Motiva Enterprises, LLC is an American company that operates as a wholly owned US subsidiary of Saudi Aramco.
[3] The company began as a 50–50 joint venture between Shell Oil Company (the wholly owned US subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell) and Saudi Aramco (which had previously partnered with Texaco) in 1997.
[6][7] In 1997, Shell embarked on two joint ventures with Texaco in which the companies merged their marketing and refining operations.
[7] The operations in the western and midwestern United States were merged into a company called "Equilon".
Motiva's products include diesel, gasoline, liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), aviation fuel, and lubricants which it supplies to American states in the South, Mid-Atlantic, and the Northeast.