TESORO PETROLEUM CORP /NEW/
10-K, 1997-03-24
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                UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                             WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549
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                                   FORM 10-K
 
(MARK ONE)
[X]           ANNUAL REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE
                        SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
                  FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDED DECEMBER 31, 1996
 
                                       OR
[ ]         TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE
                        SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
 
               FOR THE TRANSITION PERIOD FROM . . . . TO . . . .
 
COMMISSION FILE NUMBER 1-3473
                          TESORO PETROLEUM CORPORATION
             (Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in its Charter)
 
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                   DELAWARE                                      95-0862768
       (State or Other Jurisdiction of                        (I.R.S. Employer
        Incorporation or Organization)                      Identification No.)
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                8700 TESORO DRIVE, SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS 78217-6218
              (Address of Principal Executive Offices) (Zip Code)
 
              REGISTRANT'S TELEPHONE NUMBER, INCLUDING AREA CODE:
                                  210-828-8484
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          SECURITIES REGISTERED PURSUANT TO SECTION 12(b) OF THE ACT:
 
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             TITLE OF EACH CLASS                            ON WHICH REGISTERED
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       Common Stock, $.16 2/3 par value                   New York Stock Exchange
                                                           Pacific Stock Exchange
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        SECURITIES REGISTERED PURSUANT TO SECTION 12(G) OF THE ACT: None
 
     Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports
required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of
1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the
registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such
filing requirements for the past 90 days. Yes  [X]     No  [ ]
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     Indicate by check mark if disclosure of delinquent filers pursuant to Item
405 of Regulation S-K is not contained herein, and will not be contained, to the
best of registrant's knowledge, in definitive proxy or information statements
incorporated by reference in Part III of this Form 10-K or any amendment to this
Form 10-K.  [ ]
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     At February 28, 1997, the aggregate market value of the voting stock held
by nonaffiliates of the registrant was approximately $283,905,638 based upon the
closing price of its shares on the New York Stock Exchange Composite tape. At
February 28, 1997, there were 26,426,333 shares of the registrant's Common Stock
outstanding.
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                      DOCUMENTS INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE
 
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Proxy Statement for 1997 Annual Meeting                        Part III
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                          TESORO PETROLEUM CORPORATION
 
                           ANNUAL REPORT ON FORM 10-K
 
                               TABLE OF CONTENTS
 
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                                   PART I
Item 1.   Business....................................................    3
            Refining and Marketing....................................    3
            Exploration and Production................................    6
            Marine Services...........................................   12
            Competition and Other.....................................   13
            Government Regulation and Legislation.....................   14
            Employees.................................................   17
            Executive Officers of the Registrant......................   18
Item 2.   Properties..................................................   19
Item 3.   Legal Proceedings...........................................   19
Item 4.   Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders.........   19
 
                                  PART II
Item 5.   Market for Registrant's Common Equity and Related
            Stockholder Matters.......................................   20
Item 6.   Selected Financial Data.....................................   21
Item 7.   Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition
            and Results of Operations.................................   23
Item 8.   Financial Statements and Supplementary Data.................   38
Item 9.   Changes in and Disagreements with Accountants on Accounting
            and Financial Disclosure..................................   69
 
                                  PART III
Item 10.  Directors and Executive Officers of the Registrant..........   69
Item 11.  Executive Compensation......................................   69
Item 12.  Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and
            Management................................................   69
Item 13.  Certain Relationships and Related Transactions..............   69
 
                                  PART IV
Item 14.  Exhibits, Financial Statement Schedules, and Reports on Form
            8-K.......................................................   69
SIGNATURES............................................................   75
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THIS ANNUAL REPORT CONTAINS STATEMENTS WITH RESPECT TO THE COMPANY'S
EXPECTATIONS OR BELIEFS AS TO FUTURE EVENTS. THESE TYPES OF STATEMENTS ARE
FORWARD-LOOKING AND SUBJECT TO UNCERTAINTIES. SEE "FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS"
ON PAGE 36.
 
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                                     PART I
 
ITEM 1.  BUSINESS
 
     Tesoro Petroleum Corporation, together with its subsidiaries ("Tesoro" or
the "Company"), is a natural resource company engaged primarily in petroleum
refining and marketing, natural gas exploration and production, marketing and
distributing of petroleum products and providing marine logistics services. The
Company was incorporated in Delaware in 1968 (a successor by merger to a
California corporation incorporated in 1939). For financial information relating
to industry segments, see Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial
Condition and Results of Operations in Item 7 and Note B of Notes to
Consolidated Financial Statements in Item 8.
 
REFINING AND MARKETING
 
OVERVIEW
 
     The Company conducts petroleum refining operations in Alaska and sells
refined products to a wide variety of customers in Alaska, along the U.S. West
Coast, in the Pacific Northwest and in certain Far Eastern markets, including
Russia. During 1996, products from the Company's refinery accounted for
approximately 79% of these sale volumes, including products received on exchange
in the U.S. West Coast market, with the remaining 21% being purchased from other
refiners and suppliers. The Company's purchases from other refiners and
suppliers declined in 1996 as the Company withdrew from certain California
markets which is further discussed below.
 
     The Company's refinery, which is located in Kenai, Alaska, has a rated
throughput capacity of 72,000 barrels per day and is capable of producing
liquefied petroleum gas, gasoline, jet fuel, diesel fuel, heating oil, heavy
oils and residual products. Alaska North Slope ("ANS") and Cook Inlet crude oils
are the primary feedstocks for the refinery. To assure the availability of crude
oil to the refinery, the Company has a royalty crude oil purchase contract with
the State of Alaska ("State") (see "Crude Oil Supply" discussed below). During
1996, the refinery processed approximately 72% ANS crude oil, 25% Cook Inlet
crude oil and 3% other refinery feedstocks, which yielded refined products
consisting of approximately 26% gasoline, 41% middle distillates, 28% heavy oils
and residual products and 5% other products.
 
CRUDE OIL SUPPLY
 
     The refinery is designed to process crude oil with up to 1.0% sulphur
content. As such, the refinery can process Cook Inlet, ANS and certain foreign
crude oils.
 
     ANS Crude Oil. ANS crude oil is a heavy crude oil which contains an average
of 1.0% sulphur. In 1996, approximately 72% of the refinery's feedstock was ANS
crude oil, of which approximately 39,200 barrels per day were purchased under a
royalty crude oil purchase contract with the State. The contract with the State,
which covers the period January 1, 1996 through December 31, 1998, provides for
the purchase of approximately 40,000 barrels per day of ANS royalty crude oil
and is priced based on royalty values computed by the State. Under the contract,
the Company is required to utilize in its refinery operations volumes equal to
at least 80% of the ANS crude oil to be purchased from the State. This contract
contains provisions that, under certain conditions, allow the Company to
temporarily or permanently reduce its purchase obligation.
 
     All ANS crude oil feedstock is delivered to the refinery by tanker through
the Kenai Pipe Line Company ("KPL") marine terminal which the Company purchased
in early 1995.
 
     For information related to settlement of a contractual dispute with the
State in 1993, see Note I of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements in Item
8.
 
     Cook Inlet Crude Oil. Cook Inlet crude oil, a lighter crude oil that
contains an average of .1% sulphur, accounted for approximately 25% of the
refinery's feedstock supply in 1996. The Company obtains Cook Inlet crude oil
from several producers on the Kenai Peninsula under short-term contracts. Cook
Inlet crude oil is
 
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delivered by tanker through the Company's KPL marine terminal or through an
existing pipeline to the refinery.
 
     Other Supply. In 1996, the Company's refinery obtained approximately 3% of
its feedstock supply from other sources. The other supply consisted of heavy
atmospheric gas oil ("HAGO") and foreign crude oil. The HAGO feedstock was
purchased from a local competitor's refinery and from a U.S. West Coast refinery
under short-term contracts. HAGO is a refinery by-product which generates
various light refined products with no residual fuel oil. Foreign crude oil,
purchased in spot quantities, is delivered to the refinery by tanker through the
Company's KPL marine terminal. The Company evaluates the economic viability of
processing foreign crude oil in its refinery and will occasionally purchase spot
quantities to supplement its normal crude oil supply. During 1996, the Company
imported its first cargo of crude oil from Russia.
 
REFINING AND MARKETING ACTIVITIES
 
     The following table summarizes the Company's refining and marketing
operations:
 
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                                                             YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31,
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Refinery Throughput (average daily barrels)...............  47,486    50,569    46,032
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Refinery Production (average daily barrels):
  Gasoline................................................  12,763    14,298    11,728
  Middle distillates, including jet fuel and diesel
     fuel.................................................  19,975    20,693    18,402
  Heavy oils and residual products........................  13,739    14,516    15,118
  Other...................................................   2,600     2,489     2,213
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          Total Refinery Production.......................  49,077    51,996    47,461
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Product Sales (average daily barrels):
  Gasoline................................................  17,427    24,526    23,191
  Middle distillates......................................  29,651    37,988    33,256
  Heavy oils and residual products........................  15,089    14,787    14,228
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          Total Product Sales.............................  62,167    77,301    70,675
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Product Sales Prices ($/barrel):
  Gasoline................................................  $32.72     28.21     27.03
  Middle distillates......................................  $29.01     24.40     24.47
  Heavy oils and residual products........................  $17.61     13.66     10.93
Number of Marketing Outlets Selling the Company's
  Gasoline(1):
  Alaska --
     7-Eleven convenience stores (Company-operated).......      33        32        32
     Branded stations.....................................     126        99        90
     Unbranded stations...................................      29        28        24
  Pacific Northwest -- branded stations...................      18        10        --
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     Total Locations......................................     206       169       146
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(1) Branded gasoline outlets sell the Company's gasoline under the "Tesoro
    Alaska" name. Outlets that sell the Company's gasoline under a different
    name are considered unbranded.
 
     The Company's refinery production was reduced in September 1996 for a
scheduled 30-day maintenance downtime. During the maintenance period, the
hydrocracker catalyst was replaced and, beginning in the fourth quarter of 1996,
the Company was able to produce higher volumes of jet fuel, which better matches
the Company's production with demand in Alaska. To further improve the
refinery's feedstock and product slate, the Company intends to modify the
refinery hydrocracker during 1997 at an estimated cost of $17 million. In
conjunction with the modification and other initiatives, a refinery downtime of
approximately 30 days is anticipated during 1997.
 
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ALASKA MARKETING
 
     Gasoline. The Company distributes gasoline to end users in Alaska, either
by retail sales through its 7-Eleven convenience store locations, by wholesale
sales through 126 branded and 29 unbranded dealers and jobbers or by deliveries
to major oil companies for their retail operations in Alaska in exchange for
gasoline delivered to the Company on the U.S. West Coast. In 1996, the Company
continued implementing initiatives to increase the Company's share of gasoline
sales in Alaska and added 31 stations to its marketing network, including its
initial expansion into Southeast Alaska with nine locations. Two uneconomic
outlets were closed in 1996. The Company holds an exclusive license agreement
for all 7-Eleven convenience stores in Alaska and operates such stores in 36
locations, 33 of which sell Company-branded gasoline. During 1996, these
convenience stores sold an average of 53,000 gallons of gasoline per day.
Gasoline produced in excess of Alaska's market demand is shipped to the U.S.
West Coast or exported to the Far East by chartered vessel.
 
     Middle Distillates. The Company is a major supplier of commercial jet fuel
into the Alaskan marketplace, with all of its production being marketed in
Alaska to passenger and cargo airlines. The demand for jet fuel in Alaska
currently exceeds the production of all refiners in Alaska, and several
marketers, including the Company, import jet fuel into Alaska to meet excess
demand. Substantially all of the Company's diesel fuel production is sold on a
wholesale basis in Alaska primarily for marine and industrial purposes.
Generally, the production of diesel fuel by refiners in Alaska is in balance
with demand; however, because of the high variability of the demand, there are
occasions when diesel fuel is imported into or exported from Alaska. See
"Government Regulation and Legislation -- Environmental Controls" for a
discussion of the effect of governmental regulations on the production of
low-sulphur diesel fuel for on-highway use in Alaska.
 
     Heavy Oils and Residual Products. The refinery's vacuum unit uses residual
fuel oil as a feedstock by further processing these volumes into light vacuum
gas oil ("LVGO"), heavy vacuum gas oil ("HVGO") and vacuum tower bottoms
("VTB"). The LVGO is further processed in the refinery's hydrocracker, where it
is converted into gasoline and jet fuel. HVGO is sold to refiners on the U.S.
West Coast, where it is used as a catalytic hydrocracker feedstock, while the
VTBs are generally sold on the U.S. West Coast where they are blended with light
cycle oil to produce bunker fuel.
 
     In 1996, the Company began producing liquid asphalt, a heavy product left
after petroleum is refined into gasoline and other products. Liquid asphalt,
which is used in the manufacturing of concrete asphalt for paving, was sold to
customers in Alaska and California. This product is seasonal in the Alaska
market due to mild weather conditions needed for highway construction.
 
U.S. WEST COAST AND PACIFIC NORTHWEST MARKETING
 
     In 1996, the Company conducted wholesale marketing operations, primarily in
Oregon and Washington, selling refined products in the bulk market and through
nine terminal facilities, including four owned by the Company during the year.
To a lesser extent, the Company sold refined products through numerous other
terminals to facilitate disposal of inventories in California. In 1996, these
operations sold approximately 14,000 barrels per day of refined products,
primarily gasoline and diesel fuel, of which approximately 19% was received from
major oil companies in exchange for products from the Company's refinery,
approximately 13% was received directly from the refinery and 68% was purchased
from other suppliers.
 
     In 1996, the Company expanded its retail presence in the Pacific Northwest
by adding eight branded stations. At year-end 1996, the Company had 18 branded
gasoline distributors in Oregon and Washington. The Company will continue to
sell refined products in the Pacific Northwest through branded stations in
addition to six terminal facilities, one of which is owned by the Company.
 
     Due to market conditions, the Company withdrew from certain West Coast
markets and initiated a plan to sell its three Company-owned facilities in
California. One of these facilities was sold in December 1996 and two facilities
remain for sale at year-end.
 
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TRANSPORTATION
 
     The Company charters an American flag vessel, the Potomac Trader, whose
primary use is to transport ANS crude oil from the Trans Alaska Pipeline System
("TAPS") terminal at Valdez, Alaska to the Company's refinery. The Company
charters another American flag vessel, the Chesapeake Trader, which is used
primarily to transport heavy oils and residual products to the U.S. West Coast
and occasionally to transport feedstocks to the Company's refinery. The Potomac
Trader and Chesapeake Trader are chartered under five-year agreements expiring
in 2000. Under an agreement expiring in June 1997, the Company charters a
Russian flag vessel, the Igrim, which is used primarily to transport refined
products from the Company's refinery to the Far East. The Company plans to
continue marketing its products in the Far East and is evaluating transportation
alternatives. From time to time, the Company also charters tankers and
ocean-going barges to transport petroleum products to its customers within
Alaska, on the U.S. West Coast and in the Far East.
 
     The Company operates a common carrier petroleum products pipeline from the
Company's refinery to its terminal in Anchorage. This ten-inch diameter pipeline
has a capacity to transport approximately 40,000 barrels of petroleum products
per day and allows the Company to transport light products to the terminal
throughout the year, regardless of weather conditions. During 1996, the pipeline
transported an average of approximately 22,000 barrels of petroleum products per
day, all of which were transported for the Company.
 
     The Company's subsidiary, KPL, is a common carrier pipeline and marine dock
facility. By owning this facility, the Company is assured of uninterrupted use
of the dock and pipeline for unloading crude oil feedstocks and loading product
inventory on tankers and barges. During 1996, KPL transported approximately
47,200 barrels of crude oil per day and 34,100 barrels of refined products per
day, all of which were transported for the Company.
 
     For further information on transportation in Alaska, see "Government
Regulation and Legislation -- Environmental Controls."
 
EXPLORATION AND PRODUCTION
 
OVERVIEW
 
     The Exploration and Production segment is engaged in the exploration,
development and production of natural gas and oil, primarily in the Wilcox Trend
in South Texas and the Chaco Basin in Bolivia. In the U.S., the Company's focus
has recently shifted outside of the maturing Bob West Field in South Texas to
other areas. During 1996 and early 1997, the Exploration and Production segment
purchased interests in the Frio/Vicksburg Trend adjacent to the Wilcox Trend in
South Texas, the Cotton Valley Pinnacle Reef Play in East Texas and the Val
Verde Basin in Southwest Texas. This segment also includes the transportation of
natural gas, including the Company's production, to common carrier pipelines in
the South Texas area. In Bolivia, the Company operates through two contracts
with the Bolivian government to explore for and produce hydrocarbons. The
Company's Bolivian gas production is sold under contract to the Bolivian
government for export to Argentina. The majority of the Company's Bolivian
natural gas and oil reserves are shut-in awaiting access to gas-consuming
markets which is expected to be provided by a 1,900-mile pipeline from Bolivia
to Brazil. The pipeline is scheduled to begin construction in late 1997, with
first gas deliveries expected in 1999.
 
UNITED STATES
 
     Bob West Field. The Bob West Field, which was discovered by the Company in
1990, is located in the southern part of the Wilcox Trend in Starr and Zapata
counties, Texas. The Wilcox Trend extends from Northern Mexico through South
Texas into the other Gulf Coast states. Multiple pay sands exist within the
Wilcox Trend, where extensive faulting has trapped hydrocarbons in numerous
producing zones. Continued successful development of the Bob West Field led to
the completion of 12 gross development wells during 1996. One well was being
drilled at year-end and three additional well locations, all of which are
expected to be drilled during 1997, have been selected for further development
of this 4,000-acre field. During 1996, the
 
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Company's net production from the Bob West Field averaged approximately 82
million cubic feet ("Mmcf") per day.
 
     The Company's revenue interests in the Bob West Field range from 28% to 57%
and its working interests range from 33% to 70%. In addition, the Company owns a
70% interest in the field's central gas processing facility which has a capacity
of 350 Mmcf per day. The Company also owns 25% of a central compression
facility, rated at 10,000 horsepower with an estimated capacity of 150 Mmcf per
day, that was installed in the Bob West Field in late 1996. During the first two
months of operation, the Company's production in the Bob West Field increased by
approximately 9 Mmcf per day primarily as a result of the new compression
facility.
 
     Other Areas. In addition to the continued development of the Bob West
Field, during 1996 the Company also participated in the drilling of six
exploratory wells in other portions of the Wilcox Trend in South Texas, four of
which were successfully completed as producing wells.
 
     In December 1996, the Company purchased 25% to 50% interests in portions of
the Los Indios and La Reforma Fields, located in Hidalgo and Starr counties of
South Texas, for $15 million. The two fields are located in the Frio/Vicksburg
Trend, which lies immediately adjacent to the Wilcox Trend. The Company's
working interest covers 11,700 acres and the acquisition is over 90% natural
gas. The area is believed to have significant further development potential
beyond the current net production of 6 Mmcf equivalents ("Mmcfe") per day and
net proved reserves acquired of 20 billion cubic feet equivalents ("Bcfe"). The
acquisition includes recent three-dimensional seismic data covering nearly 50
square miles which will be used to exploit the remaining reserve potential of
the properties. Tesoro will jointly operate the fields with a private producer.
 
     During 1996, the Company also acquired interests in the Berry R. Cox and
the West Goliad Fields for a total of $5.4 million. Both fields are located in
South Texas in the Wilcox Trend. The acquisitions consisted of ten wells
producing at initial rates totaling 6.7 Mmcfe per day. Workovers and
recompletions have increased production to a total of 9.3 Mmcfe per day at
year-end. In January 1997, one exploratory well and one development well were
drilled and completed on these prospects and these wells are producing at a
combined rate of 5.5 Mmcfe per day.
 
     Also, in 1996, the Company purchased approximately 35,000 net undeveloped
acres for a total of $5.3 million. The acquired acreage is located in four
areas, the Cotton Valley Pinnacle Reef Play in East Texas, the Val Verde Basin
in Southwest Texas, the Frio/Vicksburg Trend in South Texas and the Wilcox Trend
in South Texas.
 
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     Reserves. The following table shows the estimated net proved reserves,
based on evaluations prepared by Netherland, Sewell & Associates, Inc., and
gross producing wells for each of the Company's U.S. fields as of December 31,
1996, compared with certain data at December 31, 1995:
 
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                                              VALUE OF                   NET PROVED GAS    NET PROVED GAS
                                               PROVED         GROSS         RESERVES          RESERVES
                                             RESERVES(1)    PRODUCTIVE   ---------------   ---------------
         FIELD            TEXAS COUNTIES    ($ THOUSANDS)     WELLS       BCFE       %      BCFE       %
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Bob West...............  Starr and Zapata      $  178,623       61         88.0      75%    100.0      94%
Los Indios.............  Hidalgo                   16,746       29         16.8       14       --       --
Lopeno.................  Zapata                     6,190        5          3.7        3      2.1        2
Berry R. Cox...........  Webb                       7,053        5          2.9        3       --       --
La Reforma.............  Starr and Hidalgo          5,092       12          2.8        2       --       --
West Goliad............  Goliad                     5,351        8          2.3        2       --       --
Other..................                             3,681       13          1.4        1      4.3        4
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                                               $  222,736      133        117.9     100%    106.4     100%
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(1) Represents the discounted future net cash flows before income taxes. See
    Note O of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements in Item 8 for
    additional information regarding the Company's proved reserves and
    standardized measure.
 
     Tennessee Gas Contract. In August 1996, the Supreme Court of Texas denied a
motion for rehearing by Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company ("Tennessee Gas") and
upheld all aspects of a Gas Purchase and Sales Agreement ("Tennessee Gas
Contract") which had been the subject of litigation since 1990. As provided for
in the Tennessee Gas Contract, the Company was selling a portion of the gas
produced from two 352-acre producing units in the Bob West Field pursuant to a
contract price ("Contract Price"). In 1996, approximately 12% of the Company's
total U.S. production was sold under the Tennessee Gas Contract at a Contract
Price that averaged $8.41 per thousand cubic feet ("Mcf"), representing 38% of
the Company's U.S. natural gas revenues for the year. In December 1996, the
Tennessee Gas Contract, which was to expire in January 1999, was terminated by
the parties effective October 1, 1996, and the Company began selling this gas on
the spot market. See Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition
and Results of Operations in Item 7 and Note D of Notes to Consolidated
Financial Statements in Item 8.
 
     Gas Gathering and Transportation. The Company owns a 70% interest in the
Starr County Gathering System which consists of two ten-inch diameter pipelines
and one twenty-inch diameter pipeline that transport natural gas eight miles
from the Bob West Field to common carrier pipeline facilities. In addition, the
Company owns a 50% interest in the twenty-inch diameter Starr-Zapata natural gas
pipeline that was constructed during 1994 to transport gas 26 miles from the
Starr County Gathering System to a market hub at Fandango, Texas. The Company
does not operate either facility. During 1996, the gross average daily
throughput was 205 Mmcf per day for the Starr County Gathering System and 173
Mmcf per day for the Starr-Zapata pipeline, with approximately 50% of the
throughput consisting of the Company's working interest share of Bob West Field
production. The Starr County Gathering System receives a transportation fee of
$.06 per Mcf and the Starr-Zapata Pipeline receives a fee of $.07 per Mcf for
volumes transported.
 
     For further information regarding the Company's U.S. operations, see Notes
B, C, N and O of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements in Item 8.
 
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  U.S. Operating Statistics
 
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Net Natural Gas Production (average daily Mcf)..............   87,654     114,490     83,796
Average Natural Gas Sales Price ($/Mcf):
  Spot market(1)............................................  $  1.95        1.34       1.48
  Tennessee Gas Contract(2).................................  $  8.41        8.41       7.93
  Weighted average..........................................  $  2.75        2.57       2.86
Average Operating Expenses ($/Mcfe):
  Lease operating expenses..................................  $   .14         .11        .11
  Severance taxes...........................................      .03         .18        .18
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     Total production costs.................................      .17         .29        .29
  Administrative support and other..........................      .10         .06        .08
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     Total operating expenses...............................  $   .27         .35        .37
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Depletion Rate ($/Mcfe).....................................  $   .79         .69        .79
Exploratory Wells Drilled:
  Productive -- Gross.......................................      4.0         5.0        3.0
  Productive -- Net.........................................      1.7         1.5        1.5
  Dry holes -- Gross........................................      2.0         4.0        2.0
  Dry holes -- Net..........................................      1.0         2.1        1.1
Development Wells Drilled:
  Productive -- Gross.......................................     15.0        17.0       20.0
  Productive -- Net.........................................      6.3         9.7       11.1
  Dry holes -- Gross........................................      1.0          --        1.0
  Dry holes -- Net..........................................       .5          --         .4
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Productive Gas Wells(3).....................................    133        61.0
Acreage (in thousands):
  Developed.................................................     27           9
  Undeveloped...............................................    109          46
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(1) Includes effects of the Company's natural gas price agreements which
    amounted to a loss of $.11 per Mcf in 1996 and a gain of $.01 per Mcf in
    1995 and 1994 (see Note N of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements in
    Item 8).
 
(2) See Note D of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements in Item 8 related
    to the Tennessee Gas Contract.
 
(3) Included in total productive wells are 8 gross (.4 net) wells with multiple
    completions. At January 31, 1997, the Company was participating in the
    drilling of 8 gross (3.7 net) wells.
 
(4) Mcfe is defined as net equivalent one thousand cubic feet.
 
BOLIVIA
 
     The Company's Bolivian exploration and production operations are located in
southern Bolivia near the border of Argentina, where the Company has discovered
six fields since 1976 with estimated net proved natural gas reserves of 253 Bcfe
at December 31, 1996. With gross average production of 55 Mmcfe per day in 1996,
Tesoro is one of the largest operators in Bolivia. The Company is the operator
of a joint venture that holds two Shared Risk Contracts with Yacimientos
Petroliferos Fiscales Bolivianos ("YPFB"), the Bolivian state-owned oil and gas
company.
 
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     Bolivian Hydrocarbons Law. In 1996, a new Hydrocarbons Law was passed by
the Bolivian government that significantly impacts the Company's operations in
Bolivia. The new law, among other matters, granted the Company the option to
convert its Contracts of Operation to new Shared Risk Contracts. During 1996,
the Company signed agreements to convert its Contracts of Operation to Shared
Risk Contracts subject to recision at the option of the Company if the Company
is not satisfied with modifications to the Bolivian fiscal law. The Company
expects to complete this conversion during the first half of 1997. The new
contracts extend the Company's term of operation, provide more favorable acreage
relinquishment terms and provide for a more favorable fiscal regime of royalties
and taxes. The new contracts will extend the term of the Company's operations
for Block 18 ten additional years to the year 2017. For Block 20, the new
contract extends the Company's term 21 additional years to the year 2029 for
acreage that is in the exploration phase of the contract, and 10 additional
years to the year 2018 for an area within Block 20 that is designated as being
in the development phase of the new contract. The new contract provisions, along
with a substantial discovery during 1996, significantly increased the Company's
reserves (see Note O of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements in Item 8).
 
     Access To New Markets. A lack of market access has constrained natural gas
production in Bolivia. With little internal gas demand, all of the Company's
Bolivian natural gas production is sold under contract to the Bolivian
government for export to Argentina. Major developments in South America indicate
that new markets may open for the Company's production in the near future.
Progress has been made toward construction of a new 1,900-mile pipeline that
will link Bolivia's extensive gas reserves with markets in Brazil. In early
1997, a contract to supply pipe for the project was awarded. Construction is
scheduled to start in late 1997, with first gas deliveries expected in 1999.
 
     Block 18. The Company has a 75% interest in a Shared Risk Contract, subject
to final conversion, expiring in 2017 and covering 92,625 acres in Block 18.
During 1996, the Company's net production from this block averaged 20.3 Mmcf of
gas per day and 584 barrels of condensate per day.
 
     The new contract for Block 18 provides that the Company and its joint
venture participant will continue to be subject to a 29% participation that was
stipulated in YPFB's favor in the old contract. In addition, income taxes and
taxes on gross revenues will be paid which are expected to equal 31% of Block 18
gross revenues, leaving the Company and its joint venture participant with 40%
of Block 18 revenues, after royalties and taxes. The aftertax effect of the new
contract is essentially the same as the old contract. The Company is currently
selling all of its natural gas production from the La Vertiente, Escondido and
Taiguati Fields in Block 18 to YPFB which in turn sells the natural gas to
Yacimientos Petroliferos Fiscales, S.A. ("YPF"), a publicly-held company based
in Argentina. During 1994, the contract between YPFB and YPF was extended
through March 31, 1997, maintaining approximately the same volumes as the
previous contract. YPFB and YPF are currently negotiating a two-year contract
extension through March 1999. Currently, the Company is selling its natural gas
production to YPFB based on the volume and pricing terms in the contract between
YPFB and YPF.
 
     Block 20. The Company has a 72.6% interest in a Shared Risk Contract,
subject to final conversion, expiring in 2029 and covering 787,313 acres in
Block 20. For Block 20, the Company and its joint venture participant will no
longer be required to pay a 19% royalty that had been required under the old
contract. Under the old contract, taxes on gross revenues were paid to the
national and local governments totaling 31% of gross revenues. Under the new
contract, a combination of income taxes and taxes on gross revenues are expected
to approximate the amount of taxes paid under the old contract. The Company is
investigating whether the Bolivian taxes can be treated as creditable for U.S.
tax purposes.
 
     During 1996, the Company drilled two discovery wells in Bolivia. The Palo
Marcado X-4 found gas in four zones and had a combined test flow rate of 19.1
Mmcf per day. The well will be reentered in 1997 to test a fifth, deeper zone
that may also bear hydrocarbons. The discovery added 65 Bcfe of net proved
reserves for Tesoro. In 1997, a three-dimensional seismic survey is planned for
the Palo Marcado structure, as well as the shut-in Los Suris Field. A second
discovery well, the Ibibobo X-2, found hydrocarbons in two zones and was the
Company's first oil discovery in the country. Additional three-dimensional
seismic work is required to
 
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identify appraisal drilling sites on this structure. Both discoveries, which are
shut-in due to a lack of market, are expected to be placed on production
following completion of the Bolivia-Brazil pipeline.
 
     Reserves. The table below shows the estimated net proved reserves, based on
evaluations prepared by Netherland, Sewell & Associates, Inc., and gross
productive wells for each of the Company's Bolivian fields as of December 31,
1996, compared with certain data at December 31, 1995. Each of the following
fields is operated by the Company:
 
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<CAPTION>
                                                       DECEMBER 31, 1996                            DECEMBER 31, 1995
                               -----------------------------------------------------------------   --------------------
                                                 NET PROVED RESERVES
                                            -----------------------------
                                               OIL        GAS                   PV-10 AFTER            PV-10 AFTER
                                 GROSS      (MILLIONS   (BILLION             BOLIVIAN TAXES(1)      BOLIVIAN TAXES(1)
                               PRODUCTIVE      OF        CUBIC     TOTAL    --------------------   --------------------
FIELD                  BLOCK     WELLS      BARRELS)     FEET)     (BCFE)   ($ THOUSANDS)    %     ($ THOUSANDS)    %
- -----                  -----   ----------   ---------   --------   ------   -------------   ----   -------------   ----
<S>                    <C>     <C>          <C>         <C>        <C>      <C>             <C>    <C>             <C>
Palo Marcado.........   20          2          1.5       101.7     110.5       $24,667       38%      $    --       --%
Escondido............   18          5          1.3        64.8      72.8        23,330        36       15,577        58
Los Suris............   20          2           .5        46.8      50.0        13,135        20        3,043        11
La Vertiente.........   18          5           .4        16.5      19.0         3,090         5        8,162        30
Taiguati.............   18          1           --          .7        .7           221         1          376         1
                                   --          ---       -----     -----       -------      ----      -------      ----
                                   15          3.7       230.5     253.0       $64,443      100%      $27,158      100%
                                   ==          ===       =====     =====       =======      ====      =======      ====
</TABLE>
 
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(1) Represents the after Bolivian tax discounted future net cash flows, which
    included an increase of $23 million at December 31, 1996 due to the
    anticipated completion of the Bolivia-Brazil pipeline. See Notes B and O of
    Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements in Item 8 for additional
    information regarding the Company's proved reserves and standardized
    measure.
 
     For further information regarding the Company's Bolivian operations, see
Notes B and O of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements in Item 8.
 
  Bolivia Operating Statistics
 
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<CAPTION>
                                                           YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31,
                                                         -----------------------------
                                                          1996       1995       1994
                                                         -------    -------    -------
<S>                                                      <C>        <C>        <C>
Net Production(1):
  Natural gas (average daily Mcf)......................   20,251     18,650     22,082
  Condensate (average barrels per day).................      584        567        733
Average Sales Price:
  Natural gas ($/Mcf)..................................  $  1.33       1.28       1.20
  Condensate ($/barrel)................................  $ 17.98      14.39      13.28
Average Operating Expenses ($/Mcfe):
  Production costs.....................................  $   .10        .07        .06
  Value-added taxes....................................      .05        .06        .10
  Administrative support and other.....................      .27        .35        .25
                                                         -------    -------    -------
          Total Operating Expenses.....................  $   .42        .48        .41
                                                         =======    =======    =======
Depletion Rate ($/Mcfe)................................  $   .15        .03         --
Exploratory Wells Drilled:
  Productive -- Gross..................................      2.0        1.0        1.0
  Productive -- Net....................................      1.5         .7         .7
  Dry Holes -- Gross...................................       --         --        1.0
  Dry Holes -- Net.....................................       --         --         .7
</TABLE>
 
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Bolivia Operating Statistics (Continued)
 
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                                                              DECEMBER 31, 1996
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                                                              GROSS        NET
                                                              -----        ----
<S>                                                           <C>          <C>
Productive Gas Wells(2).....................................    15         11.2
Acreage (in thousands):
  Developed.................................................    93           69
  Undeveloped...............................................   787          571
</TABLE>
 
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(1) Represents the Company's net production before Bolivian taxes, which were
    payable in-kind for the years presented.
 
