UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
 
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Form 10-K/A
 
Amendment No. 1

(Mark One)
 
þ
ANNUAL REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d)
OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
 
For the fiscal year ended December 31, 2010
 
 or
o
TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d)
OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
 
For the transition period from                                                                to

Commission File Number 1-3473
 
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TESORO CORPORATION
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

Delaware
95-0862768
(State or other jurisdiction of
incorporation or organization)
(I.R.S. Employer
Identification No.)
   
19100 Ridgewood Parkway
78259-1828
San Antonio, Texas
(Address of principal executive offices)
(Zip Code)

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code:
210-626-6000

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:
 
     
Title of Each Class
 
Name of Each Exchange on Which Registered
Common Stock, $0.16 2/3 par value
 
New York Stock Exchange
 
   

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Act: None

Indicate by check mark if the registrant is a well-known seasoned issuer, as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act.  Yes þ     No o

Indicate by check mark if the registrant is not required to file reports pursuant to Section 13 or Section 15(d) of the Act.  Yes o     No þ

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days.  Yes þ     No o

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has submitted electronically and posted on its corporate Website, if any, every Interactive Data File required to be submitted and posted pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation S-T during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to submit and post such files).  Yes þ     No o

Indicate by check mark if disclosure of delinquent filers pursuant to Item 405 of Regulation S-K is not contained herein, and will not be contained, to the best of the registrant’s knowledge, in definitive proxy or information statements incorporated by reference in Part III of this Form 10-K or any amendment to this Form 10-K.  þ

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, or a smaller reporting company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer” and “smaller reporting company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.:

Large accelerated filer þ
Accelerated filer o
Non-accelerated filer o
Smaller reporting company o
(Do not check if a smaller reporting company)

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined by Rule 12b-2 of the Act).   Yes o      No þ

At June 30, 2010, the aggregate market value of the voting common stock held by non-affiliates of the registrant was approximately $1.6 billion based upon the closing price of its common stock on the New York Stock Exchange Composite tape. At February 21, 2011, there were 143,174,369 shares of the registrant’s common stock outstanding.

DOCUMENTS INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE

Portions of the registrant’s Proxy Statement to be filed pursuant to Regulation 14A pertaining to the 2011 Annual Meeting of Stockholders are incorporated by reference into Part III hereof. The Company intends to file such Proxy Statement no later than 120 days after the end of the fiscal year covered by this Form 10-K.


 
 
 


 


EXPLANATORY NOTE

 
Amendment No. 1 to our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2010 (the “Amendment”) is filed to include additional disclosure within Items 1. and 2., “Business and Properties-Government Regulation and Legislation.”  Otherwise, this amendment does not update or modify in any way any other Item, including the financial position, results of operations, or cash flows in Tesoro Corporation’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2010, and does not reflect events occurring after the original filing date of March 1, 2011.  Certain exhibits included in the original filing have been updated and are filed herein.  The Amendment should be read in conjunction with our filings made subsequent to our original Annual Report on Form 10-K, including any amendments to prior filings.
 



 
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PART I

ITEMS 1. AND 2.  BUSINESS AND PROPERTIES

Statements in this Annual Report on Form 10-K, that are not historical in nature should be deemed forward-looking statements that are inherently uncertain. See “Important Information Regarding Forward-Looking Statements” in Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations in Item 7 for a discussion of forward-looking statements and of factors that could cause actual outcomes and results to differ materially from those projected.

Tesoro Corporation (“Tesoro”) was incorporated in Delaware in 1968. Based in San Antonio, Texas, we are one of the largest independent petroleum refiners and marketers in the United States. Our subsidiaries, operating through two business segments, primarily manufacture and sell transportation fuels. Our refining operating segment (“refining”), which operates seven refineries in the western United States, refines crude oil and other feedstocks into transportation fuels, such as gasoline, gasoline blendstocks, jet fuel and diesel fuel, as well as other products, including heavy fuel oils, liquefied petroleum gas, petroleum coke and asphalt. This operating segment sells refined products in wholesale and bulk markets to a wide variety of customers within the operations area. Our retail operating segment (“retail”) sells transportation fuels and convenience products in 15 states through a network of 880 retail stations, primarily under the Tesoro®, Shell®, USA Gasolinetm and Mirastar® brands. See Notes N and Q to our consolidated financial statements in Item 8 for additional information on our operating segments and properties.

Our principal executive offices are located at 19100 Ridgewood Parkway, San Antonio, Texas 78259-1828 and our telephone number is (210) 626-6000. Our common stock trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol “TSO.” We file reports with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”), including annual reports on Form 10-K, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q and other reports from time to time. The public may read and copy any materials that we file with the SEC at the SEC’s Public Reference Room at 100 F Street, N.E., Washington, DC 20549. The public may obtain information on the operation of the Public Reference Room by calling the SEC at 1-800-SEC-0330. Our SEC filings are also available to the public on the SEC’s Internet site at http://www.sec.gov and our website at http://www.tsocorp.com as soon as reasonably practicable after we electronically file such material with, or furnish it to, the SEC. You may receive a copy of our Annual Report on Form 10-K, including the financial statements, free of charge by writing to Tesoro Corporation, Attention: Investor Relations, 19100 Ridgewood Parkway, San Antonio, Texas 78259-1828. We also post our corporate governance guidelines, code of business conduct, code of ethics for senior financial officers and our Board of Director committee charters on our website. Our governance documents are available in print by writing to the address above. We submitted to the New York Stock Exchange on June 18, 2010 our annual certification concerning corporate governance pursuant to Section 303A.12 (a) of the New York Stock Exchange Listed Company Manual.


 
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REFINING

Overview

 
We currently own and operate seven petroleum refineries located in the western United States and sell transportation fuels to a wide variety of customers. Our refineries produce a high proportion of the transportation fuels that we sell, and we purchase the remainder from other refiners and suppliers. Our seven refineries have a combined crude oil capacity of 665 thousand barrels per day (“Mbpd”). Crude oil capacity and throughput rates of crude oil and other feedstocks by refinery are as follows:
 
Tesoro Refinery Locations
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Crude Oil
   
   
Capacity
 
Throughput (bpd)
Refinery
 
(bpd)(a)
 
2010
 
2009
 
2008
California
               
Golden Eagle
 
166,000
 
124,000
 
140,900
 
153,300
Los Angeles
 
97,000
 
98,800
 
100,500
 
105,100
Pacific Northwest
               
Washington(b)
 
120,000
 
39,300
 
84,200
 
103,100
Alaska
 
72,000
 
53,400
 
50,600
 
55,600
Mid-Pacific
               
Hawaii
 
93,500
 
63,900
 
68,200
 
69,100
Mid-Continent
               
North Dakota
 
58,000
 
50,800
 
54,000
 
56,000
Utah
 
58,000
 
50,100
 
50,600
 
52,900
Total(c)
 
664,500
 
480,300
 
549,000
 
595,100
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(a)
Crude oil capacity by refinery as reported by the Energy Information Administration (2010). Throughput can exceed crude oil capacity due to the processing of other feedstocks in addition to crude oil.
 
(b)
Our Washington refinery was temporarily shut-down from April 2010 to November 2010.
 
(c)
See discussion regarding changes in total refining throughput in Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations in Item 7.

 
 
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Feedstock Purchases.  We purchase crude oil and other feedstocks from both domestic and foreign sources either through term agreements with renewal provisions or in the spot market. We purchase approximately 63% of our crude oil under term agreements with renewal options, which are primarily short-term agreements priced at market. We purchase the remainder of our crude oil and feedstock supplies in the spot market. We purchase domestic crude oil primarily in California, Alaska, North Dakota, Colorado, Wyoming and Utah. We purchase foreign crude oil primarily from South America, Russia, Canada and the Middle East. Sources of our crude oil purchases are as follows:

 
Crude Oil Source
 
2010
   
2009
   
2008
 
Domestic
    65 %     62 %     56 %
Foreign
    35       38       44  
Total
    100 %     100 %     100 %
 
Our refineries process both heavy and light crude oils. Light crude oils, when refined, produce a higher proportion of high value transportation fuels such as gasoline, diesel and jet fuel, and as a result are generally more expensive than heavy crude oils. In contrast, heavy crude oils produce more low value by-products and heavy residual oils.  These lower value products can be upgraded to higher value products through additional refining processes.  Throughput volumes by feedstock type and region are summarized below (in Mbpd):


 
 
2010
   
2009
   
2008
 
 
 
Volume
   
%
   
Volume
   
%
   
Volume
   
%
 
California
                                   
Heavy crude(a)
    161       72 %     160       66 %     164       64 %
Light crude
    42       19       57       24       73       28  
Other feedstocks
    20       9       24       10       21       8  
Total
    223       100 %     241       100 %     258       100 %
Pacific Northwest
                                               
Heavy crude(a)
    1       1 %           %     7       4 %
Light crude
    87       94       126       93       143       90  
Other feedstocks
    5       5       9       7       9       6  
Total
    93       100 %     135       100 %     159       100 %
Mid-Pacific
                                               
Heavy crude(a)
    19       30 %     17       25 %     21       30 %
Light crude
    45       70       51       75       48       70  
Total
    64       100 %     68       100 %     69       100 %
Mid-Continent
                                               
Light crude
    96       96 %     101       96 %     105       96 %
Other feedstocks
    4       4       4       4       4       4  
Total
    100       100 %     105       100 %     109       100 %
Total Refining Throughput
                                               
Heavy crude(a)
    181       38 %     177       32 %     192       32 %
Light crude
    270       56       335       61       369       62  
Other feedstocks
    29       6       37       7       34       6  
Total
    480       100 %     549       100 %     595       100 %
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(a)
We define heavy crude oil as crude oil with an American Petroleum Institute gravity of 24 degrees or less.
 
