Direct Fuels FACT SHEET
Company
Insight Equity Acquisition Partners, LP (dba Direct Fuels)
12625 Calloway Cemetery Road
Euless, Texas 76040
Web Site: www.dfuels.com
Business
Independent regional fuel distributor and specialty refiner
Summary
Direct Fuels is the largest independent regional fuel distributor and specialty
processer in North Texas, and is ranked as the seventh largest private company in Tarrant County, Texas. The company operates an onsite fuel processing facility which recycles transportation mixture (transmix) back into various types and grades of usable fuel. Also expanding as a "green" refiner, Direct Fuels specializes in the production of biodiesel, and operates the region’s first dedicated ethanol terminal. The company sells its petroleum products across its own truck rack in Euless as well as at two fuel terminals owned by third parties in Southlake and Singleton in the Metroplex area. Ethanol is delivered across a dedicated truck rack, also in Euless.
Revenue
$485 million
Founded
1997
Employees
Approximately 50
Management
Chairman of Direct Fuels and Chief Executive Officer and managing partner of Insight Equity Holdings, LLC
Founding partner of Insight Equity Holdings
LLC and Managing Director of Direct Fuels
President and Chief Executive Officer
Chief Financial Officer
Vice President of Terminal Operations
Director of Terminal/Pipeline Fuel Operations
General Manager of Biodiesel
Ownership
Principals of Insight Equity and Najeti Ventures since 2003. Kayne Anderson Energy Development (NYSE: KED) since 2007
Locations
Owns and operates 2 full-service terminals in Euless, Texas (Central Dallas / Fort Worth). One is dedicated to Ethanol and the other sells various types and grade of refined petroleum products. Throughput agreements in place at terminals in Southlake and Dallas, Texas
Customers
Unbranded fuel retailers and distributors to commercial accounts
Products
Operates an on-site transmix fuel processing plant in order to recycle petroleum products that do not meet specification back into usable products.
Operates the largest dedicated ethanol terminal in the Dallas-Fort Worth area and has storage capacity for up to 110,000 barrels of ethanol. Connected via dedicated pipeline to a facility owned by US Development that can receive unit trains of up to 84 rail cars of ethanol.
Operates one of two biodiesel facilities in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. Annual capacity of 10 million gallons.
Media Contact
Jennifer Green
Michael A. Burns & Associates Inc.
Phone: 214-521-8596 x225
Email: jgreen@mbapr.com
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