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Our products and services help to support a lifestyle that's the envy of the world and keep the Australian economy strong and growing.

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Our outback sites and depots bring comfort, cheer and vital products and services to large numbers of travellers, remote communities and regional suppliers.

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On top of all this we're Australia's second biggest corporate taxpayer contributing over $6 billion a year to the public purse through excise and other tax collections.

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Customers at Caltex service station filling up with fuel

Keeping Australia moving with sales of over 7 billion litres of petrol a year Caltex supplies around 37 per cent of the domestic petrol market.

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Cover story: Keeping Australia moving, the Caltex contribution

Cover story: Keeping Australia moving, the Caltex contribution

Refining Engineering Manager Fran van Reyk plays a pivotal role in ensuring Caltex’s refineries keep operating.

Most people know that as the nation's biggest oil refiner and marketer Caltex produces and sells petrol, diesel, jet and other fuels in huge quantities.

"The outback sites and depots bring comfort, cheer and vital products to thousands of people across the continent"

Each year we supply around 11 billion litres of transport fuels to the market from our refineries and 140 million litres of lubricants and process oils from our lube oil refinery. Another three billion litres of sales come from imports or other Australian refineries. Other essential products come directly from the refining processes: bitumen, gases, waxes, chemicals and more.

Yet Caltex's contribution to Australia is even greater than that. Our products and services help to support a lifestyle that's the envy of the world and keep the Australian economy strong and growing. So significant is our contribution, in fact, that the net value of the services, jobs and community support we provide is more than can be easily calculated.

Consider this. Through our offices, terminals, resellers and service station sites we provide flexible employment opportunities to thousands of people across the country.

Through our franchise operations we offer strong small business opportunities to hundreds of entrepreneurs. Our outback sites and depots bring comfort, cheer and vital products and services to large numbers of travellers, remote communities and regional suppliers. By serving the needs of power generation customers with fuels and lubricants, we help keep the lights on in our cities and towns. We are deeply engaged with our communities and chosen charities.

On top of all this we're Australia's second biggest corporate taxpayer contributing over $6 billion a year to the public purse through excise and other tax collections.

Naturally it's the people who keep the whole system flourishing. The Star invites you to meet some of them in the stories that follow. We hope you enjoy these behind-the-scenes insights into a typical day in the life of Caltex Australia.