 
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Refined Products.  The total products produced in the manufacturing process are referred to as the refining yield. The refining yield consists primarily of transportation fuels, including gasoline and gasoline blendstocks, jet fuel and diesel fuel, but also may include other products including heavy fuel oils, liquefied petroleum gas, petroleum coke and asphalt. Our refining yield by region is summarized below (in Mbpd):

 
 
2010
   
2009
   
2008
 
 
 
Volume
   
%
   
Volume
   
%
   
Volume
   
%
 
California
                                   
Gasoline and gasoline blendstocks
    124       51 %     130       49 %     133       48 %
Jet fuel
    19       8       18       7       18       6  
Diesel fuel
    54       22       52       20       72       26  
Heavy oils, residual products, internally produced fuel and other
    47       19       63       24       54       20  
Total
    244       100 %     263       100 %     277       100 %
Pacific Northwest
                                               
Gasoline and gasoline blendstocks
    34       35 %     60       43 %     63       38 %
Jet fuel
    24       25       26       19       32       20  
Diesel fuel
    11       12       23       16       30       18  
Heavy oils, residual products, internally produced fuel and other
    27       28       30       22       39       24  
Total
    96       100 %     139       100 %     164       100 %
Mid-Pacific
                                               
Gasoline and gasoline blendstocks
    15       23 %     16       23 %     16       23 %
Jet fuel
    15       23       17       25       18       25  
Diesel fuel
    12       19       12       17       11       15  
Heavy oils, residual products, internally produced fuel and other
    23       35       24       35       26       37  
Total
    65       100 %     69       100 %     71       100 %
Mid-Continent
                                               
Gasoline and gasoline blendstocks
    59       57 %     62       58 %     63       56 %
Jet fuel
    10       10       9       8       10       9  
Diesel fuel
    26       25       27       25       30       26  
Heavy oils, residual products, internally produced fuel and other
    9       8       10       9       10       9  
Total
    104       100 %     108       100 %     113       100 %
Total Refining Yield
                                               
Gasoline and gasoline blendstocks
    232       46 %     268       46 %     275       44 %
Jet fuel
    68       13       70       12       78       12  
Diesel fuel
    103       20       114       20       143       23  
Heavy oils, residual products, internally produced fuel and other
    106       21       127       22       129       21  
Total
    509       100 %     579       100 %     625       100 %


 
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Marine.  We time charter four U.S.-flag tankers and four foreign-flag tankers to optimize the transportation of crude oil and refined products within our refinery system and ensure adequate shipping capacity. All of the tankers are double-hulled. The foreign-flag tankers, with charters that expire between 2011 and 2013, include three Aframax and one Suezmax class vessels.  We chartered two new U.S.-flag tankers in 2010 that we use to move crude and products between Alaska, Hawaii and the U.S. West Coast.  The U.S.-flag tankers’ charters will expire between 2012 and 2013 unless we exercise renewal options.  Additionally, we time charter seven barges and two tugs over varying terms ending in 2011 to 2016.

Pipelines and Storage.  We receive crude oils and ship refined products through owned and third-party pipelines. We own and operate over 900 miles of crude oil and product pipelines, located primarily in North Dakota, Montana, Alaska and Hawaii, through which we transport more than 355 Mbpd within our refining system.
 
In September 2007, Gunvor SA (“Gunvor”), formerly Castor Petroleum, entered into a Transportation and Storage Agreement (“TSA”) with Petroterminal de Panama, S.A. (“PTP”).  Concurrent with the execution of the TSA, Tesoro Panama Company Sociedad Anonima (“TPSA”), a wholly owned subsidiary of Tesoro, entered into a Transportation and Storage Agreement (“the TPSA Agreement”) with Gunvor. The TSA provides Gunvor the use of the Trans-Panama pipeline (“Pipeline”) and several tanks at the Atlantic and Pacific terminals for a seven-year period. The Pipeline is 81 miles long, with a capacity exceeding 860 Mbpd, and runs across Panama near the Costa Rican border from Port Chiriqui Grande, Bocas del Toro on the Caribbean to Port Charco Azul on the Pacific coast.  The TPSA Agreement with Gunvor allocates and delegates a portion of Gunvor’s rights, duties, and obligations set forth in Gunvor’s TSA agreement with PTP to TPSA.  TPSA has leased access to, and is obligated for, pipeline capacity of more than 100 Mbpd and tank capacity of approximately 4.4 million barrels.  The pipeline allows us to deliver crude oils acquired in Africa, the Atlantic region of South America and the North Sea to refineries in the Pacific basin.

Trucking.  We operate a proprietary trucking business at three of our refineries to transport crude oil to the refinery or refined products to our retail outlets and other customers.

Terminalling.  We operate 18 refined products terminals at our refineries and other locations in California, Washington, Alaska, Hawaii, North Dakota, Utah and Idaho. We also distribute products through third-party terminals and truck racks in our market areas and through purchases and exchange arrangements with other refining and marketing companies.

Tesoro Logistics LP.  On January 4, 2011,  Tesoro Logistics LP, a wholly owned subsidiary of Tesoro Corporation, filed a registration statement on Form S-1 with the SEC in connection with a proposed initial public offering of its common units representing limited partner interests. On February 9, 2011, Tesoro Logistics LP filed an amendment to the initial Form S-1 on Form S-1/A.  The number of common units to be offered and the price range for the offering have not yet been determined. Tesoro Logistics LP was formed by Tesoro Corporation to own, operate, develop and acquire crude oil and refined products logistics assets. Headquartered in San Antonio, Texas, Tesoro Logistics LP’s initial assets will consist of a crude oil gathering system in the Bakken Shale/Williston Basin area, eight refined products terminals in the western United States, and a crude oil and refined products storage facility and five related short-haul pipelines in Utah.

At the date of this report, the registration statement is not effective. The completion of the offering is subject to numerous conditions, including market conditions, and we can provide no assurance that it will be successfully completed. The securities offered under the registration statement may not be sold, nor may offers to buy be accepted prior to the time that the registration statement becomes effective. The information contained in this Form 10-K with respect to this offering shall not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy these securities.
 
California Refineries

Golden Eagle

Refining.  Our 166 Mbpd Golden Eagle refinery is located in Martinez, California on approximately 2,200 acres about 30 miles east of San Francisco. We source crude oil for our Golden Eagle refinery from California, Alaska and foreign locations. The Golden Eagle refinery also processes intermediate feedstocks. The refinery’s major upgrading units include fluid catalytic cracking, delayed coking, hydrocracking, naphtha reforming, vacuum distillation, hydrotreating and alkylation units. The refinery produces a high proportion of transportation fuels, including cleaner-burning California Air Resources Board (“CARB”) gasoline and CARB diesel fuel, as well as conventional gasoline and diesel fuel. The refinery also produces heavy fuel oils, liquefied petroleum gas and petroleum coke.
 
Transportation.  Our Golden Eagle refinery’s two marine terminals have access through the San Francisco Bay that enables us to receive crude oil and ship refined products. In addition, the refinery can receive crude oil through a third-party marine terminal at Martinez. We also receive California crude oils and ship refined products from the refinery through third-party pipelines.

Terminals.  We operate refined products terminals at Stockton, California and at the refinery. We distribute refined products through third-party terminals in our market areas and through purchase and exchange arrangements with other refining and marketing companies. We also lease third-party clean product tanks with access to the San Francisco Bay.

 
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Los Angeles

Refining.  Our 97 Mbpd Los Angeles refinery is located in Wilmington, California on approximately 300 acres about 20 miles south of Los Angeles. We source crude oil for our Los Angeles refinery from California as well as foreign locations. The Los Angeles refinery also processes intermediate feedstocks. The refinery’s major upgrading units include fluid catalytic cracking, delayed coking, hydrocracking, vacuum distillation, hydrotreating, reforming, butane isomerization and alkylation units. The refinery produces a high proportion of transportation fuels, including CARB gasoline and CARB diesel fuel, as well as conventional gasoline, diesel fuel and jet fuel. The refinery also produces heavy fuel oils, liquefied petroleum gas and petroleum coke.

Transportation.  Our Los Angeles refinery leases a marine terminal at the Port of Long Beach that enables us to receive crude oil and ship refined products. The refinery can also receive crude oil from the San Joaquin Valley and the Los Angeles Basin through third-party pipelines.

Terminals.  We operate a refined products terminal at the Los Angeles refinery and distribute refined products through third-party terminals in our market areas and through purchases and exchange arrangements with other refining and marketing companies. We also lease refined product storage tanks at third-party terminals in Southern California, the majority of which have access to marine terminals.

Pacific Northwest Refineries

Washington

Refining.  Our 120 Mbpd Anacortes, Washington refinery is located in northwest Washington on approximately 900 acres about 70 miles north of Seattle. We source our Washington refinery’s crude oil from Alaska, Canada and other foreign locations. The Washington refinery also processes intermediate feedstocks, primarily heavy vacuum gas oil, produced by some of our other refineries and purchased in the spot-market from third-parties. The refinery’s major upgrading units include fluid catalytic cracking, butane isomerization, alkylation, hydrotreating, vacuum distillation, deasphalting and naphtha reforming units, which enable us to produce a high proportion of transportation fuels, such as gasoline including CARB gasoline and components for CARB gasoline, diesel fuel and jet fuel. The refinery also produces heavy fuel oils, liquefied petroleum gas and asphalt.

