased global refining capacity. In addition, on June 1, 2009, Sunoco sold its refinery located in Tulsa, OK that emphasized lubricants production (see “Refining and Supply” below).

Sunoco markets gasoline and middle distillates, and offers a broad range of convenience store merchandise through a network of 4,711 retail outlets in 23 states primarily on the East Coast and in the Midwest United States. In 2009, the Company continued its Retail Portfolio Management program which selectively reduced its invested capital in Company-owned or leased sites, while retaining most of the gasoline sales volumes attributable to the divested sites (see “Retail Marketing” below).

 

* In this report, the terms “Company” and “Sunoco” are used interchangeably to mean Sunoco, Inc. or collectively, Sunoco, Inc. and its subsidiaries. The use of these terms is for convenience of discussion and is not intended to be a precise description of corporate relationships.

 

1


Table of Contents

Sunoco owns and operates facilities in Philadelphia, PA and Haverhill, OH, which produce phenol and acetone, and in LaPorte, TX, Neal, WV and Marcus Hook, PA, which produce polypropylene (see “Chemicals” below).

Sunoco owns, principally through Sunoco Logistics Partners L.P. (a master limited partnership) (the “Partnership”), a geographically diverse and complementary group of pipelines and terminal facilities which transport, terminal and store refined products and crude oil. Sunoco has a 33 percent interest in the Partnership, which includes a 2 percent general partnership interest (see “Logistics” below).

Sunoco, through SunCoke Energy, Inc. and its affiliates (individually and collectively, “SunCoke Energy”), makes high-quality, blast-furnace coke at its facilities in Vansant, VA (Jewell), East Chicago, IN (Indiana Harbor), Franklin Furnace, OH (Haverhill) and commencing in the fourth quarter of 2009, Granite City, IL (Granite City) and produces metallurgical coal from mines in Virginia and West Virginia primarily for use at the Jewell cokemaking facility. SunCoke Energy is also the operator and has an equity interest in a facility in Vitória, Brazil (Vitória). An agreement has been entered into for a cokemaking facility and associated cogeneration power plant to be built, owned and operated by Sunoco in Middletown, OH which is subject to resolution of all contingencies, including necessary permits (see “Coke” below).

The following are separate discussions of Sunoco’s business segments.

General

Sunoco is subject to extensive and frequently changing federal, state and local laws and regulations, including, but not limited to, those relating to the discharge of materials into the environment or that otherwise relate to the protection of the environment, waste management and the characteristics and composition of fuels. As with the industry generally, compliance with existing and anticipated laws and regulations increases the

 

50


Table of Contents

overall cost of operating Sunoco’s businesses, including remediation, operating costs and capital costs to construct, maintain and upgrade equipment and facilities. Existing laws and regulations have required, and are expected to continue to require, Sunoco to make significant expenditures of both a capital and an expense nature. The following table summarizes Sunoco’s expenditures for environmental projects and compliance activities (in millions of dollars):

 

     2009    2008    2007

Pollution abatement capital*

   $176    $356    $230

Remediation

   39    42    41

Operations, maintenance and administration

   217    210    196
              
   $432    $608    $467
              

 

  * Capital expenditures for pollution abatement include amounts to comply with the 2005 Consent Decree pertaining to certain alleged Clean Air Act violations at the Company’s refineries. Pollution abatement capital outlays are expected to approximate $118 and $119 million in 2010 and 2011, respectively.
This excerpt taken from the SUN 424B2 filed Mar 27, 2009.

General

 

The debt securities are expected to be our direct unsecured obligations. The indentures will not limit the aggregate principal amount of debt securities that may be issued. The debt securities may be issued from time to time in one or more series as authorized from time to time by our board of directors or by any of our authorized officers. The particular terms of the debt securities and any changes or additions to the general terms of the debt securities will be described in the prospectus supplement relating to the debt securities. The prospectus supplement will include the following:

 

   

the title of the debt securities;

 

   

the aggregate principal amount of the debt securities;

 

6


Table of Contents
   

the price of the debt securities;

 

   

the date or dates on which the debt securities will mature and the right, if any, to extend such date or dates;

 

   

the rate or rates at which the debt securities will bear interest, if any, or the method by which such rate or rates shall be determined;

 

   

the date or dates from which interest shall accrue or the method by which such date or dates shall be determined, the interest payment dates on which interest shall be payable, the record dates for the determination of holders to whom interest is payable, and, in the case of floating rate debt securities, the notice, if any, to holders regarding the determination of interest and the manner of giving such notice;

 

   

the place or places (other than the corporate trust office of the applicable trustee) where principal, premium or interest on the debt securities shall be payable, and the manner in which any such principal, premium or interest will be paid;

 