(2) Included in total productive wells are 4 gross (3.0 net) wells with multiple
    completions. At December 31, 1996, the Company was participating in the
    drilling of 2 gross (1.5 net) wells.
 
WORLDWIDE RESERVE REPLACEMENT AND COSTS OF ADDING RESERVES
 
     In 1996, the Company's worldwide proved reserve additions included 113 Bcfe
from discoveries, extensions and domestic purchases of proved properties (65
Bcfe from Bolivia and 48 Bcfe domestically); 36 Bcfe from extensions in the
terms of the Company's Bolivian contracts and 62 Bcfe from other changes in the
Bolivian Hydrocarbons Law; less 4 Bcfe from revisions of previous estimates.
Excluding revisions, 211 Bcfe were added for a 517% replacement of 41 Bcfe of
production. Additions were realized with an 87.5% drilling success rate during
1996, reflecting a 94% success rate on 16 development wells and a 75% success
rate on 8 exploratory wells. The Company's three-year worldwide average cost of
adding these reserves was $.53 per Mcfe. Domestically, 48 Bcfe were added for a
151% replacement of 32 Bcfe of production. The three-year average cost of adding
domestic reserves was $.94 per Mcfe. See Note O of Notes to Consolidated
Financial Statements in Item 8.
 
MARINE SERVICES
 
OVERVIEW
 
     The Company's Marine Services segment markets and distributes a broad range
of products, including diesel fuel, lubricants, chemicals and supplies, and
provides logistical support services to the marine and offshore exploration and
production industries operating in the Gulf of Mexico through a network of 20
terminals. These deep water marine terminals are located on the Texas Gulf Coast
in Galveston, Freeport, Harbor Island, Port O'Connor, Ingleside and Sabine Pass.
The Company also operates along the Louisiana Gulf Coast with terminals in
Cameron, Intracoastal City, Morgan City, Venice, Eunice, Amelia and Harahan.
These terminals are bulkheaded and dredged to provide easy access to vessels
receiving products for delivery to customers. Products are delivered offshore
aboard vessels owned or chartered by customers, which include companies engaged
in oil and gas exploration and production, seismic evaluation, offshore
construction and other drilling-related businesses.
 
     The Marine Services segment achieved profitability in 1996 after a merger
and restructuring that established the Company as a major marine terminal
operator in the Gulf of Mexico. In February 1996, the Company purchased 100% of
the capital stock of Coastwide Energy Services, Inc. ("Coastwide"), a company
that provided shore-based services for the offshore exploration and production
industry, for approximately 1.4 million shares of Tesoro's Common Stock and $7.7
million in cash. These operations were combined with the Company's marine
petroleum distribution operation, forming a Marine Services segment. See Note C
of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements in Item 8.
 
DIESEL FUEL AND LUBRICANTS
 
     Diesel fuel and lubricants, which are used in operations such as offshore
drilling rigs, offshore production and transmission platforms and various ships
and equipment engaged in seismic surveys, are marketed and distributed from all
20 of the Company's terminals. Through these terminals and a fleet of six
tugboats (including three owned by the Company) and 14 barges (including ten
owned by the Company), the Company serves offshore workboats, tugboats and
barges using the Intracoastal Canal System, as well as ships
 
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entering the ports of Houston, New Orleans, Lake Charles, Corpus Christi and
Port Arthur. Tesoro obtains its supply of diesel fuel from refiners in the Gulf
Coast area. Total gallons of diesel fuel and other refined products sold by
Marine Services amounted to 142.7 million, 112.5 million and 119.2 million in
1996, 1995 and 1994, respectively. The Company is a distributor of lubricants
and cylinder oil produced by certain major oil companies, which are delivered to
customers by trucks or barges.
 
SERVICES
 
     Through nine of its terminals, the Company provides full-service
shore-based support for offshore drilling rigs and production platforms. These
quayside services include loading docks and slips for offshore supply boats. In
addition, the Company provides dispatchers and stevedores, cranes, forklifts,
warehouses, office and dormitory accommodations, helicopter landing pads and car
parking for offshore workers. Tesoro also serves as delivery points for drilling
products, primarily mud, by providing warehousing, inventory control and
delivery services. Tesoro's bunkering services operate in major ports along the
Texas and Louisiana Gulf Coast. In 1996, 1995 and 1994, revenues from services
amounted to $10.9 million, $3.1 million and $2.7 million, respectively.
 
COMPETITION AND OTHER
 
     The oil and gas industry is highly competitive in all phases, including the
refining and marketing of crude oil and petroleum products and the search for
and development of oil and gas reserves. The industry also competes with other
industries that supply the energy and fuel requirements of industrial,
commercial, individual and other consumers. The Company competes with a
substantial number of major integrated oil companies and other companies having
materially greater financial and other resources. These competitors have a
greater ability to bear the economic risks inherent in all phases of the
industry. In addition, unlike the Company, many competitors also produce large
volumes of crude oil that may be used in connection with their refining
operations. The North American Free Trade Agreement has further streamlined and
simplified procedures for the importation and exportation of natural gas among
Mexico, the United States and Canada. These changes are likely to enhance the
ability of Canadian and Mexican producers to export natural gas and other
products to the United States, thereby further increasing competition for
domestic sales.
 
     The refining and marketing businesses are highly competitive, with price
being the principal factor in competition. In the refining market, the Company's
refinery competes primarily with other refineries in Alaska and on the U.S. West
Coast. The Company's refining competition in Alaska includes a refinery situated
near Fairbanks owned by MAPCO, Inc. and two refineries situated near Valdez and
Fairbanks owned by Petro Star Inc. The Company estimates that such other
refineries have a combined capacity to process approximately 176,000 barrels per
day of crude oil. ANS crude oil is the only feedstock used in these competing
refineries. After processing the crude oil and removing the lighter-end
products, which represent approximately 30% of each barrel processed, these
refiners are permitted, because of their direct connection to the TAPS, to
return the remainder of the processed crude back into the pipeline system as
"return oil" in consideration for a fee, thereby eliminating their need to
market residual products. The Company's refinery is not directly connected to
the TAPS, and the Company, therefore, cannot return its residual products to the
TAPS. The Company's refining competition from the U.S. West Coast includes many
large, integrated oil companies that do substantial business in Alaska and have
materially greater financial and other resources. A growing number of foreign
sources also compete with the Company.
 
     The Company's marketing business in Alaska is segmented by product line.
The Company is a substantial producer and distributor of gasoline in Alaska,
with the largest network of branded and unbranded dealers and jobbers. The
Company is a supplier to a major oil company through a product exchange
agreement, whereby gasoline in Alaska is provided in exchange for gasoline
delivered to the Company on the U.S. West Coast. Jet fuel sales are concentrated
in Anchorage, where the Company is one of the principal suppliers to the
Anchorage International Airport, which is a major hub for air cargo traffic to
the Far East. Diesel fuel is sold primarily on a wholesale basis.
 
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     The Company's Pacific Northwest marketing business is primarily a
distribution business selling to independent dealers and jobbers outside major
urban areas. In addition, the Company sells to 18 branded gasoline distributors
in the Pacific Northwest who obtain the majority of their supply from the
Company's refinery in Alaska. The Company competes against independent marketing
companies and integrated oil companies when engaging in these marketing
operations.
 
     Demand for services and products offered by the Company's Marine Services
segment is closely related to the level of oil and gas exploration, development
and production in the Gulf of Mexico. Various factors, including general
economic conditions, demand for and prices of natural gas, availability of
equipment and materials and government regulations and energy policies cause
exploration and development activity to fluctuate and directly impact the
revenues of the Marine Services segment. Management believes that the principal
competitive factors affecting the Marine Services operations are location of
facilities, availability of logistical support services, experience of personnel
and dependability of service. The market for the Marine Services segment's
products and services, particularly diesel fuel, is price sensitive. The Company
competes with several independent operations, and in certain locations with one
or more major mud companies who maintain their own marine terminals.
 
     A portion of the Company's operations are conducted in foreign countries
where the Company is also subject to risks of a political nature and other risks
inherent in foreign operations. The Company's operations outside the United
States in recent years have been, and in the future may be, materially affected
by host governments through increases or variations in taxes, royalty payments,
export taxes and export restrictions and adverse economic conditions in the
foreign countries, the future effects of which the Company is unable to predict.
 
GOVERNMENT REGULATION AND LEGISLATION
 
UNITED STATES
 
     Natural Gas Regulations. Historically, all domestic natural gas sold in
so-called "first sales" was subject to federal price regulations under the
Natural Gas Policy Act of 1978 ("NGPA"), the Natural Gas Act ("NGA"), and the
regulations and orders issued by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
("FERC") in implementing such Acts. Under the Natural Gas Wellhead Decontrol Act
of 1989, all remaining natural gas wellhead pricing, sales, certificate and
abandonment regulation of first sales by the FERC was terminated on January 1,
1993.
 
     The FERC also regulates interstate natural gas pipeline transportation
rates and service conditions, which affect the marketing of gas produced by the
Company, as well as the revenues received by the Company for sales of such
natural gas. Since the latter part of 1985, through its Order Nos. 436, 500 and
636, the FERC has endeavored to make natural gas transportation more accessible
to gas buyers and sellers on an open and non-discriminatory basis, and the
FERC's efforts have significantly altered the marketing and pricing of natural
gas. A related effort has been made with respect to intrastate pipeline
operations pursuant to the FERC's authority under Section 311 of the NGPA, under
which the FERC establishes rules by which intrastate pipelines may participate
in certain interstate activities without becoming subject to full NGA
jurisdiction. These Orders have gone through various permutations, but have
generally remained intact as promulgated. The FERC considers these changes
necessary to improve the competitive structure of the interstate natural gas
pipeline industry and to create a regulatory framework that will put gas sellers
into more direct contractual relations with gas buyers than has historically
been the case.
 
     Order No. 636, issued April 8, 1992, reflected the FERC's finding that
under the current regulatory structure, interstate pipelines and other gas
merchants, including producers, do not compete on an equal basis. The FERC
asserted that Order No. 636 was designed to equalize that marketplace. This
equalization process was implemented largely through negotiated settlements in
individual pipeline service restructuring proceedings, designed specifically to
"unbundle" those services (e.g., gathering, transportation, sales and storage)
provided by many interstate pipelines so that producers of natural gas may
secure services from the most economical source, whether interstate pipelines or
other parties. The result of the FERC initiatives has brought to an end the
interstate pipelines' traditional role as wholesalers of natural gas in favor of
providing
 
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only gathering, transportation and storage services for others which will buy
and sell natural gas. The FERC has issued final orders in all of the individual
pipeline restructuring proceedings and all of the interstate pipelines are now
operating under new open access tariffs.
 
     In addition, the FERC has announced its intention to reexamine certain of
its transportation related policies, including the appropriate manner in which
interstate pipelines release transportation capacity under Order No. 636 and,
more recently, the price which shippers can charge for released capacity. The
FERC has also issued a new policy regarding the use of nontraditional methods of
setting rates for interstate gas pipelines in certain circumstances as
alternatives to cost-of service based rates. A number of pipelines have obtained
FERC authorization to charge negotiated rates as one such alternative.
 
     Although Order No. 636 does not regulate gas producers, such as the
Company, Order No. 636 is intended to foster increased competition within all
phases of the natural gas industry. It is unclear what impact, if any, increased
competition within the natural gas industry under Order No. 636 will have on the
Company and its gas sales efforts. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of
Columbia Circuit has affirmed the Commission's Order No. 636 restructuring rule
and remanded certain issues for further explanation or clarification. Numerous
petitions seeking judicial review of the individual pipeline restructuring
orders are currently pending in the United States Court of Appeals for the
District of Columbia Circuit. It is not possible to predict what, if any, effect
the order on remand or the Court's decision in the individual pipeline cases
will have on the Company. The Company does not believe, however, that it will be
affected any differently than other gas producers or marketers with which it
competes.
 
     In 1993, the FERC initiated a proceeding seeking industry-wide comments
about its role in regulating natural gas gathering performed by interstate
pipelines or their affiliates. The proceeding did not result in a proposed
rulemaking. In 1994, the FERC granted a number of interstate pipeline
applications to abandon certificated gathering facilities to non-jurisdictional
entities. Under those orders, the rates charged by these entities, which may or
may not be affiliated with the interstate pipeline, are not regulated by the
FERC. Under the individual orders, gathering services must be continued to
existing customers under "default" contracts and be provided in an open-access
and non-discriminatory manner. The District of Columbia Court of Appeals upheld
the Commission's decision to not regulate gathering rates but found that the
Commission's "default" contract requirement was unlawful as outside the
Commission's jurisdiction. The court remanded the case to the Commission and the
agency has not yet acted on remand. The U.S. Supreme Court declined to review
the D.C. Circuit's decision.
 
     The oil and gas exploration and production operations of the Company are
subject to various types of regulation at the state and local levels. Such
regulation includes requiring drilling permits and the maintenance of bonds in
order to drill or operate wells; the regulation of the location of wells; the
method of drilling and casing of wells and the surface use and restoration of
properties upon which wells are drilled; and the plugging and abandoning of
wells. The operations of the Company are also subject to various conservation
regulations, including regulation of the size of drilling and spacing units or
proration units, the density of wells that may be drilled in a given area and
the unitization or pooling of oil and gas properties. In this regard, some
states allow the forced pooling or integration of lands and leases. In addition,
state conservation laws establish maximum rates of production from oil and gas
wells, generally prohibit the venting or flaring of gas and impose certain
requirements regarding the ratability of production. The effect of these
regulations is to limit the amounts of crude oil, condensate and natural gas the
Company can produce from its wells and the number of wells or the locations at
which the Company can drill.
 
     Additional proposals and proceedings that might affect the natural gas
industry are considered from time to time by Congress, the FERC, state
regulatory bodies and the courts. The Company cannot predict when or if any such
proposals might become effective, or their effect, if any, on the Company's
operations. The natural gas industry historically has been very heavily
regulated; therefore, there is no assurance that the less stringent regulatory
approach recently pursued by the FERC and Congress will continue indefinitely
into the future.
 
     Environmental Controls. Federal, state, area and local laws, regulations
and ordinances relating to the protection of the environment affect all
operations of the Company to some degree. An example of a federal environmental
law that will require operational additions and modifications is the Clean Air
Act, which was
 
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amended in 1990. While the Company believes that its facilities generally are in
substantial compliance with current regulatory standards for air emissions, over
the next several years the Company's facilities will be required to comply with
the new requirements being adopted and promulgated by the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency ("EPA") and the states in which the Company operates. These
regulations will necessitate the installation of additional controls or other
modifications or changes in use for certain emission sources. Specifics as to
the cost of these requirements, at certain facilities, are still being
determined. As part of these requirements, the Company's refinery as well as
some other Company facilities will be required to submit an application for a
Clean Air Act Amendment Title V permit; dates of submittal of these applications
vary upon the implementation of the State's Title V permit program. The Company
believes it can comply with these new requirements, and in some cases already
has done so, without adversely affecting operations.
 
     The passage of the Federal Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 prompted
adoption of regulations by the State of Alaska obligating the Company to produce
oxygenated gasoline for delivery to the Anchorage and Fairbanks, Alaska markets
starting on November 1, 1992. Controversies surrounding the potential health
effects in Arctic regions of oxygenated gasoline containing methyl tertiary
butyl ether ("MTBE") prompted early discontinuance of the program in Fairbanks.
On October 21, 1993, the United States Congress granted the State one additional
year of exemption from requiring the use of oxygenated gasoline. In addition,
the EPA has been directed to conduct additional studies of potential health
effects of oxygenated fuel in Alaska. The State of Alaska mandated the use of
oxygenated fuels containing ethanol in the Anchorage area from November 1
through the last day of February of the succeeding year. No requirements for use
of such products in Fairbanks have been issued, but are expected. Additional
federal regulations promulgated on August 21, 1990, which went into effect on
October 1, 1993, set limits on the quantity of sulphur in on-highway diesel
fuels which the Company produces. The State filed an application with the
federal government in February 1993 for a waiver from this requirement since
only 5% of the diesel fuel sold in Alaska was for on-highway vehicles. On March
14, 1994, the EPA granted the State of Alaska a waiver from the requirements of
the EPA's low sulphur diesel fuel program, permanently exempting Alaska's remote
areas and providing a temporary exemption for areas served by the Federal Aid
Highway System until October 1, 1996. On August 19, 1996, the EPA extended the
temporary exemption until October 1, 1998. The Company estimates that
substantial capital expenditures would be required to enable the Company to
produce low-sulphur diesel fuel to meet these federal regulations. If the State
is unable to obtain a permanent waiver from the federal regulations, the Company
would discontinue sales of diesel fuel for on-highway use after October 1, 1998.
The Company estimates that such sales accounted for less than 1% of its refined
product sales in Alaska during 1996. While the Company is unable to predict the
outcome of these matters, their ultimate resolution should not have a material
impact on its operations.
 
     Oil Spill Prevention and Response. The Federal Oil Pollution Act of 1990
("OPA 90") and related state regulations require most refining, transportation
and oil storage facilities to prepare oil spill prevention contingency plans for
use during an oil spill response. The Company has prepared and submitted these
plans for approval and, in most cases, has received federal and state approvals
necessary to meet various regulations and to avoid the potential of negative
impacts on the operation of its facilities.
 
     The Company currently charters a tanker to transport crude oil from the
Valdez, Alaska pipeline terminal through Prince William Sound and Cook Inlet to
its refinery. In addition, the Company routinely charters, on a long-term and
short-term basis, additional tankers and barges for shipment of crude oil and
refined products through Cook Inlet, as well as other locations. OPA 90
requires, as a condition of operation, that the Company demonstrate the
capability to respond to the "worst case discharge" to the maximum extent
practicable. Alaska law requires the Company to provide spill-response
capability to contain or control, and clean-up within 72 hours, an amount equal
to 50,000 barrels for a tanker carrying fewer than 500,000 barrels of crude oil
or equal to 300,000 barrels for a tanker carrying more than 500,000 barrels. To
meet these requirements, the Company has entered into a contract with Alyeska
Pipeline Service Company ("Alyeska") to provide initial spill response services
in Prince William Sound, with the Company later to assume those responsibilities
after mutual agreement with Alyeska and State and Federal On-Scene Coordinators.
The Company has also entered into an agreement with Cook Inlet Spill Prevention
and Response, Incorporated for oil spill response
 
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services in Cook Inlet. The Company believes these contracts provide for the
additional services necessary to meet spill response requirements established by
Alaska and federal law.
 
     Transportation, storage, and refining of crude oil in Alaska result in the
greatest regulatory impact, with respect to oil spill prevention and response.
Oil transportation and terminaling operations at other Company facilities also
result in compliance mandates for oil spill prevention and response. The Company
contracts with various oil spill response cooperatives or local contractors to
provide necessary oil spill response capabilities which may be required on a
location by location basis.
 
     Regulations promulgated by the Alaska Department of Environmental
Conservation ("ADEC") would have required the installation of dike liners in
secondary containment systems for petroleum storage tanks by January 1997. Such
installation would have required the Company to make capital improvements
starting in 1996 of approximately $9.5 million. However, on December 18, 1996,
ADEC approved the Company's alternative compliance schedule which allows the
Company until the year 2002 to implement alternative secondary containment
systems for the Company's existing petroleum storage tank facilities in the
State of Alaska at a reduced cost of approximately $6 million.
 
     Underground Storage Tanks. Regulations promulgated by the EPA on September
23, 1988, require that all underground storage tanks used for storing gasoline
or diesel fuel either be closed or upgraded not later than December 22, 1998, in
accordance with standards set forth in the regulations. The Company's service
stations subject to the upgrade requirements are limited to locations within the
State of Alaska. The Company continues to monitor, test and make physical
improvements in its current operations, which result in a cleaner environment.
The Company is required to make expenditures for removal or upgrading of
underground storage tanks at several of its current and former service station
locations by December 22, 1998; the Company expects that such expenditures
during 1997 will cost approximately $2 million.
 
     Environmental Expenditures. The Company's capital expenditures for
environmental control purposes totaled $.7 million during 1996. The Company
anticipates that it will incur total capital expenditures for such purposes of
approximately $6 million in 1997 and $3 million in 1998. The Company also
expects to spend approximately $6 million by the year 2002 for secondary
containment systems for existing storage tanks in Alaska. For further
information regarding environmental matters, see "Legal Proceedings" in Item 3
and "Environmental Controls" and "Underground Storage Tanks" discussed above.
 
BOLIVIA
 
     The Company's operations in Bolivia are subject to the Bolivian
Hydrocarbons Law and various other laws and regulations. The Hydrocarbons Law
imposes certain requirements on the Company's ability to conduct its operations
in Bolivia. In the Company's opinion, neither the Hydrocarbons Law nor other
requirements currently imposed by Bolivian laws, regulations and practices will
have a material adverse effect upon its Bolivian operations. In 1996, a new
Hydrocarbons Law was passed by the Bolivian government that significantly
impacts the Company's operation in Bolivia. For information on the Bolivian
Hydrocarbons Law and Bolivian taxation, see "Exploration and
Production -- Bolivia" discussed above.
 
EMPLOYEES
 
     At December 31, 1996, the Company employed approximately 1,000 persons, of
which approximately 40 were located in foreign countries. None of the Company's
employees are represented by a union for collective bargaining purposes. The
Company considers its relations with its employees to be satisfactory.
 
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EXECUTIVE OFFICERS OF THE REGISTRANT
 
     The following is a list of the Company's executive officers, their ages and
their positions with the Company at February 28, 1997.
 
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                                                         POSITION HELD
NAME                             AGE                       POSITION                          SINCE
- ----                             ---                       --------                      -------------
<S>                              <C>   <C>                                               <C>
Bruce A. Smith.................  53    Chairman of the Board of Directors, President          June 1996
                                       and Chief Executive Officer
James C. Reed, Jr..............  52    Executive Vice President, General Counsel and     September 1995
                                       Secretary
William T. Van Kleef...........  45    Executive Vice President, Operations              September 1996
Don E. Beere...................  56    Vice President, Controller                            April 1992
Thomas E. Reardon..............  50    Vice President, Human Resources and               September 1995
                                       Environmental
Gregory A. Wright..............  47    Vice President and Treasurer                      September 1995
</TABLE>
 
     There are no family relationships among the officers listed, and there are
no arrangements or understandings pursuant to which any of them were elected as
officers. Officers are elected annually by the Board of Directors at its first
meeting following the Annual Meeting of Stockholders, each to hold office until
the corresponding meeting of the Board in the next year or until a successor
shall have been elected or shall have qualified.
 
     The business experience of the Company's executive officers for the past
five years is described below. Positions, unless otherwise specified, are with
the Company.
 
     Bruce A. Smith -- Chairman of the Board of Directors, President and Chief
Executive Officer since June 1996. President and Chief Executive Officer from
September 1995 to June 1996. Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer
and Chief Operating Officer from July 1995 through September 1995. Executive
Vice President responsible for Exploration and Production Operations and Chief
Financial Officer from September 1993 to July 1995. Vice President and Chief
Financial Officer from September 1992 to September 1993. Vice President and
Treasurer of Valero Energy Corporation from 1986 to 1992.
 
     James C. Reed, Jr. -- Executive Vice President, General Counsel and
Secretary since September 1995. Senior Vice President, General Counsel and
Secretary from August 1994 to September 1995. Vice President, General Counsel
and Secretary from September 1993 to August 1994. Vice President, Secretary from
December 1992 to September 1993. Vice President, Secretary of Tesoro Petroleum
Companies, Inc., from February 1992 to December 1992. Vice President, Assistant
Secretary of Tesoro Petroleum Companies, Inc., from 1990 to 1992.
 
     William T. Van Kleef -- Executive Vice President, Operations since
September 1996. Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer from September
1995 to September 1996. Vice President, Treasurer from March 1993 to September
1995. Financial Consultant from January 1992 to February 1993.
 
     Don E. Beere -- Vice President, Controller since April 1992. Vice
President, Controller of Tesoro Petroleum Companies, Inc. from February 1992 to
April 1992. Vice President, Internal Audit and Management Systems of Tesoro
Petroleum Companies, Inc. from 1990 to 1992.
 
     Thomas E. Reardon -- Vice President, Human Resources and Environmental
since September 1995. Vice President, Human Resources and Environmental Services
of Tesoro Petroleum Companies, Inc. from October 1994 to September 1995. Vice
President, Human Resources of Tesoro Petroleum Companies, Inc. from February
1990 to October 1994.
 
     Gregory A. Wright -- Vice President and Treasurer since September 1995.
Vice President, Corporate Communications from February 1995 to September 1995.
Vice President, Corporate Communications of Tesoro Petroleum Companies, Inc.
from January 1995 to February 1995. Vice President, Business Develop-
 
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ment of Valero Energy Corporation from 1994 to January 1995. Vice President,
Corporate Planning of Valero Energy Corporation from 1992 to 1994. Vice
President, Investor Relations of Valero Energy Corporation from 1989 to 1992.
 
ITEM 2.  PROPERTIES
 
     See information appearing under Item 1, Business herein and Notes B, C and
O of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements in Item 8.
 
ITEM 3.  LEGAL PROCEEDINGS
 
     The Company, along with numerous other parties, has been identified by the
Environmental Protection Agency ("EPA") as a potentially responsible party
("PRP") pursuant to the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and
Liability Act ("CERCLA") for the Mud Superfund site in Abbeville, Louisiana
("Site"). The Company arranged for the disposal of a minimal amount of materials
at the Site, but CERCLA might impose joint and several liability on each PRP at
the Site. The EPA is seeking reimbursement for its response costs incurred to
date at the Site, as well as a commitment from the PRPs either to conduct future
remedial activities or to finance such activities. The extent of the Company's
allocated financial contributions to the cleanup of the site is expected to be
limited based upon the number of companies, volumes of waste involved, and an
estimated total cost of approximately $500,000 among all of the parties to close
the Site. The Company is currently involved in settlement discussions with the
EPA and other PRP's involved at the Site. The Company expects, based on these
discussions, that its liability at the Site will not exceed $25,000.
 
ITEM 4.  SUBMISSION OF MATTERS TO A VOTE OF SECURITY HOLDERS
 
     None.
 
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                                    PART II
 
ITEM 5.  MARKET FOR REGISTRANT'S COMMON EQUITY AND RELATED STOCKHOLDER MATTERS
 
     The principal markets on which the Company's Common Stock is traded are the
New York Stock Exchange and the Pacific Stock Exchange. The per share market
price ranges for the Company's Common Stock during 1996 and 1995 are summarized
below:
 
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                          1996            1995
                                                      ------------    ------------
                      QUARTERS                        HIGH    LOW     HIGH    LOW
                      --------                        ----    ----    ----    ----
<S>                                                   <C>     <C>     <C>     <C>
First...............................................  $ 9 1/8  8      10 5/8  8 3/4
Second..............................................  $11 5/8  8 1/4  12      9 1/2
Third...............................................  $13 1/2 10 1/2  10 3/8  8
Fourth..............................................  $15 1/2 12 7/8   9 1/2  7 1/4
</TABLE>
 
     At February 28, 1997, there were approximately 3,700 holders of record of
the Company's 26,426,333 outstanding shares of Common Stock. The Company did not
pay dividends on its Common Stock for the periods set forth above.
 
     For information regarding restrictions on future dividend payments, see
Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of
Operations in Item 7 and Note I of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements in
Item 8.
 
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ITEM 6. SELECTED FINANCIAL DATA
 
     The selected consolidated financial data should be read in conjunction with
Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of
Operations in Item 7 and the Company's Consolidated Financial Statements,
including the notes thereto, in Item 8.
 
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                                        YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31,
                                                              ---------------------------------------------
                                                                1996      1995      1994     1993     1992
                                                              --------   -------   ------   ------   ------
                                                                 (IN MILLIONS EXCEPT PER SHARE AMOUNTS)
<S>                                                           <C>        <C>       <C>      <C>      <C>
REVENUES
Gross Operating Revenues --
  Refining and Marketing....................................  $  745.4     771.0    687.0    687.2    810.7
  Exploration and Production
    U.S. oil and gas........................................      88.4     107.3     87.5     48.4     18.2
    U.S. gas transportation.................................       5.4       5.7      3.1      1.0       --
    Foreign(1)..............................................      13.7      11.7     13.2     12.6     23.9
  Marine Services(2)........................................     122.5      74.5     77.9     80.7     93.1
                                                              --------   -------   ------   ------   ------
         Total Gross Operating Revenues.....................     975.4     970.2    868.7    829.9    945.9
Income from Settlement of a Natural Gas Contract(3).........      60.0        --       --       --       --
Other, Including Gain (Loss) on Asset Sales(3)..............       4.4      32.7      3.2       .5      6.4
                                                              --------   -------   ------   ------   ------
         Total Revenues.....................................  $1,039.8   1,002.9    871.9    830.4    952.3
                                                              ========   =======   ======   ======   ======
SEGMENT OPERATING PROFIT (LOSS)(3)
  Refining and Marketing....................................  $    6.0        .7      2.4     15.2    (14.9)
  Exploration and Production
    U.S. oil and gas........................................     119.1      96.9     52.1     31.4      8.9
    U.S. gas transportation.................................       4.8       5.1      2.9       .9       --
    Foreign(1)..............................................       8.8       7.6      9.3      8.4     20.2
  Marine Services(2)........................................       6.1      (4.4)    (2.3)    (3.6)    (4.7)
                                                              --------   -------   ------   ------   ------
         Total Segment Operating Profit.....................  $  144.8     105.9     64.4     52.3      9.5
                                                              ========   =======   ======   ======   ======
EARNINGS (LOSS) BEFORE EXTRAORDINARY ITEM(4)................  $   76.8      57.5     20.5     17.0    (65.9)
EXTRAORDINARY LOSS ON DEBT EXTINGUISHMENT, NET OF INCOME
  TAXES.....................................................      (2.3)     (2.9)    (4.8)      --       --
                                                              --------   -------   ------   ------   ------
NET EARNINGS (LOSS).........................................  $   74.5      54.6     15.7     17.0    (65.9)
                                                              ========   =======   ======   ======   ======
NET EARNINGS (LOSS) APPLICABLE TO COMMON STOCK..............  $   74.5      54.6     13.0      7.8    (75.1)
                                                              ========   =======   ======   ======   ======
EARNINGS (LOSS) PER SHARE
  Earnings (Loss) Before Extraordinary Item(4)..............  $   2.90      2.29      .77      .54    (5.34)
  Extraordinary Loss on Debt Extinguishment, Net............      (.09)     (.11)    (.21)      --       --
                                                              --------   -------   ------   ------   ------
  Net Earnings (Loss).......................................  $   2.81      2.18      .56      .54    (5.34)
                                                              ========   =======   ======   ======   ======
AVERAGE COMMON AND COMMON EQUIVALENT SHARES OUTSTANDING
  Primary...................................................      26.5      25.1     23.2     14.3     14.1
  Fully Diluted.............................................      26.5      25.1     24.7     19.1     18.8
CASH FLOWS FROM (USED IN)
  Operations................................................  $  179.0      35.4     60.3     21.8     11.4
  Investing.................................................     (94.2)      2.4    (91.2)   (23.4)   (21.1)
  Financing.................................................     (75.9)    (37.9)     8.3     (8.7)    (4.5)
                                                              --------   -------   ------   ------   ------
    Increase (Decrease) in Cash and Cash Equivalents........  $    8.9       (.1)   (22.6)   (10.3)   (14.2)
                                                              ========   =======   ======   ======   ======
CAPITAL EXPENDITURES(5)
  Refining and Marketing....................................  $   11.1       9.3     32.0      7.1      3.7
  Exploration and Production
    U.S. oil and gas........................................      59.7      49.4     60.4     28.6      8.9
    U.S. gas transportation.................................        --        .2      5.2       .7       --
    Foreign(1)..............................................       6.9       3.8       --       --       .4
  Marine Services and Other.................................       7.3       1.2      2.0      1.1      2.4
                                                              --------   -------   ------   ------   ------
         Total Capital Expenditures.........................  $   85.0      63.9     99.6     37.5     15.4
                                                              ========   =======   ======   ======   ======
BALANCE SHEET AND OTHER DATA
  Current Assets............................................  $  237.3     182.5    182.1    196.5    228.4
  Property, Plant and Equipment, Net........................  $  316.5     261.7    273.3    213.2    198.5
  Total Assets..............................................  $  582.6     519.2    484.4    434.5    446.7
  Current Liabilities.......................................  $  137.8     105.0     96.2     72.0    105.8
  Working Capital...........................................  $   99.5      77.5     85.9    124.5    122.6
  Current Ratio.............................................    1.72:1    1.74:1   1.89:1   2.73:1   2.16:1
  Long-Term Debt and Other Obligations(6)...................  $   79.3     155.0    192.2    180.7    175.5
  Redeemable Preferred Stock(6).............................  $     --        --       --     78.1     71.7
  Stockholders' Equity (6)(7)...............................  $  304.1     216.5    160.7     58.5     50.7
</TABLE>
 
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- ---------------
 
(1) Represents the Company's Bolivian operations, except for 1992 which also
    included a former operation in Indonesia that was sold.
 
(2) Beginning in February 1996, the Marine Services segment includes the results
    of operations of an acquired entity (see Note C of Notes to Consolidated
    Financial Statements in Item 8).
 
(3) Segment operating profit (loss) is gross operating revenues, gains and
    losses on asset sales and other income less applicable costs of sales,
    operating expenses, depreciation, depletion and other items. Income taxes,
    interest expense, interest income and corporate expenses are not included in
    determining operating profit. In the Exploration and Production segment,
    operating profit included income of $60 million from termination of a
    natural gas contract in 1996 and a gain of $33 million from the sale of
    certain interests in the Bob West Field in 1995 (see Notes B, C and D of
    Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements in Item 8). In addition,
    operating profit included $25 million, $47 million, $39 million, $20 million
    and $8 million in the years 1996, 1995, 1994, 1993 and 1992, respectively,
    from the excess of the natural gas contract prices over spot market prices
    (see Note D of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements in Item 8 and
    Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of
    Operations in Item 7).
 