On April 2, 2010, the naphtha hydrotreater unit at our Washington refinery was involved in a fire.  Subsequent to the incident, refinery processing was temporarily shut down until after the unit reconstruction was completed. The Washington refinery resumed operations at planned rates in November 2010.

Transportation.  Our Washington refinery receives Canadian crude oil through a third-party pipeline originating in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. We receive other crude oils through our Washington refinery’s marine terminal. The refinery ships transportation fuels including gasoline, jet fuel and diesel fuel through a third-party pipeline system, which serves western Washington and Portland, Oregon. We also deliver refined products through our marine terminal via ships and barges to West Coast and Pacific Rim markets.

Terminals.  We operate a distillate terminal at our Washington refinery  and operate refined products terminals at Port Angeles and Vancouver, Washington, all of which are supplied primarily by our refinery. We also distribute refined products through third-party terminals in our market areas, and through purchases and exchange arrangements with other refining and marketing companies.

Alaska
 
Refining.  Our 72 Mbpd Alaska refinery is located on the Cook Inlet near Kenai on approximately 450 acres about 60 miles southwest of Anchorage. Our Alaska refinery processes crude oil from Alaska and, to a lesser extent, foreign locations. The refinery’s major upgrading units include vacuum distillation, distillate hydrocracking, hydrotreating, naphtha reforming, diesel desulfurizing and light naphtha isomerization units which produce transportation fuels, including gasoline and gasoline blendstocks, jet fuel and diesel fuel, as well as other products, including heating oil, heavy fuel oils, liquefied petroleum gas and asphalt.


 
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Transportation.  We receive crude oil into our Kenai marine terminal by tanker and through our owned and operated crude oil pipeline. Our crude oil pipeline is a 24-mile common-carrier pipeline connected to the eastside Cook Inlet oil field. We also own and operate a common-carrier refined products pipeline that runs from the Alaska refinery to our two terminal facilities in Anchorage and to the Anchorage International Airport. This 69-mile pipeline has the capacity to transport approximately 48 Mbpd of refined products and allows us to transport gasoline, diesel fuel and jet fuel. Both of our owned pipelines are subject to regulation by various federal, state and local agencies, including the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (“FERC”). We also deliver refined products through our Kenai marine terminal and from the Port of Anchorage marine facility to customers via ships and barges.

Terminals.  We operate refined products terminals at Nikiski and Anchorage, which are supplied by our Alaska refinery. We also distribute refined products through a third-party terminal which is supplied through an exchange arrangement with another refining company.

Mid-Pacific Refinery

Hawaii

Refining.  Our 94 Mbpd Hawaii refinery is located in Kapolei on approximately 130 acres about 20 miles west of Honolulu. We supply the refinery with crude oil from Southeast Asia, the Middle East, Russia and other foreign sources. The refinery’s major upgrading units include vacuum distillation, hydrocracking, hydrotreating, visbreaking and naphtha reforming units which produce gasoline and gasoline blendstocks, jet fuel, diesel fuel, heavy fuel oils, liquefied petroleum gas and asphalt.

Transportation.  We transport crude oil to Hawaii in tankers, which discharge through our single-point mooring, approximately two miles offshore from the refinery. Our three underwater pipelines from the single-point mooring allow crude oil and refined products to be transferred to and from the refinery. We own and operate a refined products pipeline from our Hawaii refinery to our Sand Island terminal and third-party terminals on the island of Oahu. Furthermore, our refined products pipelines connect the Hawaii refinery to Barbers Point Harbor, approximately three miles away, where refined products are loaded on ships and barges to transport to the neighboring islands.

Terminals.  We operate refined products terminals on Maui and on the Big Island of Hawaii and operate a diesel terminal on Oahu. We also have an aviation fuel terminal in Kauai, and distribute refined products from our refinery to customers through third-party terminals in our market areas.

Mid-Continent Refineries

North Dakota

Refining.  Our 58 Mbpd North Dakota refinery is located on the Missouri River near Mandan on approximately 950 acres. We supply the refinery primarily with crude oil produced from the Williston Basin gathered and transported by our crude oil pipeline system. The refinery also has the ability to access other crude oil supplies, including Canadian crude oil. The refinery’s major upgrading units include fluid catalytic cracking, naphtha reforming, hydrotreating and alkylation units which produce transportation fuels, including gasoline, diesel fuel and jet fuel, as well as other products, including heavy fuel oils and liquefied petroleum gas.

Transportation.  We own a crude oil pipeline system, consisting of an approximate 23 Mbpd truck-based crude oil gathering operation and approximately 700 miles of trunkline and gathering pipelines and related storage assets with the current capacity to deliver up to 70 Mbpd to our North Dakota refinery. This system gathers and transports crude oil produced from the Williston Basin, including production from the Bakken Shale formation, to our refinery. We also have the ability to transport crude oil from Canada on this system through third-party pipeline connections. Our pipeline system is also able to transport crude oil to other points in the region where there is additional demand. This pipeline system is a common carrier line subject to regulation by various federal, state and local agencies, including the FERC. We distribute a significant portion of our refinery’s production through a third-party refined products pipeline system which serves various areas from Mandan, North Dakota to Minneapolis, Minnesota. Most of the gasoline and distillate products from our refinery can be shipped through that pipeline system to third-party terminals.


 
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Terminals.  We operate a refined products terminal at the North Dakota refinery.  The terminal consists of a truck loading rack located within the refinery gates.  The truck loading rack consists of three light product bays and one residual fuel bay, each connected to pipelines that transport product from the refinery tank farm to the terminal.  We also distribute refined products through a third-party pipeline system which connects to third-party terminals in our market areas.

Utah

Refining.  Our 58 Mbpd Utah refinery is located in Salt Lake City on approximately 150 acres. Our Utah refinery processes crude oils primarily from Utah, Colorado, Wyoming and Canada. The refinery’s major upgrading units include fluid catalytic cracking, naphtha reforming, alkylation and hydrotreating units which produce transportation fuels, including gasoline, diesel fuel and jet fuel, as well as other products, including heavy fuel oils and liquefied petroleum gas.

Transportation.  Our Utah refinery receives crude oil primarily through third-party pipelines from oil fields in Utah, Colorado, Wyoming and Canada. We use proprietary trucking to supply the remainder of our Utah refinery’s crude oil requirements. We distribute the refinery’s production through a system of both owned and third-party terminals and third-party pipeline systems, primarily in Utah, Idaho and eastern Washington, with some refined products delivered by truck to Nevada and Wyoming.

Terminals.  We operate a refined products terminal adjacent to our refinery. The terminal has the ability to receive refined products, including gasoline, diesel and jet fuel from our refinery through our proprietary interconnecting pipelines that run between two facilities.  Refined products received at this terminal are sold locally and regionally by both us and third-parties through our truck loading rack. We also own and operate refined products terminals in Boise and Burley, Idaho that are supplied by pipeline from our Utah refinery.

Wholesale Marketing and Refined Product Distribution

We sell refined products including gasoline and gasoline blendstocks, jet fuel, diesel fuel, heavy fuel oils and residual products in both the bulk and wholesale markets. We currently sell over 250 Mbpd in the wholesale market primarily through independent unbranded distributors that sell refined products purchased from us through more than 60 owned and third-party terminals. Our bulk sales are primarily to independent unbranded distributors, other refining and marketing companies, utilities, railroads, airlines and marine and industrial end-users. These products are distributed by pipelines, ships, barges, railcars and trucks. Our sales include refined products that we manufacture, purchase or receive through exchange arrangements. Our refined product sales, including intersegment sales to our retail operations, consisted of (in Mbpd):

 
 
2010
   
2009
   
2008
 
Refined Product Sales
                 
Gasoline and gasoline blendstocks
    288       306       326  
Jet fuel
    92       84       92  
Diesel fuel
    116       121       144  
Heavy oils, residual products and other
    76       85       94  
Total Refined Product Sales
    572       596       656  

Gasoline and Gasoline Blendstocks.  We sell gasoline and gasoline blendstocks in both the bulk and wholesale markets in the western United States. The demand for gasoline is seasonal in many of these markets, with lowest demand typically during the winter months. We sell gasoline to wholesale customers and several other refining and marketing companies under various supply agreements and exchange arrangements. We sell, at wholesale, to unbranded distributors and high-volume retailers, and we distribute refined product through owned and third-party terminals.

Jet Fuel.  We supply jet fuel to passenger and cargo airlines at airports in Alaska, Hawaii, California, Washington, Utah and other western states. We also supply jet fuel to the U.S. military from our refineries in Alaska, Hawaii and North Dakota.


 
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Diesel Fuel.  We sell diesel fuel primarily on a wholesale basis for marine, transportation, industrial and agricultural use. We sell lesser amounts to end-users through marine terminals and for power generation in Hawaii and Washington. We are able to manufacture Ultra-Low Sulfur Diesel (“ULSD”) at all of our refineries and we currently are the sole producer of ULSD in both Alaska and Hawaii.