   

any mandatory or optional sinking fund or purchase fund or similar provisions;

 

   

the terms and conditions upon which, including when and at what price, the debt securities may be redeemed pursuant to any optional or mandatory redemption provisions;

 

   

any terms pursuant to which the debt securities may be convertible into equity or other securities;

 

   

whether the debt securities are to be issued in whole or in part in the form of one or more global securities and, if so, the depositary or any common depositary for such global securities;

 

   

the terms and conditions, if any, upon which any global securities may be exchanged in whole or in part for definitive debt securities;

 

   

any index used to determine the amount of payment of principal or any premium or interest on the debt securities;

 

   

the application of any defeasance provisions to the debt securities;

 

   

whether the debt securities of a series are to be issued as original issue discount securities and the amount of discount at which they may be issued, and the portion of the principal amount of the debt securities which shall be payable upon declaration of acceleration of the maturity upon an event of default (if different than the principal amount);

 

   

if other than U.S. dollars, the currency or currency units in which the debt securities shall be denominated or in which payment of principal, premium and interest on the debt securities may be made;

 

   

any applicable U.S. federal income tax considerations;

 

   

the date of any series of debt securities; and

 

   

any other relevant terms of the debt securities.

 

The indentures relating to the senior debt securities and the subordinated debt securities are expected to contain certain usual and customary restrictive covenants pertaining to, among other things, incurrence of additional debt, creation of liens and limitations on certain transactions, including sale and lease-back transactions. It also is expected that the indentures will contain provisions relating to the modification and waiver of the indentures, discharge of obligations, legal defeasance and covenant defeasance.

 

All of the debt securities of a series need not be issued at the same time, and may vary as to interest rate, maturity and other provisions. Unless otherwise provided, a series may be reopened for issuance of additional debt securities of such series.

 

The indentures are not expected to contain provisions to afford you protection if there is a highly leveraged transaction or a change of control of Sunoco, except as may be otherwise described in this prospectus or in any applicable prospectus supplement.

 

7


Table of Contents
This excerpt taken from the SUN 424B2 filed Mar 26, 2009.

General

 

The debt securities are expected to be our direct unsecured obligations. The indentures will not limit the aggregate principal amount of debt securities that may be issued. The debt securities may be issued from time to time in one or more series as authorized from time to time by our board of directors or by any of our authorized officers. The particular terms of the debt securities and any changes or additions to the general terms of the debt securities will be described in the prospectus supplement relating to the debt securities. The prospectus supplement will include the following:

 

   

the title of the debt securities;

 

   

the aggregate principal amount of the debt securities;

 

6


Table of Contents
   

the price of the debt securities;

 

   

the date or dates on which the debt securities will mature and the right, if any, to extend such date or dates;

 

   

the rate or rates at which the debt securities will bear interest, if any, or the method by which such rate or rates shall be determined;

 

   

the date or dates from which interest shall accrue or the method by which such date or dates shall be determined, the interest payment dates on which interest shall be payable, the record dates for the determination of holders to whom interest is payable, and, in the case of floating rate debt securities, the notice, if any, to holders regarding the determination of interest and the manner of giving such notice;

 

   

the place or places (other than the corporate trust office of the applicable trustee) where principal, premium or interest on the debt securities shall be payable, and the manner in which any such principal, premium or interest will be paid;

 

   

any mandatory or optional sinking fund or purchase fund or similar provisions;

 

   

the terms and conditions upon which, including when and at what price, the debt securities may be redeemed pursuant to any optional or mandatory redemption provisions;

 

   

any terms pursuant to which the debt securities may be convertible into equity or other securities;

 

   

whether the debt securities are to be issued in whole or in part in the form of one or more global securities and, if so, the depositary or any common depositary for such global securities;

 

   

the terms and conditions, if any, upon which any global securities may be exchanged in whole or in part for definitive debt securities;

 

   

any index used to determine the amount of payment of principal or any premium or interest on the debt securities;

 

   

the application of any defeasance provisions to the debt securities;

 

   

whether the debt securities of a series are to be issued as original issue discount securities and the amount of discount at which they may be issued, and the portion of the principal amount of the debt securities which shall be payable upon declaration of acceleration of the maturity upon an event of default (if different than the principal amount);

 

   

if other than U.S. dollars, the currency or currency units in which the debt securities shall be denominated or in which payment of principal, premium and interest on the debt securities may be made;

 

   

any applicable U.S. federal income tax considerations;

 

   

the date of any series of debt securities; and

 

   

any other relevant terms of the debt securities.