(4) The net loss for 1992 is after a charge of $20.6 million ($1.47 per share)
    for the cumulative effect of the adoption of SFAS No. 106, "Employer's
    Accounting for Postretirement Benefits Other Than Pensions" and SFAS No.
    109, "Accounting for Income Taxes".
 
(5) Excludes acquisitions of stock.
 
(6) For information on the Company's recapitalization and equity offering in
    1994, see Note K of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements in Item 8.
 
(7) No dividends were paid on common shares during the periods presented above.
 
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ITEM 7. MANAGEMENT'S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS
        OF OPERATIONS
 
RESULTS OF OPERATIONS
 
SUMMARY
 
     Net earnings of $74.5 million ($2.81 per share) in 1996 compare to $54.6
million ($2.18 per share) in 1995 and $15.7 million ($.56 per share) in 1994.
Noncash extraordinary losses for early extinguishment of debt amounted to $2.3
million in 1996, $2.9 million in 1995 and $4.8 million in 1994. Earnings before
extraordinary losses amounted to $76.8 million ($2.90 per share), $57.5 million
($2.29 per share) and $20.5 million ($.77 per share) in 1996, 1995 and 1994,
respectively. Comparability between the results for these years was impacted by
significant items which are highlighted in the table below (in millions except
per share amounts):
 
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                              1996    1995    1994
                                                              -----   -----   ----
<S>                                                           <C>     <C>     <C>
Net Earnings as Reported....................................  $74.5    54.6   15.7
Extraordinary Loss on Debt Extinguishment, Net of Income Tax
  Benefit...................................................    2.3     2.9    4.8
                                                              -----   -----   ----
Earnings Before Extraordinary Item..........................   76.8    57.5   20.5
                                                              -----   -----   ----
Significant Items Affecting Comparability, Pretax:
  Income from settlement of a natural gas contract (Note
     D).....................................................   60.0      --     --
  Interest and reimbursement of fees and costs from
     resolution of litigation (Note D)......................    8.1      --     --
  Retroactive severance tax refund..........................    5.0      --     --
  Gain (loss) on sale of assets.............................    (.8)   33.5    2.4
  Employee terminations and restructuring costs.............   (2.9)   (5.2)    --
  Costs of shareholder consent solicitation resolved in
     April 1996.............................................   (2.3)     --     --
  Refund from settlement of tariff issue....................     --      --    8.5
  Environmental and other...................................   (2.5)     --   (7.1)
                                                              -----   -----   ----
     Total Significant Items, Pretax........................   64.6    28.3    3.8
     Income Tax Effect......................................   19.5      --     --
                                                              -----   -----   ----
     Total Significant Items, Aftertax......................   45.1    28.3    3.8
                                                              -----   -----   ----
     Net Earnings Excluding Significant Items and
       Extraordinary Loss...................................  $31.7    29.2   16.7
                                                              =====   =====   ====
Earnings Per Share:
  As Reported...............................................  $2.81    2.18    .56
  Extraordinary Loss........................................    .09     .11    .21
  Effect of Significant Items...............................  (1.70)  (1.13)  (.16)
                                                              -----   -----   ----
  Excluding Significant Items and Extraordinary Loss........  $1.20    1.16    .61
                                                              =====   =====   ====
</TABLE>
 
     As shown above, excluding the significant items, the Company's net earnings
would have been $31.7 million ($1.20 per share) in 1996, as compared to $29.2
million ($1.16 per share) in 1995 and $16.7 million ($.61 per share) in 1994.
The resulting increase in net earnings in 1996, compared to 1995, was primarily
attributable to improvements within the Company's Refining and Marketing and
Marine Services segments, each of which reported significant improvements from
the prior year. Results from the Company's Exploration and Production segment
increased, even when excluding the above items and removing the incremental
value of an above-market pricing contract (see Note D of Notes to Consolidated
Financial Statements in Item 8) from both 1996 and 1995. Additionally, at the
corporate level, initiatives implemented in the fourth quarter of 1995 helped
reduce general and administrative expenses and interest expense. These
improvements were partially offset by an increase in the Company's total
effective tax rate in 1996 as earnings subject to U.S. taxes exceeded available
net operating loss and tax credit carryforwards. When comparing 1995 to 1994,
the improvement in net earnings of approximately $12 million was primarily
attributable to increased natural gas production from the Company's exploration
and production operations in South Texas
 
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<PAGE>   24
 
and improvements in the Company's refining and marketing operations. In 1994,
dividend requirements on preferred stock amounted to $2.7 million (see Note K of
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements in Item 8).
 
     A discussion and analysis of the factors contributing to these results are
presented below. The accompanying consolidated financial statements and related
footnotes, together with the following information, are intended to provide
shareholders and other investors with a reasonable basis for assessing the
Company's operations, but should not serve as the sole criterion for predicting
the future performance of the Company. The Company conducts its operations in
the following business segments: Refining and Marketing, Exploration and
Production, and Marine Services.
 
REFINING AND MARKETING
 
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                                1996        1995        1994
                                                              ---------   ---------   ---------
                                                               (DOLLARS IN MILLIONS EXCEPT PER
                                                                       BARREL AMOUNTS)
<S>                                                           <C>         <C>         <C>
GROSS OPERATING REVENUES
  Refined products..........................................    $ 620.8       664.5       582.7
  Other, primarily crude oil resales and merchandise........      124.6       106.5       104.3
                                                                -------     -------     -------
          Gross Operating Revenues..........................    $ 745.4       771.0       687.0
                                                                =======     =======     =======
OPERATING PROFIT
  Gross margin -- refined products..........................    $  94.0        85.3        85.3
  Gross margin -- other.....................................       13.3        12.3        13.1
                                                                -------     -------     -------
          Gross margin......................................      107.3        97.6        98.4
  Operating expenses........................................       87.9        84.7        88.2
  Depreciation and amortization.............................       12.5        11.9        10.4
  Other, including gain (loss) on asset sales...............        (.9)        (.3)        2.6
                                                                -------     -------     -------
          Operating Profit..................................    $   6.0          .7         2.4
                                                                =======     =======     =======
CAPITAL EXPENDITURES........................................    $  11.1         9.3        32.0
                                                                =======     =======     =======
REFINERY OPERATIONS -- THROUGHPUT (average daily barrels)...     47,486      50,569      46,032
                                                                =======     =======     =======
REFINERY OPERATIONS -- PRODUCTION (average daily barrels)
  Gasoline..................................................     12,763      14,298      11,728
  Middle distillates........................................     19,975      20,693      18,402
  Heavy oils and residual products..........................     13,739      14,516      15,118
  Other.....................................................      2,600       2,489       2,213
                                                                -------     -------     -------
          Total Refinery Production.........................     49,077      51,996      47,461
                                                                =======     =======     =======
REFINERY OPERATIONS -- PRODUCT SPREAD ($/barrel)(1)
  Average yield value of products manufactured..............    $ 24.61       20.35       19.48
  Cost of raw materials.....................................      19.80       16.88       15.65
                                                                -------     -------     -------
          Refinery Product Spread...........................    $  4.81        3.47        3.83
                                                                =======     =======     =======
REFINING AND MARKETING -- TOTAL PRODUCT SALES (average daily
  barrels)(2)
  Gasoline..................................................     17,427      24,526      23,191
  Middle distillates........................................     29,651      37,988      33,256
  Heavy oils and residual products..........................     15,089      14,787      14,228
                                                                -------     -------     -------
          Total Product Sales...............................     62,167      77,301      70,675
                                                                =======     =======     =======
REFINING AND MARKETING -- TOTAL PRODUCT SALES PRICES
  ($/barrel)
  Gasoline..................................................    $ 32.72       28.21       27.03
  Middle distillates........................................    $ 29.01       24.40       24.47
  Heavy oils and residual products..........................    $ 17.61       13.66       10.93
</TABLE>
 
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<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                                1996        1995        1994
                                                              ---------   ---------   ---------
                                                               (DOLLARS IN MILLIONS EXCEPT PER
                                                                       BARREL AMOUNTS)
<S>                                                           <C>         <C>         <C>
REFINING AND MARKETING -- GROSS MARGINS ON TOTAL PRODUCT
  SALES ($/barrel)(3)
  Average sales price.......................................    $ 27.28       23.55       22.59
  Average costs of sales....................................      23.15       20.53       19.67
                                                                -------     -------     -------
          Gross Margin......................................    $  4.13        3.02        2.92
                                                                =======     =======     =======
</TABLE>
 
- ---------------
 
(1) Refinery product spread represents the excess of yield value of the products
    manufactured at the refinery over the cost of raw materials used to
    manufacture such products.
 
(2) Sources of total product sales include products manufactured at the
    refinery, products drawn from inventory balances and products purchased from
    third parties. The Company's purchases of refined products for resale were
    approximately 11,600; 25,500; and 27,200 average daily barrels for 1996,
    1995 and 1994, respectively.
 
(3) Margins on sales of purchased products, together with the effect of changes
    in inventories, are included in the gross margin on total product sales.
    Computations of average costs of sales per barrel in 1994 exclude the
    benefits of an $8.5 million tariff refund and $1.5 million favorable
    feedstock cost adjustments.
 
     1996 Compared to 1995. Results from the Company's Refining and Marketing
segment improved during 1996 with operating profit of $6.0 million, compared to
operating profit of $.7 million in 1995. This improvement was achieved during a
year when the industry was facing rapidly rising prices in the crude oil market.
In addition, the Company's production level at the refinery was reduced in
September 1996 for a scheduled 30-day maintenance downtime. Despite these
factors, the Company was able to achieve a refinery product spread of $4.81 per
barrel for 1996, compared to $3.47 per barrel in 1995. The Company's results
were helped by its initiatives to control costs, improve its refinery product
slate and expand the marketing program for its refined products. The Company's
refined product yield values increased by 21% to $24.61 per barrel in 1996, from
$20.35 per barrel in 1995, while the Company's feedstock costs increased by 17%
to $19.80 per barrel in 1996 from $16.88 per barrel in 1995.
 
     During 1996, the Company's production of refined products declined in total
by 6%, which included the impact of the scheduled maintenance period. Of this
decline, gasoline production decreased by 11% and middle distillates, consisting
of jet fuel and diesel fuel, decreased by only 3%. These reductions reflected
the change of a hydrocracker catalyst, during the maintenance period, which
allows for increased production of jet fuel and reduced production of gasoline,
beginning in the fourth quarter of 1996, which better matches the Company's
product supply with demand in Alaska. To further improve the refinery's
feedstock and product slate, the Company intends to modify the refinery
hydrocracker during 1997, at an estimated cost of $17 million. In conjunction
with the modification and other initiatives, a refinery downtime of
approximately 30 days is anticipated during 1997.
 
     The Company continued its marketing efforts during 1996, adding 31
locations in Alaska and 8 locations in the Pacific Northwest, bringing the total
to 188 branded, unbranded and Company-owned retail outlets in Alaska and 18
branded stations in the Pacific Northwest. Two uneconomic outlets in these areas
were closed in 1996. In addition, the Company began producing and marketing
liquid asphalt, a heavy product remaining after the refining process, which is a
seasonal product in Alaska. Export sales of refined products, including sales to
the Russian Far East, amounted to $22.0 million in 1996 and $18.5 million in
1995.
 
     Revenues from sales of refined products in the Company's Refining and
Marketing segment decreased in 1996 due primarily to a 20% decline in sales
volumes, partially offset by a 16% increase in average sales prices. Total
refined product sales averaged 62,167 barrels per day in 1996 as compared to
77,301 barrels per day in 1995. This decline reflected the lower production
volumes and the Company's withdrawal from certain West Coast markets during
1996, which also reduced the Company's purchases from other refiners and
suppliers to 11,600 barrels per day in 1996 as compared to 25,500 barrels per
day in 1995. The Company plans to sell its Company-owned facilities in
California. One of these facilities was sold in 1996 resulting in a loss of
 
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$.8 million; two facilities remain for sale at year-end 1996. The Company at
times resells previously purchased crude oil, sales of which increased to $93.8
million in 1996, compared to $75.8 million in 1995, due primarily to higher
crude oil prices and in part due to sales of excess crude supply volumes during
the maintenance period. Costs of sales decreased in 1996 due to lower volumes of
refined products, partially offset by higher prices for crude oil and refined
products. Operating expenses were higher in 1996 due primarily to higher
environmental and employee costs partially offset by lower insurance costs.
 
     Although results from the Company's Refining and Marketing segment for 1996
improved over 1995 levels, future profitability of this segment will continue to
be significantly influenced by market conditions, particularly as these
conditions influence costs of crude oil relative to prices received for sales of
refined products, and other additional factors that are beyond the control of
the Company.
 
     1995 Compared to 1994. The Refining and Marketing's segment operating
profit of $.7 million in 1995 decreased $1.7 million from operating profit of
$2.4 million in 1994. Results for 1994 benefited from an $8.5 million refund
received in settlement of a tariff dispute, a gain of $2.4 million from the sale
of assets and favorable feedstock cost adjustments of $1.5 million, partially
offset by $6.6 million for environmental contingencies and other matters.
Excluding these items from 1994, operating profit in 1995 reflected an
improvement of $4.1 million from the 1994 operating results.
 
     The Company's average feedstock costs increased by 8%, to $16.88 per barrel
in 1995 from $15.65 per barrel in 1994, while the average yield value of the
Company's refinery production increased by only 4%, to $20.35 per barrel in 1995
from $19.48 per barrel in 1994. Increased demand for Alaska North Slope ("ANS")
crude oil for use as a feedstock in West Coast refineries and declining
production volumes of ANS, combined with an oversupply of products in Alaska and
on the West Coast, resulted in higher feedstock costs for the Company relative
to increases in refined product sales prices. As a result, the Company's refined
product margins were depressed in 1995.
 
     The start-up in December 1994 of a vacuum unit at the Company's refinery
increased the yield of higher-valued products during 1995 and lessened the
impact of these industry conditions on the Company's refinery spread. The
Company's refinery yield of residual products was reduced to 18% of total
production in 1995 from 32% of total production in 1994. In addition, margins on
sales of inventories and purchased volumes combined to improve the segment's
gross margins on total product sales to $3.02 per barrel in 1995, compared to
$2.92 per barrel in 1994.
 
     The Company's total refinery production increased by 10%, including a 22%
increase in gasoline volumes and a 12% increase in middle distillates volumes.
Accordingly, in 1995, the Company implemented initiatives that increased the
demand for the refinery's production and improved the refinery's capacity
utilization and efficiencies. In these regards, the Company expanded its
marketing efforts by branding and rebranding sales outlets in Alaska and the
Pacific Northwest and by exporting refined products to the Far East, including
Russia. Revenues from export sales totaled $18.5 million in 1995 compared to
$5.2 million in 1994. The Company's total product sales increased to 77,301
average barrels per day in 1995 from 70,675 average barrels per day in 1994.
 
     Revenues from sales of refined products in 1995 were higher than in 1994
due to higher sales prices and the increase in sales volumes. Resales of crude
oil aggregated $75.8 million in 1995 and $72.3 million in 1994. Costs of sales
were higher in 1995 due to higher volumes and prices. Operating expenses
decreased by $3.5 million in 1995 primarily due to lower environmental costs,
partly offset by increased employee costs and fuels and utilities expense.
Depreciation and amortization increased by $1.5 million in 1995 due to capital
additions, primarily the vacuum unit, completed in late 1994. Included in 1994
was a $2.4 million gain from the sale of assets.
 
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EXPLORATION AND PRODUCTION
 
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                               1996       1995       1994
                                                              -------    -------    ------
                                                              (DOLLARS IN MILLIONS EXCEPT
                                                                   PER UNIT AMOUNTS)
<S>                                                           <C>        <C>        <C>
U.S. OIL AND GAS
  Gross operating revenues..................................  $  88.4      107.3      87.5
  Production costs..........................................      5.3       12.0       9.0
  Administrative support and other operating expenses.......      3.5        2.9       2.3
  Depreciation, depletion and amortization..................     25.3       29.0      24.1
  Income from settlement of a natural gas contract(1).......     60.0         --        --
  Gain on sale of assets and other income...................      4.8       33.5        --
                                                              -------    -------    ------
          Operating Profit -- U.S. Oil and Gas..............    119.1       96.9      52.1
                                                              -------    -------    ------
U.S. GAS TRANSPORTATION
  Gross operating revenues..................................      5.4        5.7       3.1
  Operating expenses........................................       .3         .3        --
  Depreciation and amortization.............................       .3         .3        .2
                                                              -------    -------    ------
          Operating Profit -- U.S. Gas Transportation.......      4.8        5.1       2.9
                                                              -------    -------    ------
BOLIVIA OIL AND GAS
  Gross operating revenues..................................     13.7       11.7      13.2
  Production costs..........................................       .8         .6        .6
  Administrative support and other operating expenses.......      2.8        3.2       3.3
  Depreciation, depletion and amortization..................      1.3         .3        --
                                                              -------    -------    ------
          Operating Profit -- Bolivia.......................      8.8        7.6       9.3
                                                              -------    -------    ------
TOTAL OPERATING PROFIT -- EXPLORATION AND PRODUCTION........  $ 132.7      109.6      64.3
                                                              =======    =======    ======
U.S.
  Capital expenditures (including U.S. gas
     transportation)........................................  $  59.7       49.6      65.6
                                                              =======    =======    ======
  Net natural gas production (average daily Mcf) --
     Spot market and other(2)...............................   76,857     94,668    65,841
     Tennessee Gas Contract(1)..............................   10,797     19,822    17,955
                                                              -------    -------    ------
          Total Production..................................   87,654    114,490    83,796
                                                              =======    =======    ======
  Average natural gas sales price ($/Mcf) --
     Spot market............................................  $  1.95       1.34      1.48
     Tennessee Gas Contract(1)..............................  $  8.41       8.41      7.93
     Average................................................  $  2.75       2.57      2.86

  Average operating expenses ($/Mcfe) --
     Lease operating expenses...............................  $   .14        .11       .11
     Severance taxes........................................      .03        .18       .18
                                                              -------    -------    ------
          Total production costs............................      .17        .29       .29
     Administrative support.................................      .10        .06       .08
                                                              -------    -------    ------
          Total operating expenses..........................  $   .27        .35       .37
                                                              =======    =======    ======
  Depletion ($/Mcfe)........................................  $   .79        .69       .79
</TABLE>
 
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<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                                                    1996       1995       1994
                                                                                 ---------  ---------  ---------
                                                                                   (DOLLARS IN MILLIONS EXCEPT
                                                                                        PER UNIT AMOUNTS)
<S>                                                                              <C>        <C>        <C>

BOLIVIA
  Capital expenditures.........................................................  $     6.9        3.8         --
  Net natural gas production (average daily Mcf)...............................     20,251     18,650     22,082
  Average natural gas sales price ($/Mcf)......................................  $    1.33       1.28       1.20
  Net condensate production (average daily barrels)............................        584        567        733
  Average condensate sales price ($/barrel)....................................  $   17.98      14.39      13.28
  Average operating expenses ($/Mcfe) --
     Production costs..........................................................  $     .10        .07        .06
     Value-added taxes.........................................................        .05        .06        .10
     Administrative support....................................................        .27        .35        .25
                                                                                 ---------  ---------  ---------
          Total operating expenses.............................................  $     .42        .48        .41
                                                                                 =========  =========  =========
  Depletion ($/Mcfe)...........................................................  $     .15        .03         --
</TABLE>
 
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(1) See Note D of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements in Item 8 for
    information related to the Tennessee Gas Contract.
 
(2) Includes 24,500 Mcf per day in 1995 related to certain interests in the Bob
    West Field that were sold in the 1995 third quarter (see Note C of Notes to
    Consolidated Financial Statements in Item 8).
 
(3) Mcf is defined as one thousand cubic feet; Mcfe is defined as net equivalent
    one thousand cubic feet.
 
EXPLORATION AND PRODUCTION -- UNITED STATES
 
     1996 Compared to 1995. Operating profit of $119.1 million from the
Company's U.S. oil and gas operations in 1996 increased $22.2 million from
operating profit of $96.9 million in 1995. Comparability between these years was
impacted by several major transactions in 1996, which will also impact future
results of operations. These transactions included the favorable resolution in
August 1996 of litigation with Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company ("Tennessee Gas")
regarding a natural gas purchase and sales contract ("Tennessee Gas Contract")
and the termination of the remainder of such contract in December 1996. As
provided for in the Tennessee Gas Contract, which was to expire in January 1999,
the Company was selling a portion of the gas produced in the Bob West Field
pursuant to a contract price ("Contract Price"), which was above the average
spot market price. In total, during 1996 the Company received approximately $120
million in cash for the resolution of litigation and termination of the
Tennessee Gas Contract, with the Company's Exploration and Production segment
recording operating profit of $60 million for the termination of the contract
effective October 1, 1996. Results of operations in future years will no longer
benefit from the above-market pricing provisions of the Tennessee Gas Contract.
In 1996, 1995 and 1994, the Exploration and Production segment's operating
profit also included $24.6 million, $47.1 million and $38.9 million,
respectively, from the excess of Tennessee Gas Contract prices over spot market
prices. See Note D of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements in Item 8 and
"Capital Resources and Liquidity" discussed below.
 
     Additionally, during 1996, substantially all of the Company's proved
producing reserves in the Bob West Field were certified by the Texas Railroad
Commission as high-cost gas from a designated tight formation, eligible for
state severance tax exemptions from the date of first production through August
2001. Accordingly, no severance tax is recorded on current production from
exempt wells beginning in 1996 and the Company recognized income of $5 million
for retroactive refunds for production in prior years.
 
     Operating profit for 1995 included a gain of $33 million from the sale of
certain interests in the Bob West Field (see Note C of Notes to Consolidated
Financial Statements in Item 8). Excluding these significant transactions and
the impact of the incremental contract value from both years, operating profit
from the Company's U.S. oil and gas operations for 1996 would have been $29
million compared to $16 million for 1995. This resulting increase was primarily
due to higher spot market prices for sales of natural gas, as industry demand
increased due to unusually cold weather combined with below-normal storage
levels.
 
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<PAGE>   29
 
     Prices realized by the Company on its spot natural gas production increased
46% to $1.95 per Mcf in 1996 from $1.34 per Mcf in 1995. Excluding 24,500 Mcf
per day related to the sold interests from 1995, the Company's spot production
increased by 6,600 Mcf per day. The Company's exploration and acquisition
programs outside of the Bob West Field contributed 3,800 Mcf per day of the
increase in spot production with the remaining increase attributable to sales to
Tennessee Gas at spot prices effective October 1, 1996. The Company's weighted
average sales price, which included the above-market pricing of the Tennessee
Gas Contract through October 1, 1996, increased 7% to $2.75 per Mcf in 1996 as
compared to $2.57 per Mcf in 1995. For the Bob West Field, production declined
by 6,100 Mcf per day after excluding amounts related to sold interests in 1995.
 
     Gross operating revenues from the Company's U.S. oil and gas operations,
after excluding $11.7 million related to the sold interests from 1995 and
excluding price agreements discussed below, decreased by $3.8 million due
primarily to the decline in volumes sold under the Tennessee Gas Contract,
partially offset by increases in spot market sales prices and production. The
decline in production costs of $6.7 million, or $.12 per Mcf, was mainly
attributable to the severance tax exemptions in the Bob West Field. Total
depreciation, depletion and amortization was lower in 1996 due to lower
production volumes, partially offset by a higher depletion rate.
 
     The Company enters into commodity price agreements to reduce the risk
caused by fluctuation in the prices of natural gas in the spot market. During
1996 and 1995, the Company used such agreements to set the price of 30% and 38%,
respectively, of the natural gas production that it sold in the spot market. The
Company recognized a loss of $3.1 million ($.11 per Mcf) in 1996 and a gain of
$.3 million ($.01 per Mcf) in 1995 related to these price agreements. As of
January 9, 1997, the Company had entered into price agreements for 1997
production totaling .9 Bcf of gas for an average Houston Ship Channel price of
$2.18 per Mcf. In addition, the Company has entered into price agreements with
collars, under which no payment will be made by either party unless the price
falls below a designated floor price or above a designated ceiling price, at
which time the Company receives or pays the difference, respectively. The
Company has entered into price agreements with collars for 1997 production
totaling 1.8 Bcf of gas with an average Houston Ship Channel floor price of
$1.93 per Mcf and a ceiling price of $2.42 per Mcf. See Note N of Notes to
Consolidated Financial Statements in Item 8 for further information on the price
agreements.
 
     In addition to the natural gas and oil producing activities, the Company's
results included revenues of $5.4 million and operating profit of $4.8 million
in 1996 for transportation of natural gas to common carrier pipelines in the
South Texas area, of which approximately 50% relates to transportation of the
Company's production. These amounts were relatively unchanged from the prior
year.
 
     1995 Compared to 1994. Operating profit of $96.9 million in 1995 from the
Company's U.S. oil and gas operations included a gain of approximately $33
million from the sale of certain interests in the Bob West Field. Excluding this
gain, operating profit from these operations would have been approximately $63
million in 1995 compared with $52 million in 1994, reflecting a continued
successful drilling program which resulted in an increase in the Company's U.S.
natural gas production in South Texas. After the sale of certain Bob West Field
interests in September 1995, which included interests in 14 gross producing
wells, the number of wells in which the Company had an interest was reduced to
57 at year-end 1995, compared with 48 producing wells at year-end 1994. The
Company's U.S. natural gas production sold into the spot market increased by 44%
and production sold under the Tennessee Gas Contract increased by 10%. Revenues
increased by $20 million due to these increases in production, but were
partially offset by lower spot market natural gas sales prices. The Company's
weighted average sales price decreased to $2.57 per Mcf during 1995 from $2.86
per Mcf in 1994, reflecting lower spot market sales prices and a lower
percentage of production sold to Tennessee Gas at above-market prices. In 1995,
approximately 17% of the Company's total U.S. production was sold to Tennessee
Gas, compared to 21% in 1994 and 27% in 1993. Total production costs and other
operating expenses were higher in 1995 due to the increased production levels
and severance taxes related to the above-market pricing of sales to Tennessee
Gas, but were relatively unchanged on a per Mcf basis. The impact of the
increased production volumes on depletion expense was substantially offset by a
13% reduction in the depletion rate which resulted from additions to proved
reserves during the year and elimination of proportionately higher future
development costs on the reserves sold in the Bob West Field.
 
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<PAGE>   30
 
     In 1995, operating results from the Exploration and Production segment
included natural gas production of approximately 24 Mmcf per day, revenues of
$11.7 million and operating profit of $4 million related to the interests that
were sold in the Bob West Field.
 
     Operating results from the Company's natural gas transportation operations
increased by $2.2 million in 1995 due to higher transmission volumes associated
with the increased production levels in South Texas. Transportation of the
Company's production accounted for approximately 51% and 58% of these results in
1995 and 1994, respectively.
 
EXPLORATION AND PRODUCTION -- BOLIVIA
 
     1996 Compared to 1995. Operating profit from the Company's Bolivian
operations increased to $8.8 million in 1996, from the $7.6 million operating
profit in 1995. This improvement was primarily due to a 9% increase in
production of natural gas together with higher prices received for both natural
gas and condensate. During the second and third quarters of 1996, the Company
benefited from increased demand from the Bolivian state-owned oil and gas
company for higher quality natural gas, in order to meet contract specifications
for exports to Argentina, together with the inability of another producer to
meet supply requirements. Total operating expenses declined by 12% on a per unit
basis reflecting a 6% decrease in costs combined with the increase in volumes.
Partially offsetting these improvements was an increase in depreciation,
depletion and amortization of $1.0 million.
 
     In 1996, a new Hydrocarbons Law was passed by the Bolivian government that
significantly impacts the Company's operations in Bolivia. The new law, among
other matters, granted the Company the option to convert its Contracts of
Operation to new Shared Risk Contracts. During 1996, the Company signed
agreements to convert its Contracts of Operation to Shared Risk Contracts
subject to recision at the option of the Company if the Company is not satisfied
with modifications to the Bolivian fiscal law. The Company expects to complete
this conversion during the first half of 1997. The new contracts extend the
Company's term of operation, provide more favorable acreage relinquishment terms
and provide for a more favorable fiscal regime of royalties and taxes. The new
contracts will extend the term of the Company's operations for Block 18 ten
additional years to the year 2017. For Block 20, the new contract extends the
Company's term 21 additional years to the year 2029 for acreage that is in the
exploration phase of the contract, and ten additional years to the year 2018 for
an area within Block 20 that is designated as being in the development phase of
the new contract. The new contract provisions, along with a substantial
discovery during 1996, significantly increased the Company's reserves (see Note
O of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements in Item 8).
 
     The Company's Bolivian natural gas production is sold to Yacimientos
Petroliferos Fiscales Bolivianos ("YPFB"), which in turn sells the natural gas
to Yacimientos Petroliferos Fiscales, S.A. ("YPF"), a publicly-held company
based in Argentina. During 1994, the contract between YPFB and YPF was extended
through March 31, 1997, maintaining approximately the same volumes as the
previous contract. YPFB and YPF are currently negotiating a new two-year
contract through March 1999. Currently, the Company is selling its natural gas
production to YPFB based on the volume and pricing terms in the contract between
YPFB and YPF.
 
     1995 Compared to 1994. In 1995, operating profit from the Company's
Bolivian operations decreased by $1.7 million, reflecting a 16% decrease in net
natural gas production. During 1994, the Company had benefited from higher
levels of production due to the inability of another producer to satisfy gas
supply requirements. Partially offsetting the decrease in production in 1995
were increases in the average prices of natural gas and condensate production.
 
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<PAGE>   31
 
MARINE SERVICES
 
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                               1996      1995      1994
                                                              ------    ------    ------
                                                                (DOLLARS IN MILLIONS)
<S>                                                           <C>       <C>       <C>
GROSS OPERATING REVENUES
  Fuels, lubricants and other...............................  $111.6      71.4      75.2
  Services..................................................    10.9       3.1       2.7
                                                              ------    ------    ------
          Gross Operating Revenues..........................  $122.5      74.5      77.9
                                                              ======    ======    ======
OPERATING PROFIT
  Gross profit..............................................  $ 29.5       9.6      10.4
  Operating and other expenses..............................    22.2      13.7      12.4
  Depreciation and amortization.............................     1.2        .3        .3
                                                              ------    ------    ------
          Operating Profit (Loss)...........................  $  6.1      (4.4)     (2.3)
                                                              ======    ======    ======
CAPITAL EXPENDITURES (excluding acquisitions)...............  $  6.9        .4        .2
                                                              ======    ======    ======
FUEL SALES, PRIMARILY DIESEL (millions of gallons)..........   142.7     112.5     119.2
                                                              ======    ======    ======
NUMBER OF TERMINALS.........................................      20        14        17
</TABLE>
 
     1996 Compared to 1995. On February 20, 1996, the Company acquired Coastwide
Energy Services, Inc. ("Coastwide") and combined these operations with the
Company's marine petroleum products distribution business, forming a Marine
Services segment. As a combined operation, the Marine Services segment is a
marketer and distributor of diesel fuel and lubricants and a provider of
logistical services to the offshore exploration and production industry in the
Gulf of Mexico. Operating results from Coastwide have been included in the
Company's Marine Services segment since the date of acquisition. See Note C of
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements in Item 8.
 
     The Marine Services segment currently consists of 20 terminals, compared to
14 at the prior year-end. The added locations and associated volumes, mainly
related to the Coastwide acquisition, combined with higher fuel prices have
contributed to an increase of $40.2 million in fuels and lubricants revenues. In
addition, revenues from services has grown by $7.8 million. These increases in
revenues together with improved margins during 1996 were partially offset by
higher operating and other expenses associated with the increased activity.
Depreciation and amortization increased during 1996 due to capital additions
during the year. In total, results for the Marine Services segment reflected a
turnaround from the losses incurred in the prior year with operating profit of
$6.1 million for 1996.
 
     The Marine Services segment's business is largely dependent upon the volume
of oil and gas drilling, workover, construction and seismic activity in the Gulf
of Mexico. During 1996, 1995 and 1994, wells drilled in the Gulf of Mexico
totaled 1,068, 1,024 and 958, respectively.
 
     1995 Compared to 1994. In 1995, the Company consolidated certain operations
by exiting the land-based portion of its petroleum product distribution
business, reducing the total number of Company sites to 14, primarily
marine-based, at year-end. In these regards, four Texas locations were sold in
1995. Included in operating and other expenses in 1995 was a charge of $.8
million related to employee terminations and other exit costs. Revenues and
costs of sales were lower in 1995 due to reduced volumes while these operations
were being consolidated.
 
GENERAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES
 
     General and administrative expenses of $12.7 million in 1996 compare with
$16.4 million in 1995 and $14.7 million in 1994. The decrease in 1996 was
primarily due to lower employee and labor costs resulting from cost reduction
measures implemented by the Company in late 1995. When comparing 1995 to 1994,
the increase was primarily due to higher employee and other benefits costs.
 
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<PAGE>   32
 
INTEREST EXPENSE AND INTEREST INCOME
 
     Interest expense of $15.4 million in 1996 compares with $20.9 million in
1995 and $18.7 million in 1994. The Company's redemption of public debt of $74.1
million in November 1996 and $34.6 million in December 1995 contributed to
interest expense savings of $5.9 million in 1996, equating to future interest
savings of approximately $10 million annually. The increase in 1995, compared to
1994, was primarily due to interest on the refinery vacuum unit financing and
cash borrowings under the corporate revolving credit facility during 1995 and
interest capitalized in 1994 related to the construction of the vacuum unit.
 
     In September 1996, the Company received and recorded interest income of
approximately $7 million from Tennessee Gas in conjunction with the collection
of a receivable that resulted from underpayment for natural gas sold in prior
periods (see Note D of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements in Item 8).
 