Heavy Fuel Oils and Residual Products.  We sell heavy fuel oils to other refiners, third-party resellers, electric power producers and marine and industrial end-users. Our refineries supply substantially all of the marine fuels that we sell through facilities at Port Angeles, Seattle, and Tacoma, Washington, and Portland, Oregon, and through our refinery terminals in Washington, Alaska and Hawaii. Our Golden Eagle and Los Angeles refineries produce petroleum coke that we sell primarily to industrial end-users. Tesoro is also a key supplier of liquid asphalt for paving and construction companies in Washington, Alaska and Hawaii.

Sales of Purchased Products.  In the normal course of business we purchase refined products manufactured by others for resale to our customers to meet local market demands. We purchase these refined products, primarily gasoline, jet fuel, diesel fuel and industrial and marine fuel blendstocks mainly in the spot market. Our gasoline and diesel fuel purchase and resale transactions are principally on the U.S. West Coast. Our primary jet fuel resale activity consists of supplying markets in Alaska, California, Washington, Hawaii and Utah. We also purchase for resale a lesser amount of gasoline and other refined products for sales outside of our refineries’ markets.

 
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RETAIL

    We sell gasoline and diesel fuel in the western United States through company-operated retail stations and agreements with third-party branded dealers and distributors (or “jobber/dealers”). Our retail network provides a committed outlet for a portion of the transportation fuels produced by our refineries. Many of our company-operated retail stations include convenience stores that sell a wide variety of merchandise items.
Tesoro’s Branded Retail Network
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As of December 31, 2010, our retail segment included a network of 880 branded retail stations under the Tesoro®, Shell®, USA Gasolinetm and Mirastar® brands. Our Mirastar® brand is used exclusively at 29 Wal-Mart stores in 8 western states under a long-term agreement. We also operate under the Shell® brand at certain retail stations in California through a long-term agreement and own the exclusive rights to the USA Gasolinetm brand in California, New Mexico and Washington. Our retail stations (summarized by type and brand) were located in the following states as of December 31, 2010:

 
Type
 
Brand
State
Company-Operated
Jobber/
Dealer
Total
 
Tesoro (a)
Shell®
USA
Gasolinetm
Mirastar®
Total
California
252
204
456
 
11
347
96
2
456
North Dakota
88
88
 
88
88
Alaska
29
46
75
 
75
75
Minnesota   
70
70
 
70
70
Utah
29
34
63
 
38
20
5
63
Washington    
22
20
42
 
30
6
6
42
Hawaii
29
3
32
 
32
32
Idaho
6
23
29
 
26
3
29
Other states(b)
14
11
25
 
11
1
13
25
Total
381
499
880
 
381
368
102
29
880
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(a)
The Tesoro brand includes stores operated under the Tesoro®, Tesoro Alaska® and 2-Go Tesoro® brand names.
(b)
Other states include New Mexico, South Dakota, Colorado, Oregon, Nevada, Arizona and Wyoming.

 
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The following table summarizes our retail operations:

 
 
2010
   
2009
   
2008
 
Fuel Revenues (in millions)(a)
                 
Company-operated
  $ 2,196     $ 1,877     $ 2,620  
Jobber/dealer
    1,387       1,123       1,564  
Total Fuel Revenues
  $ 3,583     $ 3,000     $ 4,184  
Number of Branded Retail Stations (end of year)
                       
Company-operated
    381       387       389  
Jobber/dealer
    499       499       490  
Total Retail Stations
    880       886       879  
Average Number of Branded Retail Stations (during the year)
                       
Company-operated
    383       388       422  
Jobber/dealer
    499       487       489  
Total Average Retail Stations
    882       875       911  
Fuel Sales (millions of gallons)(a)
                       
Company-operated
    739       746       786  
Jobber/dealer
    597       583       568  
Total Fuel Sales
    1,336       1,329       1,354  

(a)
We have reclassified fuel revenues and fuel sale volumes associated with retail stations where Tesoro delivers the fuel, but the sites are owned and operated by independent dealers from company-operated to jobber/dealer to conform to the current presentation.  The fuel revenues related to these stations were $561 million and $788 million for the years ended December 31, 2009 and 2008, respectively.  The fuel sales volumes related to these stations were 281 million gallons and 286 million gallons for the years ended December 31, 2009 and 2008, respectively.
 
 
COMPETITION

The refining industry is highly competitive. Our competitors include a number of companies that have greater financial and other resources. We compete on the world market for the crude oil and feedstocks we process, and then we compete for the customers who purchase our refined products. The availability and cost of crude oil and other feedstocks, as well as the prices of the products we produce, are heavily influenced by global supply and demand dynamics. We obtain all of our crude oil from third-party sources and compete with other refiners for those limited supplies. We compete with a number of major, integrated multi-national oil companies who can supply their refineries with crude oil from their own production.

We sell gasoline through our network of retail stations as well as on a wholesale basis. We sell most of our distillate production through wholesale channels. We compete with other refiners and with importers for customers in most of our market areas. Competition and concentrations specific to each of our refineries are as follows:

 
Our Golden Eagle, Los Angeles and Washington refineries compete with several refineries in the contiguous west coast states. When regional demand exceeds supply, products are imported to the U.S. West Coast from other parts of the country and the world. These are typically pipeline shipments from the U.S. Gulf Coast but can also include imports from foreign sources such as the Far East, Europe and Canada.

 
Our Alaska refinery competes with three other in-state refineries that together have a crude oil processing capacity of approximately 294 Mbpd. It also competes with refineries on the U.S. West Coast. Our jet fuel sales in Alaska are concentrated in Anchorage, where we are one of the principal suppliers at the Anchorage International Airport.
 
 
Our Hawaii refinery competes primarily with one other in-state refinery, also located in Kapolei. It is owned by a major integrated oil company and has a crude oil capacity of approximately 54 Mbpd. All crude oil processed in Hawaii is from out of state. Product imports from the U.S. mainland and foreign sources are also required to meet the state’s fuel demand. Our jet fuel sales are concentrated at the Honolulu International Airport, where we are the principal supplier. We serve five airports on other Hawaiian islands and compete with other suppliers for U.S. military contracts.

 
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Our North Dakota refinery is the only refinery in the state and primarily competes with refineries in Wyoming, Montana, the Midwest and pipeline supply from the U.S. Gulf Coast region. The Midwest region ranks second in crude oil demand in the United States and is dependent on crude oil imports, primarily from Canada.

 
Our Utah refinery is the largest of five refineries located in Utah. The other refineries have a combined capacity to process approximately 110 Mbpd of crude oil. These five refineries collectively supply a high proportion of the gasoline and distillate products consumed in the states of Utah and Idaho, with additional supplies provided from refineries in surrounding states.

Our retail marketing operations compete with other independent marketers, integrated oil companies and high-volume retailers. We sell gasoline in Alaska, California, Hawaii, North Dakota, Utah, Washington and other western states through a network of company-operated retail stations and branded and unbranded jobber/dealers. Competitive factors that affect retail marketing include product price, station appearance, location and brand awareness. Large national retailers as well as regional retailers continue to enter the fuel retail business. Many of these competitors are substantially larger than we are and through their greater resources may be better able to withstand volatile market conditions and lower profitability.

GOVERNMENT REGULATION AND LEGISLATION

Environmental Controls and Expenditures

All of our operations, like those of other companies engaged in similar businesses, are subject to extensive and frequently changing federal, state, regional and local laws, regulations and ordinances relating to the protection of the environment, including those governing emissions or discharges to the land, air and water, the handling and disposal of solid and hazardous wastes and the remediation of contamination. While we believe our facilities are in substantial compliance with current requirements, we will continue to engage in efforts to meet new legislative and regulatory requirements applicable to our operations. Compliance with these laws and regulations will require us to make significant expenditures. For example, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) has proposed multiple regulations to control greenhouse gas emissions under the federal Clean Air Act.  Concurrent to this activity, the U.S. Congress may also consider legislation regarding greenhouse gas emissions in 2011.  The federal Clean Air Act mandates the blending of increasing amounts of renewable fuels annually in the supply of transportation fuels used domestically. This use of renewable fuels is required of all manufacturers of transportation fuels sold domestically on a prorated basis.  The EPA implements the renewable fuel standard (“RFS”) through regulation and requires transportation fuel manufacturers to provide proof of purchase of these renewable fuels. The costs associated with RFS compliance fluctuate with market dynamics and are not certain.

The impact of these regulatory and legislative developments, if enacted or implemented, or both, is likely to result in increased compliance costs, additional operating restrictions on our business and an increase in the cost of the products we manufacture. Depending on market conditions, we will attempt to pass these increased costs to consumers. If, however, that is not possible, the changes could have an adverse impact on our financial position, results of operations, and liquidity. We cannot currently determine the amounts of such future impacts. For additional information regarding our environmental matters see “Environmental and Other Matters” in Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations in Item 7.
 
 
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Oil Spill Prevention and Response

We operate in environmentally sensitive coastal waters, where tanker, pipeline and other petroleum product transportation operations are regulated by federal, state and local agencies and monitored by environmental interest groups. The transportation of crude oil and refined products over water involves risk and subjects us to the provisions of the Federal Oil Pollution Act of 1990 and related state requirements, which require that most oil refining, transport and storage companies maintain and update various oil spill prevention and oil spill contingency plans. We have submitted these plans and received federal and state approvals necessary to comply with the Federal Oil Pollution Act of 1990 and related regulations. We frequently review and modify our oil spill prevention plans and procedures to prevent crude oil and refined product releases and to minimize potential impacts should a release occur.
 