 

The indentures relating to the senior debt securities and the subordinated debt securities are expected to contain certain usual and customary restrictive covenants pertaining to, among other things, incurrence of additional debt, creation of liens and limitations on certain transactions, including sale and lease-back transactions. It also is expected that the indentures will contain provisions relating to the modification and waiver of the indentures, discharge of obligations, legal defeasance and covenant defeasance.

 

All of the debt securities of a series need not be issued at the same time, and may vary as to interest rate, maturity and other provisions. Unless otherwise provided, a series may be reopened for issuance of additional debt securities of such series.

 

The indentures are not expected to contain provisions to afford you protection if there is a highly leveraged transaction or a change of control of Sunoco, except as may be otherwise described in this prospectus or in any applicable prospectus supplement.

 

7


Table of Contents
This excerpt taken from the SUN POSASR filed Mar 26, 2009.

General

Section 1. The Corporation shall pay on behalf of any individual who is or was a Director, officer, employee or agent of the Corporation or who is or was serving at the request of the Corporation as Director, officer, trustee, fiduciary, employee or agent of any other domestic or foreign corporation or partnership, joint venture, sole proprietorship, trust or other enterprise, or who is or was serving as a fiduciary with respect to any employee benefit plan as a result of his employment by, or service as a Director of, the Corporation (“Indemnified Person”) all expenses, including attorneys’ fees and disbursements, incurred by such person in the defense or settlement of any civil, criminal, administrative or arbitrative proceeding pending, threatened or completed against such person by reason of his being or having been such Indemnified Person, and shall indemnify such person against amounts paid or incurred by him in satisfaction of settlements, judgments, fines, and penalties in connection with any such proceeding, including any proceeding by or in the right of the Corporation, except where such indemnification is expressly prohibited by applicable law or where the acts or failures to act of the Indemnified Person constitute willful misconduct, self-dealing or recklessness. For purposes hereof, and with respect to claims which arise from events occurring after March 7, 2002, no person who is serving as an officer, employee or agent of any subsidiary of the Corporation which is a general partner of a limited partnership which has partnership interests which are publicly traded, or of any subsidiary of such a general partner, shall be an Indemnified Person and any such person shall not be deemed as serving at the request of the Corporation, unless by resolution of the Board of Directors of the Corporation such person is specifically designated as an Indemnified Person who is serving at the request of the Corporation. The foregoing right to payment and to indemnification shall not be exclusive of other rights to which such person may be entitled as a matter of law or otherwise.

 

II-1


Table of Contents
These excerpts taken from the SUN 10-K filed Feb 25, 2009.

General

Sunoco, Inc.* was incorporated in Pennsylvania in 1971. It or its predecessors have been active in the petroleum industry since 1886. Its principal executive offices are located at 1735 Market Street, Suite LL, Philadelphia, PA 19103-7583. Its telephone number is (215) 977-3000 and its internet website is www.SunocoInc.com. The Company makes available free of charge on its website all materials that it files electronically with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”), including its Annual Report on Form 10-K, Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, Current Reports on Form 8-K and amendments to these reports as soon as reasonably practicable after such materials are electronically filed with, or furnished to, the SEC.

The Company, through its subsidiaries, is principally a petroleum refiner and marketer and chemicals manufacturer with interests in logistics and cokemaking. Sunoco’s petroleum refining and marketing operations include the manufacturing and marketing of a full range of petroleum products, including fuels, lubricants and some petrochemicals. Sunoco’s chemical operations comprise the manufacturing, distribution and marketing of commodity and intermediate petrochemicals. The petroleum refining and marketing, chemicals and logistics operations are conducted principally in the eastern half of the United States. Sunoco’s cokemaking operations currently are conducted in Virginia, Indiana, Ohio and Vitória, Brazil. Sunoco intends to sell its Chemicals business if it can obtain an appropriate value.

The Company’s operations are organized into five business segments (Refining and Supply, Retail Marketing, Chemicals, Logistics and Coke) plus a holding company and a professional services group. Sunoco, Inc., the holding company, is a non-operating parent company which includes certain corporate officers. The professional services group consists of a number of staff functions, including: finance; legal and risk management; materials management; human resources; information systems; health, environment and safety; facilities management; transaction processing; and government and public affairs. Costs incurred by the professional services group to provide these services are allocated to the five business segments and the holding company. This discussion of the Company’s business and properties reflects this organizational structure. For additional information regarding these business units, see Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations (Item 7) and the business segment information presented in Note 19 to the Consolidated Financial Statements (Item 8).

Sunoco owns and operates five refineries which are located in Marcus Hook, PA, Philadelphia, PA, Westville, NJ, Toledo, OH and Tulsa, OK. The refineries in Marcus Hook, Philadelphia, Westville (also known as Eagle Point) and Toledo produce principally fuels and commodity petrochemicals while the refinery in Tulsa emphasizes lubricants production with related fuels production being sold in the wholesale market. Sunoco intends to sell or convert the Tulsa refinery to a terminal by the end of 2009 (see “Refining and Supply” below).