OTHER EXPENSE
 
     Other expense of $10.0 million in 1996 compares with $8.5 million in 1995
and $7.4 million in 1994. The increase in 1996 included costs of $2.3 million
related to a shareholder consent solicitation which was resolved in April 1996
together with a write-off of deferred financing costs and higher environmental
and other costs related to the Company's former operations, partially offset by
lower employee termination and restructuring costs. The increase in 1995,
compared with 1994, was primarily due to severance costs and related benefits of
$3.8 million resulting from a reduction in administrative workforce and other
employee terminations (see Note J of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
in Item 8), partially offset by lower environmental and other expenses related
to the Company's former operations.
 
INCOME TAXES
 
     Income taxes of $38.3 million in 1996 compare with $4.4 million in 1995 and
$5.6 million in 1994. The Company's effective tax rate increased to 33% in 1996,
compared to a 7% effective rate in 1995, due to earnings subject to U.S. taxes
in 1996 exceeding available net operating loss and tax credit carryforwards. The
decrease in income taxes in 1995, compared with 1994, was primarily due to lower
state income taxes.
 
IMPACT OF CHANGING PRICES
 
     The Company's operating results and cash flows are sensitive to volatile
changes in energy prices. Major shifts in the cost of crude oil used for
refinery feedstocks and the price of refined products can result in a change in
gross margin from the refining and marketing operations, as prices received for
refined products may or may not keep pace with changes in crude oil costs. These
energy prices, together with volume levels, also determine the carrying value of
crude oil and refined product inventory. The Company uses the last-in, first-out
("LIFO") method of accounting for inventories of crude oil and U.S. wholesale
refined products. This method results in inventory carrying amounts that are
less likely to represent current values and in costs of sales which more closely
represent current costs.
 
     Likewise, changes in natural gas prices impact revenues and the present
value of estimated future net revenues and cash flows from the Company's
exploration and production operations. The Company may increase or decrease its
natural gas production in response to market conditions. The carrying value of
oil and gas assets may be subject to noncash writedowns based on changes in
natural gas prices and other determining factors.
 
     Changes in natural gas prices also influence the level of drilling activity
in the Gulf of Mexico. The Company's marine services operation, whose customers
include offshore drilling contractors and related industries, could be impacted
by significant fluctuations in natural gas prices.
 
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<PAGE>   33
 
CAPITAL RESOURCES AND LIQUIDITY
 
OVERVIEW
 
     The Company's primary sources of liquidity are its cash and cash
equivalents, internal cash generation and external financing. During 1996, these
sources were significantly enhanced with the (i) receipt of $67.7 million for
the favorable resolution of the Tennessee Gas litigation in August 1996 and (ii)
the receipt of $51.8 million for the termination of the Tennessee Gas Contract
effective October 1, 1996 (see Note D of Notes to Consolidated Financial
Statements in Item 8). Although the resolution of the litigation and termination
of the remainder of the Tennessee Gas Contract will cause a decrease in the
Company's average natural gas sales prices in future years, it removed a major
financial uncertainty from the Company's capital structure, which improves the
predictability of the Company's cash flows, provides for additional financial
flexibility, and allows the Company to focus on growth initiatives. Furthermore,
during 1996, the Company achieved improvement in profitability from all of its
business segments. Cash flows from operations of $179 million in 1996, which
included approximately $120 million received from Tennessee Gas discussed above,
were used in part to fully redeem the Company's two public debt issues and to
finance the Company's capital expenditure program. The redemption of debt
strengthened the Company's financial condition, reducing the debt-to-capital
ratio to 21% and lowering interest expense (see Note I of Notes to Consolidated
Financial Statements in Item 8). The resolution of the litigation and
termination of the remainder of the Tennessee Gas Contract together with the
lower debt position have improved the Company's ability to access capital
markets.
 
     The Company continues to assess its existing asset base in order to
maximize returns and develop full value through strategic diversification and
acquisitions in all of its operating segments. This ongoing assessment includes,
in the Exploration and Production segment, evaluating ways in which the Company
could diversify the mix of its oil and gas reserves and offset the impact of
declining production through domestic development, exploration and acquisition
activity outside of the Bob West Field. In the Refining and Marketing segment,
the Company has been engaged in studies to improve profitability and has also
evaluated possible joint ventures, strategic alliances or business combinations;
such evaluations have not resulted in any transaction but operating strategies
have been developed to optimize the product and feedstock slates, improve
efficiencies and reliability, and expand marketing to increase placement of
products in Alaska. The Company continues to evaluate its Marine Services
segment, pursuing opportunities for expansion as well as optimizing existing
operations. In these regards, during 1996, the Company made significant progress
with each of its operating segments contributing to improved profitability. In
1996, the Company acquired Coastwide for approximately 1.4 million shares of
Tesoro's Common Stock and $7.7 million in cash and purchased exploration and
production properties, proved and unproved, outside of the Bob West Field for
$25.7 million (see Note C of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements in Item
8).
 
     The Company operates in an environment where its liquidity and capital
resources are impacted by changes in the supply of and demand for crude oil,
natural gas and refined petroleum products, market uncertainty and a variety of
additional risks that are beyond the control of the Company. These risks
include, among others, the level of consumer product demand, weather conditions,
the proximity of the Company's natural gas reserves to pipelines, the capacities
of such pipelines, fluctuations in seasonal demand, governmental regulations,
the price and availability of alternative fuels and overall market and economic
conditions. The Company's future capital expenditures as well as borrowings
under its credit facility and other sources of capital will be affected by these
conditions.
 
CREDIT ARRANGEMENTS
 
     In June 1996, the Company amended and restated its corporate revolving
credit agreement ("Credit Facility"), expiring in April 2000, which provides
total commitments of $150 million from a consortium of nine banks. The Credit
Facility provides for cash borrowings up to $100 million and issuance of letters
of credit up to a borrowing base (which was approximately $141 million at
December 31, 1996). The Credit Facility replaced a higher-cost $90 million
facility and provides the Company with more financial flexibility, including
lower interest rates, reduced fees on letters of credit, elimination of certain
restrictive financial tests,
 
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an increased borrowing base, increased cash borrowing availability, and the
right to enter into non-recourse or limited financings for certain subsidiaries.
The Company, at its option, has currently activated total commitments of $100
million.
 
     At December 31, 1996, the Company had outstanding letters of credit of $33
million with no cash borrowings outstanding. Outstanding obligations under the
Credit Facility are secured by liens on substantially all of the Company's trade
accounts receivable and product inventory and by mortgages on the Company's
refinery and South Texas natural gas reserves. Under the terms of the Credit
Facility, the Company is required to maintain specified levels of consolidated
working capital, tangible net worth, cash flow and interest coverage. Among
other matters, the Credit Facility contains covenants which limit the incurrence
of additional indebtedness and restricted payments.
 
     Although the terms of the Credit Facility allow for the payment of cash
dividends subject to a cumulative amount available for dividend payments (which
is defined as the difference of (i) the sum since December 31, 1995, of (a) $5
million and (b) 50% of consolidated net earnings of the Company in any calendar
year and (ii) any amount previously paid for dividends since June 1996), cash
dividends cannot exceed a maximum of $5 million annually. The Credit Facility
also permits the Company to repurchase a limited amount of Common Stock for
oddlot buyback programs, employee benefit plans and open market repurchases. The
Board of Directors has no present plans to pay dividends. However, from time to
time, the Board of Directors reevaluates the feasibility of declaring future
dividends.
 
     In November 1996, a subsidiary of the Company entered into a loan facility
with a bank, which provides a three-year line of credit up to $10 million to the
Marine Services segment for the purchase of real estate and equipment at the
bank's prime rate. The loan facility, which is subject to a borrowing base, is
not guaranteed by the Company and is secured only by such real estate and
equipment that are financed. Beginning in March 1998, credit availability is
reduced quarterly by 6.667%. At December 31, 1996, $.9 million was outstanding
under the loan facility.
 
DEBT AND OTHER OBLIGATIONS
 
     Under an agreement reached in 1993, which settled a contractual dispute
with the State of Alaska ("State"), the Company is obligated to make variable
monthly payments to the State through December 2001 based on a per barrel charge
on the volume of feedstock processed at the Company's refinery. In 1995 and
1994, based on a per barrel throughput charge of 16 cents, the Company's
variable payments to the State amounted to $2.9 million and $2.8 million,
respectively. The per barrel charge increased to 24 cents in 1996 with the
Company's variable payment to the State totaling $4.0 million in the year. The
per barrel charge of 24 cents in 1997 increases to 30 cents in 1998 with one
cent annual incremental increases thereafter through 2001. In January 2002, the
Company is obligated to pay the State $60 million; provided, however, that such
payment may be deferred indefinitely by continuing the variable monthly payments
to the State beginning at 34 cents per barrel for 2002 and increasing one cent
per barrel annually thereafter. Variable monthly payments made after January
2002 will not reduce the $60 million obligation to the State. The $60 million
obligation is evidenced by a security bond, and the bond and the throughput
barrel obligations are secured by a mortgage on the Company's refinery. The
Company's obligations under the agreement with the State and the mortgage are
subordinated to current and future senior debt of up to $175 million plus any
indebtedness incurred subsequent to the date of the agreement to improve the
Company's refinery.
 
CAPITAL SPENDING
 
     Capital spending in 1996 amounted to $85 million, which was funded from
available cash reserves, cash flows from operations and borrowings under
revolving credit lines. Capital expenditures for the Company's Exploration and
Production segment were approximately $67 million, including $26 million for
proved and unproved property acquisitions, $22 million for development and $19
million for exploration. During 1996, the Company participated in the drilling
of 16 development wells and 6 exploratory wells in the U.S. and two exploratory
wells in Bolivia. Capital projects for the Company's Refining and Marketing
operations in 1996 totaled $11 million, primarily for installation of facilities
to produce and market asphalt, improvements and
 
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upgrades at the refinery and expansion of its retail marketing facilities. In
the Marine Services segment, capital spending totaled $7 million during 1996
(excluding amounts for the Coastwide acquisition) primarily for equipment to
improve operating efficiencies.
 
     For 1997, the Company has a total capital budget of approximately $156
million. The Exploration and Production segment accounts for $76 million, or
49%, of the budget with $68 million planned for U.S. activities and $8 million
for Bolivia. Planned U.S. expenditures include $30 million for property
acquisitions; $19 million for development drilling (participation in 19 wells)
and workovers; $9 million for leasehold, geological and geophysical; and $10
million for exploratory drilling (participation in 15 wells). In Bolivia, the
drilling program is budgeted at $2 million for one exploratory well, with the
remainder planned for three-dimensional seismic activity. Capital spending for
the Refining and Marketing segment is planned at $50 million, which includes $17
million for modification and expansion of the refinery hydrocracker to improve
the feedstock and product slate. Additionally, in 1997 the Company will direct
$20 million towards a three-year capital program to build new retail outlets and
remodel existing stations in the Refining and Marketing segment. The Marine
Services segment's capital budget is $29 million, primarily for expansion of its
operations along the Gulf of Mexico and potential acquisitions. Capital
expenditures for 1997 are expected to be financed through a combination of cash
flows from operations, available cash reserves and borrowings under revolving
credit lines.
 
CASH FLOWS
 
     Components of the Company's cash flows are set forth below (in millions):
 
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                              1996     1995     1994
                                                             ------    -----    -----
<S>                                                          <C>       <C>      <C>
Cash Flows From (Used In):
  Operating Activities.....................................  $179.0     35.4     60.3
  Investing Activities.....................................   (94.2)     2.4    (91.2)
  Financing Activities.....................................   (75.9)   (37.9)     8.3
                                                             ------    -----    -----
Increase (Decrease) in Cash and Cash Equivalents...........  $  8.9      (.1)   (22.6)
                                                             ======    =====    =====
</TABLE>
 
     During 1996, net cash from operating activities totaled $179 million,
compared with $35 million in 1995. This increase in operating cash flows in 1996
was primarily due to the receipt of $120 million from Tennessee Gas for the
favorable resolution of litigation in August 1996 and termination of the natural
gas purchase and sales contract effective October 1, 1996. In addition, improved
profitability plus noncash items, such as depreciation, depletion and
amortization and deferred income taxes, contributed to higher cash flows from
operations. Partially offsetting these increases were higher net working capital
balances, particularly receivables which increased due to higher year-end sales
volumes together with higher prices. Net cash used in investing activities of
$94 million in 1996 included capital expenditures of $85 million and cash
consideration of nearly $8 million for the acquisition of Coastwide. Net cash
used in financing activities of $76 million during 1996 was primarily due to the
redemption of Subordinated Debentures and Exchange Notes aggregating $74 million
together with payments of other long-term debt. During 1996, the Company's gross
borrowings and repayments under its revolving credit lines amounted to $166
million. At December 31, 1996, the Company's net working capital totaled $99
million, which included cash and cash equivalents of $23 million.
 
     During 1995, net cash from operating activities totaled $35 million,
compared with $60 million in 1994. Although natural gas production from the
Company's South Texas operations increased during 1995, lower cash receipts for
sales of natural gas adversely affected the Company's cash flows from
operations. Net cash from investing activities of $2 million in 1995 included
proceeds of $70 million from sales of assets, primarily certain interests in the
Bob West Field, partially offset by $64 million of capital expenditures and $3
million for acquisition of the Kenai Pipe Line Company ("KPL"). Net cash used in
financing activities of $38 million in 1995 was primarily related to the
redemption of $34.6 million of Subordinated Debentures and payments of other
long-term debt. The Company's gross borrowings and repayments under the Facility
totaled $262 million during 1995.
 
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     Net cash from operating activities of $60 million in 1994 included net
earnings adjusted for certain noncash charges, together with reduced working
capital requirements. Net cash used in investing activities of $91 million
during 1994 included capital expenditures of $100 million, mainly for
exploration and production activities in the Bob West Field and installation of
the vacuum unit at the Company's refinery. These uses of cash in investing
activities in 1994 were partially offset by a net decrease of $6 million in
short-term investments and cash proceeds of $3 million from sales of assets. Net
cash from financing activities of $8 million during 1994 included $15 million in
borrowings under the Vacuum Unit Loan and $4 million net proceeds from an equity
offering (see Note K of Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements in Item 8).
These financing sources of cash during 1994 were partially offset by the
repayment of net borrowings of $5 million under interim financing arrangements
early in 1994 and dividends of $2 million paid on preferred stock.
 
ENVIRONMENTAL AND OTHER MATTERS
 
     The Company is subject to extensive federal, state and local environmental
laws and regulations. These laws, which change frequently, regulate the
discharge of materials into the environment and may require the Company to
remove or mitigate the environmental effects of the disposal or release of
petroleum or chemical substances at various sites or install additional controls
or other modifications or changes in use for certain emission sources. The
Company is currently involved in a remedial response and has incurred cleanup
expenditures associated with environmental matters at a number of sites,
including certain of its own properties. At December 31, 1996, the Company's
accruals for environmental expenses amounted to $8.9 million, which included a
noncurrent liability of $3.5 million for remediation of the KPL properties that
has been funded by the former owners through a restricted escrow deposit. Based
on currently available information, including the participation of other parties
or former owners in remediation actions, the Company believes these accruals are
adequate. In addition, to comply with environmental laws and regulations, the
Company anticipates that it will make capital improvements of approximately $6
million in 1997 and $3 million in 1998. The Company also expects to spend
approximately $6 million by the year 2002 for secondary containment systems for
existing storage tanks in Alaska.
 
     Conditions that require additional expenditures may exist for various
Company sites, including, but not limited to, the Company's refinery, retail
gasoline outlets (current and closed locations) and petroleum product terminals,
and for compliance with the Clean Air Act. The amount of such future
expenditures cannot currently be determined by the Company. For further
information on environmental contingencies, see Note L of Notes to Consolidated
Financial Statements in Item 8.
 
CRUDE OIL PURCHASE CONTRACT
 
     The Company has a three-year contract with the State of Alaska for the
purchase of royalty crude oil covering the period January 1, 1996 through
December 31, 1998. The contract provides for the purchase of approximately
40,000 barrels per day of ANS royalty crude oil, the primary feedstock for the
Company's refinery, and is priced based on royalty values computed by the State.
Under this agreement, the Company is required to utilize in its refinery
operations volumes equal to at least 80% of the ANS crude oil to be purchased
from the State. This contract contains provisions that, under certain
conditions, allow the Company to temporarily or permanently reduce its purchase
obligations.
 
FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS
 
     Statements in this Annual Report, including those contained in the
foregoing discussion and other items herein, concerning the Company which are
(a) projections of revenues, earnings, earnings per share, capital expenditures
or other financial items, (b) statements of plans and objectives for future
operations, (c) statements of future economic performance, or (d) statements of
assumptions or estimates underlying or supporting the foregoing are
forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities
Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. The ultimate
accuracy of forward-looking statements is subject to a wide range of business
risks and changes in circumstances, and actual results and outcomes often differ
from expectations. Any number of important factors could cause actual results to
 
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differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements herein, including
the following: the timing and extent of changes in commodity prices and
underlying demand and availability of crude oil and other refinery feedstocks,
refined products, and natural gas; actions of our customers and competitors;
changes in the cost or availability of third-party vessels, pipelines and other
means of transporting feedstocks and products; state and federal environmental,
economic, safety and other policies and regulations, any changes therein, and
any legal or regulatory delays or other factors beyond the Company's control;
execution of planned capital projects; weather conditions affecting the
Company's operations or the areas in which the Company's products are marketed;
future well performance; the extent of Tesoro's success in acquiring oil and gas
properties and in discovering, developing and producing reserves; political
developments in foreign countries, the conditions of the capital markets and
equity markets during the periods covered by the forward-looking statements;
earthquakes or other natural disasters affecting operations; adverse rulings,
judgments, or settlements in litigation or other legal matters, including
unexpected environmental remediation costs in excess of any reserves; and
adverse changes in the credit ratings assigned to the Company's trade credit.
The Company undertakes no obligation to publicly release the result of any
revisions to any such forward-looking statements that may be made to reflect
events or circumstances after the date hereof or to reflect the occurrence of
unanticipated events.
 
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ITEM 8.  FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND SUPPLEMENTARY DATA
 
                          INDEPENDENT AUDITORS' REPORT
 
Board of Directors and Stockholders
Tesoro Petroleum Corporation
 
     We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of Tesoro
Petroleum Corporation and subsidiaries as of December 31, 1996 and 1995, and the
related statements of consolidated operations, stockholders' equity and cash
flows for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 1996. These
financial statements are the responsibility of the Company's management. Our
responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements based on
our audits.
 
     We conducted our audits in accordance with generally accepted auditing
standards. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain
reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material
misstatement. An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting
the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. An audit also includes
assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by
management, as well as evaluating the overall financial statement presentation.
We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.
 
     In our opinion, such consolidated financial statements present fairly, in
all material respects, the financial position of Tesoro Petroleum Corporation
and subsidiaries at December 31, 1996 and 1995, and the results of their
operations and their cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended
December 31, 1996, in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles.
 
DELOITTE & TOUCHE LLP
 
San Antonio, Texas
January 23, 1997
 
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<PAGE>   39
 
                          TESORO PETROLEUM CORPORATION
 
                     STATEMENTS OF CONSOLIDATED OPERATIONS
                    (IN THOUSANDS EXCEPT PER SHARE AMOUNTS)
 
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                                 YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31,
                                                            ----------------------------------
                                                               1996         1995        1994
                                                            ----------   ----------   --------
<S>                                                         <C>          <C>          <C>
REVENUES
  Refining and marketing..................................  $  745,413      771,035    686,994
  Exploration and production..............................     107,415      124,670    103,773
  Marine services.........................................     122,533       74,467     77,917
  Income from settlement of a natural gas contract (Note
     D)...................................................      60,000           --         --
  Gain on sales of assets and other income................       4,417       32,711      3,259
                                                            ----------   ----------   --------
          Total Revenues..................................   1,039,778    1,002,883    871,943
                                                            ----------   ----------   --------
OPERATING COSTS AND EXPENSES
  Refining and marketing..................................     726,029      758,329    676,697
  Exploration and production..............................      12,968       19,055     15,302
  Marine services.........................................     115,314       77,803     80,507
  Depreciation, depletion and amortization................      40,627       41,776     35,041
                                                            ----------   ----------   --------
          Total Operating Costs and Expenses..............     894,938      896,963    807,547
                                                            ----------   ----------   --------
OPERATING PROFIT..........................................     144,840      105,920     64,396
General and Administrative................................     (12,733)     (16,453)   (14,750)
Interest Expense, Net of Capitalized Interest in 1994.....     (15,382)     (20,902)   (18,749)
Interest Income...........................................       8,423        1,845      2,522
Other Expense, Net........................................     (10,001)      (8,542)    (7,363)
                                                            ----------   ----------   --------
EARNINGS BEFORE INCOME TAXES AND EXTRAORDINARY ITEM.......     115,147       61,868     26,056
Income Tax Provision......................................      38,347        4,379      5,573
                                                            ----------   ----------   --------
EARNINGS BEFORE EXTRAORDINARY ITEM........................      76,800       57,489     20,483
Extraordinary Loss on Extinguishment of Debt (Net of
  Income Tax Benefit of $886 in 1996).....................      (2,290)      (2,857)    (4,752)
                                                            ----------   ----------   --------
NET EARNINGS..............................................      74,510       54,632     15,731
Dividend Requirements on Preferred Stock..................          --           --      2,680
                                                            ----------   ----------   --------
NET EARNINGS APPLICABLE TO COMMON STOCK...................  $   74,510       54,632     13,051
                                                            ==========   ==========   ========
EARNINGS PER SHARE
  Earnings Before Extraordinary Item......................  $     2.90         2.29        .77
  Extraordinary Loss on Extinguishment of Debt, Net of
     Income Tax Benefit...................................        (.09)        (.11)      (.21)
                                                            ----------   ----------   --------
          Net Earnings....................................  $     2.81         2.18        .56
                                                            ==========   ==========   ========
WEIGHTED AVERAGE COMMON AND COMMON EQUIVALENT SHARES......      26,499       25,107     23,196
                                                            ==========   ==========   ========
</TABLE>
 
  The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial
                                  statements.
 
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                          TESORO PETROLEUM CORPORATION
 
                          CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS
                    (IN THOUSANDS EXCEPT PER SHARE AMOUNTS)
 
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                                 DECEMBER 31,
                                                              -------------------
                                                                1996       1995
                                                              --------    -------
<S>                                                           <C>         <C>
                                     ASSETS
CURRENT ASSETS
  Cash and cash equivalents.................................  $ 22,796     13,941
  Receivables, less allowance for doubtful accounts.........   128,013     77,534
  Inventories...............................................    74,488     80,453
  Prepayments and other.....................................    12,046     10,536
                                                              --------    -------
          Total Current Assets..............................   237,343    182,464
                                                              --------    -------
PROPERTY, PLANT AND EQUIPMENT
  Refining and marketing....................................   328,522    322,023
  Exploration and production, full-cost method of
     accounting:
     Properties being amortized.............................   179,433    119,836
     Properties not yet evaluated...........................    12,344      5,118
     Gas transportation.....................................     6,703      6,703
  Marine services...........................................    33,820     12,757
  Corporate.................................................    12,531     12,443
                                                              --------    -------
                                                               573,353    478,880
     Less accumulated depreciation, depletion and
      amortization..........................................   256,842    217,191
                                                              --------    -------
     Net Property, Plant and Equipment......................   316,511    261,689
                                                              --------    -------
RECEIVABLE FROM TENNESSEE GAS PIPELINE COMPANY (Note D).....        --     50,680
                                                              --------    -------
OTHER ASSETS................................................    28,733     24,320
                                                              --------    -------
          Total Assets......................................  $582,587    519,153
                                                              ========    =======
 
                      LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS' EQUITY
 
CURRENT LIABILITIES
  Accounts payable..........................................  $ 80,747     61,389
  Accrued liabilities.......................................    33,256     33,066
  Current income taxes payable..............................    13,822      1,007
  Current maturities of long-term debt and other
     obligations............................................    10,043      9,473
                                                              --------    -------
          Total Current Liabilities.........................   137,868    104,935
                                                              --------    -------
DEFERRED INCOME TAXES.......................................    19,151      5,389
                                                              --------    -------
OTHER LIABILITIES...........................................    42,243     37,308
                                                              --------    -------
LONG-TERM DEBT AND OTHER OBLIGATIONS, LESS CURRENT
  MATURITIES................................................    79,260    155,007
                                                              --------    -------
COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES (Note L)
STOCKHOLDERS' EQUITY
  Preferred stock, no par value; authorized 5,000 shares
     including redeemable preferred shares; none issued or
     outstanding
  Common stock, par value $.16 2/3; authorized 50,000
     shares; 26,414 shares issued and outstanding (24,780 in
     1995)..................................................     4,402      4,130
  Additional paid-in capital................................   189,368    176,599
  Retained earnings.........................................   110,295     35,785
                                                              --------    -------
     Total Stockholders' Equity.............................   304,065    216,514
                                                              --------    -------
          Total Liabilities and Stockholders' Equity........  $582,587    519,153
                                                              ========    =======
</TABLE>
 
  The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial
                                  statements.
 
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                          TESORO PETROLEUM CORPORATION
 
                STATEMENTS OF CONSOLIDATED STOCKHOLDERS' EQUITY
                                 (IN THOUSANDS)
 
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                 COMMON STOCK                       RETAINED EARNINGS
                                                ---------------     ADDITIONAL        (ACCUMULATED
                                                SHARES   AMOUNT   PAID-IN CAPITAL       DEFICIT)
                                                ------   ------   ---------------   -----------------
<S>                                             <C>      <C>      <C>               <C>
DECEMBER 31, 1993.............................  14,089   $2,348      $ 86,748           $(31,898)
  Recapitalization and equity offering, net
     (Note K).................................  10,265    1,710        88,481                 --
  Stock awards and options....................      36        7           285                 --
  Net earnings................................      --       --            --             15,731
  Accrued dividends on preferred stocks.......      --       --            --             (2,680)
                                                ------   ------      --------           --------
DECEMBER 31, 1994.............................  24,390    4,065       175,514            (18,847)
  Stock awards and options....................     390       65         1,085                 --
  Net earnings................................      --       --            --             54,632
                                                ------   ------      --------           --------
DECEMBER 31, 1995.............................  24,780    4,130       176,599             35,785
  Issuance of Common Stock for acquisition....   1,308      218        11,054                 --
  Stock awards and options....................     326       54         1,715                 --
  Net earnings................................      --       --            --             74,510
                                                ------   ------      --------           --------
DECEMBER 31, 1996.............................  26,414   $4,402      $189,368           $110,295
                                                ======   ======      ========           ========
</TABLE>
 
  The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial
                                  statements.
 
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                          TESORO PETROLEUM CORPORATION
 
                     STATEMENTS OF CONSOLIDATED CASH FLOWS
                                 (IN THOUSANDS)
 
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                                YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31,
                                                              ----------------------------
                                                                1996      1995      1994
                                                              --------   -------   -------
<S>                                                           <C>        <C>       <C>
CASH FLOWS FROM (USED IN) OPERATING ACTIVITIES
  Net earnings..............................................  $ 74,510    54,632    15,731
  Adjustments to reconcile net earnings to net cash from
     operating activities:
     Extraordinary loss on extinguishment of debt, net of
       income tax benefit...................................     2,290     2,857     4,752
     Depreciation, depletion and amortization...............    41,459    42,620    36,016
     Loss (gain) on sales of assets.........................       835   (32,659)   (2,379)
     Amortization of deferred charges and other.............     1,601     1,556     2,800
     Changes in operating assets and liabilities:
       Receivable from Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company.......    50,680   (37,456)  (13,224)
       Receivables, other trade.............................   (42,542)    9,746    (7,279)
       Inventories..........................................     7,210   (11,599)    5,884
       Other assets.........................................    (3,521)   (3,573)   (1,808)
       Accounts payable and accrued liabilities.............    28,165     4,605    20,567
       Deferred income taxes................................    14,649       807       790
       Obligation payments to State of Alaska...............    (4,047)   (2,892)   (2,754)
       Other liabilities and obligations....................     7,673     6,769     1,201
                                                              --------   -------   -------
          Net cash from operating activities................   178,962    35,413    60,297
                                                              --------   -------   -------
CASH FLOWS FROM (USED IN) INVESTING ACTIVITIES
  Capital expenditures......................................   (84,957)  (63,930)  (99,587)
  Acquisitions (Note C).....................................    (7,720)   (3,029)       --
  Proceeds from sales of assets.............................     2,569    69,786     2,544
  Sales of short-term investments, net of $1,974 purchases
     in 1994................................................        --        --     5,952
  Other.....................................................    (4,092)     (423)      (50)
                                                              --------   -------   -------
          Net cash from (used in) investing activities......   (94,200)    2,404   (91,141)
                                                              --------   -------   -------
CASH FLOWS FROM (USED IN) FINANCING ACTIVITIES
  Repurchase of debentures..................................   (74,116)  (34,634)       --
  Payments of long-term debt................................    (3,838)   (2,979)   (1,383)
  Net borrowings (repayments) under revolving credit
     facilities.............................................       883        --    (5,000)
  Issuance of long-term debt................................        --        --    15,000
  Proceeds from issuance of common stock, net...............        --        --    56,967
  Repurchase of common and preferred stock..................        --        --   (52,948)
  Dividends on preferred stocks.............................        --        --    (1,684)
  Other.....................................................     1,164      (281)   (2,686)
                                                              --------   -------   -------
          Net cash from (used in) financing activities......   (75,907)  (37,894)    8,266
                                                              --------   -------   -------
INCREASE (DECREASE) IN CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS............     8,855       (77)  (22,578)
CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS AT BEGINNING OF YEAR..............    13,941    14,018    36,596
                                                              --------   -------   -------
CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS AT END OF YEAR....................  $ 22,796    13,941    14,018
                                                              ========   =======   =======
SUPPLEMENTAL CASH FLOW DISCLOSURES
  Interest paid, net of $915 capitalized in 1994............  $ 12,450    18,132    15,898
                                                              ========   =======   =======
  Income taxes paid.........................................  $  6,285     4,046     5,361
                                                              ========   =======   =======
</TABLE>
 
  The accompanying notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial
                                  statements.
 
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                          TESORO PETROLEUM CORPORATION
 
                   NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
 
NOTE A -- SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES
 
  Principles of Consolidation
 
     The Consolidated Financial Statements include the accounts of Tesoro
Petroleum Corporation and its subsidiaries (collectively, the "Company" or
"Tesoro"). Tesoro is a natural resource company primarily engaged in petroleum
refining and marketing, natural gas exploration and production, marketing and
distributing of petroleum products and providing marine logistics services. All
significant intercompany accounts and transactions have been eliminated.
 
  Use of Estimates and Presentation
 
     The preparation of the Company's Consolidated Financial Statements required
the use of management's best estimates and judgment that affect the reported
amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosures of contingent assets and
liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of
revenues and expenses during the year. Actual results could differ from those
estimates.
 
     Certain previously reported amounts have been reclassified to conform with
the 1996 presentation.
 
  Cash and Cash Equivalents
 
     Cash equivalents consist of highly-liquid debt instruments such as
commercial paper and certificates of deposit purchased with an original maturity
date of three months or less. Cash equivalents are stated at cost, which
approximates market value. The Company's policy is to invest cash in
conservative, highly-rated instruments and to invest in various institutions to
limit the amount of credit exposure in any one institution. The Company performs
ongoing evaluations of the credit standing of these financial institutions.
 
  Inventories
 
     Inventories are stated at the lower of cost or market. The last-in,
first-out ("LIFO") method was used to determine the cost of the Company's
inventories of crude oil and U.S. wholesale refined products. The cost of
remaining inventories was determined principally on the first-in, first-out
("FIFO") or weighted average basis. See Note F.
 
  Property, Plant and Equipment
 
     Additions to property, plant and equipment and major renewals and
improvements are capitalized at cost. Maintenance and repairs are charged to
operations when incurred. Depletion of oil and gas producing properties is
determined principally by the unit-of-production method and is based on
estimated recoverable reserves. Depreciation of other property, plant and
equipment is generally computed on the straight-line method based upon the
estimated useful lives of the assets, ranging from 3 years to 33 years for
refining and marketing assets and 3 years to 25 years for other assets. Salvage
values are estimated at 20% for refinery assets and 10% for other assets. Assets
recorded under capital leases and leasehold improvements are amortized on the
straight-line method over the shorter of the term of the lease or the useful
life of the related asset.
 
     Oil and gas properties are accounted for using the full-cost method of
accounting. Under this method, all costs associated with property acquisition
and exploration and development activities are capitalized into cost centers
that are established on a country-by-country basis. For each cost center, the
capitalized costs are subject to a limitation so as not to exceed the present
value of future net revenues from estimated production of proved oil and gas
reserves net of income tax effect plus the lower of cost or estimated fair value
of unproved properties included in the cost center. Capitalized costs within a
cost center, together with estimates of costs for future development,
dismantlement and abandonment, are amortized on a unit-of-production method
 
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                          TESORO PETROLEUM CORPORATION
 
           NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS -- (CONTINUED)
 
using the proved oil and gas reserves for each cost center. The Company's
investment in certain oil and gas properties is excluded from the amortization
base until the properties are evaluated. Gain or loss is recognized only on the
sale of oil and gas properties involving significant reserves. Proceeds from the
sale of insignificant reserves and undeveloped properties are applied to reduce
the costs in the cost centers.
 
  Income Taxes
 
     Deferred tax assets and liabilities are recognized for future income tax
consequences attributable to differences between financial statement carrying
amounts of assets and liabilities and their respective tax bases. Measurement of
deferred tax assets and liabilities is based on enacted tax rates expected to
apply to taxable income in the years in which those temporary differences are
expected to be recovered or settled. The effect on deferred tax assets and
liabilities of a change in tax rates is recognized in the period that includes
the enactment date.
 
  Environmental Expenditures
 
     Environmental expenditures that relate to current operations are expensed
or capitalized as appropriate. Expenditures that extend the life, increase the
capacity, or mitigate or prevent environmental contamination, are capitalized.
Expenditures that relate to an existing condition caused by past operations, and
which do not contribute to current or future revenue generation, are expensed.
Liabilities are recorded when environmental assessments and/or remedial efforts
are probable and the cost can be reasonably estimated. Such amounts are based on
the estimated timing and extent of remedial actions required by applicable
governing agencies, experience gained from similar sites on which environmental
assessments or remediation has been completed, and the amount of the Company's
anticipated liability considering the proportional liability and financial
abilities of other responsible parties. Estimated liabilities are not discounted
to present value. Generally, the timing of these accruals coincides with
completion of a feasibility study or the Company's commitment to a formal plan
of action.
 
