OUR HISTORY

• January 1991 - Al Gonzalez, through a long-standing relationship with the energy procurement office in Washington, D.C., lands a contract to supply military jet fuel to the government.
  
  
• March 1991 - Through the purchase of the Howell Hydrocarbons Refinery in San Antonio, Texas, Al Gonzalez Energy Marketing Company is formed.
  
  
• April 1992 - AGE Marketing came online at 4,500 BPD for a JP4 contract. This first year is tough, but Gonzalez is able to deliver on that jet contract.
  
  
• 1993 - Second year is good. AGE purchases 3 trucks to begin the venture of self-hauling.
  
  
• 1994 - A stellar year for AGE. Production of our JP4 increases to 35,000 gallons shipped each day. AGE pays its bills, its employees and manages to win some new business as well as improve the facility.
  
  
• 1994 - Fuel bases convert over to the present JP8 production, forcing AGE to consider other markets as the JP8 fuels did not require the same blend as the JP4.
  
  
• 1995 - Disaster strikes. The main Crude Unit suffers an extensive fire, and the company suffers. Thanks to 60 tireless employees and a courageous banker from The Money Store, AGE is back in business within 28 days. Company name is changed to AGE Refining, Inc.
  
  
• 1995-1999 - AGE steadily increases production through the crude unit to an average of about 8,000 BPD.
  
  
• 2000 - AGE makes a leap in production when the goal of operation was raised from 8,200 BPD to 9,000+ as the target.
  
  
• February 2001 - AGE lands two new multi-million dollar government contracts. The first is from the Defense Energy Support Center to supply jet fuel to Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio and Laughlin Air Force Base in Del Rio, Texas. The second contract is awarded to us by the VIA Metropolitan Transit of San Antonio to supply diesel to 450 of the transit authority's busses.
  
  
• 2001 - Production goal increases to 9,500 BPD. The refinery also conducts a major overhaul of its tank farms; over half of the production tanks are repaired or re-constructed in order to provide continued service to the operation.
  
  
• March 2001 - AGE secures a two-year multi-million dollar contract to supply jet fuel to the Air Force and NASA.
  
  
• October 2002 - Elmendorf Tankage is purchased to increase AGE's storage capacity to over 200,000 barrels and increase our blending operations.
  
  
• 2002 - AGE books sales of over $100 million and receives environmental approval to increase the facility's refining capacity.
  
  
• 2003 - Glen Gonzalez joins AGE Refining and the Company renews a commitment to the future of the business.
  
  
• 2004 - AGE overhauls its technical and engineering efforts. The result is greater efficiency and more profitability to the bottom line.
  
  
• 2005 - AGE is awarded a record-breaking JP8 contract of 50 million gallons.
  
  
• 2005 - In our ongoing commitment to the environment and progressive fuels, AGE introduces Biodiesel and AGE Low Emission Diesel.
  
  
• 2006 - AGE needs room to grow. San Antonio has a burgeoning downtown, and we’re proud to be a part of it. AGE relocates our corporate headquarters to 110 Broadway, a historically preserved landmark building.
  
  
• 2007 - AGE steps forward again with our commitment to the environment -- construction begins on a new Ultra Low Sulfur Diesel process unit.