Sunoco markets gasoline and middle distillates, and offers a broad range of convenience store merchandise through a network of 4,720 retail outlets in 26 states primarily on the East Coast and in the Midwest United States. In 2008, the Company continued its Retail Portfolio Management program which selectively reduced its invested capital in Company-owned or leased sites, while retaining most of the gasoline sales volumes attributable to the divested sites (see “Retail Marketing” below).

 

* In this report, the terms “Company” and “Sunoco” are used interchangeably to mean Sunoco, Inc. or collectively, Sunoco, Inc. and its subsidiaries. The use of these terms is for convenience of discussion and is not intended to be a precise description of corporate relationships.

 

1


Table of Contents

Sunoco owns and operates facilities in Philadelphia, PA and Haverhill, OH, which produce phenol and acetone, and in LaPorte, TX, Neal, WV, Bayport, TX and Marcus Hook, PA, which produce polypropylene. Sunoco intends to permanently shut down the Bayport polypropylene facility no later than April 30, 2009 (see “Chemicals” below).

Sunoco owns, principally through Sunoco Logistics Partners L.P. (the “Partnership”) (a master limited partnership), a geographically diverse and complementary group of pipelines and terminal facilities which transport, terminal and store refined products and crude oil. Sunoco has a 43 percent interest in the Partnership, which includes a 2 percent general partnership interest (see “Logistics” below).

Sunoco, through SunCoke Energy, Inc. and its affiliates (individually and collectively, “SunCoke Energy”), makes high-quality, blast-furnace coke at its facilities in East Chicago, IN (Indiana Harbor), Vansant, VA (Jewell) and Franklin Furnace, OH (Haverhill), and produces metallurgical coal from mines in Virginia primarily for use at the Jewell cokemaking facility. SunCoke Energy is also the operator and has an equity interest in a facility in Vitória, Brazil (Vitória). An additional cokemaking facility is currently under construction in Granite City, IL which is expected to be completed in the fourth quarter of 2009 (see “Coke” below).

The following are separate discussions of Sunoco’s business segments.

General

Sunoco is subject to extensive and frequently changing federal, state and local laws and regulations, including, but not limited to, those relating to the discharge of materials into the environment or that otherwise relate to the protection of the environment, waste management and the characteristics and composition of fuels. As with the industry generally, compliance with existing and anticipated laws and regulations increases the overall cost of operating Sunoco’s businesses, including remediation, operating costs and capital costs to construct, maintain and upgrade equipment and facilities. Existing laws and regulations have required, and are expected to continue to require, Sunoco to make significant expenditures of both a capital and an expense nature. The following table summarizes Sunoco’s expenditures for environmental projects and compliance activities (in millions of dollars):

 

     2008    2007    2006

Pollution abatement capital*

   $356    $230    $282

Remediation

   42    41    42

Operations, maintenance and administration

   210    196    266
              
   $608    $467    $590
              
 
  * Capital expenditures for pollution abatement include amounts to comply with the Tier II low-sulfur fuel requirements (completed in 2006) and the Consent Decrees pertaining to certain alleged Clean Air Act violations at the Company’s refineries. Pollution abatement capital outlays are expected to approximate $223 and $111 million in 2009 and 2010, respectively.
These excerpts taken from the SUN S-3ASR filed Nov 7, 2008.

General

 

Section 1. The Corporation shall pay on behalf of any individual who is or was a Director, officer, employee or agent of the Corporation or who is or was serving at the request of the Corporation as Director, officer, trustee, fiduciary, employee or agent of any other domestic or foreign corporation or partnership, joint venture, sole proprietorship, trust or other enterprise, or who is or was serving as a fiduciary with respect to any employee benefit plan as a result of his employment by, or service as a Director of, the Corporation (“Indemnified Person”) all expenses, including attorneys’ fees and disbursements, incurred by such person in the defense or settlement of any civil, criminal, administrative or arbitrative proceeding pending, threatened or completed against such person by reason of his being or having been such Indemnified Person, and shall indemnify such person against amounts paid or incurred by him in satisfaction of settlements, judgments, fines, and penalties in connection with any such proceeding, including any proceeding by or in the right of the Corporation, except where such indemnification is expressly prohibited by applicable law or where the acts or failures to act of the Indemnified Person constitute willful misconduct, self-dealing or recklessness. For purposes hereof, and with respect to claims which arise from events occurring after March 7, 2002, no person who is serving as an officer, employee or agent of any subsidiary of the Corporation which is a general partner of a limited partnership which has partnership interests which are publicly traded, or of any subsidiary of such a general partner, shall be an Indemnified Person and any such person shall not be deemed as serving at the request of the Corporation, unless by resolution of the Board of Directors of the Corporation such person is specifically designated as an Indemnified Person who is serving at the request of the Corporation. The foregoing right to payment and to indemnification shall not be exclusive of other rights to which such person may be entitled as a matter of law or otherwise.