We currently use time charter tankers to ship crude oil from foreign and domestic sources to our California, Mid-Pacific and Pacific-Northwest refineries. The tanker owners contract with Federally Certified Oil Spill Response Organizations (“OSROs”) to comply with federal, state and local requirements, except in Alaska where we contract with the OSROs.  The OSROs are capable of responding to an oil spill equal to the greatest tanker volume delivering crude oil to our refineries.  Those volumes range from 350,000 barrels at our California refineries to one million barrels at our Hawaii refinery.

We have entered into spill-response contracts with various OSROs to provide spill-response services, if required, to respond to a spill of oil originating from our facilities. We have spill-response agreements in Alaska with Cook Inlet Spill Prevention and Response, Incorporated and with Alyeska Pipeline Service Company. We have a spill-response services agreement in Hawaii with Clean Islands Council. We also have entered into contracts with Marine Spill Response Corporation for Hawaii, the San Francisco Bay, Puget Sound, the Port of Los Angeles and the Port of Long Beach, Clean Rivers Cooperative, Inc. for the Columbia River, and Bay West, Inc. in our Mid-Continent region. These OSROs are capable of responding to an oil spill on water equal to the greatest volume above ground storage tank at our facilities. Those volumes range from 50,000 to 600,000 barrels. We also contract with two spill-response organizations outside the U.S. to support our shipments in foreign waters. In addition, we contract with various spill-response specialists to ensure appropriate expertise is available for any contingency. We believe these contracts provide the additional services necessary to meet or exceed all regulatory spill-response requirements and support our commitment to environmental stewardship.

The OSROs are rated and certified by the United States Coast Guard and are required to annually demonstrate their response capability to the United States Coast Guard and state agencies. The OSROs rated and certified to respond to open water spills must demonstrate the capability to recover up to 50,000 barrels of oil per day and store up to 100,000 barrels of recovered oil at any given time. The OSROs rated and certified to respond to inland spills must demonstrate the capability to recover from 1,875 to 7,500 barrels of oil per day and store from 3,750 to 15,000 barrels of recovered oil at any given time.  We maintain our own spill-response resources to mitigate the impact of a spill from a tanker at our refineries until an OSRO can deploy its resources.  Our spill response capability meets the United States Coast Guard and state requirements to either deploy on-water containment equipment two and one-half times the length of a vessel at our dock or have smaller vessels available to recover 50 barrels of oil per day and store 100 barrels of recovered oil at any given time.

The services provided by the OSROs principally consist of operating response-related equipment, managing certain aspects of a response and providing technical expertise. The OSROs provide various resources in response to an oil spill.  The resources include dedicated vessels that have skimming equipment to recover oil, storage barges to temporarily store recovered oil, containment boom to control the spread of oil on water and land and to protect shorelines, and various pumps and other equipment supporting oil recovery efforts and the protection of natural resources.  The OSROs have full-time personnel and contract with third-parties to provide additional personnel when needed.

As a general matter, our agreements with these organizations do not contain specific physical or financial limitations.  General physical limitations of these organizations would include the geographical area for which services are available and the amount of resources available at the initiation of a request for services or the duration of response and recovery efforts.

Additionally, we require all chartered vessels used for the transportation of crude oil and heavy products over water to be double-hulled. All vessels used by us to transport crude oil and refined products over water are examined or evaluated and subject to our approval prior to their use.


 
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Regulation of Pipelines

Our crude oil pipeline system in North Dakota and our pipeline systems in Alaska are common carriers subject to regulation by various federal, state and local agencies, including the FERC under the Interstate Commerce Act. The Interstate Commerce Act provides that, to be lawful, the rates charged by common carrier petroleum pipelines must be “just and reasonable” and not unduly discriminatory.  Portions of our pipelines are regulated by the U.S. Department of Transportation in Alaska, California, Hawaii, North Dakota and Utah.
 
The intrastate operations of our North Dakota crude oil pipeline system are subject to regulation by the North Dakota Public Services Commission. The intrastate operations of our Alaska pipelines are subject to regulation by the Regulatory Commission of Alaska. Like the FERC, the state regulatory authorities require that we notify shippers of proposed tariff increases to provide the shippers an opportunity to protest the increases. The North Dakota Public Services Commission also files with the state authorities copies of interstate tariff charges filed with the FERC. In addition to challenges to new or proposed rates, challenges to intrastate rates that have already become effective are permitted by complaint of an interested person or by independent action of the appropriate regulatory authority.
 
WORKING CAPITAL

We fund our business operations through a combination of available cash and equivalents and cash flows generated from operations. In addition, our revolving lines of credit are available for additional working capital needs. For additional information regarding working capital see the “Capital Resources and Liquidity” section in Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations in Item 7.

SEASONALITY

Generally, demand for gasoline is higher during the spring and summer months than during the fall and winter months in most of our markets due to seasonal changes in highway traffic. As a result, our operating results for the first and fourth quarters are generally lower than for those in the second and third quarters.

EMPLOYEES

At December 31, 2010, we had approximately 5,300 full-time employees — approximately 1,350 of whom are covered by collective bargaining agreements. The agreements expire on February 1, 2012 for approximately 1,100 employees and on May 1, 2012 for approximately 250 employees. We consider our relations with our employees to be satisfactory.

PROPERTIES

Our principal properties are described above under the captions “Refining” and “Retail.” We believe that our properties and facilities are adequate for our operations and that our facilities are adequately maintained. We are the lessee under a number of cancellable and noncancellable leases for certain properties, including office facilities, retail facilities, ship charters, barges and equipment used in the storage, transportation and production of feedstocks and refined products. We conduct our retail business under the Tesoro®, Shell®, USA Gasolinetm and Mirastar® brands through a network of 880 retail stations, of which 381 are company-operated. See Notes J and N to our consolidated financial statements in Item 8.


 
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GLOSSARY OF TERMS

Alkylation — A process that chemically combines isobutane with other hydrocarbons through the control of temperature and pressure in the presence of an acid catalyst. This process produces alkylates, which have a high octane value and are blended into gasoline to improve octane values.
 
API — American Petroleum Institute — the main U.S trade association for the oil and natural gas industry.

API Gravity — A scale for denoting the lightness or heaviness of crude oils and other liquid hydrocarbons. Calibrated in API degrees (or degrees API), it is used universally to express a crude oil’s relative density in an inverse measure — the lighter the crude, the higher the API gravity, and vice versa.

CARB  — California Air Resources Board — Gasoline and diesel fuel sold in the state of California are regulated by CARB and require stricter quality and emissions reduction performance than required by other states.

Cracking — The process of breaking down larger hydrocarbon molecules into smaller molecules, using catalysts and/or elevated temperatures and pressures.

Deasphalting — A solvent extraction process of recovering higher-value oils from refining residues.

Delayed Coking — A process by which the heaviest crude oil fractions can be thermally cracked under conditions of elevated temperatures to produce both refined products and petroleum coke.

Distillate Hydrocracking — A catalytic hydrocracking process designed to produce primarily diesel fuel and jet fuel.

Exchange Arrangement — An agreement providing for the delivery of crude oil or refined products to a third-party, in exchange for the delivery of crude oil or refined products from the third-party.

Fluid Catalytic Cracking — Catalytic cracking is the refining process of breaking down larger, heavier, and more complex hydrocarbon molecules into simpler and lighter molecules through the use of a catalytic agent to increase the yield of gasoline. Fluid catalytic cracking uses a catalyst in the form of very fine particles, which behave as a fluid when aerated with a vapor.

Gross Refining Margin — The margin on products manufactured and purchased, including those sold to our retail segment. Gross refining margin is calculated as revenues less costs of feedstocks, purchased refined products, transportation and distribution.

Heavy Crude Oil — Crude oil with an API gravity of 24 degrees or less. Heavy crude oils are generally sold at a discount to lighter crude oils.

Heavy Fuel Oils, Residual Products, Internally Produced Fuel and Other — Products other than gasoline, jet fuel and diesel fuel produced in the refining process. These products include residual fuels, gas oils, propane, petroleum coke, asphalt and internally produced fuel.

Hydrocracking — The process of using a catalyst to crack heavy hydrocarbon molecules in the presence of hydrogen. Major products from hydrocracking are jet fuel, naphtha, propane and gasoline components such as butane.

Hydrotreating — The process of removing sulfur from refined products in the presence of catalysts and substantial quantities of hydrogen to reduce sulfur dioxide emissions that result from the use of the products.

Isomerization — A process that alters the fundamental arrangement of atoms in the molecule without adding or removing anything from the original material. The process is used to convert normal butane into isobutane and normal pentane into isopentane and hexane into isohexane. Both isopentane and isohexane are high-octane gasoline components.

Jobber/Dealer Stations — Retail stations owned by third-parties that sell products purchased from or through us and carry one of our brands.

Light Crude Oil — Crude oil with an API gravity greater than 24 degrees. Light crude oils are generally sold at a premium to heavy crude oils.
 
 
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Manufacturing Costs — Costs associated directly with the manufacturing process including cash operating expenses, but excluding depreciation and amortization.

Mbpd — Thousand barrels per day.

Naphtha — Refined product used as a gasoline blending component, a feedstock for reforming and as a petrochemical feedstock.

Refining Yield — Volumes of product produced from crude oils and feedstocks.

Reforming — A process using controlled heat and pressure with catalysts to rearrange certain hydrocarbon molecules into petrochemical feedstocks and higher octane stocks suitable for blending into finished gasoline.

