Gull Petroleum was founded by Keith Mitchell, Mark Quackenbush, and Terry Lockwood in 1976.

The strategic naming of Gull helped to bring familiarity and trust in the Western Australian oil and gas market place.

It was during the early expansion of Gull when the team were looking to take over Gingers Roadhouse that they met the real estate agent Fred Rae.

Rae was so impressed with Gull Petroleum's expansion and its future plans that he asked to buy into the company in 1978.

[3] In December 2010, Rae sold the 98 Gull service station network in Western Australia to Archer Capital, which was then rolled into Archer's Ausfuel business, which also includes Choice Petroleum and Peak Petroleum.