  Financial Instruments
 
     The carrying amount of financial instruments including cash and cash
equivalents, accounts receivable, accounts payable and certain accrued
liabilities approximates fair value because of the short maturity of these
instruments. The carrying amount of the Company's long-term debt and other
obligations approximated the Company's estimates of the fair value of such
items.
 
  Earnings Per Share
 
     Earnings per share is based on the weighted average number of common shares
outstanding during the year, including the dilutive effect of common stock
equivalents, principally stock options. For 1994, the assumed conversion of
preferred stocks to common shares was anti-dilutive.
 
  Stock-Based Compensation
 
     The Company accounts for stock-based compensation using the intrinsic value
method prescribed in Accounting Principles Board ("APB") No. 25, "Accounting for
Stock Issued to Employees," and related Interpretations. Accordingly,
compensation cost for stock options is measured as the excess, if any, of the
quoted market price of the Company's Common Stock at the date of grant over the
amount an employee must pay to acquire the stock. The Company has adopted the
disclosure requirements of Statement of Financial Accounting Standards ("SFAS")
No. 123, "Accounting for Stock-Based Compensation," as included in Note K.
 
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                          TESORO PETROLEUM CORPORATION
 
           NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS -- (CONTINUED)
 
NOTE B -- BUSINESS SEGMENTS
 
     The Company's revenues are derived from three business segments: Refining
and Marketing, Exploration and Production, and Marine Services.
 
     Refining and Marketing operates a petroleum refinery at Kenai, Alaska,
which manufactures gasoline, jet fuel, diesel fuel, heavy oils and residual
products. These products, together with products purchased from third parties,
are sold at wholesale through terminal facilities and other locations in Alaska
and the Pacific Northwest. In addition, Refining and Marketing markets gasoline,
other petroleum products and convenience store items at retail through a chain
of 7-Eleven convenience stores in Alaska. Refining and Marketing also markets
petroleum products through other branded and unbranded stations in Alaska and
the Pacific Northwest. Revenues from export sales, primarily to Far East
markets, amounted to $22.0 million, $18.5 million and $5.2 million in 1996, 1995
and 1994, respectively. The Company at times resells previously purchased crude
oil, sales of which amounted to $93.8 million, $75.8 million and $72.3 million
in 1996, 1995 and 1994, respectively.
 
     The Exploration and Production segment is engaged in the exploration,
development and production of natural gas and oil, primarily in the Wilcox Trend
in South Texas and the Chaco Basin in Bolivia. In the U.S., the Company's focus
has recently shifted outside of the maturing Bob West Field in South Texas to
other areas. During 1996 and early 1997, the Exploration and Production segment
purchased interests in the Frio/Vicksburg Trend adjacent to the Wilcox Trend in
South Texas, the Cotton Valley Pinnacle Reef Play in East Texas and the Val
Verde Basin in Southwest Texas (see Note C). This segment also includes the
transportation of natural gas, including the Company's production, to common
carrier pipelines in the South Texas area. In Bolivia, the Company operates
through two contracts with the Bolivian government to explore for and produce
hydrocarbons. The Company's Bolivian gas production is sold under contract to
the Bolivian government for export to Argentina. The majority of the Company's
Bolivian natural gas and oil reserves are shut-in awaiting access to
gas-consuming markets. Major developments in South America indicate that new
markets may open for the Company's production in the near future, particularly
with the construction of a Bolivia-Brazil pipeline scheduled to start in late
1997, with first gas deliveries expected in 1999.
 
     Marine Services markets and distributes petroleum products and provides
logistics services, primarily to the marine and offshore exploration and
production industries operating in the Gulf of Mexico. This segment currently
operates 20 terminals along the Texas and Louisiana Gulf Coast. For information
regarding an acquisition in this segment, see Note C. During 1995, the Company
consolidated certain operations in this segment by exiting the land-based
portion of its petroleum product distribution business, and in 1994 the Company
discontinued an environmental remediation products and services operation
formerly included in this segment.
 
     Segment operating profit is gross operating revenues, gains and losses on
asset sales and other income less applicable segment costs of sales, operating
expenses, depreciation, depletion and other items. Income taxes, interest
expense, interest income and corporate general and administrative expenses are
not included in determining operating profit. In the Exploration and Production
segment, operating profit in 1996 included $60 million of income from
termination of a natural gas contract and $5 million for retroactive severance
tax refunds, and 1995 included a gain of $33 million from the sale of certain
interests in the Bob West Field. In 1996, 1995 and 1994, the Exploration and
Production segment's operating profit included $24.6 million, $47.1 million and
$38.9 million, respectively, from the excess of Tennessee Gas Contract prices
over spot market prices (see Note D). Operating profit from the Refining and
Marketing segment in 1994 included a gain of $2.4 million from the sale of
assets and a refund of $8.5 million for a tariff issue, partially offset by net
charges of approximately $5 million for environmental contingencies and other
matters.
 
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                          TESORO PETROLEUM CORPORATION
 
           NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS -- (CONTINUED)
 
     Identifiable assets are those assets utilized by the segment. Corporate
assets are principally cash, investments and other assets that cannot be
directly associated with the operations of a business segment. Segment
information for the years ended December 31, 1996, 1995 and 1994 is as follows
(in millions):
 
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                          1996        1995        1994
                                                        --------    --------    --------
<S>                                                     <C>         <C>         <C>
REVENUES
  Gross operating revenues:
     Refining and Marketing --
       Refined products...............................  $  620.8       664.5       582.7
       Other, primarily crude oil resales and
          merchandise.................................     124.6       106.5       104.3
     Exploration and Production --
       U.S. oil and gas...............................      88.4       107.3        87.5
       U.S. gas transportation........................       5.4         5.7         3.1
       Bolivia........................................      13.7        11.7        13.2
     Marine Services..................................     122.5        74.5        77.9
                                                        --------    --------    --------
          Total Gross Operating Revenues..............     975.4       970.2       868.7
  Income from settlement of a natural gas contract....      60.0          --          --
  Other, including gain (loss) on asset sales.........       4.4        32.7         3.2
                                                        --------    --------    --------
          Total Revenues..............................  $1,039.8     1,002.9       871.9
                                                        ========    ========    ========
OPERATING PROFIT (LOSS)
  Refining and Marketing..............................  $    6.0          .7         2.4
  Exploration and Production --
     U.S. oil and gas.................................     119.1        96.9        52.1
     U.S. gas transportation..........................       4.8         5.1         2.9
     Bolivia..........................................       8.8         7.6         9.3
  Marine Services.....................................       6.1        (4.4)       (2.3)
                                                        --------    --------    --------
     Total Operating Profit...........................     144.8       105.9        64.4
  Corporate and Unallocated Costs.....................     (29.7)      (44.0)      (38.3)
                                                        --------    --------    --------
  Earnings Before Income Taxes and Extraordinary
     Item.............................................  $  115.1        61.9        26.1
                                                        ========    ========    ========
IDENTIFIABLE ASSETS
  Refining and Marketing..............................  $  317.0       313.3       309.1
  Exploration and Production --
     U.S. oil and gas.................................     136.3       128.9       105.5
     U.S. gas transportation..........................       7.3         7.8         8.4
     Bolivia..........................................      27.0        17.8        11.1
  Marine Services.....................................      56.0        18.0        19.8
  Corporate...........................................      39.0        33.4        30.5
                                                        --------    --------    --------
          Total Assets................................  $  582.6       519.2       484.4
                                                        ========    ========    ========
</TABLE>
 
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                          TESORO PETROLEUM CORPORATION
 
           NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS -- (CONTINUED)
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                          1996        1995        1994
                                                        --------    --------    --------
<S>                                                     <C>         <C>         <C>
DEPRECIATION, DEPLETION AND AMORTIZATION
  Refining and Marketing..............................  $   12.5        11.9        10.4
  Exploration and Production --
     U.S. oil and gas.................................      25.3        29.0        24.1
     U.S. gas transportation..........................        .3          .3          .2
     Bolivia..........................................       1.3          .3          --
  Marine Services.....................................       1.2          .3          .3
  Corporate...........................................        .9          .8         1.0
                                                        --------    --------    --------
          Total Depreciation, Depletion and
            Amortization..............................  $   41.5        42.6        36.0
                                                        ========    ========    ========
CAPITAL EXPENDITURES
  Refining and Marketing..............................  $   11.1         9.3        32.0
  Exploration and Production --
     U.S. oil and gas.................................      59.7        49.4        60.4
     U.S. gas transportation..........................        --          .2         5.2
     Bolivia..........................................       6.9         3.8          --
  Marine Services.....................................       6.9          .4          .2
  Corporate...........................................        .4          .8         1.8
                                                        --------    --------    --------
          Total Capital Expenditures..................  $   85.0        63.9        99.6
                                                        ========    ========    ========
</TABLE>
 
NOTE C -- ACQUISITIONS AND DIVESTITURES
 
     During 1996, the Company's Exploration and Production segment recorded
acquisitions of proved and unproved properties totaling $25.7 million. The most
significant of these was the purchase in December 1996 of interests in the Los
Indios and La Reforma Fields, located in Hidalgo and Starr counties of South
Texas, for $15 million. These two fields are in the Frio/Vicksburg Trend, which
lies immediately adjacent to the Wilcox Trend. Other acquisitions in 1996
included the purchase of interests in the Berry R. Cox and the West Goliad
Fields, both located in the Wilcox Trend, for $5.4 million and the purchase of
approximately 35,000 net undeveloped acres in four areas of Texas for $5.3
million.
 
     In September 1995, the Company sold, effective April 1, 1995, certain
interests in its producing and non-producing oil and gas properties located in
the Bob West Field in South Texas. The interests sold included the Company's
approximate 55% net revenue interest and 70% working interest in Units C, D and
E and a convertible override in Unit F of the Bob West Field. Excluded from the
sale were the Company's interests in the State Park and Sanchez-O'Brien leases
and the Ramirez USA E-6 well within the Bob West Field. In total, the sale
included interests in 14 gross producing wells amounting to 77 Bcf, or 40%, of
the Company's total net proved domestic reserves at the time of the sale (see
Note O). For 1995, natural gas production from the interests sold had
contributed approximately $11.7 million to revenues and $4 million to operating
profit in the Company's Exploration and Production segment. Consideration for
the sale was $74 million, which was adjusted for production, capital
expenditures and certain other items after the effective date to approximately
$68 million in cash received at closing, resulting in a gain of approximately
$33 million in the 1995 third quarter. The consideration received by the Company
was used to redeem $34.6 million of the Company's outstanding 12 3/4%
Subordinated Debentures in 1995, reduce borrowings under the Company's revolving
credit facility and improve corporate liquidity (see Note I).
 
     In February 1996, the Company purchased 100% of the capital stock of
Coastwide Energy Services, Inc. ("Coastwide"). The consideration included
approximately 1.4 million shares of Tesoro's Common Stock and $7.7 million in
cash. The market price of Tesoro's Common Stock was $9.00 per share at closing
of this transaction. In addition, Tesoro repaid approximately $4.5 million of
Coastwide's outstanding debt. Coastwide
 
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                          TESORO PETROLEUM CORPORATION
 
           NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS -- (CONTINUED)
 
was primarily a provider of logistical support services and a distributor of
diesel fuel and lubricants to the offshore oil and gas industry in the Gulf of
Mexico. The Company combined the Coastwide operation with its marine petroleum
distribution operations, forming a Marine Services segment. The acquisition was
accounted for as a purchase whereby the purchase price was allocated to the
assets acquired and liabilities assumed based upon their estimated fair values.
 
     In March 1995, the Company acquired all of the outstanding stock of Kenai
Pipe Line Company ("KPL") for approximately $3 million cash. The Company's
Refining and Marketing segment transports crude oil and a substantial portion of
refined products utilizing KPL's pipeline and marine terminal facilities in
Kenai, Alaska. The acquisition was accounted for using the purchase method.
 
NOTE D -- GAS PURCHASE AND SALES CONTRACT
 
  Resolution of Litigation in 1996 Third Quarter
 
     On August 16, 1996, the Supreme Court of Texas issued a mandate that denied
a motion for rehearing by Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company ("Tennessee Gas") and
upheld all aspects of a Gas Purchase and Sales Agreement ("Tennessee Gas
Contract") which had been the subject of litigation since 1990. As provided for
in the Tennessee Gas Contract, the Company was selling a portion of the gas
produced from the Bob West Field to Tennessee Gas at a maximum price as
calculated in accordance with Section 102(b)(2) ("Contract Price") of the
Natural Gas Policy Act of 1978 ("NGPA"). Subsequent to the mandate, the Company
received cash of $67.7 million from Tennessee Gas, which included collection of
a $59.6 million bonded receivable for underpayment for natural gas sold in prior
periods. The remaining $8.1 million received was for interest and reimbursement
of legal fees and court costs, which had not previously been recorded by the
Company and resulted in income during the 1996 third quarter. Tennessee Gas
resumed paying the Contract Price to the Company for gas taken beginning with
May 1996 volumes up until termination of the Tennessee Gas Contract discussed
below.
 
  Settlement and Termination of Contract in 1996 Fourth Quarter
 
     On December 24, 1996, the Company settled all other claims and disputes
with Tennessee Gas, including litigation in Zapata County, Texas filed by
Tennessee Gas, and agreed to terminate the Tennessee Gas Contract effective
October 1, 1996. The Tennessee Gas Contract would have extended through January
1999. Under the settlement, the Company received $51.8 million and the right to
recover severance taxes paid by Tennessee Gas of approximately $8.2 million,
which resulted in income of $60 million to the Company during the 1996 fourth
quarter.
 
NOTE E -- RECEIVABLES
 
     Concentrations of credit risk with respect to accounts receivable are
limited, due to the large number of customers comprising the Company's customer
base and their dispersion across the Company's industry segments and geographic
areas of operations. The Company performs ongoing credit evaluations of its
customers' financial condition and in certain circumstances requires letters of
credit or other collateral arrangements. The Company's allowance for doubtful
accounts is reflected as a reduction of receivables in the
 
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                          TESORO PETROLEUM CORPORATION
 
           NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS -- (CONTINUED)
 
Consolidated Balance Sheets. The following table reconciles the change in the
Company's allowance for doubtful accounts for the years ended December 31, 1996,
1995 and 1994 (in thousands):
 
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                               1996     1995     1994
                                                              ------    -----    -----
<S>                                                           <C>       <C>      <C>
Balance at Beginning of Year................................  $1,842    1,816    2,487
Charged to Costs and Expenses...............................     589      300      299
Recoveries of Amounts Previously Written Off and Other......     (44)     122       (4)
Write-off of Doubtful Accounts..............................    (872)    (396)    (966)
                                                              ------    -----    -----
          Balance at End of Year............................  $1,515    1,842    1,816
                                                              ======    =====    =====
</TABLE>
 
NOTE F -- INVENTORIES
 
     Components of inventories at December 31, 1996 and 1995 were as follows (in
thousands):
 
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                               1996       1995
                                                              -------    ------
<S>                                                           <C>        <C>
Crude Oil and Wholesale Refined Products, at LIFO...........  $55,858    70,406
Merchandise and Other Refined Products......................   13,539     5,153
Materials and Supplies......................................    5,091     4,894
                                                              -------    ------
          Total Inventories.................................  $74,488    80,453
                                                              =======    ======
</TABLE>
 
     At December 31, 1996 and 1995, inventories valued using LIFO were lower
than replacement cost by approximately $17.7 million and $3.8 million,
respectively.
 
NOTE G -- ACCRUED LIABILITIES
 
     The Company's current accrued liabilities and noncurrent other liabilities
as shown in the Consolidated Balance Sheets at December 31, 1996 and 1995
included the following (in thousands):
 
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                               1996       1995
                                                              -------    -------
<S>                                                           <C>        <C>
Accrued Liabilities -- Current:
  Accrued environmental costs...............................  $ 5,367      5,935
  Accrued employee and pension costs........................    7,759      6,839
  Accrued taxes other than income taxes.....................    5,988      3,910
  Accrued interest..........................................    1,155      2,879
  Other.....................................................   12,987     13,503
                                                              -------    -------
          Total Accrued Liabilities -- Current..............  $33,256     33,066
                                                              =======    =======
Other Liabilities -- Other:
  Accrued postretirement benefits...........................  $30,508     28,706
  Accrued environmental costs...............................    3,496      3,968
  Other.....................................................    8,239      4,634
                                                              -------    -------
          Total Other Liabilities -- Noncurrent.............  $42,243     37,308
                                                              =======    =======
</TABLE>
 
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                          TESORO PETROLEUM CORPORATION
 
           NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS -- (CONTINUED)
 
NOTE H -- INCOME TAXES
 
     The income tax provision for the years ended December 31, 1996, 1995 and
1994 included the following (in thousands):
 
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                              1996      1995     1994
                                                             -------    -----    -----
<S>                                                          <C>        <C>      <C>
Federal -- Current.........................................  $16,206      708      700
Federal -- Deferred........................................   17,405       --       --
Foreign....................................................    3,654    3,183    3,588
State......................................................    1,082      488    1,285
                                                             -------    -----    -----
          Income Tax Provision.............................  $38,347    4,379    5,573
                                                             =======    =====    =====
</TABLE>
 
     Deferred income taxes and benefits are provided for differences between
financial statement carrying amounts of assets and liabilities and their
respective tax bases. Temporary differences and the resulting deferred tax
assets and liabilities at December 31, 1996 and 1995 are summarized as follows
(in thousands):
 
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                                1996       1995
                                                              --------    -------
<S>                                                           <C>         <C>
Deferred Federal Tax Assets:
  Investment tax and other credits..........................  $ 11,962      9,762
  Accrued postretirement benefits...........................     9,941      9,424
  Settlement with Department of Energy......................     3,694      3,981
  Settlement with the State of Alaska.......................       728        810
  Acquisition...............................................       713         --
  Net operating losses......................................        --     29,695
  Other.....................................................     3,417      8,594
                                                              --------    -------
          Total Deferred Federal Tax Assets.................    30,455     62,266
                                                              --------    -------
Deferred Federal Tax Liabilities:
  Accelerated depreciation and property-related items.......   (47,147)   (39,734)
  Receivable related to a natural gas contract..............        --    (17,699)
                                                              --------    -------
          Total Deferred Federal Tax Liabilities............   (47,147)   (57,433)
                                                              --------    -------
Net Deferred Federal Tax Asset (Liability) Before Valuation
  Allowance.................................................   (16,692)     4,833
Valuation Allowance.........................................        --     (4,833)
                                                              --------    -------
Net Deferred Federal Tax Liability..........................   (16,692)        --
State Income and Other Taxes................................    (2,459)    (5,389)
                                                              --------    -------
          Net Deferred Tax Liability........................  $(19,151)    (5,389)
                                                              ========    =======
</TABLE>
 
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                          TESORO PETROLEUM CORPORATION
 
           NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS -- (CONTINUED)
 
     The following tables set forth the components of the Company's results of
operations (in thousands) and a reconciliation of the normal statutory federal
income tax rate with the Company's effective tax rate:
 
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                            1996       1995      1994
                                                          --------    ------    ------
<S>                                                       <C>         <C>       <C>
Earnings Before Income Taxes and Extraordinary Loss:
  United States.........................................  $106,675    55,221    18,336
  Foreign...............................................     8,472     6,647     7,720
                                                          --------    ------    ------
          Total Earnings Before Income Taxes and
            Extraordinary Loss..........................  $115,147    61,868    26,056
                                                          ========    ======    ======
Statutory U.S. Corporate Tax Rate (%)...................        35        35        35
Effect of:
  Accounting recognition of operating loss tax
     benefits...........................................        (4)      (33)      (35)
  Foreign income taxes (net of tax benefit).............         2         5        14
  State income taxes (net of tax benefit)...............         1         1         5
  Other.................................................        (1)       (1)        2
                                                          --------    ------    ------
Effective Income Tax Rate (%)...........................        33         7        21
                                                          ========    ======    ======
</TABLE>
 
     At December 31, 1996, the Company had approximately $8.2 million of
investment tax credits and employee stock ownership credits available for
carryover to subsequent years, which, if not used, will expire in the years 1997
through 2006. Additionally, at December 31, 1996, the Company had approximately
$3.8 million of alternative minimum tax credit carryforwards, with no expiration
dates, to offset future regular tax liabilities.
 
NOTE I -- LONG-TERM DEBT AND OTHER OBLIGATIONS
 
     Long-term debt and other obligations at December 31, 1996 and 1995
consisted of the following (in thousands):
 
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                               1996       1995
                                                              -------   --------
<S>                                                           <C>       <C>
Liability to State of Alaska................................  $62,079     62,313
Vacuum Unit Loan............................................   11,250     13,393
Liability to Department of Energy...........................   10,555     11,874
Revolving Credit Lines......................................      883         --
Industrial Revenue Bonds....................................      558      1,654
12 3/4% Subordinated Debentures (net of discount of $2,194
  in 1995)..................................................       --     27,806
13% Exchange Notes..........................................       --     44,116
Other.......................................................    3,978      3,324
                                                              -------   --------
                                                               89,303    164,480
Less Current Maturities.....................................   10,043      9,473
                                                              -------   --------
                                                              $79,260    155,007
                                                              =======   ========
</TABLE>
 
     Aggregate maturities of long-term debt and obligations for each of the five
years following December 31, 1996 are as follows: 1997 - $10.0 million;
1998 - $9.7 million; 1999 - $9.6 million; 2000 - $10.7 million; and 2001 - $11.3
million.
 
  Revolving Credit Lines
 
     In June 1996, the Company amended and restated its corporate revolving
credit agreement ("Credit Facility"), expiring in April 2000, which provides
total commitments of $150 million from a consortium of nine banks. The Company,
at its option, has currently activated $100 million of these commitments. The
 
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                          TESORO PETROLEUM CORPORATION
 
           NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS -- (CONTINUED)
 
Credit Facility provides for cash borrowings up to $100 million and issuance of
letters of credit up to a borrowing base (which was approximately $141 million
at December 31, 1996). Outstanding obligations under the Credit Facility are
secured by liens on substantially all of the Company's trade accounts receivable
and product inventory and by mortgages on the Company's refinery and South Texas
natural gas reserves. At December 31, 1996, the Company had outstanding letters
of credit of $33 million with no cash borrowings outstanding.
 
     Cash borrowings under the Credit Facility bear interest at the prime rate
plus .50% per annum or the London Interbank Offered Rate ("LIBOR") plus 1.5% per
annum. Fees on outstanding letters of credit under the Credit Facility are 1.5%
per annum. Under the terms of the Credit Facility, the Company is required to
maintain specified levels of consolidated working capital, tangible net worth,
cash flow and interest coverage. Among other matters, the Credit Facility
contains covenants which limit the incurrence of additional indebtedness and
restricted payments. Under the Credit Facility, dividends up to $5 million per
year are allowed, subject to the restricted payment limit.
 
     During 1996 and 1995, the Company's gross borrowings and repayments under
its corporate revolving credit line totaled $166 million and $262 million,
respectively, which were used on a short-term basis to finance working capital
requirements and capital expenditures.
 
     In November 1996, a subsidiary of the Company entered into a loan facility
with a bank which provides a three-year line of credit up to $10 million to the
Marine Services segment for the purchase of real estate and equipment at the
bank's prime rate. The loan facility, which is subject to a borrowing base, is
not guaranteed by the Company and is secured only by such real estate and
equipment that are financed. Beginning in March 1998, credit availability is
reduced quarterly by 6.667%. At December 31, 1996, $.9 million was outstanding
under the loan facility.
 
  Vacuum Unit Loan
 
     In 1994, the National Bank of Alaska and the Alaska Industrial Development
& Export Authority provided a $15 million loan to the Company towards the cost
of the Company's refinery vacuum unit ("Vacuum Unit Loan"). The Vacuum Unit Loan
matures January 1, 2002, requires equal quarterly payments of approximately
$536,000 and bears interest at the unsecured 90-day commercial paper rate,
adjusted quarterly, plus 2.6% per annum (8.23% at December 31, 1996) for
two-thirds of the amount borrowed and at the National Bank of Alaska floating
prime rate plus one-fourth of 1% per annum (8.5% at December 31, 1996) for the
remainder. The Vacuum Unit Loan is secured by a first lien on the Company's
refinery. Under the terms of the Vacuum Unit Loan, the Company is required to
maintain specified levels of working capital, tangible net worth and cash flow,
as defined. For 1996, the Company satisfied all of its covenants except for
working capital and refinery cash flow requirements, which were waived by the
lenders.
 
  12 3/4% Subordinated Debentures and 13% Exchange Notes
 
     In November 1996, the Company fully redeemed its two public debt issues,
totaling approximately $74 million, at a price equal to 100% of the principal
amount, plus accrued interest to the redemption date. The redemption of debt was
comprised of $44.1 million of outstanding 13% Exchange Notes ("Exchange Notes"),
due December 1, 2000, and $30 million of outstanding 12 3/4% Subordinated
Debentures ("Subordinated Debentures"), due March 15, 2001. The redemption was
accounted for as an early extinguishment of debt in the 1996 third quarter,
resulting in a pretax charge of $3.2 million ($2.3 million aftertax) which
represented a write-off of unamortized bond discount and issue costs. The
extraordinary losses on debt extinguishments of $2.9 million and $4.8 million in
1995 and 1994, respectively, related to the redemption of $34.6 million
principal amount of Subordinated Debentures in December 1995 and the exchange of
$44.1 million principal amount of Subordinated Debentures for Exchange Notes in
February 1994 (see Note K).
 
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                          TESORO PETROLEUM CORPORATION
 
           NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS -- (CONTINUED)
 
  State of Alaska
 
     In 1993, the Company entered into an agreement ("Agreement") with the State
of Alaska ("State") that settled a contractual dispute with the State. Under the
Agreement, the Company is obligated to make variable monthly payments to the
State through December 2001 based on a per barrel charge on the volume of
feedstock processed at the Company's refinery. In 1995 and 1994, based on a per
barrel throughput charge of 16 cents, the Company's variable payments to the
State totaled $2.9 million and $2.8 million, respectively. The per barrel charge
increased to 24 cents in 1996 with the Company's variable payment to the State
totaling $4.0 million in the year. The per barrel charge of 24 cents in 1997
increases to 30 cents in 1998 with one cent annual incremental increases
thereafter through 2001. In January 2002, the Company is obligated to pay the
State $60 million; provided, however, that such payment may be deferred
indefinitely by continuing the variable monthly payments to the State beginning
at 34 cents per barrel for 2002 and increasing one cent per barrel annually
thereafter. Variable monthly payments made after January 2002 will not reduce
the $60 million obligation to the State. The imputed rate of interest used by
the Company on the $60 million obligation was 13%. The $60 million obligation is
evidenced by a security bond, and the bond and the throughput barrel obligations
are secured by a mortgage on the Company's refinery. The Company's obligations
under the Agreement and the mortgage are subordinated to current and future
senior debt of up to $175 million plus any indebtedness incurred subsequent to
the date of the Agreement to improve the Company's refinery.
 
  Department of Energy
 
     A Consent Order entered into by the Company with the Department of Energy
("DOE") in 1989 settled all issues relating to the Company's compliance with
federal petroleum price and allocation regulations from 1973 through decontrol
in 1981. At December 31, 1996, the Company's remaining obligation is to pay the
DOE $10.6 million, exclusive of interest at 6%, over the next six years.
 
  Industrial Revenue Bonds
 
     The industrial revenue bonds mature in 1997 and require semiannual payments
of approximately $365,000. The bonds bear interest at a variable rate (6.1875%
at December 31, 1996), which is equal to 75% of the National Bank of Alaska's
prime rate. The bonds are collateralized by the Company's refinery sulphur
recovery unit, which had a carrying value of approximately $5.6 million at
December 31, 1996.
 
NOTE J -- BENEFIT PLANS
 
  Retirement Plan
 
     For all eligible employees, the Company provides a qualified
noncontributory retirement plan. Plan benefits are based on years of service and
compensation. The Company's funding policy is to make contributions at a minimum
in accordance with the requirements of applicable laws and regulations, but no
more than the amount deductible for income tax purposes. The components of net
pension expense for the Company's retirement plan for the years ended December
31, 1996, 1995 and 1994 are presented below (in thousands):
 
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                            1996      1995      1994
                                                           -------   -------   -------
<S>                                                        <C>       <C>       <C>
Service Costs............................................  $ 1,306     1,147     1,121
Interest Cost............................................    3,536     3,549     3,351
Actual Return on Plan Assets.............................   (6,212)   (8,299)     (217)
Net Amortization and Deferral............................    1,687     4,288    (3,408)
                                                           -------   -------   -------
  Net Pension Expense....................................  $   317       685       847
                                                           =======   =======   =======
</TABLE>
 
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                          TESORO PETROLEUM CORPORATION
 
           NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS -- (CONTINUED)
 
     The funded status of the Company's retirement plan and amounts included in
the Company's Consolidated Balance Sheets at December 31, 1996 and 1995 are set
forth in the following table (in thousands):
 
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                               1996      1995
                                                              -------   ------
<S>                                                           <C>       <C>
Actuarial Present Value of Benefit Obligation:
  Vested benefit obligation.................................  $40,539   39,012
                                                              =======   ======
  Accumulated benefit obligation............................  $43,404   41,659
                                                              =======   ======
Plan Assets at Fair Value...................................  $46,356   42,406
Projected Benefit Obligation................................   50,163   47,992
                                                              -------   ------
Plan Assets Less Than Projected Benefit Obligation..........   (3,807)  (5,586)
Unrecognized Net Loss.......................................    5,903    7,319
Unrecognized Prior Service Costs............................     (341)    (415)
Unrecognized Net Transition Asset...........................   (3,176)  (4,412)
                                                              -------   ------
  Accrued Pension Liability.................................  $(1,421)  (3,094)
                                                              =======   ======
</TABLE>
 
     Retirement plan assets are primarily comprised of common stock and bond
funds. Actuarial assumptions used to measure the projected benefit obligations
at December 31, 1996, 1995 and 1994 included a discount rate of 7 1/2%, 7 1/2%
and 8 1/2%, respectively, and a compensation increase rate of 5%, 5% and 6%,
respectively. The expected long-term rate of return on assets was 8 1/2%, 8 1/2%
and 9% for 1996, 1995 and 1994, respectively.
 
  Executive Security Plan
 
     The Company's executive security plan ("ESP") provides executive officers
and other key personnel with supplemental death or retirement benefits in
addition to those benefits available under the Company's group life insurance
and retirement plans. These supplemental retirement benefits are provided by a
nonqualified, noncontributory plan and are based on years of service and
compensation. Contributions are made based upon the estimated requirements of
the plan. The components of net pension expense for the ESP for the years ended
December 31, 1996, 1995 and 1994 are presented below (in thousands):
 
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                              1996    1995   1994
                                                              -----   ----   ----
<S>                                                           <C>     <C>    <C>
Service Costs...............................................  $ 354    364    474
Interest Cost...............................................    204    205    273
Actual Return on Plan Assets................................   (439)  (325)  (230)
Net Amortization and Deferral...............................    751    471    228
                                                              -----   ----   ----
  Net Pension Expense.......................................  $ 870    715    745
                                                              =====   ====   ====
</TABLE>
 
     During 1996, 1995 and 1994, the Company incurred additional ESP expense of
$.9 million, $1.5 million and $.4 million, respectively, for settlements,
curtailments and other benefits resulting from employee terminations.
 
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                          TESORO PETROLEUM CORPORATION
 
           NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS -- (CONTINUED)
 
     The funded status of the ESP and amounts included in the Company's
Consolidated Balance Sheets at December 31, 1996 and 1995 are set forth in the
following table (in thousands):
 
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                               1996        1995
                                                              ------      ------
<S>                                                           <C>         <C>
Actuarial Present Value of Benefit Obligation:
  Vested benefit obligation.................................  $3,300       2,470
                                                              ======      ======
  Accumulated benefit obligation............................  $4,434       3,038
                                                              ======      ======
Plan Assets at Fair Value...................................  $7,139       4,447
Projected Benefit Obligation................................   6,467       4,155
                                                              ------      ------
Plan Assets in Excess of Projected Benefit Obligation.......     672         292
Unrecognized Net Loss.......................................   4,532       2,343
Unrecognized Prior Service Costs............................     537         395
Unrecognized Net Transition Obligation......................     417         643
                                                              ------      ------
  Prepaid Pension Asset.....................................  $6,158       3,673
                                                              ======      ======
</TABLE>
 
     Assets of the ESP consist of a group annuity contract. Actuarial
assumptions used to measure the projected benefit obligation at December 31,
1996, 1995 and 1994 included a discount rate of 7 1/2%, 7 1/2% and 8 1/2%,
respectively, and a compensation increase rate of 5%. The expected long-term
rate of return on assets was 8%, 8% and 9% for 1996, 1995 and 1994,
respectively.
 
