Release Date: February 2008
Next Release Date: February 2009 

• Findings
• Oil and Gas Production
• Petroleum Refining
• Branded Retail Outlets
  & Gasoline Sales
• Costs Incurred &
  Capital Expenditures
• Electric Power
  Generation Capacity
• Uranium Production
• Coal Production
• Shares of U.S. Totals
• Net FDI Capital Flows

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Branded Retail Outlets and Gasoline Sales

The volume of gasoline sales by and, especially, the number of branded retail outlets associated with FDI-affiliate companies in the United States both declined in 2005. The decrease in branded outlets was largely due to the continued reduction of outlets by subsidiaries of BP and Royal Dutch Shell.  (The latter may also include outlets of an FDI affiliate owned jointly by Shell and Saudi Arabian Oil.)  No FDI affiliate increased its number of retail outlets in 2005.  In addition, FDI affiliates of Alon (Israel), Lukoil (Russia), and Alimentation Couche-Tard (Canada) had smaller but notable declines in their number of outlets.  The volume of gasoline sales by FDI-affiliate outlets fell, counter to the increase in total U.S. gasoline.  However, the sales decline was less than the reduction of FDI outlets, as affiliates terminated, closed, or sold their less productive stations.

Branded Retail Outlets and Total Gasoline Sales in the United States by FDI-Affiliate Companies,   2003 - 2005
Foreign Parent - FDI Affiliate	2003	2004	2005	2004 - 2005 Percent Change
	Number of Outletsa
Petróleos de Venezuela (PDV) - CITGO Petroleum	13,844	13,694	13,682	-0.1
Royal Dutch/Shell & Saudi Arabian Oil - Motiva Enterprisesb	18,279	15,821	13,500	-14.7
Royal Dutch/Shell - Shell Oil Products USb
BP - BP America	14,700	14,200	12,800	-9.9
Ito-Yokado & Seven-Eleven Japan - 7-Eleven	E2,100	E2,100	E2,100	0.0
Lukoil - Getty Petroleum Marketing	R1,313	R2,055	1,965	-4.4
Alimentation Couche-Tard - variousc	441	1,865	1,775	-4.8
Alon - Alon USA Energy	1,375	1,300	1,200	-7.7
Delek - Delek US Holdings	243	415	399	-3.9
Suncor Energy - Suncor Energy (U.S.A.)	207	207	207	0.0
Total FDI-Affiliate Companies	R52,502	R51,657	47,628	-7.8
Total United States	167,346	168,987	167,476	-0.9
Percent FDI-Affiliate Companies	31.4	30.6	28.4	- -
	Total Gasoline Sales (Thousand Barrels per Day)
Total FDI-Affiliate Companies	2,914	2,900	2,845	-1.9
Total United States	8,832	8,865	9,011	1.7
Percent FDI-Affiliate Companies	33.0	32.7	31.6	- -
aIncludes company-owned and independent-dealer (jobbers) branded outlets.
bStation count of Motiva Enterprises and Shell Oil Products US reported together.
cDuring  April 2003 - 2005.
Notes:  - = No data reported.  - - = Not applicable.  E = Estimated data.  NM = Not meaningful, R = Revised data.  The U.S. total number of outlets includes all establishments selling gasoline at retail.  Total gasoline sales are by "Prime Suppliers."  Components may not add to totals because of independent rounding.  Calculations performed with unrounded data.
Sources:  Company Station Counts and U.S. Total Stations:  National Petroleum News, Market Facts 2005 (Mid-July 2005), and previous issues, and company documents.  FDI-Affiliate Sales:  Energy Information Administration, Form EIA-782C, "Monthly Report of Prime Supplier Sales of Petroleum Products Sold for Local Consumption."  U.S. Total Sales:  Energy Information Administration, Petroleum Marketing Annual 2005, DOE/EIA-0487(2005) (Washington, DC, August 2006), Table 48, and previous issues.