 

II-1


Table of Contents

General

 

STYLE="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px; text-indent:4%">Section 1. The Corporation shall pay on behalf of any individual who is or was a Director, officer, employee or agent of the Corporation or who is or
was serving at the request of the Corporation as Director, officer, trustee, fiduciary, employee or agent of any other domestic or foreign corporation or partnership, joint venture, sole proprietorship, trust or other enterprise, or who is or was
serving as a fiduciary with respect to any employee benefit plan as a result of his employment by, or service as a Director of, the Corporation (“Indemnified Person”) all expenses, including attorneys’ fees and disbursements, incurred
by such person in the defense or settlement of any civil, criminal, administrative or arbitrative proceeding pending, threatened or completed against such person by reason of his being or having been such Indemnified Person, and shall indemnify such
person against amounts paid or incurred by him in satisfaction of settlements, judgments, fines, and penalties in connection with any such proceeding, including any proceeding by or in the right of the Corporation, except where such indemnification
is expressly prohibited by applicable law or where the acts or failures to act of the Indemnified Person constitute willful misconduct, self-dealing or recklessness. For purposes hereof, and with respect to claims which arise from events occurring
after March 7, 2002, no person who is serving as an officer, employee or agent of any subsidiary of the Corporation which is a general partner of a limited partnership which has partnership interests which are publicly traded, or of any subsidiary
of such a general partner, shall be an Indemnified Person and any such person shall not be deemed as serving at the request of the Corporation, unless by resolution of the Board of Directors of the Corporation such person is specifically designated
as an Indemnified Person who is serving at the request of the Corporation. The foregoing right to payment and to indemnification shall not be exclusive of other rights to which such person may be entitled as a matter of law or otherwise.


 


II-1







Table of Contents


This excerpt taken from the SUN 8-K filed Sep 9, 2008.

General

Section 1.    The Corporation shall pay on behalf of any individual who is or was a Director, officer, employee or agent of the Corporation, or who is or was serving at the request of the Corporation as Director, officer, trustee, fiduciary, employee or agent of any other domestic or foreign corporation or partnership, joint venture, sole proprietorship, trust or other enterprise, or who is or was serving as a fiduciary with respect to any employee benefit plan as a result of his employment by, or service as a Director of, the Corporation (“Indemnified Person”) all expenses, including attorneys’ fees and disbursements, incurred by such person in the defense or settlement of any civil, criminal, administrative or arbitrative proceeding pending, threatened or completed against such person by reason of his being or having been such Indemnified Person, and shall indemnify such person against amounts paid or incurred by him in satisfaction of settlements, judgments, fines, and penalties in connection with any such proceeding, including any proceeding by or in the right of the Corporation, except where such indemnification is expressly prohibited by applicable law or where the acts or failures to act of the Indemnified Person constitute willful misconduct, self-dealing or recklessness. For purposes hereof, and with respect to claims which arise from events occurring after March 7, 2002, no person who is serving as an officer, employee or agent of any subsidiary of the Corporation which is a general partner of a limited partnership which has partnership interests which are publicly traded, or of any subsidiary of such a general partner, shall be an Indemnified Person and any such person shall not be deemed as serving at the request of the Corporation, unless by resolution of the Board of Directors of the Corporation such person is specifically designated as an Indemnified Person who is serving at the request of the Corporation. The foregoing right to payment and to indemnification shall not be exclusive of other rights to which such person may be entitled as a matter of law or otherwise.

These excerpts taken from the SUN 10-K filed Feb 27, 2008.

General

Sunoco, Inc.** was incorporated in Pennsylvania in 1971. It or its predecessors have been active in the petroleum industry since 1886. Its principal executive offices are located at 1735 Market Street, Suite LL, Philadelphia, PA 19103-7583. Its telephone number is (215) 977-3000 and its internet website is www.SunocoInc.com. The Company makes available free of charge on its website all materials that it files electronically with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”), including its Annual Report on Form 10-K, Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, Current Reports on Form 8-K and amendments to these reports as soon as reasonably practicable after such materials are electronically filed with, or furnished to, the SEC.