  Retiree Health Care and Life Insurance Benefits
 
     The Company provides health care and life insurance benefits to retirees
who were participating in the Company's group insurance program at retirement.
Health care is also provided to qualified dependents of participating retirees.
These benefits are provided through unfunded, defined benefit plans. The health
care plans are contributory, with retiree contributions adjusted periodically,
and contain other cost-sharing features such as deductibles and coinsurance. The
life insurance plan is noncontributory. The Company funds its share of the cost
of postretirement health care and life insurance benefits on a pay-as-you-go
basis. The components of net periodic postretirement benefits expense, other
than pensions, for the years ended December 31, 1996, 1995 and 1994 included the
following (in thousands):
 
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                             1996     1995      1994
                                                            ------    -----    ------
<S>                                                         <C>       <C>      <C>
Health Care:
  Service costs...........................................  $  558      447       471
  Interest costs..........................................   1,294    1,399     1,264
                                                            ------    -----    ------
     Net Periodic Postretirement Expense..................  $1,852    1,846     1,735
                                                            ======    =====    ======
Life Insurance:
  Service costs...........................................  $  158      174       198
  Interest costs..........................................     548      584       518
                                                            ------    -----    ------
     Net Periodic Postretirement Expense..................  $  706      758       716
                                                            ======    =====    ======
</TABLE>
 
                                       55
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                          TESORO PETROLEUM CORPORATION
 
           NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS -- (CONTINUED)
 
     The following tables show the status of the plans reconciled with the
amounts in the Company's Consolidated Balance Sheets at December 31, 1996 and
1995 (in thousands):
 
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                               1996       1995
                                                              -------    -------
<S>                                                           <C>        <C>
Health Care:
Accumulated Postretirement Benefit Obligation --
  Retirees..................................................  $12,549     13,831
  Active participants eligible to retire....................    1,203      1,382
  Other active participants.................................    4,181      4,118
                                                              -------    -------
                                                               17,933     19,331
Unrecognized Net Gain.......................................    2,621        328
                                                              -------    -------
     Accrued Postretirement Benefit Liability...............  $20,554     19,659
                                                              =======    =======
Life Insurance:
Accumulated Postretirement Benefit Obligation --
  Retirees..................................................  $ 6,274      5,888
  Active participants eligible to retire....................      484        452
  Other active participants.................................    1,205      1,590
                                                              -------    -------
                                                                7,963      7,930
Unrecognized Net Loss.......................................     (115)      (665)
                                                              -------    -------
     Accrued Postretirement Benefit Liability...............  $ 7,848      7,265
                                                              =======    =======
</TABLE>
 
     The weighted average annual rate of increase in the per capita cost of
covered health care benefits is assumed to be 8% for 1997, decreasing gradually
to 6% by the year 2005 and remaining at that level thereafter. This health care
cost trend rate assumption has a significant effect on the amount of the
obligation and periodic cost reported. For example, an increase in the assumed
health care cost trend rates by one percentage point in each year would increase
the accumulated postretirement obligation at December 31, 1996 by $3.3 million
and the aggregate of service cost and interest cost components of net periodic
postretirement benefits for the year then ended by $.5 million. Actuarial
assumptions used to measure the accumulated postretirement benefit obligation at
December 31, 1996, 1995 and 1994 included a discount rate of 7 1/2%, 7 1/2% and
8 1/2%, respectively, and a compensation rate increase of 5%, 5% and 6%,
respectively.
 
  Thrift Plan
 
     The Company sponsors an employee thrift plan which provides for
contributions by eligible employees into designated investment funds with a
matching contribution by the Company. Employees may contribute up to 10% of
their compensation, subject to certain limitations, and may elect tax deferred
treatment in accordance with the provisions of Section 401(k) of the Internal
Revenue Code. Effective October 1, 1996, the thrift plan was amended to change
the Company's matching contribution from 50% (of up to 6% of the employee's
eligible contribution) to 100% (of up to 4% of the employee's eligible
contributions), with 50% of the Company's match invested in Common Stock of the
Company. The Company's contributions amounted to $754,000, $400,000 and $547,000
during 1996, 1995 and 1994, respectively.
 
  Employee Terminations and Other Costs
 
     In 1996 and 1995, the Company incurred charges of $2.9 million and $5.2
million, respectively, primarily for employee termination costs and other
restructuring costs. Other expense in 1996 and 1995 included $2.0 million and
$3.8 million of these charges, representing primarily severance and related
benefits resulting from a reduction in administrative workforce and other
employee terminations together with settlements and curtailments under the
Company's executive security plan. Operating expenses and other included the
remaining amounts of these charges which were related to employee terminations
and exit costs in the Company's operating segments. At December 31, 1995, the
Company's Consolidated Balance Sheet included
 
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                          TESORO PETROLEUM CORPORATION
 
           NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS -- (CONTINUED)
 
an accrual of approximately $.9 million relating to the costs incurred in 1995,
all of which were subsequently paid in 1996. Costs incurred in 1996 were paid
and settled during the year.
 
  Non-Employee Director Retirement Plan
 
     The Company has an unfunded Non-Employee Director Retirement Plan
("Director Retirement Plan") which provides that any eligible non-employee
director who elects to participate in the Director Retirement Plan and who has
served on the Company's Board of Directors for at least three full years will be
entitled to a retirement payment beginning the later of the director's
sixty-fifth birthday or such later date that the individual's service as a
director ends. In 1995, the Company recognized expense of $.8 million related to
the Director Retirement Plan, substantially all attributable to nonrecurring
prior service costs. At December 31, 1996 and 1995, the Director Retirement
Plan's projected benefit obligation and present value of the vested and
accumulated benefit obligation discounted at 7 1/2% were estimated to be $.8
million. The Company's Consolidated Balance Sheet at December 31, 1996 and 1995
included $.7 million in other liabilities related to the Director Retirement
Plan. The Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors is considering the
termination of the Director Retirement Plan and the conversion of the lump-sum
present value of each director's benefit into an unfunded deferred phantom stock
plan.
 
NOTE K -- STOCKHOLDERS' EQUITY
 
  Stock Plans and Incentive Compensation Strategy
 
     The Company has two employee incentive stock plans, the Executive Long-Term
Incentive Plan ("1993 Plan") and Amended Incentive Stock Plan of 1982 ("1982
Plan"), and the 1995 Non-Employee Director Stock Option Plan ("1995 Plan")
(collectively, the "Plans"). Shares of unissued Common Stock reserved for the
Plans totaled 2,775,191 at December 31, 1996.
 
     The 1993 Plan provides for the grant of up to 2,650,000 shares of the
Company's Common Stock in a variety of forms, including restricted stock,
incentive stock options, nonqualified stock options, stock appreciation rights
and performance share and performance unit awards. Stock options may be granted
at exercise prices equal to the market value on the date the options are
granted. The options granted generally become exercisable after one year in 20%
or 33% increments per year and expire ten years from date of grant. The 1993
Plan will expire, unless earlier terminated, as to the issuance of awards in the
year 2003. At December 31, 1996, the Company had 461,807 shares available for
future grants under the 1993 Plan. The 1982 Plan expired in 1994 as to issuance
of stock appreciation rights, stock options and stock awards; however, grants
made before the expiration date that have not been fully exercised remain
outstanding pursuant to their terms.
 
     The 1995 Plan provides for the grant of up to an aggregate of 150,000
nonqualified stock options to eligible non-employee directors of the Company.
The option price per share is equal to the fair market value per share of the
Company's Common Stock on the date of grant. The term of each option is ten
years, and an option first becomes exercisable six months after the date of
grant. Under the 1995 Plan, each person serving as a non-employee director on
February 23, 1995 or appointed thereafter, received an option to purchase 5,000
shares of Common Stock. In addition, each non-employee director, while the 1995
Plan is in effect and shares are available to grant, will be granted an option
to purchase 1,000 shares of Common Stock on the next day after each annual
meeting of the Company's stockholders but not later than June 1. At December 31,
1996, the Company had 67,000 options outstanding and 83,000 shares available for
future grants under the 1995 Plan.
 
     In June 1996, the Company's Board of Directors unanimously approved an
incentive compensation strategy in order to encourage a longer-term focus for
all employees to perform at an outstanding level. The strategy provides eligible
employees with incentives to achieve a significant increase in the market price
of the
 
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                          TESORO PETROLEUM CORPORATION
 
           NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS -- (CONTINUED)
 
Company's Common Stock. Under the strategy, awards would be earned only if the
market price of the Company's Common Stock reaches an average price per share of
$20 or higher over any 20 consecutive trading days after June 30, 1997 and
before December 31, 1998 (the "Performance Target"). In connection with this
strategy, non-executive employees will be able to earn cash bonuses equal to 25%
of their individual payroll amounts for the previous twelve complete months and
certain executives have been granted, from the 1993 Plan, a total of 340,000
stock options at an exercise price of $11.375 per share, the fair market value
(as defined in the 1993 Plan) of a share of the Company's Common Stock on the
date of grant, and 350,000 shares of restricted Common Stock, all of which vest
only upon achieving the Performance Target.
 
     A summary of stock option activity in the Plans is set forth below:
 
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                             OPTIONS      WEIGHTED-AVERAGE
                                                           OUTSTANDING     EXERCISE PRICE
                                                           -----------    ----------------
<S>                                                        <C>            <C>
December 31, 1993........................................   1,016,870          $ 4.89
  Granted................................................     524,600            9.34
  Exercised..............................................     (18,764)          10.15
  Forfeited and expired..................................     (26,413)           5.37
                                                            ---------
December 31, 1994........................................   1,496,293            6.37
  Granted................................................     450,000            8.34
  Exercised..............................................    (507,467)           4.85
  Forfeited and expired..................................    (266,745)           9.10
                                                            ---------
December 31, 1995........................................   1,172,081            7.16
  Granted................................................   1,095,500           13.45
  Exercised..............................................    (315,664)           5.67
  Forfeited and expired..................................     (95,171)           8.50
                                                            ---------
December 31, 1996........................................   1,856,746           11.05
                                                            =========
</TABLE>
 
     Options exercisable amounted to 380,230; 360,779; and 478,879 at December
31, 1996, 1995 and 1994, respectively.
 
     The following table summarizes information about stock options outstanding
under the Plans at December 31, 1996:
 
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                             OPTIONS OUTSTANDING                       OPTIONS EXERCISABLE
                              -------------------------------------------------   ------------------------------
                                            WEIGHTED-AVERAGE
          RANGE OF              NUMBER         REMAINING       WEIGHTED-AVERAGE     NUMBER      WEIGHTED-AVERAGE
      EXERCISE PRICES         OUTSTANDING   CONTRACTUAL LIFE    EXERCISE PRICE    EXERCISABLE    EXERCISE PRICE
      ---------------         -----------   ----------------   ----------------   -----------   ----------------
<S>                           <C>           <C>                <C>                <C>           <C>
$ 3.92 - $ 6.67.............     199,806       6.3 years            $ 4.59          152,470          $ 4.39
$ 6.68 - $ 9.43.............     445,323       8.6 years              8.25          118,843            8.46
$ 9.44 - $12.17.............     531,397       8.9 years             10.89          102,197           10.17
$12.18 - $14.94.............     680,220       9.8 years             14.92            6,720           12.63
                               ---------                                            -------
$ 3.92 - $14.94.............   1,856,746       8.9 years             11.05          380,230            7.36
                               =========                                            =======
</TABLE>
 
     Performance shares granted to officers and key employees under the 1993
Plan amounted to 137,253 common shares in 1994. Compensation expense,
representing the excess of the market value of the Common Stock on the dates of
the awards over the purchase price to be paid by the employee, is charged to
earnings over the periods that the shares are earned and amounted to $1.3
million in 1994. No performance shares were granted in 1996 and 1995.
 
                                       58
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                          TESORO PETROLEUM CORPORATION
 
           NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS -- (CONTINUED)
 
     The Company applies APB No. 25 and related Interpretations in accounting
for its stock plans. Accordingly, no compensation expense has been recognized
for stock option transactions or the incentive compensation strategy discussed
above. Had compensation cost for the Plans been determined based on the fair
value at the grant dates for awards (granted after January 1, 1995) in
accordance with SFAS No. 123, "Accounting for Stock-Based Compensation," the
Company's net earnings in 1996 would have been reduced from $74.5 million ($2.81
per share) to pro forma net earnings of approximately $72.6 million ($2.74 per
share). Net earnings in 1995 of $54.6 million ($2.18 per share) would have been
reduced to pro forma net earnings of approximately $53.8 million ($2.15 per
share). The fair value of each option grant was estimated on the date of grant
using the Black-Scholes option-pricing model with the following weighted-average
assumptions used for grants in 1996 and 1995, respectively: no dividend yield;
expected volatility of 45% and 30%; risk free interest rates of 7% for both
periods; and expected lives of 7 years for both periods. The estimated fair
values of options granted during 1996 and 1995 were $4.26 per share and $3.65
per share, respectively, and the fair value of restricted stock awards in 1996
was $.95 per share.
 
  1994 Recapitalization and Equity Offering
 
     In February 1994, the Company consummated exchange offers and adopted
amendments to its Restated Certificate of Incorporation pursuant to which the
Company's outstanding debt and preferred stocks were restructured (the
"Recapitalization"). Significant components of the Recapitalization were as
follows:
 
        (i)   The Company exchanged $44.1 million principal amount of
              Subordinated Debentures for a like principal amount of Exchange
              Notes, both of which were fully redeemed in 1996 (see Note I).
 
        (ii)  The 1.3 million outstanding shares of the Company's $2.16
              Cumulative Convertible Preferred Stock ("$2.16 Preferred Stock"),
              which had a $25 per share liquidation preference, plus accrued and
              unpaid dividends of $9.5 million, were reclassified into 6.6
              million shares of Common Stock.
 
        (iii) The Company and the holder ("Holder") of all of the Company's
              $2.20 Cumulative Convertible Preferred Stock ("$2.20 Preferred
              Stock") entered into an agreement pursuant to which the Holder
              agreed, among other matters, to waive all existing mandatory
              redemption requirements, to consider all accrued and unpaid
              dividends on the $2.20 Preferred Stock (aggregating $21 million)
              to be paid and to grant to the Company an option to purchase all
              of the Holder's $2.20 Preferred Stock and Common Stock for
              approximately $53 million, all in consideration for, among other
              things, the issuance by the Company of 1.9 million shares of
              Common Stock.
 
     In June 1994, the Company completed a public offering of 5.9 million shares
of its Common Stock, receiving net proceeds of $57 million. These proceeds were
used by the Company in part to pay the Holder $53 million, reacquiring 2.9
million shares of $2.20 Preferred Stock and 4.1 million shares of Common Stock.
 
     In total, the transactions related to the Recapitalization and equity
offering in 1994 resulted in the reclassification of the $2.16 Preferred Stock,
the retirement of the $2.20 Preferred Stock and net increases in Common Stock of
$1.7 million (10.3 million shares) and additional paid-in capital of $88.5
million.
 
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                          TESORO PETROLEUM CORPORATION
 
           NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS -- (CONTINUED)
 
NOTE L -- COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES
 
  Operating Leases
 
     The Company has various noncancellable operating leases related to
convenience stores, equipment, property and other facilities. Lease terms range
from one year to 35 years and generally contain multiple renewal options. Future
minimum annual payments for operating leases existing at December 31, 1996,
excluding marine charters, were as follows (in thousands):
 
<TABLE>
<S>                                                           <C>
1997........................................................  $ 5,624
1998........................................................    4,978
1999........................................................    2,310
2000........................................................    1,972
2001........................................................    1,687
Remainder...................................................   13,472
                                                              -------
          Total Minimum Lease Payments......................  $30,043
                                                              =======
</TABLE>
 
     In addition to the long-term lease commitments above, the Company has
leases for two vessels that are used to transport crude oil and refined products
to and from the Company's refinery. At December 31, 1996, future minimum annual
lease payments remaining for these two vessels, which include operating costs,
are approximately $28 million for each of the years 1997 through 1999 and $16
million for the year 2000. Operating costs related to these vessels, which may
vary from year to year, comprised approximately 30% of the total minimum
payments in 1996. The Company also enters into various month-to-month and other
short-term rentals, including a six-month charter of a vessel used to primarily
transport refined products from the Company's refinery to the Far East.
 
     Total rental expense, including short-term leases in addition to rents paid
and accrued under long-term lease commitments, amounted to approximately $42
million, $36 million and $34 million for 1996, 1995 and 1994, respectively.
Rental expense included amounts related to the lease of chartered vessels
totaling approximately $30 million, $26 million and $25 million for 1996, 1995
and 1994, respectively.
 
  Environmental
 
     The Company is subject to extensive federal, state and local environmental
laws and regulations. These laws, which change frequently, regulate the
discharge of materials into the environment and may require the Company to
remove or mitigate the environmental effects of the disposal or release of
petroleum or chemical substances at various sites or install additional controls
or other modifications or changes in use for certain emission sources. The
Company is currently involved with a waste disposal site near Abbeville,
Louisiana, at which it has been named a potentially responsible party under the
Federal Superfund law. Although this law might impose joint and several
liability upon each party at the site, the extent of the Company's allocated
financial contributions to the cleanup of the site is expected to be limited
based upon the number of companies, volumes of waste involved, and an estimated
total cost of approximately $500,000 among all of the parties to close the site.
The Company is currently involved in settlement discussions with the
Environmental Protection Agency ("EPA") and other potentially responsible
parties at the Abbeville, Louisiana site. The Company expects, based on these
discussions, that its liability will not exceed $25,000. The Company is also
involved in remedial responses and has incurred cleanup expenditures associated
with environmental matters at a number of sites, including certain of its own
properties.
 
     At December 31, 1996, the Company's accruals for environmental expenses
amounted to $8.9 million, which included a noncurrent liability of $3.5 million
for remediation of the KPL properties that has been funded by the former owners
through a restricted escrow deposit. Based on currently available information,
including the participation of other parties or former owners in remediation
actions, the Company believes
 
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                          TESORO PETROLEUM CORPORATION
 
           NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS -- (CONTINUED)
 
these accruals are adequate. In addition, to comply with environmental laws and
regulations, the Company anticipates that it will make capital improvements of
approximately $6 million in 1997 and $3 million in 1998. The Company also
expects to spend approximately $6 million by the year 2002 for secondary
containment systems for existing storage tanks in Alaska.
 
     Conditions that require additional expenditures may exist for various
Company sites, including, but not limited to, the Company's refinery, retail
gasoline outlets (current and closed locations) and petroleum product terminals,
and for compliance with the Clean Air Act. The amount of such future
expenditures cannot currently be determined by the Company.
 
  Crude Oil Purchase Contract
 
     The Company has a three-year contract with the State of Alaska for the
purchase of royalty crude oil covering the period January 1, 1996 through
December 31, 1998. The contract provides for the purchase of approximately
40,000 barrels per day of Alaska North Slope ("ANS") royalty crude oil, the
primary feedstock for the Company's refinery, and is priced based on royalty
values computed by the State. Under this agreement, the Company is required to
utilize in its refinery operations volumes equal to at least 80% of the ANS
crude oil to be purchased from the State. This contract contains provisions
that, under certain conditions, allow the Company to temporarily or permanently
reduce its purchase obligations.
 
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                          TESORO PETROLEUM CORPORATION
 
           NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS -- (CONTINUED)
 
NOTE M -- QUARTERLY FINANCIAL DATA (UNAUDITED)
 
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                                QUARTERS
                                                    ---------------------------------    TOTAL
                                                    FIRST    SECOND   THIRD    FOURTH     YEAR
                                                    ------   ------   ------   ------   --------
                                                       (IN MILLIONS EXCEPT PER SHARE AMOUNTS)
<S>                                                 <C>      <C>      <C>      <C>      <C>
1996
  Revenues:
     Gross operating revenues.....................  $238.6    233.8    262.8    240.2      975.4
     Income from gas contract settlement..........      --       --       --     60.0       60.0
     Other, including gain (loss) on asset
       sales......................................     5.0       .1      (.7)      --        4.4
                                                    ------   ------   ------   ------   --------
          Total Revenues..........................  $243.6    233.9    262.1    300.2    1,039.8
                                                    ======   ======   ======   ======   ========
  Operating Profit................................  $ 20.7     27.6     25.2     71.3      144.8
                                                    ======   ======   ======   ======   ========
  Earnings Before Extraordinary Item..............  $  6.0     12.0     16.2     42.6       76.8
  Extraordinary Loss on Extinguishment of Debt,
     Net..........................................      --       --     (2.3)      --       (2.3)
                                                    ------   ------   ------   ------   --------
          Net Earnings............................  $  6.0     12.0     13.9     42.6       74.5
                                                    ======   ======   ======   ======   ========
  Earnings Per Share:
     Earnings Before Extraordinary Item...........  $  .23      .45      .61     1.59       2.90
     Extraordinary Loss...........................      --       --     (.09)      --       (.09)
                                                    ------   ------   ------   ------   --------
          Net Earnings............................  $  .23      .45      .52     1.59       2.81
                                                    ======   ======   ======   ======   ========
1995
  Revenues:
     Gross operating revenues.....................  $234.0    264.2    244.2    227.8      970.2
     Other, including gain (loss) on asset
       sales......................................      --       --     33.1      (.4)      32.7
                                                    ------   ------   ------   ------   --------
          Total Revenues..........................  $234.0    264.2    277.3    227.4    1,002.9
                                                    ======   ======   ======   ======   ========
  Operating Profit................................  $ 12.4     19.1     53.8     20.6      105.9
                                                    ======   ======   ======   ======   ========
  Earnings Before Extraordinary Item..............  $  1.8      7.4     36.8     11.5       57.5
  Extraordinary Loss on Extinguishment of Debt,
     Net..........................................      --       --       --     (2.9)      (2.9)
                                                    ------   ------   ------   ------   --------
          Net Earnings............................  $  1.8      7.4     36.8      8.6       54.6
                                                    ======   ======   ======   ======   ========
  Earnings Per Share:
     Earnings Before Extraordinary Item...........  $  .07      .30     1.47      .46       2.29
     Extraordinary Loss...........................      --       --       --     (.11)      (.11)
                                                    ------   ------   ------   ------   --------
          Net Earnings............................  $  .07      .30     1.47      .35       2.18
                                                    ======   ======   ======   ======   ========
</TABLE>
 
     The 1996 first quarter included pretax income of $5 million related to a
retroactive severance tax refund. The 1996 third quarter included pretax income
of $8 million for interest and reimbursement of costs from Tennessee Gas (see
Note D) and an aftertax extraordinary loss of $2.3 million for the early
extinguishment of debt (see Note I). The contract with Tennessee Gas was
terminated during the 1996 fourth quarter resulting in pretax income of $60
million (see Note D).
 
     The 1995 third quarter included a gain of approximately $33 million from
the sale of certain interests in the Bob West Field (see Note C), partially
offset by approximately $5 million for employee terminations and other
restructuring costs (see Note J). An extraordinary loss of $2.9 million was
recognized in the 1995 fourth quarter for the early extinguishment of debt (see
Note I).
 
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                          TESORO PETROLEUM CORPORATION
 
           NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS -- (CONTINUED)
 
NOTE N -- NATURAL GAS PRICE AGREEMENTS
 
     The Company enters into commodity price agreements to reduce the risk
caused by fluctuations in the prices of natural gas in the spot market. During
1996, 1995 and 1994, the Company used such agreements to set the price of 30%,
38% and 11%, respectively, of the natural gas production that it sold in the
spot market. It is the Company's policy to use such agreements to set the price
of not more than 50% of the annual volumes of natural gas production that are
sold in the spot market. The agreements provide for the Company to receive, or
make, payments based upon the differential between a specified fixed price and
the market price for natural gas. The market price is determined by reference to
a published index for natural gas traded at the Houston Ship Channel. The
Houston Ship Channel index is the price upon which the cash prices for
substantially all of the Company's spot market gas sales are based and,
accordingly, the risk of losses from large fluctuations in the basis
differentials (normally approximating the cost of transporting gas between the
Henry Hub and the Houston Ship Channel) is substantially eliminated. The Company
includes the related gains or losses in gas revenues in the period in which the
gas is produced, which amounted to a loss of $3.1 million ($.11 per Mcf) in 1996
and to gains of $.3 million ($.01 per Mcf) in 1995 and 1994.
 
     As of January 9, 1997, the Company had entered into price agreements for
1997 production totaling .9 Bcf of gas for an average Houston Ship Channel price
of $2.18 per Mcf. In addition, the Company has entered into price agreements
with collars, under which no payment will be made by either party unless the
price falls below a designated floor price or above a designated ceiling price,
at which time the Company receives or pays the difference, respectively. The
Company has entered into price agreements with collars for 1997 production
totaling 1.8 Bcf of gas with an average floor Houston Ship Channel price of
$1.93 per Mcf and an average ceiling Houston Ship Channel price of $2.42 per
Mcf. In 1996, the Company's average spot market wellhead price per Mcf for gas
sales was $.23 less than the average Houston Ship Channel index, the difference
representing transportation and marketing costs from the wellhead in South
Texas.
 
NOTE O -- OIL AND GAS PRODUCING ACTIVITIES
 
     The information presented below represents the oil and gas producing
activities of the Company's Exploration and Production segment. Amounts related
to the U.S. natural gas transportation operations, as disclosed in Note B, have
been excluded. Other information pertinent to the Exploration and Production
segment is contained in Notes B, C, D and N.
 
     In 1996, a new Hydrocarbons Law was passed by the Bolivian government that
significantly impacts the Company's operations in Bolivia. The new law, among
other matters, granted the Company the option to convert its Contracts of
Operation to new Shared Risk Contracts. During 1996, the Company signed
agreements to convert its Contracts of Operation to Shared Risk Contracts
subject to recision at the option of the Company if the Company is not satisfied
with modifications to the Bolivian fiscal law. The Company expects to complete
this conversion during the first half of 1997. The new contracts extend the
Company's term of operation, provide more favorable acreage relinquishment terms
and provide for a more favorable fiscal regime of royalties and taxes. The new
contracts will extend the term of the Company's operations for Block 18 ten
additional years to the year 2017. For Block 20, the new contract extends the
Company's term 21 additional years to the year 2029 for acreage that is in the
exploration phase of the contract, and ten additional years to the year 2018 for
an area within Block 20 that is designated as being in the development phase of
the new contract. The new contract provisions, along with a substantial
discovery during 1996, significantly increased the Company's reserves.
 
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                          TESORO PETROLEUM CORPORATION
 
           NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS -- (CONTINUED)
 
  Capitalized Costs Relating to Oil and Gas Producing Activities
 
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                                DECEMBER 31,
                                                      --------------------------------
                                                        1996        1995        1994
                                                      --------    --------    --------
                                                               (IN THOUSANDS)
<S>                                                   <C>         <C>         <C>
Capitalized Costs:
  Proved properties.................................  $179,433     119,836     131,930
  Unproved properties not being amortized(1)........    12,344       5,118       3,758
                                                      --------    --------    --------
                                                       191,777     124,954     135,688
  Accumulated depreciation, depletion and
     amortization...................................    78,222      51,549      50,261
                                                      --------    --------    --------
          Net Capitalized Costs.....................  $113,555      73,405      85,427
                                                      ========    ========    ========
</TABLE>
 
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     (1) The Company anticipates that the majority of the costs at December 31,
         1996, incurred primarily in 1996, will be included in the amortization
         base during 1997.
 
  Costs Incurred in Oil and Gas Property Acquisition, Exploration and
Development Activities
 
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                          UNITED
                                                          STATES     BOLIVIA     TOTAL
                                                          -------    -------    -------
                                                                 (IN THOUSANDS)
<S>                                                       <C>        <C>        <C>
1996
  Property acquisitions --
     Proved.............................................  $20,454        --      20,454
     Unproved...........................................    5,216        --       5,216
  Exploration...........................................   11,830     6,704      18,534
  Development...........................................   22,228       149      22,377
                                                          -------    ------     -------
                                                          $59,728     6,853      66,581
                                                          =======    ======     =======
1995
  Property acquisition, unproved........................  $ 1,432        --       1,432
  Exploration...........................................   10,011     2,994      13,005
  Development...........................................   38,003       792      38,795
                                                          -------    ------     -------
                                                          $49,446     3,786      53,232
                                                          =======    ======     =======
1994
  Property acquisition, unproved........................  $   438        --         438
  Exploration...........................................    8,808        --       8,808
  Development...........................................   51,133        --      51,133
                                                          -------    ------     -------
                                                          $60,379        --      60,379
                                                          =======    ======     =======
</TABLE>
 
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                          TESORO PETROLEUM CORPORATION
 
           NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS -- (CONTINUED)
 
  Results of Operations from Oil and Gas Producing Activities
 
     The following table sets forth the results of operations for oil and gas
producing activities, in the aggregate by geographic area, with income tax
expense computed using the statutory tax rate for the period adjusted for
permanent differences, tax credits and allowances.
 
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                           UNITED
                                                           STATES       BOLIVIA       TOTAL
                                                         ----------    ---------    ---------
                                                          (IN THOUSANDS EXCEPT AS INDICATED)
<S>                                                      <C>           <C>          <C>
1996
  Gross revenues -- sales to nonaffiliates.............    $ 88,358      13,701       102,059
  Production costs.....................................       5,326         837         6,163
  Administrative support and other.....................       3,649       2,830         6,479
  Depreciation, depletion and amortization.............      25,235       1,279        26,514
  Income from settlement of a natural gas
     contract(1).......................................      60,000          --        60,000
  Other income(2)......................................       5,000          --         5,000
                                                           --------      ------       -------
  Pretax results of operations.........................     119,148       8,755       127,903
  Income tax expense...................................      41,702       5,439        47,141
                                                           --------      ------       -------
  Results of operations from producing activities(3)...    $ 77,446       3,316        80,762
                                                           ========      ======       =======
  Depletion rates per net equivalent Mcf...............    $    .79         .15
                                                           ========      ======
1995
  Gross revenues -- sales to nonaffiliates.............    $107,276      11,707       118,983
  Production costs.....................................      12,005         600        12,605
  Administrative support and other.....................       2,842       3,289         6,131
  Gain on sales of assets(4)...........................      33,532          --        33,532
  Depreciation, depletion and amortization.............      29,004         250        29,254
                                                           --------      ------       -------
  Pretax results of operations.........................      96,957       7,568       104,525
  Income tax expense...................................      33,935       4,718        38,653
                                                           --------      ------       -------
  Results of operations from producing activities(3)...    $ 63,022       2,850        65,872
                                                           ========      ======       =======
  Depletion rates per net equivalent Mcf...............    $    .69         .03
                                                           ========      ======
1994
  Gross revenues -- sales to nonaffiliates.............    $ 87,478      13,211       100,689
  Production costs.....................................       8,945         619         9,564
  Administrative support and other.....................       2,289       3,242         5,531
  Depreciation, depletion and amortization.............      24,143          --        24,143
                                                           --------      ------       -------
  Pretax results of operations.........................      52,101       9,350        61,451
  Income tax expense...................................      19,104       5,605        24,709
                                                           --------      ------       -------
  Results of operations from producing activities(3)...    $ 32,997       3,745        36,742
                                                           ========      ======       =======
  Depletion rates per net equivalent Mcf...............    $    .79          --
                                                           ========      ======
</TABLE>
 
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(1) See Note D.
 
(2) Represents retroactive severance tax refunds resulting from exemptions on
    substantially all of the Company's reserves in the Bob West Field.
 
(3) Excludes corporate general and administrative expenses and financing costs.
 
(4) Represents gain on sale of certain interests in the Bob West Field (see Note
    C).
 
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                          TESORO PETROLEUM CORPORATION
 
           NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS -- (CONTINUED)
 
  Standardized Measure of Discounted Future Net Cash Flows Relating to Proved
  Reserves (Unaudited)
 
     The following table sets forth the computation of the standardized measure
of discounted future net cash flows relating to proved reserves and the changes
in such cash flows in accordance with SFAS No. 69. The standardized measure is
the estimated excess future cash inflows from proved reserves less estimated
future production and development costs, estimated future income taxes and a
discount factor. Future cash inflows represent expected revenues from production
of year-end quantities of proved reserves based on year-end prices and any fixed
and determinable future escalation provided by contractual arrangements in
existence at year-end. Escalation based on inflation, federal regulatory changes
and supply and demand are not considered. Estimated future production costs
related to year-end reserves are based on year-end costs. Such costs include,
but are not limited to, production taxes and direct operating costs. Inflation
and other anticipatory costs are not considered until the actual cost change
takes effect. Estimated future income tax expenses are computed using the
appropriate year-end statutory tax rates. Consideration is given for the effects
of permanent differences, tax credits and allowances. A discount rate of 10% is
applied to the annual future net cash flows.
 
     The methodology and assumptions used in calculating the standardized
measure are those required by SFAS No. 69. The standardized measure is not
intended to be representative of the fair market value of the Company's proved
reserves. The calculations of revenues and costs do not necessarily represent
the amounts to be received or expended by the Company.
 
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                           UNITED
                                                           STATES    BOLIVIA    TOTAL
                                                          --------   -------   -------
                                                                 (IN THOUSANDS)
<S>                                                       <C>        <C>       <C>
DECEMBER 31, 1996
  Future cash inflows...................................  $376,103   368,119   744,222
  Future production costs...............................    66,524    72,766   139,290
  Future development costs..............................    13,156    30,632    43,788
                                                          --------   -------   -------
  Future net cash flows before income tax expense.......   296,423   264,721   561,144
  10% annual discount factor............................    73,687   130,915   204,602
                                                          --------   -------   -------
  Discounted future net cash flows before income
     taxes..............................................   222,736   133,806   356,542
  Discounted future income tax expense(1)...............    70,251    80,102   150,353
                                                          --------   -------   -------
  Standardized measure of discounted future net cash
     flows(2)...........................................  $152,485    53,704   206,189
                                                          ========   =======   =======
DECEMBER 31, 1995
  Future cash inflows...................................  $265,379   120,510   385,889
  Future production costs...............................    53,095    32,005    85,100
  Future development costs..............................     8,625     7,548    16,173
                                                          --------   -------   -------
  Future net cash flows before income tax expense.......   203,659    80,957   284,616
  10% annual discount factor............................    34,920    32,231    67,151
                                                          --------   -------   -------
  Discounted future net cash flows before income
     taxes..............................................   168,739    48,726   217,465
  Discounted future income tax expense..................    45,939    25,897    71,836
                                                          --------   -------   -------
  Standardized measure of discounted future net cash
     flows..............................................  $122,800    22,829   145,629
                                                          ========   =======   =======
</TABLE>
 
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                          TESORO PETROLEUM CORPORATION
 
           NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS -- (CONTINUED)
 
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                           UNITED
                                                           STATES    BOLIVIA    TOTAL
                                                          --------   -------   -------
                                                                 (IN THOUSANDS)
<S>                                                       <C>        <C>       <C>
DECEMBER 31, 1994
  Future cash inflows...................................  $292,620   120,886   413,506
  Future production costs...............................    52,534    30,873    83,407
  Future development costs..............................    29,933     7,258    37,191
                                                          --------   -------   -------
  Future net cash flows before income tax expense.......   210,153    82,755   292,908
  10% annual discount factor............................    30,706    34,674    65,380
                                                          --------   -------   -------
  Discounted future net cash flows before income
     taxes..............................................   179,447    48,081   227,528
  Discounted future income tax expense..................    52,661    26,092    78,753
                                                          --------   -------   -------
  Standardized measure of discounted future net cash
     flows..............................................  $126,786    21,989   148,775
                                                          ========   =======   =======
</TABLE>
 
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(1) For Bolivia, the discounted future income tax expense as of December 31,
    1996 consisted of $69,363 Bolivian taxes and $10,739 U.S. taxes.
 