Retail Fuel Margin — The margin on fuel products sold through our retail segment calculated as revenues less cost of sales. Cost of sales in fuel margin are based on purchases from our refining segment and third-parties using average bulk market prices adjusted for transportation and other differentials.

Throughput — The quantity of crude oil and other feedstocks processed at a refinery measured in barrels per day.

Turnaround — The scheduled shutdown of a refinery processing unit for significant overhaul and refurbishment. Turnaround expenditures are capitalized and amortized over the period of time until the next planned turnaround of the unit.

Ultra-Low Sulfur Diesel (ULSD)  — Diesel fuel produced with lower sulfur content to lower emissions, which has been required for on-road use in the U.S. beginning in 2006.

Vacuum Distillation — Distillation under reduced pressure which lowers the boiling temperature of crude oils in order to distill crude oil components that have high boiling points.

Visbreaking — A thermal cracking process in which heavy atmospheric or vacuum unit residues are cracked at moderate temperatures to increase production of distillate products and reduce viscosity of the distillate residues.


 
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EXECUTIVE OFFICERS OF THE REGISTRANT

The following is a list of our executive officers, their ages and their positions at Tesoro, effective as of February 21, 2011.

Name
Age
Position
Position Held Since
Gregory J. Goff
54
President and Chief Executive Officer
May 2010
Everett D. Lewis
63
Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer
March 2008
Charles S. Parrish
53
Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary
April 2009
G. Scott Spendlove
47
Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer
May 2010
Chuck A. Flagg.
57
Senior Vice President, Strategy and Business Development
November 2010
Arlen O. Glenewinkel, Jr.
54
Vice President and Controller
December 2006
Tracy D. Jackson
41
Vice President, Finance and Treasurer
February 2011

There are no family relationships among the officers listed, and there are no arrangements or understandings pursuant to which any of them were elected as officers. Officers are elected annually by our Board of Directors in conjunction with the annual meeting of stockholders. The term of each office runs until the corresponding meeting of the Board of Directors in the next year or until a successor has been elected or qualified. Positions held for at least the past five years for each of our executive officers are described below (positions, unless otherwise specified, are with Tesoro).

Gregory J. Goff was named President and Chief Executive Officer in May 2010.  Previously he has served as Senior Vice President, Commercial for ConocoPhillips Corporation (“ConocoPhillips”), an international, integrated energy company, since 2008. Mr. Goff has held various other positions at ConocoPhillips since 1981, including director and CEO of Conoco JET Nordic from 1998 to 2000; Chairman and Managing Director of Conoco Limited, a UK-based refining and marketing affiliate, from 2000 to 2002; President of ConocoPhillips European and Asia Pacific downstream operations from 2002 to 2004; President of ConocoPhillips U.S. Lower 48 and Latin America exploration and production business from 2004 to 2006; and President of ConocoPhillips specialty businesses and business development from 2006 to 2008.

Everett D. Lewis was named Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer in March 2008. Prior to that he served as Executive Vice President, Strategy and Asset Management beginning in January 2007 and as Executive Vice President, Strategy beginning in January 2005.

Charles S. Parrish was named Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary in April 2009. Prior to that, he served as Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary beginning in May 2006; Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary beginning in March 2005 and as Vice President, Assistant General Counsel and Secretary beginning in November 2004.

G. Scott Spendlove was named Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer in February 2011.  Mr. Spendlove served as the Company’s Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, and Treasurer starting in May 2010.  Prior to that, he served as Senior Vice President, Risk Management beginning in June 2008, Vice President, Asset Enhancement and Planning beginning in August 2007, Vice President, Strategy and Long-Term Planning beginning in December 2006 and Vice President and Controller beginning in March 2006. Mr. Spendlove also served as Vice President, Finance and Treasurer beginning in March 2003 and Vice President, Finance beginning in January 2002.
 
Chuck A. Flagg was named Senior Vice President, Strategy and Business Development in November 2010.  Prior to being in his current position, he served as Senior Vice President, System Optimization beginning in February 2005.  He joined Tesoro in January 2005 as Senior Vice President of Planning and Optimization. 

Arlen O. Glenewinkel, Jr. was named Vice President and Controller in December 2006. Prior to that, he served as Vice President, Enterprise Risk beginning in April 2005 and Vice President, Internal Audit, from August 2002 to April 2005.

Tracy D. Jackson was named Vice President, Finance and Treasurer in February 2011.  Ms. Jackson served as the Company’s Vice President, Finance starting in November 2010 and the Vice President of Internal Audit beginning in May 2007.  Prior to that, she served as Executive Director of Internal Audit at Valero Corporation beginning in May 2005.

 
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BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE REGISTRANT

The following is a list of our Board of Directors, effective as of February 21, 2011:

Steven H. Grapstein                                                                
Non-executive Chairman of the Board of Tesoro Corporation; Chief Executive Officer of Como Holdings USA, Inc. (formerly known as Kuo Investment Company).
Rodney F. Chase                                                                
Chairman of the Audit Committee of Tesoro Corporation; Non-Executive Chairman of Petrofac, Ltd.; Director of Computer Sciences Corporation; Director of Nalco Holding Co.
Gregory J. Goff                                                                
President and Chief Executive Officer of Tesoro Corporation.
Robert W. Goldman                                                                
Chairman of the Governance Committee of Tesoro Corporation; Director of El Paso Corporation; Director of The Babcock & Wilcox Company; Director of Parker Drilling Co.
William J. Johnson                                                                
President, Director and sole shareholder of JonLoc Inc.
J.W. Nokes                                                                
Chairman of the Environmental, Health and Safety Committee of Tesoro Corporation; Retired Executive Vice President for ConocoPhillips; Director of Post Oak Bank (Houston, Texas); Director of Albemarle Corporation.
Donald H. Schmude                                                                
Retired Vice President of Texaco and President and Chief Executive Officer of Texaco Refining & Marketing, Inc.
Susan Tomasky                                                                
President of AEP Transmission, a division of American Electric Power Company, Inc.; Director of Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland.
Michael E. Wiley                                                                
Chairman of the Compensation Committee of Tesoro Corporation; Retired Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Baker Hughes, Inc.; Trustee of Fidelity Funds; Director of Bill Barrett Corporation; Director of Post Oak Bank (Houston, Texas).
Patrick Y. Yang                                                                
Head of Global Technical Operations for F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd.

 
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PART IV

ITEM 15.  EXHIBITS AND FINANCIAL STATEMENT SCHEDULES

(a)1. Financial Statements

The following consolidated financial statements of Tesoro Corporation and its subsidiaries are included in Part II, Item 8 of the Annual Report on Form 10-K filed on March 1, 2011:

 
Page 
Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm (Ernst & Young LLP)
55
Statements of Consolidated Operations — Years Ended December 31, 2010, 2009 and 2008
56
Consolidated Balance Sheets — December 31, 2010 and 2009
57
Statements of Consolidated Comprehensive Income (Loss) and Stockholders’ Equity — Years Ended
December 31, 2010, 2009 and 2008
58
Statements of Consolidated Cash Flows — Years Ended December 31, 2010, 2009 and 2008
59
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
60

2. Financial Statement Schedules

No financial statement schedules are submitted because of the absence of the conditions under which they are required, the required information is insignificant or because the required information is included in the consolidated financial statements.

3. Exhibits

Exhibit
Number
 
 
 
Description of Exhibit
 
2.1
Stock Sale Agreement, dated March 18, 1998, among the Company, BHP Hawaii Inc. and BHP Petroleum Pacific Islands Inc. (incorporated by reference herein to Exhibit 2.1 to Registration Statement No. 333-51789).
2.2
Stock Sale Agreement, dated May 1, 1998, among Shell Refining Holding Company, Shell Anacortes Refining Company and the Company (incorporated by reference herein to the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the period ended March 31, 1998, File No. 1-3473).
2.3
Asset Purchase Agreement, dated July 16, 2001, by and among the Company, BP Corporation North America Inc. and Amoco Oil Company (incorporated by reference herein to Exhibit 2.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on September 21, 2001, File No. 1-3473).
2.4
Asset Purchase Agreement, dated July 16, 2001, by and among the Company, BP Corporation North America Inc. and Amoco Oil Company (incorporated by reference herein to Exhibit 2.2 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on September 21, 2001, File No. 1-3473).
2.5
Asset Purchase Agreement, dated July 16, 2001, by and among the Company, BP Corporation North America Inc. and BP Pipelines (North America) Inc. (incorporated by reference herein to Exhibit 2.1 to the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended September 30, 2001, File No. 1-3473).
2.6
Asset Purchase Agreement by and between the Company and Shell Oil Products U.S. dated as of January 29, 2007 (incorporated by reference herein to Exhibit 2.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on February 1, 2007, File No. 1-3473).
2.7
Sale and Purchase Agreement for Golden Eagle Refining and Marketing Assets, dated February 4, 2002, by and among Ultramar Inc. and Tesoro Refining and Marketing Company, including First Amendment dated February 20, 2002 and related Purchaser Parent Guaranty dated February 4, 2002, and Second Amendment dated May 3, 2002 (incorporated by reference herein to Exhibit 2.12 to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2001, File No. 1-3473, and Exhibit 2.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on May 9, 2002, File No. 1-3473).
2.8
Asset Purchase and Sale Agreement by and between the Company and Shell Oil Products U.S. dated as of January 29, 2007 (incorporated by reference herein to Exhibit 2.2 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on February 1, 2007, File No. 1-3473).
 