The Company, through its subsidiaries, is principally a petroleum refiner and marketer and chemicals manufacturer with interests in logistics and cokemaking. Sunoco’s petroleum refining and marketing operations include the manufacturing and marketing of a full range of petroleum products, including fuels, lubricants and some petrochemicals. Sunoco’s chemical operations comprise the manufacturing, distribution and marketing of commodity and intermediate petrochemicals. The petroleum refining and marketing, chemicals and logistics operations are conducted principally in the eastern half of the United States. Sunoco’s cokemaking operations currently are conducted in Virginia, Indiana, Ohio and Vitória, Brazil.

The Company’s operations are organized into five business segments (Refining and Supply, Retail Marketing, Chemicals, Logistics and Coke) plus a holding company and a professional services group. Sunoco, Inc., the holding company, is a non-operating parent company which includes certain corporate officers. The professional services group consists of a number of staff functions, including: finance; legal and risk management; materials management; human resources; information systems; health, environment and safety; engineering services; facilities management; transaction processing; and government and public affairs. Costs incurred by the professional services group to provide these services are allocated to the five business segments and the holding company. This discussion of the Company’s business and properties reflects this organizational structure. For additional information regarding these business units, see Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations and the business segment information presented in Note 19 to the Consolidated Financial Statements, both in the Company’s 2007 Annual Report to Shareholders.

 

 

  *   References in this Annual Report on Form 10-K to material in the Company’s 2007 Annual Report to Shareholders and in the Company’s definitive Proxy Statement, which will be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission within 120 days after December 31, 2007, mean that such material is incorporated herein by reference; other material in those documents is not deemed to be filed as part of this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
**   In this report, the terms “Company” and “Sunoco” are used interchangeably to mean Sunoco, Inc. or collectively, Sunoco, Inc. and its subsidiaries. The use of these terms is for convenience of discussion and is not intended to be a precise description of corporate relationships.

 

1


Sunoco owns and operates five refineries which are located in Marcus Hook, PA, Philadelphia, PA, Westville, NJ, Toledo, OH and Tulsa, OK. The refineries in Marcus Hook, Philadelphia, Westville (also known as Eagle Point) and Toledo produce principally fuels and commodity petrochemicals while the refinery in Tulsa emphasizes lubricants production with related fuels production being sold in the wholesale market (see “Refining and Supply” below).

Sunoco markets gasoline and middle distillates, and offers a broad range of convenience store merchandise through a network of 4,684 retail outlets in 27 states primarily on the East Coast and in the Midwest United States. In 2007, the Company continued its Retail Portfolio Management program which selectively reduced its invested capital in Company-owned or leased sites, while retaining most of the gasoline sales volumes attributable to the divested sites (see “Retail Marketing” below).

Sunoco owns and operates facilities in Philadelphia, PA and Haverhill, OH, which produce phenol and acetone, and in LaPorte, TX, Neal, WV and Bayport, TX, which produce polypropylene. In addition, Sunoco owns and operates a facility in Marcus Hook, PA, which upgrades propylene and produces polypropylene (see “Chemicals” below).

Sunoco owns, principally through Sunoco Logistics Partners L.P. (the “Partnership”) (a master limited partnership), a geographically diverse and complementary group of pipelines and terminal facilities which transport, terminal and store refined products and crude oil. Sunoco has a 43 percent interest in the Partnership, which includes a 2 percent general partnership interest (see “Logistics” below).

Sunoco, through SunCoke Energy, Inc. (formerly, Sun Coke Company) and its affiliates (individually and collectively, “SunCoke Energy”), makes high-quality, blast-furnace coke at its facilities in East Chicago, IN (Indiana Harbor), Vansant, VA (Jewell) and Franklin Furnace, OH (Haverhill), and produces metallurgical coal from mines in Virginia primarily for use at the Jewell cokemaking facility. SunCoke Energy is also the operator and has an equity interest in a facility in Vitória, Brazil (Vitória) which commenced operations in the first quarter of 2007. An additional cokemaking facility and associated cogeneration power plant are currently under construction at the Haverhill site which are expected to be operational in the second half of 2008 (see “Coke” below).

The following are separate discussions of Sunoco’s business segments.

General

Section 1. The Corporation shall pay on behalf of any individual who is or was a Director, officer, employee or agent of the Corporation, or who is or was serving at the request of the Corporation as Director, officer, trustee, fiduciary, employee or agent of any other domestic or foreign corporation or partnership, joint venture, sole proprietorship, trust or other enterprise, or who is or was serving as a fiduciary with respect to any employee benefit plan as a result of his employment by, or service as a Director of, the Corporation (“Indemnified Person”) all expenses, including attorneys’ fees and disbursements, incurred by such person in the defense or settlement of any civil, criminal, administrative or arbitrative proceeding pending, threatened or completed against such person by reason of his being or having been such Indemnified Person, and shall indemnify such person against amounts paid or incurred by him in satisfaction of settlements, judgments, fines, and penalties in connection with any such proceeding, including any proceeding by or in the right of the Corporation, except where such indemnification is expressly prohibited by applicable law or where the acts or failures to act of the Indemnified Person constitute willful misconduct, self-dealing or recklessness. For

