Its various commercial brands for selling petroleum and gasoline products / fuel included Tydol, Flying A, and Veedol.

Tidewater does not have its own refinery, so it is dependent on base oil suppliers like HPCL and BPCL.

In 1966, Phillips Petroleum Company (now ConocoPhillips) purchased Tidewater's western refining, distribution and retailing network.

The Flying A brand continued to be used on the East Coast until 1970, when stations and products were renamed Getty.

In February 2011, BP offered to sell the Veedol brand, which was purchased that October by Tide Water India, part of the Andrew Yule and Company Indian subsidiary.