About ARCO
There is a heritage and history behind ARCO that is now a part of the American traveler’s landscape. Since the early 1970s, we have found ways to operate efficiently so that we can pass savings on to you at the pump. With a firm focus on our low-price objective, we are still committed to offering good quality gasoline, so that your vehicle performs efficiently. Indeed, good gas at a good price. More than 1,300 ARCO-branded sites currently operate in five western states: California, Nevada, Oregon, Washington and Arizona. Parent company, BP markets more than 15 billion gallons of gasoline every year to U.S. consumers through 11,000 retail outlets.
Some notable dates
| 1982: | ARCO ends credit card sales. | |
| 1984: | ARCO becomes leading gasoline marketer in the West. | |
| 1989: | ARCO introduces EC-1 Regular, the nation's first environmentally engineered fuel. | |
| 1991: | ARCO's emission-control gasolines are credited with removing over 100 million pounds of pollutants from Southern California air. | |
| 1994: | ARCO's Los Angeles refinery completed modifications to meet federal Clean Air Act requirements for gasoline and stationary emissions. | |
| ARCO cost reduction program announced with $400 million in annual savings (compared to 1993) by 1996. | ||
| 1995: | ARCO introduces the PayQuick® system, enabling customers to pay cash at the pump. | |
| 2000: | BP acquires ARCO. |
