UPDATE: Hess to Stay Open
The company will instead focus on oil production and exploration.
Update: A Hess spokesman says that the Associated Press report was erroneous.
Original story: Hess has announced it's closing its gas stations and will focus on “exploration and production,” according to media sources on Monday.
Recently, Elliott Management, one of the company’s largest shareholders, "accused the board of ‘poor oversight,’ and said that the company’s management was responsible for more than a ‘decade of failures,’” reported the Associated Press.
Hess will close its gas stations, including it's Broadway location in Malden, and focus on other parts of the business, including oil exploration and production.
Many of the stations are owned by Hess rather than franchises, reported AP.
Marc Levine
7:43 am on Tuesday, March 5, 2013
too bad...a brand name and a fair price. maybe Irving will come down here
Greg
10:22 am on Tuesday, March 5, 2013
Broadway and Eastern would be a good place for Irving.
Lesley Zajac
10:46 am on Tuesday, March 5, 2013
I understand they are also closing their refinery-the only one left on the east coast-what is this going to do to the price of oil?
Greg
10:50 am on Tuesday, March 5, 2013
Whatever OPEC wants to do with the prices, just as they have always done. Who's fault do you think it is the prices are where they are now. They have the world by the balls, and nobody does anything about it.