Ranking: Valero is the second largest producer of asphalt in the United States.

Throughput Capacity: 85,000 barrels per day

Products Include:

• Performance-Grade Paving Asphalt
• Quality-Roofing Asphalt
• Specialty-Grade Industrial Asphalt
• Modified Asphalt

Key Projects Include:

• New Jersey Turnpike
• John F. Kennedy Airport
• George Washington Bridge
• Pennsylvania Turnpike
• San Francisco International Airport
• California Speedway
• Edison Field, Home of the Anaheim Angels Baseball Team
• Los Angeles Port Authority
• San Joaquin Toll Road, Orange County’s First Toll Road
• Long Beach Freeway

Fun Facts:

• Valero’s two asphalt refineries in California have produced enough asphalt over the last 20+ years to pave a road long enough to circle the globe seven times.
• The United States has 4 million miles of roads and highways.
• In 1956, the Federal-aid Highway Act was established, creating an infrastructure highway program unmatched by any other in the world. President Dwight D. Eisenhower stated that the Interstate System would establish a "grand plan for the rebuilding of our obsolete road and street system."
• The basis of the system was a 41,000-mile highway network connecting major cities in the United States.
• Today, the growing asphalt business is due, in large part, to federally funded products to repave the nation's Interstate system.
• The Romans built an impressive road system in Great Britain during their occupation of the first through fourth centuries. Many roads of the system have been used as templates for modern British roadways.
• Sir Walter Raleigh, in his third voyage in 1498, discovered the still famous pitch lake of asphalt on the Island of Trinidad, the largest natural asphalt lake in the world.
• The pitch lake of asphalt on the Island of Trinidad was the first source of asphalt made available in America.