 

13


purposes hereof, and with respect to claims which arise from events occurring after March 7, 2002, no person who is serving as an officer, employee or agent of any subsidiary of the Corporation which is a general partner of a limited partnership which has partnership interests which are publicly traded, or of any subsidiary of such a general partner, shall be an Indemnified Person and any such person shall not be deemed as serving at the request of the Corporation, unless by resolution of the Board of Directors of the Corporation such person is specifically designated as an Indemnified Person who is serving at the request of the Corporation. The foregoing right to payment and to indemnification shall not be exclusive of other rights to which such person may be entitled as a matter of law or otherwise.

General

 

Sunoco is subject to extensive and frequently changing federal, state and local laws and regulations, including, but not limited to, those relating to the discharge of materials into the environment or that otherwise relate to the protection of the environment, waste management and the characteristics and composition of fuels. As with the industry generally, compliance with existing and anticipated laws and regulations increases the overall cost of operating Sunoco’s businesses, including remediation, operating costs and capital costs to construct, maintain and upgrade equipment and facilities. Existing laws and regulations have required, and are expected to continue to require, Sunoco to make significant expenditures of both a capital and an expense nature. The following table summarizes Sunoco’s expenditures for environmental projects and compliance activities:

 

(Millions of Dollars)   2007   2006   2005

Pollution abatement capital*

  $230   $282   $498

Remediation

  41   42   50

Operations, maintenance and administration

  196   266   192
    $467   $590   $740
* Capital expenditures for pollution abatement include amounts to comply with the Tier II low-sulfur fuel requirements (completed in 2006), the Consent Decrees pertaining to certain alleged Clean Air Act violations at the Company’s refineries and, in 2008 and 2009, the project at the Tulsa refinery to enable the production of diesel fuel that meets new product specifications. Pollution abatement capital outlays are expected to approximate $427 and $382 million in 2008 and 2009, respectively.

 

These excerpts taken from the SUN 10-K filed Feb 26, 2007.

General

Sunoco, Inc.** was incorporated in Pennsylvania in 1971. It or its predecessors have been active in the petroleum industry since 1886. Its principal executive offices are located at 1735 Market Street, Suite LL, Philadelphia, PA 19103-7583. Its telephone number is (215) 977-3000 and its Internet website address is www.SunocoInc.com. The Company makes available free of charge on its website all materials that it files electronically with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”), including its Annual Report on Form 10-K, Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, Current Reports on Form 8-K and amendments to these reports as soon as reasonably practicable after such materials are electronically filed with, or furnished to, the SEC.

The Company, through its subsidiaries, is principally a petroleum refiner and marketer and chemicals manufacturer with interests in logistics and cokemaking. Sunoco’s petroleum refining and marketing operations include the manufacturing and marketing of a full range of petroleum products, including fuels, lubricants and some petrochemicals. Sunoco’s chemical operations comprise the manufacturing, distribution and marketing of commodity and intermediate petrochemicals. The petroleum refining and marketing, chemicals and logistics operations are conducted principally in the eastern half of the United States. Sunoco’s cokemaking operations currently are conducted in Virginia, Indiana and Ohio.

The Company’s operations are organized into five business segments (Refining and Supply, Retail Marketing, Chemicals, Logistics and Coke) plus a holding company and a professional services group. Sunoco, Inc., the holding company, is a non-operating parent company which includes certain corporate officers. The professional services group consists of a number of staff functions, including: finance; legal and risk management; materials management; human resources; information systems; health, environment and safety; engineering services; facilities management; transaction processing; and government and public affairs. Costs incurred by the professional services group to provide these services are allocated to the five business segments and the holding company. This discussion of the Company’s business and properties reflects this organizational structure. For additional information regarding these business units, see Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations and the business segment information presented in Note 19 to the Consolidated Financial Statements, both in the Company’s 2006 Annual Report to Shareholders.

Sunoco owns and operates five refineries which are located in Marcus Hook, PA, Philadelphia, PA, Westville, NJ, Toledo, OH and Tulsa, OK. The refineries in Marcus Hook, Philadelphia, Westville and

 


*   References in this Annual Report on Form 10-K to material in the Company’s 2006 Annual Report to Shareholders and in the Company’s definitive Proxy Statement, which will be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission within 120 days after December 31, 2006, mean that such material is incorporated herein by reference; other material in those documents is not deemed to be filed as part of this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
**   In this report, the terms “Company” and “Sunoco” are used interchangeably to mean Sunoco, Inc. or collectively, Sunoco, Inc. and its subsidiaries. The use of these terms is for convenience of discussion and is not intended to be a precise description of corporate relationships.