(2) Gross production rates were increased from 45 MMcf per day to 90 MMcf per
    day in the year 2000 due to the anticipated completion of the Bolivia-Brazil
    pipeline discussed in Note B. This increase accounts for approximately $19
    million of the standardized measure of discounted future net cash flows for
    Bolivia at December 31, 1996.
 
  Changes in Standardized Measure of Discounted Future Net Cash Flows
(Unaudited)
 
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                           1996       1995      1994
                                                         --------   --------   -------
                                                                (IN THOUSANDS)
<S>                                                      <C>        <C>        <C>
Sales and transfers of oil and gas produced, net of
  production costs.....................................  $(93,275)  (106,378)  (88,751)
Net changes in prices and production costs.............    39,409    (32,931)   12,834
Extensions, discoveries and improved recovery..........    81,201     83,045    54,503
Development costs incurred.............................    22,228     38,795    51,148
Changes in estimated future development costs..........   (39,932)   (19,574)  (34,738)
Revisions of previous quantity estimates...............    (7,244)    60,800     1,818
Purchases (sales) of minerals in-place.................    55,484    (48,698)       --
Extension of Bolivian contract terms...................    26,564         --        --
Other changes in Bolivian Hydrocarbons Law.............    32,894         --        --
Accretion of discount..................................    14,563     14,878    12,919
Net changes in income taxes............................   (71,332)     6,917     9,850
                                                         --------   --------   -------
Net increase (decrease)................................    60,560     (3,146)   19,583
Beginning of period....................................   145,629    148,775   129,192
                                                         --------   --------   -------
End of period..........................................  $206,189    145,629   148,775
                                                         ========   ========   =======
</TABLE>
 
  Reserve Information (Unaudited)
 
     The following estimates of the Company's net proved oil and gas reserves
are based on evaluations prepared by Netherland, Sewell & Associates, Inc.
Reserves were estimated in accordance with guidelines established by the
Securities and Exchange Commission and Financial Accounting Standards Board,
which require that reserve estimates be prepared under existing economic and
operating conditions with no provision for price and cost escalations except by
contractual arrangements.
 
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                          TESORO PETROLEUM CORPORATION
 
           NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS -- (CONTINUED)
 
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                           UNITED
                                                           STATES    BOLIVIA    TOTAL
                                                          --------   -------   -------
<S>                                                       <C>        <C>       <C>
NET PROVED GAS RESERVES (millions of cubic feet)(1)
  December 31, 1993.....................................   120,198    99,295   219,493
     Revisions of previous estimates....................     9,881    (9,678)      203
     Extensions, discoveries and other additions........    29,606    14,199    43,805
     Production.........................................   (30,586)   (8,060)  (38,646)
                                                          --------   -------   -------
  December 31, 1994.....................................   129,099    95,756   224,855
     Revisions of previous estimates....................    46,239      (553)   45,686
     Extensions, discoveries and other additions........    50,201        --    50,201
     Production.........................................   (41,789)   (6,807)  (48,596)
     Sales of minerals in-place.........................   (77,373)       --   (77,373)
                                                          --------   -------   -------
  December 31, 1995.....................................   106,377    88,396   194,773
     Extension of Bolivian contract terms...............        --    32,998    32,998
     Other changes in Bolivian Hydrocarbons Law.........        --    56,704    56,704
     Revisions of previous estimates....................    (4,792)     (149)   (4,941)
     Extensions, discoveries and other additions........    22,977    59,964    82,941
     Production.........................................   (32,081)   (7,412)  (39,493)
     Purchases of minerals in-place.....................    24,309        --    24,309
                                                          --------   -------   -------
  December 31, 1996(2)..................................   116,790   230,501   347,291
                                                          ========   =======   =======
NET PROVED DEVELOPED GAS RESERVES (millions of cubic
  feet)
  December 31, 1993.....................................    65,652    99,295   164,947
  December 31, 1994.....................................   110,071    81,558   191,629
  December 31, 1995.....................................    95,930    72,500   168,430
  December 31, 1996(2)..................................   107,509   123,154   230,663
NET PROVED OIL RESERVES (thousands of barrels)(1)
  December 31, 1993.....................................        --     2,173     2,173
     Revisions of previous estimates....................        --      (280)     (280)
     Extensions, discoveries and other additions........        --       168       168
     Production.........................................        --      (268)     (268)
                                                          --------   -------   -------
  December 31, 1994.....................................        --     1,793     1,793
     Revisions of previous estimates....................         1        10        11
     Extensions, discoveries and other additions........         8        --         8
     Production.........................................        (1)     (207)     (208)
                                                          --------   -------   -------
  December 31, 1995.....................................         8     1,596     1,604
     Extension of Bolivian contract terms...............        --       459       459
     Other changes in Bolivian Hydrocarbons Law.........        --       913       913
     Revisions of previous estimates....................        (4)      150       146
     Extensions, discoveries and other additions........        --       840       840
     Production.........................................       (10)     (214)     (224)
     Purchases of minerals in-place.....................       188        --       188
                                                          --------   -------   -------
  December 31, 1996(2)..................................       182     3,744     3,926
                                                          ========   =======   =======
NET PROVED DEVELOPED OIL RESERVES (thousands of barrels)
  December 31, 1993.....................................        --     2,173     2,173
  December 31, 1994.....................................        --     1,627     1,627
  December 31, 1995.....................................         4     1,407     1,411
  December 31, 1996(2)..................................       126     2,291     2,417
</TABLE>
 
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(1) The Company was not required to file reserve estimates with federal
    authorities or agencies during the periods presented.
 
(2) No major discovery or adverse event has occurred since December 31, 1996
    that would cause a significant change in net proved reserve volumes.
 
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ITEM 9. CHANGES IN AND DISAGREEMENTS WITH ACCOUNTANTS ON ACCOUNTING AND
        FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE
 
     None.
 
                                    PART III
 
ITEM 10. DIRECTORS AND EXECUTIVE OFFICERS OF THE REGISTRANT
 
     Information required under this Item will be contained in the Company's
1997 Proxy Statement, incorporated herein by reference.
 
     See also Executive Officers of the Registrant under Business in Item 1.
 
ITEM 11. EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION
 
     Information required under this Item will be contained in the Company's
1997 Proxy Statement, incorporated herein by reference.
 
ITEM 12. SECURITY OWNERSHIP OF CERTAIN BENEFICIAL OWNERS AND MANAGEMENT
 
     Information required under this Item will be contained in the Company's
1997 Proxy Statement, incorporated herein by reference.
 
ITEM 13. CERTAIN RELATIONSHIPS AND RELATED TRANSACTIONS
 
     Information required under this Item will be contained in the Company's
1997 Proxy Statement, incorporated herein by reference.
 
                                    PART IV
 
ITEM 14. EXHIBITS, FINANCIAL STATEMENT SCHEDULES, AND REPORTS ON FORM 8-K
 
(A) 1. FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
 
     The following Consolidated Financial Statements of Tesoro Petroleum
Corporation and its subsidiaries are included in Part II, Item 8 of this Form
10-K:
 
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Independent Auditors' Report................................     38
Statements of Consolidated Operations -- Years Ended
  December 31, 1996, 1995 and 1994..........................     39
Consolidated Balance Sheets -- December 31, 1996 and 1995...     40
Statements of Consolidated Stockholders' Equity -- Years
  Ended December 31, 1996, 1995 and 1994....................     41
Statements of Consolidated Cash Flows -- Years Ended
  December 31, 1996, 1995 and 1994..........................     42
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements..................     43
</TABLE>
 
2. FINANCIAL STATEMENT SCHEDULES
 
     All schedules are omitted because of the absence of the conditions under
which they are required or because the required information is included in the
Consolidated Financial Statements or notes thereto.
 
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3. EXHIBITS
 
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<CAPTION>
        EXHIBIT
         NUMBER                             DESCRIPTION OF EXHIBIT
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<C>                      <S>
          2.1            -- Agreement and Plan of Merger dated as of November 20,
                            1995, between the Company, Coastwide Energy Services,
                            Inc. and CNRG Acquisition Corp. (incorporated by
                            reference herein to Registration Statement No.
                            333-00229).
          2.2            -- First Amendment to Agreement and Plan of Merger dated
                            effective February 19, 1996 between the Company,
                            Coastwide Energy Services, Inc. and CNRG Acquisition
                            Corp. (incorporated by reference herein to Exhibit 2(b)
                            to the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the
                            fiscal year ended December 31, 1995, File No. 1-3473).
          3.1            -- Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Company
                            (incorporated by reference herein to Exhibit 3 to the
                            Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year
                            ended December 31, 1993, File No. 1-3473).
          3.2            -- By-Laws of the Company, as amended through June 6, 1996.
          3.3            -- Amendment to Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the
                            Company adding a new Article IX limiting Directors'
                            Liability (incorporated by reference herein to Exhibit
                            3(b) to the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the
                            fiscal year ended December 31, 1993, File No. 1-3473).
          3.4            -- Certificate of Designation Establishing a Series of $2.20
                            Cumulative Convertible Preferred Stock, dated as of
                            January 26, 1983 (incorporated by reference herein to
                            Exhibit 3(c) to the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K
                            for the fiscal year ended December 31, 1993, File No.
                            1-3473).
          3.5            -- Certificate of Designation Establishing a Series A
                            Participating Preferred Stock, dated as of December 16,
                            1985 (incorporated by reference herein to Exhibit 3(d) to
                            the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal
                            year ended December 31, 1993, File No. 1-3473).
          3.6            -- Certificate of Amendment, dated as of February 9, 1994,
                            to Restated Certificate of Incorporation of the Company
                            amending Article IV, Article V, Article VII and Article
                            VIII (incorporated by reference herein to Exhibit 3(e) to
                            the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal
                            year ended December 31, 1993, File No. 1-3473).
          4.1            -- Amended and Restated Credit Agreement ("Credit Facility")
                            dated as of June 7, 1996 among the Company and Banque
                            Paribas, individually, as an Issuing Bank and as
                            Administrative Agent, and The Bank of Nova Scotia,
                            individually and as Documentation Agent, and certain
                            other financial institutions named therein (incorporated
                            by reference herein to Exhibit 4.1 to the Company's
                            Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June
                            30, 1996, File No. 1-3473).
          4.2            -- Second Amended and Restated Guaranty Agreement dated as
                            of January 28, 1997 among various subsidiaries of the
                            Company and Banque Paribas, individually, as
                            Administrative Agent and as an Issuing Bank, and certain
                            other financial institutions named therein, entered into
                            in connection with the Credit Facility.
          4.3            -- Amended and Restated Security Agreement (Accounts and
                            Inventory) dated as of June 7, 1996 between the Company
                            and Banque Paribas, entered into in connection with the
                            Credit Facility (incorporated by reference herein to
                            Exhibit 4.3 to the Company's Quarterly Report on Form
                            10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 1996, File No.
                            1-3473).
          4.4            -- Amended and Restated Security Agreement (Accounts and
                            Inventory) dated as of June 7, 1996 between Tesoro Alaska
                            Petroleum Company and Banque Paribas, entered into in
                            connection with the Credit Facility (incorporated by
                            reference herein to Exhibit 4.4 to the Company's
                            Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June
                            30, 1996, File No. 1-3473).
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<CAPTION>
        EXHIBIT
         NUMBER                             DESCRIPTION OF EXHIBIT
        -------                             ----------------------
<C>                      <S>
          4.5            -- Amended and Restated Security Agreement (Accounts and
                            Inventory) dated as of June 7, 1996 between Tesoro
                            Refining, Marketing & Supply Company and Banque Paribas,
                            entered into in connection with the Credit Facility
                            (incorporated by reference herein to Exhibit 4.5 to the
                            Company's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter
                            ended June 30, 1996, File No. 1-3473).
          4.6            -- Security Agreement (Accounts and Inventory) dated as of
                            June 7, 1996 between Kenai Pipe Line Company and Banque
                            Paribas, entered into in connection with the Credit
                            Facility (incorporated by reference herein to Exhibit 4.6
                            to the Company's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the
                            quarter ended June 30, 1996, File No. 1-3473).
          4.7            -- Security Agreement (Accounts and Inventory) dated as of
                            June 7, 1996 between Tesoro Coastwide Services Company
                            and Banque Paribas, entered into in connection with the
                            Credit Facility (incorporated by reference herein to
                            Exhibit 4.7 to the Company's Quarterly Report on Form
                            10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 1996, File No.
                            1-3473).
          4.8            -- Security Agreement (Accounts and Inventory) dated as of
                            June 7, 1996 between Coastwide Marine Services, Inc. and
                            Banque Paribas, entered into in connection with the
                            Credit Facility (incorporated by reference herein to
                            Exhibit 4.8 to the Company's Quarterly Report on Form
                            10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 1996, File No.
                            1-3473).
          4.9            -- Security Agreement (Accounts) dated as of June 7, 1996
                            between Tesoro Vostok Company and Banque Paribas, entered
                            into in connection with the Credit Facility (incorporated
                            by reference herein to Exhibit 4.9 to the Company's
                            Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June
                            30, 1996, File No. 1-3473).
          4.10           -- Amended and Restated Security Agreement (Pledge) dated as
                            of June 7, 1996 by the Company in favor of Banque
                            Paribas, entered into in connection with the Credit
                            Facility (incorporated by reference herein to Exhibit
                            4.10 to the Company's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for
                            the quarter ended June 30, 1996, File No. 1-3473).
          4.11           -- First Amendment to Amended and Restated Security
                            Agreement (Pledge) dated as of September 12, 1996 between
                            the Company and Banque Paribas, entered into in
                            connection with the Credit Facility.
          4.12           -- First Amendment to Deed of Trust, Security Agreement and
                            Financing Statement dated as of June 7, 1996 among Tesoro
                            Alaska Petroleum Company, TransAlaska Title Insurance
                            Agency, Inc., as Trustee, and Banque Paribas, as
                            Administrative Agent, entered into in connection with the
                            Credit Facility (incorporated by reference herein to
                            Exhibit 4.11 to the Company's Quarterly Report on Form
                            10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 1996, File No.
                            1-3473).
          4.13           -- First Amendment to Mortgage, Deed of Trust, Assignment of
                            Production, Security Agreement and Financing Statement
                            dated as of June 7, 1996 from Tesoro E&P Company, L.P.,
                            entered into in connection with the Credit Facility
                            (incorporated by reference herein to Exhibit 4.12 to the
                            Company's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter
                            ended June 30, 1996, File No. 1-3473).
          4.14           -- Mortgage, Deed of Trust, Assignment of Production,
                            Security Agreement and Financing Statement dated as of
                            June 7, 1996 from Tesoro E&P Company, L.P., entered into
                            in connection with the Credit Facility (incorporated by
                            reference herein to Exhibit 4.13 to the Company's
                            Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June
                            30, 1996, File No. 1-3473).
          4.15           -- Loan Agreement (the "Loan Agreement") dated as of May 26,
                            1994 among Tesoro Alaska Petroleum Company, as Borrower,
                            the Company, as Guarantor, and National Bank of Alaska
                            ("NBA"), as Lender (incorporated by reference herein to
                            Exhibit 4.30 to Registration Statement No. 33-53587).
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<CAPTION>
        EXHIBIT
         NUMBER                             DESCRIPTION OF EXHIBIT
        -------                             ----------------------
<C>                      <S>
          4.16           -- Guaranty Agreement dated as of May 26, 1994 between the
                            Company and NBA, entered into in connection with the Loan
                            Agreement (incorporated by reference herein to Exhibit
                            4.31 to Registration Statement No. 33-53587).
          4.17           -- $15,000,000 Promissory Note dated as of May 26, 1994 of
                            Tesoro Alaska Petroleum Company payable to the order of
                            NBA, in connection with the Loan Agreement (incorporated
                            by reference herein to Exhibit 4.32 to Registration
                            Statement No. 33-53587).
          4.18           -- Construction Loan Agreement dated as of May 26, 1994
                            between Tesoro Alaska Petroleum Company and NBA, entered
                            into in connection with the Loan Agreement (incorporated
                            by reference herein to Exhibit 4.33 to Registration
                            Statement No. 33-53587).
          4.19           -- Deed of Trust dated as of May 26, 1994 from Tesoro Alaska
                            Petroleum Company, entered into in connection with the
                            Loan Agreement (incorporated by reference herein to
                            Exhibit 4.34 to Registration Statement No. 33-53587).
          4.20           -- Security Agreement dated as of May 26, 1994 between
                            Tesoro Alaska Petroleum Company and NBA, entered into in
                            connection with the Loan Agreement (incorporated by
                            reference herein to Exhibit 4.35 to Registration
                            Statement No. 33-53587).
          4.21           -- Consent and Intercreditor Agreement dated as of May 26,
                            1994 entered into in connection with the Credit Facility
                            (incorporated by reference herein to Exhibit 4.36 to
                            Registration Statement No. 33-53587).
          4.22           -- Copy of First Amendment to the Loan Agreement dated as of
                            January 26, 1995 among Tesoro Alaska Petroleum Company,
                            Tesoro Petroleum Corporation and NBA (incorporated by
                            reference herein to Exhibit 4(aa) to the Company's Annual
                            Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December
                            31, 1994, File No. 1-3473).
          4.23           -- Form of Coastwide Energy Services Inc. 8% Convertible
                            Subordinated Debenture (incorporated by reference herein
                            to Exhibit 4.3 to Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to
                            Registration No. 333-00229).
          4.24           -- Debenture Assumption and Conversion Agreement dated as of
                            February 20, 1996, between the Company, Coastwide Energy
                            Services, Inc. and CNRG Acquisition Corp. (incorporated
                            by reference herein to Exhibit 4.4 to Post-Effective
                            Amendment No. 1 to Registration No. 333-00229).
          4.25           -- Form of Stock Option Agreement for option grant under the
                            Coastwide Energy Services, Inc. 1993 Long-Term Incentive
                            Plan (incorporated by reference herein to Exhibit 4.5 to
                            Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to Registration No.
                            333-00229).
          4.26           -- Form of Cancellation/Substitution Agreement by and
                            between the Company, Coastwide Energy Services, Inc. and
                            Optionee (incorporated by reference herein to Exhibit 4.6
                            to Post-Effective Amendment No. 1 to Registration No.
                            333-00229).
         10.1            -- The Company's Amended Executive Security Plan, as amended
                            through November 13, 1989, and Funded Executive Security
                            Plan, as amended through February 28, 1990, for executive
                            officers and key personnel (incorporated by reference
                            herein to Exhibit 10(f) to the Company's Annual Report on
                            Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended September 30, 1990,
                            File No. 1-3473).
         10.2            -- Sixth Amendment to the Company's Amended Executive
                            Security Plan and Seventh Amendment to the Company's
                            Funded Executive Security Plan, both dated effective
                            March 6, 1991 (incorporated by reference herein to
                            Exhibit 10(g) to the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K
                            for the fiscal year ended September 30, 1991, File No.
                            1-3473).
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<CAPTION>
        EXHIBIT
         NUMBER                             DESCRIPTION OF EXHIBIT
        -------                             ----------------------
<C>                      <S>
         10.3            -- Seventh Amendment to the Company's Amended Executive
                            Security Plan and Eighth Amendment to the Company's
                            Funded Executive Security Plan, both dated effective
                            December 8, 1994 (incorporated by reference herein to
                            Exhibit 10(f) to the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K
                            for the fiscal year ended December 31, 1994, File No.
                            1-3473).
         10.4            -- Amended and Restated Employment Agreement between the
                            Company and Bruce A. Smith dated February 15, 1996
                            (incorporated by reference herein to Exhibit 10(o) to the
                            Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year
                            ended December 31, 1995, File No. 1-3473).
         10.5            -- Amended and Restated Employment Agreement between the
                            Company and James C. Reed, Jr. dated as of December 12,
                            1996.
         10.6            -- Amended and Restated Employment Agreement between the
                            Company and William T. Van Kleef dated as of December 12,
                            1996.
         10.7            -- Management Stability Agreement between the Company and
                            Don E. Beere dated December 14, 1994 (incorporated by
                            reference herein to Exhibit 10(o) to the Company's Annual
                            Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December
                            31, 1994, File No. 1-3473).
         10.8            -- Management Stability Agreement between the Company and
                            Gregory A. Wright dated February 23, 1995 (incorporated
                            by reference herein to Exhibit 10(p) to the Company's
                            Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended
                            December 31, 1994, File No. 1-3473).
         10.9            -- Management Stability Agreement between the Company and
                            Thomas E. Reardon dated December 14, 1994 (incorporated
                            by reference herein to Exhibit 10(w) to Registration
                            Statement No. 333-00229).
         10.10           -- The Company's Amended Incentive Stock Plan of 1982, as
                            amended through February 24, 1988 (incorporated by
                            reference herein to Exhibit 10(t) to the Company's Annual
                            Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended September
                            30, 1988, File No. 1-3473).
         10.11           -- Resolution approved by the Company's stockholders on
                            April 30, 1992 extending the term of the Company's
                            Amended Incentive Stock Plan of 1982 to February 24, 1994
                            (incorporated by reference herein to Exhibit 10(o) to the
                            Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year
                            ended December 31, 1992, File No. 1-3473).
         10.12           -- Amended and Restated Tesoro Petroleum Corporation
                            Executive Long-Term Incentive Plan, as amended through
                            June 6, 1996.
         10.13           -- Copy of the Company's Non-Employee Director Retirement
                            Plan dated December 8, 1994 (incorporated by reference
                            herein to Exhibit 10(t) to the Company's Annual Report on
                            Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 1994,
                            File No. 1-3473).
         10.14           -- Copy of the Company's Board of Directors Deferred
                            Compensation Plan dated February 23, 1995 (incorporated
                            by reference herein to Exhibit 10(u) to the Company's
                            Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended
                            December 31, 1994, File No. 1-3473).
         10.15           -- Copy of the Company's Board of Directors Deferred
                            Compensation Trust dated February 23, 1995 (incorporated
                            by reference herein to Exhibit 10(v) to the Company's
                            Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended
                            December 31, 1994, File No. 1-3473).
         10.16           -- Agreement for the Sale and Purchase of State Royalty Oil
                            dated as of April 21, 1995 by and between Tesoro Alaska
                            Petroleum Company and the State of Alaska (incorporated
                            by reference herein to Exhibit 10 to the Company's
                            Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June
                            30, 1995, File No. 1-3473).
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<C>                       <S>
          10.17           -- Copy of Settlement Agreement dated effective January 19, 1993, between Tesoro Petroleum
                             Corporation, Tesoro Alaska Petroleum Company and the State of Alaska (incorporated by
                             reference herein to Exhibit 10(q) to the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the
                             fiscal year ended December 31, 1992, File No. 1-3473).
          10.18           -- Form of Indemnification Agreement between the Company and its officers and directors
                             (incorporated by reference herein to Exhibit B to the Company's Proxy Statement for the
                             Annual Meeting of Stockholders held on February 25, 1987, File No. 1-3473).
          10.19           -- Settlement and Standstill Agreement, dated as of April 4, 1996, among Kevin S.
                             Flannery, Alan Kaufman, Robert S. Washburn, James H. Stone, George F. Baker, Douglas
                             Thompson, Gales E. Galloway, Whelan Management Corp., Ardsley Advisory Partners and
                             Tesoro Petroleum Corporation (incorporated by reference herein to Exhibit 99 to the
                             Company's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 1996, File No.
                             1-3473).
          10.20           -- Settlement Agreement and Release, entered into and effective as of October 1, 1996, by
                             and between Tesoro E&P Company, L.P., acting through its General Partner, Tesoro
                             Exploration and Production Company, Coastal Oil & Gas Corporation and Coastal Oil & Gas
                             USA, L.P., and Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company.
          10.21           -- Termination Agreement, entered into and effective as of October 1, 1996, by and between
                             Tesoro E&P Company, L.P., acting through its General Partner, Tesoro Exploration and
                             Production Company, Coastal Oil & Gas Corporation and Coastal Oil & Gas USA, L.P., and
                             Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company.
          11              -- Information Supporting Earnings Per Share Computations
          21              -- Subsidiaries of the Company
          23.1            -- Consent of Deloitte & Touche LLP
          23.2            -- Consent of Netherland, Sewell & Associates, Inc.
          27              -- Financial Data Schedule
</TABLE>
 
Copies of exhibits filed as part of this Form 10-K may be obtained by
stockholders of record at a charge of $.15 per page, minimum $5.00 each request.
Direct inquiries to the Corporate Secretary, Tesoro Petroleum Corporation, 8700
Tesoro Drive, San Antonio, Texas, 78217-6218.
 
(B) REPORTS ON FORM 8-K
 
     No reports on Form 8-K were filed by the Company during the quarter ended
December 31, 1996.
 
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                                   SIGNATURES
 
     Pursuant to the requirements of Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on
its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.
 
                                            TESORO PETROLEUM CORPORATION
 
                                            By:      /s/ BRUCE A. SMITH
                                              ----------------------------------
                                                        Bruce A. Smith
                                                   Chairman of the Board of
                                                           Directors,
                                                President and Chief Executive
                                                            Officer
 
March 24, 1997
 
     Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, this
report has been signed below by the following persons on behalf of the
Registrant and in the capacities and on the dates indicated.
 
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                      SIGNATURE                                      TITLE                        DATE
                      ---------                                      -----                        ----
<C>                                                    <S>                                 <C>
 
                 /s/ BRUCE A. SMITH                    Chairman of the Board of Directors  March 24, 1997
- -----------------------------------------------------    and Director, President and
                  (Bruce A. Smith)                       Chief Executive Officer
                                                         (Principal Executive Officer)
 
               /s/ JAMES C. REED, JR.                  Executive Vice President, General   March 24, 1997
- -----------------------------------------------------    Counsel and Secretary (Principal
                (James C. Reed, Jr.)                     Financial Officer)
 
                  /s/ DON E. BEERE                     Vice President, Controller          March 24, 1997
- -----------------------------------------------------    (Principal Accounting Officer)
                   (Don E. Beere)
 
               /s/ STEVEN H. GRAPSTEIN                 Vice Chairman of the Board of       March 24, 1997
- -----------------------------------------------------    Directors and Director
                (Steven H. Grapstein)
 
                /s/ ROBERT J. CAVERLY                  Director                            March 24, 1997
- -----------------------------------------------------
                 (Robert J. Caverly)
 
               /s/ WILLIAM J. JOHNSON                  Director                            March 24, 1997
- -----------------------------------------------------
                (William J. Johnson)
 
                 /s/ ALAN J. KAUFMAN                   Director                            March 24, 1997
- -----------------------------------------------------
                  (Alan J. Kaufman)
 
              /s/ RAYMOND K. MASON, SR.                Director                            March 24, 1997
- -----------------------------------------------------
               (Raymond K. Mason, Sr.)
 
                 /s/ PATRICK J. WARD                   Director                            March 24, 1997
- -----------------------------------------------------
                  (Patrick J. Ward)
 
              /s/ MURRAY L. WEIDENBAUM                 Director                            March 24, 1997
- -----------------------------------------------------
               (Murray L. Weidenbaum)
</TABLE>
 
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                               INDEX TO EXHIBITS
 
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<CAPTION>
        EXHIBIT
         NUMBER                             DESCRIPTION OF EXHIBIT
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<C>                      <S>
          3.2            -- Bylaws of the Company, as amended through June 6, 1996.
          4.2            -- Second Amended and Restated Guaranty Agreement dated as
                            of January 28, 1997 among various subsidiaries of the
                            Company and Banque Paribas, individually, as
                            Administrative Agent and as an Issuing Bank, and certain
                            other financial institutions named therein, entered into
                            in connection with the Credit Facility.
          4.11           -- First Amendment to Amended and Restated Security
                            Agreement (Pledge) dated as of September 12, 1996 between
                            the Company and Banque Paribas, entered into in
                            connection with the Credit Facility.
         10.5            -- Amended and Restated Employment Agreement between the
                            Company and James C. Reed, Jr. dated as of December 12,
                            1996.
         10.6            -- Amended and Restated Employment Agreement between the
                            Company and William T. Van Kleef dated as of December 12,
                            1996.
         10.12           -- Amended and Restated Tesoro Petroleum Corporation
                            Executive Long-Term Incentive Plan, as amended through
                            June 6, 1996.
         10.20           -- Settlement Agreement and Release, entered into and
                            effective as of October 1, 1996, by and between Tesoro
                            E&P Company, L.P., acting through its General Partner,
                            Tesoro Exploration and Production Company, Coastal Oil &
                            Gas Corporation and Coastal Oil & Gas USA, L.P., and
                            Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company.
         10.21           -- Termination Agreement, entered into and effective as of
                            October 1, 1996, by and between Tesoro E&P Company, L.P.,
                            acting through its General Partner, Tesoro Exploration
                            and Production Company, Coastal Oil & Gas Corporation and
                            Coastal Oil & Gas USA, L.P., and Tennessee Gas Pipeline
                            Company.
         11              -- Information Supporting Earnings Per Share Computations
         21              -- Subsidiaries of the Company
         23.1            -- Consent of Deloitte & Touche LLP
         23.2            -- Consent of Netherland, Sewell & Associates, Inc.
         27              -- Financial Data Schedule
</TABLE>
 
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                                                        ITEM 14(a)3, EXHIBIT 3.2

                                               Adopted:       September 22, 1971
                                               Amended:             May 31, 1973
                                                               November 20, 1974
                                                                November 1, 1975
                                                              September 29, 1976
                                                              September 29, 1979
                                                                 August 27, 1980
                                                               November 22, 1988
                                                                  April 14, 1989
                                                                   June 28, 1989
                                                                 January 2, 1992
                                                              September 29, 1992
                                                                February 9, 1994
                                                               February 23, 1995
                                                                   July 26, 1995
                                                              September 27, 1995
                                                                    June 6, 1996





                                    BY-LAWS

                                       OF

                          TESORO PETROLEUM CORPORATION





                                                       (As Amended June 6, 1996)
<PAGE>   2
                                    BY-LAWS

                                       OF

                          TESORO PETROLEUM CORPORATION



                                   ARTICLE I

                            Meeting of Stockholders


         Section 1.1 Annual Meetings.  The annual meeting of the stockholders
for the election of directors and for the transaction of such other business as
properly may come before such meeting shall be held on such date, and at such
time and place within or without the State of Delaware, as may be designated by
the Board of Directors.

         Section 1.2 Special Meetings.  Special meetings of the stockholders
for any proper purpose or purposes may be called at any time by the Board of
Directors, the Chairman of the Board of Directors, the Vice Chairman of the
Board of Directors, or any Vice President, to be held on such date, and at such
time and place within or without the State of Delaware, as the Board of
Directors, the Chairman of the Board of Directors, the Vice Chairman of the
Board of Directors, or a Vice President, whichever has called the meeting,
shall direct.  A special meeting of the stockholders shall be called by the
Chairman of the Board of Directors, the Vice Chairman of the Board of
Directors, or any Vice President whenever stockholders holding shares
representing a majority of the votes of the shares of the Corporation then
issued and outstanding and entitled to vote on matters to be submitted to
stockholders of the Corporation shall make application therefor in writing.
Any such written request shall state a proper purpose or purposes of the
meeting and shall be delivered to the Chairman of the Board of Directors, the
Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors, or any Vice President.  A special
meeting of the stockholders shall be called by the Chairman of the Board of
Directors, the Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors, or any Vice President,
for the purpose of electing one additional member to the Board of Directors in
the event there should occur three tie votes of the Board of Directors with
respect to any matter or series of matters at any meeting or series of meetings
within a three consecutive month period.

         Section 1.3 Notice of Meeting.  Written notice, signed by the Chairman
of the Board of Directors, the Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors, any
Vice President, the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary, of every meeting of
stockholders (other than an adjourned meeting unless otherwise required by
statute) stating the purpose or purposes for which the meeting is called, and
the date and time when, and the place where, it is to be held shall be either
delivered personally or mailed to each stockholder entitled to vote at such
meeting not less than ten nor more than sixty days before the meeting, except
as otherwise provided by statute.  If mailed, such notice shall be
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directed to a stockholder at his address as it shall appear on the stock books
of the Corporation, unless he shall have filed with the Secretary a written
request that notices intended for him be mailed to some other address, in which
case it shall be mailed to the address designated in such request, and shall be
given when deposited in the United States mail, postage prepaid.

         Section 1.4 Quorum.  The presence at any meeting, in person or by
proxy, of the holders of record of shares representing a majority of the votes
of the shares then issued and outstanding and entitled to vote shall be
necessary and sufficient to constitute a quorum for the transaction of
business, except where otherwise provided by statute.

         Section 1.5 Adjournments.  In the absence of a quorum, a majority of
the votes of the stockholders entitled to vote, present in person or by proxy,
or, if no stockholder entitled to vote is present in person or by proxy, any
officer entitled to preside at or act as secretary of such meeting, may adjourn
the meeting from time to time until a quorum shall be present.

         Section 1.6 Voting.  Directors shall be chosen by a plurality of the
votes cast at the election, and, except where otherwise provided by statute, or
the Certificate of Incorporation, all other questions shall be determined by a
majority of the votes cast on such question.

         Section 1.7 Proxies.  Any stockholders entitled to vote may vote by
proxy, provided that the instrument authorizing such proxy to act shall have
been executed in writing (which shall include telegraphing or cabling) by the
stockholder himself or by his duly authorized attorney.

