Heritage
Nearly nine decades of energy leadership, from a 1938 national foundation to a name recognized across North America.
Enpramex × Pemex
Since 1938, the Pemex name has stood for independence, reliability and national pride in Mexican energy. Today that legacy crosses the border: Enpramex brings the Pemex brand to U.S. retail stations, pairing decades of recognition with American operators, American crews, and Enpramex’s own supply and logistics network.
Brand Heritage
A Name Customers Already Trust
Since 1938, the Pemex name has stood for independence, reliability and national pride in Mexican energy. Today that legacy crosses the border: Enpramex brings the Pemex brand to U.S. retail stations, pairing decades of recognition with American operators, American crews, and Enpramex’s own supply and logistics network.
Trust
Millions of drivers already know the name. Converting to Pemex means built-in brand recognition, not building it from zero.
Community
A familiar name on the corner and the highway, now backed by Enpramex’s U.S. supply, logistics and OPIS-indexed pricing.
How Pemex Works
Mexico’s national energy company, from wellhead to pump.
Petróleos Mexicanos (Pemex) was created on March 18, 1938, when Mexico nationalized its oil industry and placed it in the hands of a single state-owned company. Nearly nine decades later, Pemex remains one of the world’s largest integrated energy companies, operating the full value chain: exploring and producing crude oil and natural gas, refining it into fuels, and moving product through a national network of pipelines, storage terminals and tanker fleets.
That chain ends at the forecourt: more than 13,000 franchised Pemex-branded service stations across Mexico, run by independent operators who license the brand and buy the fuel behind it. It is exactly that operating model that Enpramex licenses and supplies for the U.S. market: a trusted national brand, franchised to local operators, backed by dedicated supply.
- State-owned since the 1938 oil expropriation
- Integrated: upstream, refining, logistics & retail
- 13,000+ franchised stations across Mexico
- U.S. brand licensing supplied by Enpramex
1938
National foundation by expropriation decree13,000+
Pemex-branded stations in MexicoWell to pump
Fully integrated value chain
Pemex operations
Eight decades of energy, refined.
From offshore platforms in the Gulf of Campeche to refineries, pipelines and terminals across Mexico, this is the industrial scale behind the brand on the canopy.
The Pemex value chain
How the fuel reaches the forecourt.
Every liter sold under the Pemex brand travels one integrated chain, and understanding that chain is understanding why the brand carries the trust it does.
Exploration & production
Refining & processing
Pipelines & terminals
Franchised retail
U.S. licensed stations
Exploration & Production
Pemex produces crude oil and natural gas from fields led by the shallow-water Gulf of Campeche, the origin of every barrel in the chain.
Refining & Processing
A national refining system (including the Deer Park refinery in Houston, Texas) turns that crude into gasoline, diesel, jet fuel and petrochemicals.
Pipelines & Terminals
Thousands of kilometers of pipelines, storage terminals and tanker fleets move finished product from the refinery gate to every region Pemex serves.
Shared history
From national symbol to cross-border brand.
Pemex and Enpramex grew up on opposite sides of the same border: one as Mexico’s national energy company, the other as a Houston-based trader built on the U.S. Gulf Coast. The licensed retail partnership brings those two stories together at the pump.
- 1938Mexico nationalizes its oil industry; Petróleos Mexicanos is born and becomes a symbol of national sovereignty.
- 1979Enpramex is founded in Houston, Texas, building the U.S. trading and logistics platform that powers the partnership today.
- 1992Pemex reorganizes into specialized business lines spanning exploration, refining and distribution.
- 2014Mexico’s energy reform opens fuel retail to competition, and the Pemex franchise model proves the strength of the brand.
- 2026Enpramex brings Pemex-branded retail to the United States under license, backed by its own supply and logistics network.
Branded (Pemex)
Convert to a full-service Pemex-branded station: iconic identity, dedicated supply, and marketing support, with no franchise fee.
Converting to the Pemex brand brings the iconic Pemex visual identity, signage, uniforms, and point-of-sale systems engineered for the corner station, along with a loyalty and rewards program, ongoing marketing support, and dedicated supply at OPIS rack pricing.
There is no franchise fee. Conversion costs are scoped per site and can be financed. Standard term agreements run 7 to 10 years, with flexibility on volume and exit terms for multi-site partners. Operators can keep their existing convenience-store or food-brand concept; Enpramex supports it, doesn’t replace it.
- No franchise fee to convert
- Dedicated OPIS rack-priced supply
- Keep your convenience-store brand
Prefer to keep your own brand?
Independent operators can keep their own identity and buy wholesale instead, with transparent OPIS-indexed pricing.
See Unbranded WholesaleLet’s move energy, together.
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