 
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 Exhibit
Number
   
Description of Exhibit
2.9
Purchase and Sale Agreement and Joint Escrow Instructions by and among the Company and USA Petroleum Corporation, USA Gasoline Corporation, Palisades Gas and Wash, Inc. and USA San Diego LLC dated as of January 26, 2007 (incorporated by reference herein to Exhibit 2.3 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on February 1, 2007, File No. 1-3473).
‡2.10
Letter Agreement to the Purchase and Sale Agreement and Joint Escrow Instructions dated April 30, 2007 between the Company and USA Petroleum Corporation, Palisades Gas and Wash, Inc. and USA San Diego, LLC (incorporated by reference herein to Exhibit 2.1 to the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended June 30, 2007, File No. 1-3473).
3.1
Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Company (incorporated by reference herein to Exhibit 3 to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 1993, File No. 1-3473).
3.2
Amendment to Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Company adding a new Article IX limiting Directors’ Liability (incorporated by reference herein to Exhibit 3(b) to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 1993, File No. 1-3473).
3.3
Certificate of Amendment, dated as of May 4, 2006, to Certificate of Incorporation of the Company, amending Article IV, increasing the number of authorized shares of common stock from 100 million to 200 million (incorporated by reference herein to Exhibit 3.1 to the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the period ended March 31, 2006, File No. 1-3473).
3.4
Certificate of Amendment, dated as of February 9, 1994, to Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Company amending Article IV, Article V, Article VII and Article VIII (incorporated by reference herein to Exhibit 3(e) to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 1993, File No. 1-3473).
3.5
Certificate of Amendment, dated as of August 3, 1998, to Certificate of Incorporation of the Company, amending Article IV, increasing the number of authorized shares of Common Stock from 50 million to 100 million (incorporated by reference herein to Exhibit 3.1 to the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the period ended September 30, 1998, File No. 1-3473).
3.6
Certificate of Ownership of Merger merging Tesoro Merger Corp. into Tesoro Petroleum Corporation and changing the name of Tesoro Petroleum Corporation to Tesoro Corporation, dated November 8, 2004 (incorporated by reference herein to Exhibit 3.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on November 9, 2004).
3.7
Amended and Restated Bylaws of Tesoro Corporation effective January 26, 2011 (incorporated by reference herein to Exhibit 3.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on January 28, 2011).
4.1
Form of Indenture relating to the 6¼% Senior Notes due 2012, dated as of November 16, 2005, among Tesoro Corporation, certain subsidiary guarantors and U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee (including form of note) (incorporated by reference herein to Exhibit 4.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on November 17, 2005, File No. 1-3473).
4.2
Form of Indenture relating to the 6⅝% Senior Notes due 2015, dated as of November 16, 2005, among Tesoro Corporation, certain subsidiary guarantors and U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee (including form of note) (incorporated by reference herein to Exhibit 4.2 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on November 17, 2005, File No. 1-3473).
4.3
Form of Indenture relating to the 6½% Senior Notes due 2017, dated as of May 29, 2007, among Tesoro Corporation, certain subsidiary guarantors and U.S. Bank National Association, as Trustee (including form of note) (incorporated by reference herein to Exhibit 4.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on June 4, 2007, File No. 1-3473)
4.4
Form of Indenture relating to the 9¾% Senior Notes due 2019, dated as of May 29, 2007, among Tesoro Corporation, certain subsidiary guarantors and J.P. Morgan Securities Inc., as Trustee (including form of note) (incorporated by reference herein to Exhibit 4.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on June 5, 2009, File No. 1-3473).
10.1
Fourth Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as of May 11, 2007, among the Company, JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A as administrative agent and a syndicate of banks, financial institutions and other entities (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on May 15, 2007, File No. 1-3473).
 
 
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 Exhibit
Number
   
Description of Exhibit
10.2
First Amendment to the Fourth Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as of February 22, 2008, among the Company, JP Morgan Chase Bank, NA as administrative agent and a syndicate of banks, financial institutions and other entities. (incorporated by reference herein to Exhibit 10.2 to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2007, File No. 1-3473).
10.3
Second Amendment to the Fourth Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as of May 28, 2009, among the Company, JP Morgan Chase Bank, NA as administrative agent and a syndicate of banks, financial institutions and other entities (incorporated by reference herein to Exhibit 10.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on May 28, 2009, File No. 1-3473).
10.4
Third Amendment to the Fourth Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as of February 23, 2010, among the Company, JP Morgan Chase Bank, NA as administrative agent and a syndicate of banks, financial institutions and other entities (incorporated by reference herein to Exhibit 10.4 to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2009, File No. 1-3473).
10.5
Uncommitted Revolving Credit Agreement dated as of October 18, 2010, among Tesoro Panama Company, S.A. as Borrower, certain lenders listed on the signature pages, as Lenders, and BNP Paribas, as Administrative Agent, Collateral Agent, Letter of Credit Issuer, Swing Line Lender and Daylight Overdraft Bank (incorporated by reference herein to Exhibit 10.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on October 22, 2010, File No. 1-3473).
10.6
$100 million Promissory Note, dated as of May 17, 2002, payable by the Company to Ultramar Inc. (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on May 24, 2002, File No. 1-3473).
10.7
$50 million Promissory Note, dated as of May 17, 2002, payable by the Company to Ultramar Inc. (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.2 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on May 24, 2002, File No. 1-3473).
†10.8
Amended and Restated Executive Security Plan effective January 1, 2009 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed December 18, 2008, File No. 1-3473).
†10.9
Amendment No. 1 to the Amended and Restated Executive Security Plan effective as of January 1, 2010 (incorporated by reference herein to Exhibit 10.8 to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2009, File No. 1-3473).
†10.10
Amended and Restated Executive Long-Term Incentive Plan effective as of February 2, 2006 (incorporated by reference herein to Exhibit 10.3 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on February 8, 2006, File No. 1-3473).
†10.11
2006 Long-Term Incentive Plan dated effective January 1, 2009 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.4 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed December 18, 2008, File No. 1-3473).
†10.12
Tesoro Corporation 2006 Executive Deferred Compensation Plan effective January 1, 2009 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.6 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed December 18, 2008, File No. 1-3473).
†10.13
Tesoro Corporation Restoration Retirement Plan effective January 1, 2009 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.5 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed December 18, 2008, File No. 1-3473).
†10.14
Amendment No. 1 to the Tesoro Corporation Restoration Retirement Plan effective January 1, 2010 (incorporated by reference herein to Exhibit 10.13 to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2009, File No. 1-3473).
†10.15
Copy of the Company’s Key Employee Stock Option Plan dated November 12, 1999 (incorporated by reference herein to Exhibit 10.3 to the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended March 31, 2002, File No. 1-3473).
†10.16
2006 Long-Term Stock Appreciation Rights Plan of Tesoro Corporation (incorporated by reference herein to Exhibit 10.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on February 8, 2006, File No. 1-3473).
†10.17
Employment Agreement between Tesoro and Gregory J. Goff dated as of March 30, 2010 (incorporated by reference herein to Exhibit 10.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on April 5, 2010, File No. 1-3473).
†10.18
Separation and Waiver of Liability Agreement between Tesoro Corporation and William J. Finnerty dated March 18, 2010 (incorporated by reference herein to Exhibit 10.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on March 23, 2010, File No. 1-3473).
 
 
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 Exhibit
Number
   
Description of Exhibit
†10.19
Employment Agreement between the Company and Charles S. Parrish dated as of May 7, 2009 (incorporated by reference herein to Exhibit 10.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K/A filed on May 8, 2009, File No. 1-3473). 
†10.20
Management Stability Agreement between the Company and Arlen O. Glenewinkel, Jr. dated August 2, 2005 (incorporated by reference herein to Exhibit 10.28 to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2006, File No. 1-3473). 
*10.21
Management Stability Agreement between the Company and G. Scott Spendlove, Jr. dated December 31, 2008. 
†10.22
Copy of the Company’s Non-Employee Director Retirement Plan dated December 8, 1994 (incorporated by reference herein to Exhibit 10(t) to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 1994, File No. 1-3473). 
†10.23
Amended and Restated 1995 Non-Employee Director Stock Option Plan, as amended through March 15, 2000 (incorporated by reference herein to Exhibit 10.2 to the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended March 31, 2002, File No. 1-3473). 
†10.24
Amendment to the Company’s Amended and Restated 1995 Non-Employee Director Stock Option Plan (incorporated by reference herein to Exhibit 10.41 to the Company’s Registration Statement No. 333-92468). 
†10.25
Amendment to the Company’s 1995 Non-Employee Director Stock Option Plan effective as of May 11, 2004 (incorporated by reference herein to Exhibit 4.19 to the Company’s Registration Statement No. 333-120716). 
†10.26
Amended and Restated Board of Directors Deferred Compensation Plan effective May 1, 2009 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2009, File No. 1-3473). 
†10.27
Board of Directors Deferred Compensation Trust dated February 23, 1995 (incorporated by reference herein to Exhibit 10(v) to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 1994, File No. 1-3473). 
†10.28
Board of Directors Deferred Phantom Stock Plan effective January 1, 2009, (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.2 to the Company’s Current Report on Form  8-K filed December 18, 2008, File No. 1-3473). 
†10.29
2005 Director Compensation Plan (incorporated by reference herein to Exhibit A to the Company’s Proxy Statement for the Annual Meeting of Stockholders held on May 4, 2005, File No. 1-3473). 
†10.30
Tesoro Corporation Executive Severance and Change in Control Plan effective January 12, 2011 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed January18, 2011, File No. 1-3473). 
†10.31
Tesoro Corporation Supplemental Executive Retirement Plan effective January 12, 2011(incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.2 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed January18, 2011, File No. 1-3473). 
†10.32
Form of Indemnification Agreement between the Company and its officers (incorporated by reference herein to Exhibit 10.2 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on August 4, 2008, File No. 1-3473). 
†10.33
Form of Indemnification Agreement between the Company and its directors (incorporated by reference herein to Exhibit 10.3 to the Company’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on August 4, 2008, File No. 1-3473). 
14.1
Code of Business Conduct and Ethics for Senior Financial Executives (incorporated by reference herein to Exhibit 14.1 to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2003, File No. 1-3473). 
*21.1
Subsidiaries of the Company. 
*23.1
Consent of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm (Ernst & Young LLP). 
**31.1
Certification by Chief Executive Officer Pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. 
**31.2
Certification by Chief Financial Officer Pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. 
**32.1
Certification by Chief Executive Officer Pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as Adopted Pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. 
**32.2
Certification by Chief Financial Officer Pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as Adopted Pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.       
 