 

1


Toledo produce principally fuels and commodity petrochemicals while the refinery in Tulsa emphasizes lubricants production with related fuels production being sold in the wholesale market. The refinery in Westville (also known as the Eagle Point refinery) was acquired in January 2004 (see “Refining and Supply” below).

Sunoco markets gasoline and middle distillates, and offers a broad range of convenience store merchandise through a network of 4,691 retail outlets in 25 states primarily on the East Coast and in the Midwest United States. During April 2004, Sunoco completed the purchase from ConocoPhillips of 340 Mobil® retail gasoline sites located primarily in Delaware, Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C. In 2006, the Company continued its Retail Portfolio Management program which selectively reduced its invested capital in Company-owned or leased sites, while retaining most of the gasoline sales volumes attributable to the divested sites (see “Retail Marketing” below).

Sunoco owns and operates facilities in Philadelphia, PA and Haverhill, OH, which produce phenol and acetone, and in LaPorte, TX, Neal, WV and Bayport, TX, which produce polypropylene. In addition, Sunoco is a joint-venture partner in a facility in Marcus Hook, PA, which upgrades propylene and produces polypropylene. In September 2004, Sunoco sold its interest in the Mont Belvieu, TX, Belvieu Environmental Fuels (“BEF”) MTBE production facility to Enterprise Products Operating L.P. In addition, a facility in Pasadena, TX, which produces plasticizers, was sold to BASF in January 2004 (see “Chemicals” below).

Sunoco owns, principally through Sunoco Logistics Partners L.P. (the “Partnership”) (a master limited partnership), a geographically diverse and complementary group of pipelines and terminal facilities which transport, terminal and store refined products and crude oil. Sunoco has a 43 percent interest in the Partnership, which includes a 2 percent general partnership interest (see “Logistics” below).

Sunoco, through Sun Coke Company and its affiliates (individually and collectively, “Sun Coke”), makes high-quality, blast-furnace coke at its facilities in East Chicago, IN (Indiana Harbor), Vansant, VA (Jewell) and Franklin Furnace, OH (Haverhill), and produces metallurgical coal from mines in Virginia primarily for use at the Jewell cokemaking facility. An additional cokemaking facility in Vitória, Brazil is expected to commence limited operations in the first quarter of 2007, with full production expected in mid-2007. Sun Coke will be the operator and has a joint-venture interest in this facility (see “Coke” below).

The following are separate discussions of Sunoco’s business segments.

General

 

Sunoco is subject to extensive and frequently changing federal, state and local laws and regulations, including, but not limited to, those relating to the discharge of materials into the environment or that otherwise deal with the protection of the environment, waste management and the characteristics and composition of fuels. As with the industry generally, compliance with existing and anticipated laws and regulations increases the overall cost of operating Sunoco’s businesses, including capital costs to construct, maintain and upgrade equipment and facilities. Existing laws and regulations have required, and are expected to continue to require, Sunoco to make significant expenditures of both a capital and an expense nature. The following table summarizes Sunoco’s expenditures for environmental projects and compliance activities:

 

(Millions of Dollars)   2006   2005   2004

Pollution abatement capital*

  $ 282   $ 498   $ 258

Remediation

    42     50     38

Operations, maintenance and administration

    266     192     135
    $ 590   $ 740   $ 431
* Capital expenditures for pollution abatement include amounts to comply with the Tier II low-sulfur fuel requirements (completed in 2006) and the Consent Decrees pertaining to certain alleged Clean Air Act violations at the Company’s refineries. Pollution abatement capital outlays are expected to approximate $257 and $308 million in 2007 and 2008, respectively.

 

Wikinvest © 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012. Use of this site is subject to express Terms of Service, Privacy Policy, and Disclaimer. By continuing past this page, you agree to abide by these terms. Any information provided by Wikinvest, including but not limited to company data, competitors, business analysis, market share, sales revenues and other operating metrics, earnings call analysis, conference call transcripts, industry information, or price targets should not be construed as research, trading tips or recommendations, or investment advice and is provided with no warrants as to its accuracy. Stock market data, including US and International equity symbols, stock quotes, share prices, earnings ratios, and other fundamental data is provided by data partners. Stock market quotes delayed at least 15 minutes for NASDAQ, 20 mins for NYSE and AMEX. Market data by Xignite. See data providers for more details. Company names, products, services and branding cited herein may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners. The use of trademarks or service marks of another is not a representation that the other is affiliated with, sponsors, is sponsored by, endorses, or is endorsed by Wikinvest.
Powered by MediaWiki