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Hurricane Rita Update Statement from Mary Rose Brown, Senior Vice President, Corporate Communications
San Antonio, TX September 26, 2005

We are circulating oil at our Houston and Texas City refineries in anticipation of starting up a few units late today or early tomorrow morning. We still expect to be back to normal operations in Houston by mid-week. At Texas city, we will not receive hydrogen from our third-party provider until Wednesday but we still hope to be back to normal operations later this week.

In Port Arthur, we have discovered extensive electrical power pole damage and extensive insulation damage. Power is not expected to be restored to the area for about one month. However, we are beginning to implement the needed repairs and are capable of generating about 80% of our own power at our Port Arthur refinery, so we continue to expect to restart this refinery within two to four weeks.

We now have 202 of 231 Houston area stores open and 112 of these currently have fuel for sale. We will continue refueling efforts as available tanker trucks and terminal fueling conditions allow.

Thanks!

Director of Media Relations

Bill Day

One Valero Way
San Antonio, TX USA 78249-1616

(210) 345-2928
bill.day@valero.com