 
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 Exhibit
Number
   
Description of Exhibit
* 101
The following materials from Tesoro Corporation’s Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2010, formatted in XBRL (Extensible Business Reporting Language): (i) Statements of Consolidated Operations, (ii) Consolidated Balance Sheets, (iii) Statements of Consolidated Comprehensive Income (Loss) and Stockholders’ Equity, (iv) Statements of Consolidated CashFlows, and (v) Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements, tagged as blocks of text. 
____________

Previously filed on March 1, 2011 as an exhibit to our original Annual Report on Form 10-K.
**
Filed herewith as part of this Amendment No. 1 on Form 10-K/A.
Confidential treatment has been granted for certain portions of this Exhibit pursuant to Rule 24b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, which portions have been omitted and filed separately with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
† 
Identifies management contracts or compensatory plans or arrangements required to be filed as an exhibit hereto pursuant to Item 14(a)(3) of Form 10-K.
   
 
In accordance with Rule 402 of Regulation S-T, the XBRL information in Exhibit 101 to this Annual Report on Form 10-K shall not be deemed to be filed for purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (Exchange Act), or otherwise subject to the liability of that section, and shall not be incorporated by reference into any registration statement or other document filed under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or the Exchange Act, except as shall be expressly set forth by specific reference in such filing.
 
Copies of exhibits filed as part of this Form 10-K may be obtained by stockholders of record at a charge of $0.15 per page, minimum $5.00 each request. Direct inquiries to the Corporate Secretary, Tesoro Corporation, 19100 Ridgewood Pkwy, San Antonio, Texas, 78259-1828.

 
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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.
 

 
       
 
TESORO CORPORATION
 
 
 
By:  
/s/ GREGORY J. GOFF
   
Gregory J. Goff
   
President and Chief Executive Officer
     (Principal Executive Officer)
Dated: April 20, 2011


 
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Exhibit 31.1

CERTIFICATION PURSUANT TO
SECTION 302 OF
THE SARBANES-OXLEY ACT OF 2002

I, Gregory J. Goff, certify that:

1. I have reviewed this Amendment No. 1 to the annual report on Form 10-K/A of Tesoro Corporation;

2. Based on my knowledge, this annual report does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements made, in light of the circumstances under which such statements were made, not misleading with respect to the period covered by this annual report;

3. Based on my knowledge, the financial statements, and other financial information included in this annual report, fairly present in all material respects the financial condition, results of operations and cash flows of the registrant as of, and for, the periods presented in this annual report;

4. The registrant’s other certifying officers and I are responsible for establishing and maintaining disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)) and internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(f) and 15(d)-15(f)) for the registrant and have:

a. Designed such disclosure controls and procedures, or caused such disclosure controls and procedures to be designed under our supervision, to ensure that material information relating to the registrant, including its consolidated subsidiaries, is made known to us by others within those entities, particularly during the period in which this annual report is being prepared;

b. Designed such internal control over financial reporting, or caused such internal control over financial reporting to be designed under our supervision, to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles;

c. Evaluated the effectiveness of the registrant’s disclosure controls and procedures and presented in this annual report our conclusions about the effectiveness of the disclosure controls and procedures, as of the end of the period covered by this annual report based on such evaluation; and

d. Disclosed in this annual report any change in the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the registrant’s most recent fiscal quarter (the registrant’s fourth fiscal quarter in the case of an annual report) that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting; and

5. The registrant’s other certifying officers and I have disclosed, based on our most recent evaluation of internal control over financial reporting, to the registrant’s auditors and the audit committee of the registrant’s board of directors (or persons performing the equivalent functions):

a. All significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design or operation of internal control over financial reporting which are reasonably likely to adversely affect the registrant’s ability to record, process, summarize and report financial information; and

b. Any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees who have a significant role in the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting.


 
 
By:  
/s/ GREGORY J. GOFF
   
Gregory J. Goff
   
 Chief Executive Officer
Date: April 20, 2011


 
 

 

Exhibit 31.2

CERTIFICATION PURSUANT TO
SECTION 302 OF
THE SARBANES-OXLEY ACT OF 2002

I, G. Scott Spendlove, certify that:

1. I have reviewed this Amendment No. 1 to the annual report on Form 10-K/A of Tesoro Corporation;

2. Based on my knowledge, this annual report does not contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements made, in light of the circumstances under which such statements were made, not misleading with respect to the period covered by this annual report;

3. Based on my knowledge, the financial statements, and other financial information included in this annual report, fairly present in all material respects the financial condition, results of operations and cash flows of the registrant as of, and for, the periods presented in this annual report;

4. The registrant’s other certifying officers and I are responsible for establishing and maintaining disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)) and internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Exchange Act Rules 13a-15(f) and 15(d)-15(f)) for the registrant and have:

a. Designed such disclosure controls and procedures, or caused such disclosure controls and procedures to be designed under our supervision, to ensure that material information relating to the registrant, including its consolidated subsidiaries, is made known to us by others within those entities, particularly during the period in which this annual report is being prepared;

b. Designed such internal control over financial reporting, or caused such internal control over financial reporting to be designed under our supervision, to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles;

c. Evaluated the effectiveness of the registrant’s disclosure controls and procedures and presented in this annual report our conclusions about the effectiveness of the disclosure controls and procedures, as of the end of the period covered by this annual report based on such evaluation; and

d. Disclosed in this annual report any change in the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting that occurred during the registrant’s most recent fiscal quarter (the registrant’s fourth fiscal quarter in the case of an annual report) that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting; and

5. The registrant’s other certifying officers and I have disclosed, based on our most recent evaluation of internal control over financial reporting, to the registrant’s auditors and the audit committee of the registrant’s board of directors (or persons performing the equivalent functions):

a. All significant deficiencies and material weaknesses in the design or operation of internal control over financial reporting which are reasonably likely to adversely affect the registrant’s ability to record, process, summarize and report financial information; and

b. Any fraud, whether or not material, that involves management or other employees who have a significant role in the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting.

 

 
 
By:  
/s/ G. SCOTT SPENDLOVE
   
G. Scott Spendlove 
   
 Chief Financial Officer
Date: April 20, 2011


 
 

 

Exhibit 32.1

CERTIFICATION PURSUANT TO
18 U.S.C. SECTION 1350,
AS ADOPTED PURSUANT TO
SECTION 906 OF THE SARBANES-OXLEY ACT OF 2002

In connection with Amendment No. 1 to the Annual Report of Tesoro Corporation (the “Company”) on Form 10-K/A for the year ended December 31, 2010 as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on the date hereof (the “Report”), I, Gregory J. Goff, Chief Executive Officer of the Company, certify, pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, that:

(1) The Report fully complies with the requirements of section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934; and

(2) The information contained in the Report fairly presents, in all material respects, the financial condition and results of operations of the Company.

 

 
 
 
/s/ GREGORY J. GOFF
   
Gregory J. Goff
   
 Chief Executive Officer
Date: April 20, 2011

A signed original of this written statement required by Section 906 has been provided to the Company and will be retained by the Company and furnished to the Securities and Exchange Commission or its staff upon request.

 
 

 

Exhibit 32.2

CERTIFICATION PURSUANT TO
18 U.S.C. SECTION 1350,
AS ADOPTED PURSUANT TO
SECTION 906 OF THE SARBANES-OXLEY ACT OF 2002

In connection with Amendment No. 1 to the Annual Report of Tesoro Corporation (the “Company”) on Form 10-K/A for the year ended December 31, 2010 as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on the date hereof (the “Report”), I, G. Scott Spendlove, Chief Financial Officer of the Company, certify, pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, that:

(1) The Report fully complies with the requirements of section 13(a) or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934; and

(2) The information contained in the Report fairly presents, in all material respects, the financial condition and results of operations of the Company.
 
 
 
 
 
/s/ G. SCOTT SPENDLOVE
   
G. Scott Spendlove 
   
Chief Financial Officer
Date: April 20, 2011

A signed original of this written statement required by Section 906 has been provided to the Company and will be retained by the Company and furnished to the Securities and Exchange Commission or its staff upon request.