         Section 1.8 Judges of Election.  The Board of Directors may appoint
judges of election to serve at any election of directors and at balloting on
any other matter that may properly come before a meeting of stockholders.  If
no such appointment shall be made, or if any of the judges so appointed shall
fail to attend, or refuse or be unable to serve, then such appointment may be
made by the presiding officers at the meeting.

         Section 1.9  Consent of Stockholders in Lieu of Meeting.

                 (a) Any action required to be taken at any annual or special
         meeting of the stockholders, or any action which may be taken at any
         annual or special meeting of the stockholders, may be taken without a
         meeting, without prior notice and without a vote if a consent or
         consents in writing, setting forth the action so taken, shall be
         signed by the holders of outstanding stock having not less than the
         minimum number of votes that would be necessary to authorize or take
         such action at a meeting at which all shares entitled to vote thereon
         were present and voted and shall be delivered to the Corporation by
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         its registered office in the State of Delaware, its principal place of
         business, or an officer or agent of the Corporation having custody of
         the book in which proceedings or meetings of stockholders are
         recorded.  Delivery shall be made by hand or by certified or
         registered mail, return receipt requested.

                 (b) Every written consent shall bear the date of signature of
         each stockholder who signs the consent and no written consent shall be
         effective to take the corporate action referred to therein unless,
         within sixty days of the date the earliest dated consent is delivered
         to the Corporation, a written consent or consents signed by a
         sufficient number of holders to take action are delivered to the
         Corporation in the manner prescribed in paragraph (c) of this Section.

                 (c) In order that the Corporation may determine the
         stockholders entitled to consent to corporate action in writing
         without a meeting, the Board of Directors may fix a record date, which
         record date shall not precede the date upon which the resolution
         fixing the record date is adopted by the Board of Directors, and which
         date shall not be more than fifteen days after the date upon which the
         resolution fixing the record date is adopted by the Board of
         Directors.  Any stockholder of record seeking to have the stockholders
         authorize or take corporate action by written consent shall, by
         written notice to the Secretary, request the Board of Directors to fix
         a record date.  The Board of Directors shall promptly, but in all
         events within ten days after the date on which such a request is
         received, adopt a resolution fixing the record date.  If no record
         date has been fixed by the Board of Directors within ten days after
         the date on which such a request is received, the record date for
         determining stockholders entitled to consent to corporate action in
         writing without a meeting, when no prior action by the Board of
         Directors is required by applicable law, shall be the first date on
         which a signed written consent setting forth the action taken or
         proposed to be taken is delivered to the Corporation in accordance
         with paragraphs (a) and (b) of this Section.  If no record date has
         been fixed by the Board of Directors and prior action by the Board of
         Directors is required by applicable law, the record date for
         determining stockholders entitled to consent to corporate action in
         writing without a meeting shall be at the close of business on the
         date on which the Board of Directors adopts the resolution taking such
         prior action.

                 (d) Within three business days after receipt of the earliest
         dated consent delivered to the Corporation in the manner provided in
         this Section, the Corporation shall retain nationally recognized
         independent inspectors of elections for the purpose of performing a
         ministerial review of the validity of consents and any revocations
         thereof.  The Corporation shall promptly deliver all consents and
         revocations of consents received by it to the inspectors of election.
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                 (e) At any time that stockholders soliciting consents in
         writing to corporate action have a good faith belief that the
         requisite number of valid and unrevoked consents to authorize or take
         the action specified has been received by them, the consents shall be
         delivered by the soliciting stockholders to the Corporation's
         registered office in the State of Delaware or principal place of
         business or to the Secretary of the Corporation, together with a
         certificate stating their belief that the requisite number of valid
         and unrevoked consents has been received as of a specific date, which
         date shall be identified in the certificate.  In the event that
         delivery is made to the Corporation's registered office in the State
         of Delaware, such delivery shall be made by hand or by certified or
         registered mail, return receipt requested.

                 (f) As promptly as practicable after the consents and
         revocations are received by them, the inspectors of election shall
         issue a preliminary report to the Corporation stating:  (i) the number
         of shares represented by valid and unrevoked consents; (ii) the number
         of shares represented by invalid consents; (iii) the number of shares
         represented by invalid revocations; and (iv) the number of shares
         entitled to submit consents as of the record date.  Unless the
         Corporation and the soliciting stockholders agree to a shorter or
         longer period, the Corporation and the soliciting stockholders shall
         have five days to review the consents and revocations and to advise
         the inspectors and the opposing party in writing as to whether they
         intend to challenge the preliminary report.  If no timely written
         notice of an intention to challenge the preliminary report is
         received, the inspectors shall certify the preliminary report (as
         corrected or modified by virtue of the detection by the inspectors of
         clerical errors) as their final report and deliver it to the
         Corporation.  If the Corporation or the soliciting stockholders give
         timely written notice of an intention to challenge the preliminary
         report, a challenge session shall be scheduled by the inspectors as
         promptly as practicable.  A transcript of the challenge session shall
         be recorded by a certified court reporter.  Following completion of
         the challenge session, the inspectors shall issue as promptly as
         practicable their final report and deliver it to the Corporation.  A
         copy of the final report shall be included in the book in which the
         proceedings of meetings of stockholders are recorded.

                 (g) The Corporation shall give prompt notice to the
         stockholders of the results of any consent solicitation or the taking
         of corporate action without a meeting by less than unanimous written
         consent.

                 (h) This Section shall in no way impair or diminish the right
         of any stockholder or director, or any officer whose title to office
         is contested, to contest the validity of any consent or revocation
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         Section 1.10 Nominations for Director and Proposal of Business.

                 (a) Nominations of persons for election to the Board of
         Directors and the proposal of business to be considered by the
         stockholders may be made at an annual meeting of the stockholders (a)
         pursuant to the Corporation's notice of meeting, (b) by or at the
         direction of the Board of Directors or (c) by any stockholder who was
         a stockholder of record at the time of giving of notice provided for
         in this Section, who is entitled to vote at the meeting and who
         complies with the notice procedures set forth in this Section.

                 (b) For nominations or other business to be properly brought
         before an annual meeting by a stockholder pursuant to this Section,
         such stockholder must have given timely notice thereof in writing to
         the Secretary, and such business must be a proper subject for
         stockholder action under the Delaware General Corporation Law.  To be
         timely, a stockholder's notice shall be delivered to the Secretary at
         the principal executive offices of the Corporation not less than sixty
         days nor more than ninety days prior to the first anniversary of the
         preceding year's annual meeting; provided, however, that in the event
         that the date of the annual meeting is advanced by more than thirty
         days or delayed by more than sixty days from such anniversary date,
         notice by the stockholder to be timely must be so delivered not
         earlier than the ninetieth day prior to such annual meeting and not
         later than the close of business on the later of the sixtieth day
         prior to such annual meeting or the tenth day following the day on
         which public announcement of the date of such meeting is first made.
         Such stockholder's notice shall set forth (a) as to each person whom
         the stockholder proposes to nominate for election or reelection as a
         director, all information relating to such person that is required to
         be disclosed in solicitation of proxies for election of directors, or
         is otherwise required, in each case pursuant to Regulation 14A under
         the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act")
         (including such person's written consent to being named in the proxy
         statement as a nominee and to serving as a director if elected), (b)
         as to any other business that the stockholder proposes to bring before
         the meeting, a brief description of the business desired to be brought
         before the meeting, the reasons for conducting such business at the
         meeting and any material interest in such business of such stockholder
         and the beneficial owner, if any, on whose behalf the proposal is
         made, and (c) as to the stockholder giving the notice and such
         beneficial owner, if any, on whose behalf the nomination or proposal
         is made (i) the name and address of such stockholder, as they appear
         on the Corporation's books, and of such beneficial owner, and (ii) the
         class and number of shares of the Corporation which are owned
         beneficially and of record by such stockholder and such beneficial
         owner.

                 (c)  Notwithstanding anything in this Section to the contrary,
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         and there is no public announcement specifying the size of the
         increased Board of Directors made by the Corporation at least seventy
         days prior to the first anniversary of the preceding year's annual
         meeting, a stockholder's notice required by this Section shall also be
         considered timely, but only with respect to nominees for any new
         positions created by such increase, if it shall be delivered to the
         Secretary at the principal executive offices of the Corporation not
         later than the close of business on the tenth day following the day on
         which such public announcement is first made by the Corporation.

                 (d) Only such business shall be conducted at a special meeting
         of stockholders as shall have been brought before the meeting pursuant
         to the Corporation's notice of meeting.  Nominations of persons for
         election to the Board of Directors may be made at a special meeting of
         stockholders at which directors are to be elected pursuant to the
         Corporation's notice of meeting (a) by or at the direction of the
         Board of Directors or (b) by any stockholder of the Corporation who is
         a stockholder of record at the time of the Corporation's giving of
         notice provided for in this Section, who shall be entitled to vote at
         the meeting and who complies with the notice procedures set forth in
         this Section.  Nominations by stockholders of persons for election to
         the Board of Directors may be made at such a special meeting of
         stockholders if the stockholder's notice required by this Section
         shall be delivered to the Secretary at the principal executive offices
         of the Corporation not earlier than the ninetieth day prior to such
         special meeting and not later than the close of business on the later
         of the sixtieth day prior to such special meeting or the tenth day
         following the day on which public announcement is first made of the
         date of the special meeting and of the nominees proposed by the Board
         of Directors to be elected at such meeting.

                 (e) Only such persons who are nominated in accordance with the
         procedures set forth in this Section shall be eligible for election as
         directors at a meeting of stockholders.  Only such business shall be
         conducted at a meeting of stockholders as shall have been brought
         before the meeting in accordance with the procedures set forth in this
         Section.  The Chairman of the meeting shall have the power and duty to
         determine whether a nomination or any business proposed to be brought
         before the meeting was made in accordance with the procedures set
         forth in this Section and, if any proposed nominations or business is
         not in compliance with this Section, to declare that such defective
         proposal shall be disregarded.

                 (f) For purposes of this Section, "public announcement" shall
         mean disclosure in a press release reported by the Dow Jones News
         Service, Associated Press or comparable national news service.

                 (g) Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this Section,
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         Act and the rules and regulations thereunder with respect to the
         matters set forth in this Section.  Nothing in this Section shall be
         deemed to affect any rights of stockholders to request inclusion of
         proposals in the Corporation's proxy statement pursuant to Rule 14a-8
         under the Exchange Act.



                                   ARTICLE II

                               Board of Directors


         Section 2.1 Number, Election and Term of Office.  The number of
directors which shall constitute the whole Board of Directors shall be fixed
from time to time by resolution of the Board of Directors but shall not be less
than three.  The directors shall be elected at the annual meeting of
stockholders, except as provided in Section 2.2, and each director elected at
an annual meeting of stockholders, and directors elected in the interim to fill
vacancies and newly created directorships shall hold office until the next
annual meeting of stockholders or until their successors are duly elected and
qualified or until their earlier resignation or removal.  A director need not
be a stockholder.

         Section 2.2 Vacancies and Additional Directorships.  Unless otherwise
provided in the Certificate of Incorporation or these By-laws: (1) vacancies
and newly created directorships resulting from any increase in the authorized
number of directors elected by all of the stockholders having the right to vote
as a single class may be filled by a majority of the directors then in office,
although less than a quorum; (2) whenever the holders of any class or classes
of stock or series thereof are entitled to elect one or more directors by the
Certificate of Incorporation, vacancies and newly created directorships of such
class or classes or series may be filled by a majority of the directors elected
by such class or classes or series thereof then in office.

         Section 2.3 The Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors.   The Board
of Directors may appoint a Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors who shall be
a director but need not be a stockholder of the Corporation.  The Vice Chairman
shall not, by reason of said title, be or be deemed to be an officer of the
Corporation.  In the absence of the Chairman of the Board of Directors, the
Vice Chairman shall preside at all meetings of the stockholders and of the
Board of Directors.  The Vice Chairman may sign, with an officer thereunto duly
authorized (the signatures to which may be facsimile signatures) and may sign
and execute in the name of the Corporation other instruments which the Board of
Directors has authorized to be executed.  From time to time, but only in the
absence or at the direction of the Chairman of the Board of Directors, the Vice
Chairman shall report to the Board of Directors all matters which to his
knowledge the interests of the Corporation may require be brought to their
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these By-laws or as from time to time may be assigned to him by the Board of
Directors.

         Section 2.4 Meetings.  A meeting of the Board of Directors shall be
held for organization, for the election of officers and for the transaction of
such other business as may properly come before the meeting, within thirty days
after each annual election of directors.

         The Board of Directors by resolution may provide for the holding of
regular meetings and may fix the times and places at which such meetings shall
be held.  Notice of regular meetings shall not be required to be given,
provided that whenever the time or place of regular meetings shall be fixed or
changed, notice of such action shall be mailed promptly to each director who
shall not have been present at the meeting at which such action was taken,
addressed to him at his residence or usual place of business.

         Special meetings of the Board of Directors may be called by the
Chairman of the Board of Directors, the Vice Chairman of the Board of
Directors, any Vice President or any two directors.  Except as otherwise
required by statute, notice of each special meeting shall be mailed to each
director, addressed to him at his residence or usual place of business, or
shall be sent to him at such place by telegram, radio or cable, or telephoned
or delivered to him personally, not later than two days before the day on which
the meeting is to be held.  Such notice shall state the time and place of such
meeting, but unless otherwise required by statute, the Certificate of
Incorporation of the Corporation or these By-laws need not state the purposes
thereof.

         Notice of any meeting need not be given to any director who shall
attend such meeting in person or who shall waive notice thereof, before or
after such meeting, in writing or by telegram, radio or cable.

         Section 2.5 Quorum.  One-third of the total number of members of the
Board of Directors as constituted from time to time, but not less than two,
shall be necessary and sufficient to constitute a quorum for the transaction of
business.  In the absence of a quorum, a majority of those present at the time
and place of any meeting may adjourn the meeting from time to time until a
quorum shall be present, and the meeting may be held as adjourned without
further notice of waiver.  A majority of those present at any meeting at which
a quorum is present may decide any question brought before such meeting, except
as otherwise provided by law, the Certificate of Incorporation or these
By-laws.

         Section 2.6 Resignation of Directors.  Any director may resign at any
time by giving written notice of such resignation to the Board of Directors,
the Chairman of the Board of Directors, the Vice Chairman of the Board of
Directors, any Vice President or the Secretary.  Any such resignation shall
take effect at the time specified therein, or, if no time be specified, upon
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one of the above-named officers; and, unless specified therein, the acceptance
of such resignation shall not be necessary to make it effective.

         Section 2.7 Removal of Directors.  At any special meeting of the
stockholders, duly called for the purpose of removing a director or directors
as provided in these By-laws, any director or directors may, by the affirmative
vote of the holders of shares representing a majority of the votes of all the
shares of stock outstanding and entitled to vote for the election of directors,
be removed from office, either for or without cause.  Such vacancy shall be
filled by the directors as provided in Section 2.2.

         Section 2.8 Compensation of Directors.  Directors shall receive such
reasonable compensation for their service as such, whether in the form of
salary or a fixed fee for attendance at meetings, with expenses, if any, as the
Board of Directors may from time to time determine.  Nothing herein contained
shall be construed to preclude any director from serving the Corporation in any
other capacity and receiving compensation therefor.

         Section 2.9 Indemnification.  The Corporation shall indemnify to the
full extent authorized or permitted by the laws of the State of Delaware any
person who is made, or threatened to be made, a party to an action, suit or
proceeding (whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative) by reason
of the fact that he, his testator or intestate is or was a director, officer or
employee of the Corporation or serves or served any other enterprise at the
request of the Corporation.


                                  ARTICLE III

                            Committees of the Board


         Section 3.1 Designation, Power, Alternate Members and Term of Office.
The Board of Directors may, by resolution passed by a majority of the whole
Board, designate one or more committees including an Executive Committee, each
committee to consist of one or more of the directors of the Corporation.  Any
such committee, to the extent provided in such resolution or in these By-laws,
shall have and may exercise all the powers and authority of the Board of
Directors in the management of the business and affairs of the Corporation, and
may authorize the seal of the Corporation to be affixed to all papers which may
require it; but no such committee shall have the power or authority in
reference to amending the Certificate of Incorporation, adopting an agreement
of merger of consolidation, recommending to the stockholders the sale, lease or
exchange of all or substantially all of the Corporation's property and assets,
recommending to the stockholders a dissolution of the Corporation or a
revocation of a dissolution, or amending the By-laws of the Corporation or,
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committee shall expressly so provide or these By-laws shall expressly so
provide, declaring a dividend on the Corporation's capital stock or authorizing
the issuance of the Corporation's capital stock.  The Board may designate one
or more directors as alternate members of any committee who, in the order
specified by the Board, may replace any absent or disqualified member at any
meeting of the committee.  If at a meeting of any committee one or more of the
members thereof should be absent or disqualified, and if either the Board of
Directors has not so designated any alternate member or members, or the number
of absent or disqualified members exceeds the number of alternate members who
are present at such meeting, then the member or members of such committee
(including alternates) present at any meeting and not disqualified from voting,
whether or not he or they constitute a quorum, may unanimously appoint another
director to act at the meeting in the place of any such absent or disqualified
member.  The term of office of the members of each committee shall be as fixed
from time to time by the Board, subject to these By-laws; provided, however,
that any committee member who ceases to be a member of the Board shall ipso
facto cease to be a committee member.  Each committee shall appoint a
secretary, who may be the Secretary of the Corporation or an Assistant
Secretary thereof.

         Section 3.2 Meetings, Notices and Records.  Each committee may provide
for the holding of regular meetings, with or without notice, and may fix the
time and place at which such meetings shall be held.  Special meetings of each
committee shall be held upon call by or at the direction of its chairman or, if
there be no chairman, by or at the direction of any two of its members, at the
time and place specified in the respective notices or waivers of notice
thereof.  Notice of each special meeting of a committee shall be mailed to each
member of such committee, addressed to him at his residence or usual place of
business, at least two days before the day on which the meeting is to be held,
or shall be sent by telegram, radio or cable, addressed to him at such place,
or telephoned or delivered to him personally not later than the day before the
day on which the meeting is to be held.  Notice of any meeting of a committee
need not be given to any member thereof who shall attend the meeting in person
or who shall waive notice thereof, before or after such meeting, in writing or
by telegram, radio or cable.  Notice of any adjourned meeting need not be
given.  Each committee shall keep a record of its proceedings.

         Section 3.3 Quorum and Manner of Acting.  At each meeting of any
committee the presence of one-third but not less than two of its members then
in office shall be necessary and sufficient to constitute a quorum for the
transaction of business, and the act of a majority of the members present at
any meeting at which a quorum is present shall be the act of such committee.
In the absence of a quorum, a majority of the members present at the time and
place of any meeting may adjourn the meeting from time to time until a quorum
shall be present.  Subject to the foregoing and other provisions of these
By-laws and except as otherwise determined by the Board of Directors, each
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determination made in writing and signed by all the members of such committee
shall be as effective as if made by such committee at a meeting.

         Section 3.4 Resignations.  Any member of a committee may resign at any
time by giving written notice of such resignation to the Board of Directors,
the Chairman of the Board of Directors, the Vice Chairman of the Board of
Directors, any Vice President or the Secretary.  Any such resignation shall
take effect at the time specified therein, or if no time be specified, upon
receipt thereof by the Board of Directors or one of the above-named officers;
and, unless specified therein, the acceptance of such resignation shall not be
necessary to make it effective.

         Section 3.5 Removal.  Any member of any committee may be removed at
any time by the Board of Directors with or without cause.

         Section 3.6 Vacancies.  If any vacancy shall occur in any committee by
reason of death, resignation, disqualification, removal or otherwise, the
remaining members of such committee, though less than a quorum, shall continue
to act until such vacancy is filled by a resolution passed by a majority of the
whole Board of Directors.

         Section 3.7 Compensation.  Committee members shall receive such
reasonable compensation for their services as such, whether  in the form of
salary or a fixed fee for attendance at meetings, with expenses, if any, as the
Board of Directors may from time to time determine.  Nothing herein contained
shall be construed to preclude any committee member from serving the
Corporation in any other capacity and receiving compensation therefor.



                                   ARTICLE IV

                                    Officers


         Section 4.1 Officers.  The officers of the Corporation shall be a
Chairman of the Board of Directors who shall also be the President and Chief
Executive Officer, one or more Vice Presidents (which may include Executive
Vice Presidents, Group Vice Presidents, Senior Vice Presidents and other
categories of Vice Presidents), a Secretary, a Treasurer, and such other
officers as may be appointed in accordance with the provisions of Section 4.3.

         Section 4.2 Election, Term of Office and Qualifications.  Each officer
(except such officers as may be appointed in accordance with the provisions of
Section 4.3) shall be elected by the Board of Directors.  Each such officer
(whether elected at the first meeting of the Board of Directors after the
annual meeting of stockholders or to fill a vacancy otherwise) shall hold his
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Directors after the next annual meeting of stockholders and until his successor
shall have been elected, or until his death, or until he shall have resigned in
the manner provided in Section 4.4 or shall have been removed in the manner
provided in Section 4.5.

         Section 4.3 Subordinate Officers and Agents.  The Board of Directors
from time to time may appoint other officers or agents (including one or more
Assistant Vice Presidents, one or more Assistant Secretaries and one or more
Assistant Treasurers), to hold office for such period, have such authority and
perform such duties as are provided in these By-laws or as may be provided in
the resolutions appointing them.  The Board of Directors may delegate to any
officer or agent the power to appoint any such subordinate officers or agents
and to prescribe their respective terms of office, authorities and duties.

         Section 4.4 Resignations.  Any officer may resign at any time by
giving written notice of such resignation to the Board of Directors, the
Chairman of the Board of Directors, the Vice Chairman of the Board of
Directors, any Vice President or the Secretary.  Any such resignation shall
take effect at the time specified therein or, if no time be specified, upon
receipt thereof by the Board of Directors or one of the above-named officers;
and, unless specified therein, the acceptance of such resignation shall not be
necessary to make it effective.

         Section 4.5 Removal.  Any officer specifically designated in Section
4.1 may be removed at any time, either with or without cause, at any meeting of
the Board of Directors by the vote of a majority of all the Directors then in
office.  Any officer or agent appointed in accordance with the provisions of
Section 4.3 may be removed, either with or without cause, by the Board of
Directors at any meeting, by the vote of a majority of the Directors present at
such meeting, or by any superior officer or agent upon whom such power of
removal shall have been conferred by the Board of Directors.

         Section 4.6 Vacancies.  A vacancy in any office by reason of death,
resignation, removal, disqualification or any other cause shall be filled for
the unexpired portion of the term in the manner prescribed by these By-laws for
regular election or appointment to such office.

         Section 4.7 The Chairman of the Board of Directors.  The Chairman of
the Board of Directors shall be the President and Chief Executive Officer of
the Corporation.  Subject to the direction of the Board of Directors, he shall
have general charge of the business affairs and property of the Corporation.
He shall see that all orders and resolutions of the Board of Directors are
carried into effect.  If present, he shall preside at all meetings of
stockholders.  He may sign, with any other officer thereunto duly authorized,
certificates of stock of the Corporation the issuance of which shall have been
duly authorized (the signatures to which may be facsimile signatures), and may
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agreements or other instruments duly authorized by the Board of Directors
except in cases where the signing and execution thereof shall be expressly
delegated by the Board of Directors or by statute to some other officer or
agent.  From time to time he shall report to the Board of Directors all matters
within his knowledge which the interests of the Corporation may require to be
brought to their attention.  He shall perform such other duties as are given to
him by these By-laws or as from time to time may be assigned to him by the
Board of Directors.

         Section 4.8 Executive Vice President.  In the absence of the Chairman
of the Board of Directors and the Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors, the
Executive Vice President shall preside at all meetings of stockholders. The
Executive Vice President may sign, with any other officer thereunto duly
authorized, certificates of stock of the Corporation the issuance of which
shall have been duly authorized (the signatures to which may be facsimile
signatures), and may sign and execute in the name of the Corporation, deeds,
mortgages, bonds, contracts, agreements or other instruments duly authorized by
the Board of Directors except in cases where the signing and execution thereof
shall be expressly delegated by the Board of Directors or by statute to some
other officer or agent.  He shall perform such other duties as are given to him
by these By-laws or as from time to time may be assigned to him by the Board of
Directors or the Chairman of the Board of Directors.

         Section 4.9 The Vice Presidents.  In the event of the absence or
disability of the Chairman of the Board of Directors, any Vice President
designated by the Chairman of the Board of Directors (or in the absence of such
designation, the Vice President designated by the Board of Directors) shall
perform all the duties of the Chairman of the Board of Directors and, when so
acting, shall have all the powers of and be subject to all restrictions upon
the Chairman of the Board of Directors.  Any Vice President may also sign, with
any other officer thereunto duly authorized, certificates of stock of the
Corporation the issuance of which shall have been duly authorized (the
signature to which may be a facsimile signature), and may sign and execute in
the name of the Corporation, deeds, mortgages, bonds and other instruments duly
authorized by the Board of Directors, except in cases where the signing and
execution thereof shall be expressly delegated by the Board of Directors or by
statute to some other officer or agent.  Each Vice President shall perform such
other duties as are given to him by these By-laws or as from time to time may
be assigned to him by the Board of Directors or the Chairman of the Board of
Directors.

         Section 4.10 The Secretary.  The Secretary shall

                 (a) record all the proceedings of the meetings of the
         stockholders, the Board of Directors, and any committees in a book or
         books to be kept for that purpose;

                 (b) cause all notices to be duly given in accordance with the
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                 (c) whenever any committee shall be appointed in pursuance of
         a resolution of the Board of Directors, furnish the chairman of such
         committee with a copy of such resolution;

                 (d) be custodian of the records and of the seal of the
         Corporation, and cause such seal to be affixed to all certificates
         representing stock of the Corporation prior to the issuance thereof
         and to all instruments the execution of which on behalf of the
         Corporation under its seal shall have been duly authorized;

                 (e) see that the lists, books, reports, statements,
         certificates and other documents and records required by statute are
         properly kept and filed;

                 (f) have charge of the stock and transfer books of the
         Corporation, and exhibit such stock book at all reasonable times to
         such persons as are entitled by statute to have access thereto;

                 (g) sign (unless the Treasurer or an Assistant Secretary or an
         Assistant Treasurer shall sign) certificates representing stock of the
         Corporation the issuance of which shall have been duly authorized (the
         signature to which may be a facsimile signature); and

                 (h) in general, perform all duties incident to the office of
         Secretary and such other duties as are given to him by these By-laws
         or as from time to time may be assigned to him by the Board of
         Directors, the Chairman of the Board of Directors or the Executive
         Vice President.

         Section 4.11 Assistant Secretaries.  At the request of the Secretary
or in his absence or disability, the Assistant Secretary designated by him (or
in the absence of such designation, the Assistant Secretary designated by the
Board of Directors, the Chairman of the Board of Directors, or the Executive
Vice President) shall perform all the duties of the Secretary and, when so
acting, shall have all the powers of and be subject to all restrictions upon
the Secretary.  The Assistant Secretaries shall perform such other duties as
from time to time may be assigned to them by the Board of Directors, the
Chairman of the Board of Directors, the Executive Vice President or the
Secretary.

         Section 4.12 The Treasurer.  The Treasurer shall

                 (a) have charge of and supervision over and be responsible for
         the funds, securities, receipts and disbursements of the Corporation;

                 (b) cause the monies and other valuable effects of the
         Corporation to be deposited in the name and to the credit of the
         Corporation in such banks or trust companies or with such bankers or
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         in accordance with Section 5.3 of these By-laws or to be otherwise
         dealt with in such manner as the Board of Directors may direct;

                 (c) cause the funds of the Corporation to be disbursed by
         checks or drafts upon the authorized depositaries of the Corporation,
         and cause to be taken and preserved proper vouchers for all monies
         disbursed;

                 (d) render to the Board of Directors or the Chairman of the
         Board of Directors, whenever requested, a statement of the financial
         condition of the Corporation and of all his transactions as Treasurer;

                 (e) cause to be kept at the Corporation's principal office
         correct books of account of all its business and transactions and such
         duplicate books of account as he shall determine and upon application
         cause such books or duplicates thereof to be exhibited to any
         director;

                 (f) be empowered, from time to time, to require from the
         officers or agents of the Corporation reports or statements giving
         such information as he may desire with respect to any and all
         financial transactions of the Corporation;

                 (g) sign (unless the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary or an
         Assistant Treasurer shall sign) certificates representing stock of the
         Corporation the issuance of which shall have been duly authorized (the
         signature to which may be a facsimile signature); and

                 (h) in general, perform all duties incident to the office of
         Treasurer and such other duties as are given to him by these By-laws
         or as from time to time may be assigned to him by the Board of
         Directors, the Chairman of the Board of Directors or the Executive
         Vice President.

         Section 4.13 Assistant Treasurers.  At the request of the Treasurer or
in his absence or disability, the Assistant Treasurer designated by him (or in
the absence of such designation, the Assistant Treasurer designated by the
Board of Directors, the Chairman of the Board of Directors or the Executive
Vice President) shall perform all the duties of the Treasurer and, when so
acting, shall have all the powers of and be subject to all restrictions upon
the Treasurer.  The Assistant Treasurers shall perform such other duties as
from time to time may be assigned to them by the Board of Directors, the
Chairman of the Board of Directors, the Executive Vice President or the
Treasurer.

         Section 4.14 Salaries.  The salaries of the officers of the
Corporation shall be fixed from time to time by the Board of Directors, except
that the Board of Directors may delegate to any person the power to fix the
salaries or other compensation of any officers or agents appointed in
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officer shall be prevented from receiving such salary by reason of the fact
that he is also a director of the Corporation.

         Section 4.15 Surety Bonds.  If the Board of Directors shall so
require, any officer or agent of the Corporation shall execute to the
Corporation a bond in such sum and with such surety or sureties as the Board of
Directors may direct, conditioned upon the faithful discharge of his duties,
including responsibilities for negligence and for the accounting for all
property, funds or securities of the Corporation which may come into his hands.


                                   ARTICLE V

                          Execution of Instruments and
                           Deposit of Corporate Funds


         Section 5.1 Execution of Instruments Generally.  The Chairman of the
Board of Directors, the Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors, any Vice
President, the Secretary or the Treasurer, subject to the approval of the Board
of Directors, may enter into any contract or execute and deliver any instrument
in the name and on behalf of the Corporation.  The Board of Directors may
authorize any officer or officers, or agent or agents, to enter into any
contract or execute and deliver any instrument in the name and on behalf of the
Corporation, and such authorization may be general or confined to specific
instances.

         Section 5.2 Borrowing.  No loans or advances shall be obtained or
contracted for, by or on behalf of the Corporation and no negotiable paper
shall be issued in its name, unless and except as authorized by the Board of
Directors.  Such authorization may be general or confined to specific
instances.  Any officer or agent of the Corporation thereunto so authorized may
obtain loans and advances for the Corporation, and for such loans and advances
may make, execute and deliver promissory notes, bonds, or other evidences of
indebtedness of the Corporation.  Any officer or agent of the Corporation
thereunto so authorized may pledge, hypothecate or transfer as security for the
payment of any and all loans, advances, indebtedness and liabilities of the
Corporation, any and all stocks, bonds, other securities and other personal
property at any time held by the Corporation, and to that end may endorse,
assign and deliver the same and so every act and thing necessary or proper in
connection therewith.

         Section 5.3 Deposits.  All funds of the Corporation not otherwise
employed shall be deposited from time to time to its credit in such banks or
trust companies or with such bankers or other depositaries as the Board of
Directors may select, or as may be selected by any officer or officers or agent
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the Board of Directors.  Endorsements for deposit to the credit of the
Corporation in any of its duly authorized depositaries shall be made in such
manner as the Board of Directors from time to time may determine.

         Section 5.4 Checks, Drafts, etc.  All checks, drafts or other orders
for the payment of money, and all notes or other evidences of indebtedness
issued in the name of the Corporation, shall be signed by such officer or
officers or agent or agents of the Corporation, and in such manner, as from
time to time shall be determined by the Board of Directors.

         Section 5.5 Proxies.  Proxies to vote with respect to shares of stock
of other corporations owned by or standing in the name of the Corporation may
be executed and delivered from time to time on behalf of the Corporation by the
Chairman of the Board of Directors, the Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors
or a Vice President or by any other person or persons thereunto authorized by
the Board of Directors.



                                   ARTICLE VI

                                  Record Dates


         Section 6.1.  In order that the Corporation may determine the
stockholders entitled to notice of or to vote at any meeting of stockholders or
any adjournment thereof, or entitled to receive payment of any dividend or
other distribution or allotment of any rights, or entitled to exercise any
rights in respect of any change, conversation or exchange of stock or for the
purpose of any other lawful action, the Board of Directors may fix, in advance,
a record date, which shall be not more than sixty nor less than ten days before
the date of such meeting, nor more than sixty days prior to any other action.
Only those stockholders of record on the date so fixed shall be entitled to any
of the foregoing rights, notwithstanding the transfer of any such stock on the
books of the Corporation after any such record date fixed by the Board of
Directors.



                                  ARTICLE VII

                                 Corporate Seal


         Section 7.1.  The corporate seal shall be circular in form and shall
bear the name of the Corporation and words and figures denoting its
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laws of the State of Delaware and the year thereof and otherwise shall be in
such form as shall be approved from time to time by the Board of Directors.


                                  ARTICLE VIII

                                  Fiscal Year


         Section 8.1.  The fiscal year of the Corporation shall begin on the
1st day of January in each year and shall end on the 31st day of December in
the same year.



                                   ARTICLE IX

                                   Amendments


         Section 9.1.  Except as otherwise provided in Article VII of the
Certificate of Incorporation, all By-laws of the Corporation may be amended,
altered or repealed, and new By-laws may be made, by the affirmative vote of
the holders of record of shares representing a majority of the votes of the
outstanding shares of stock of the Corporation entitled to vote cast at any
annual or special meeting, or by the affirmative vote of a majority of the
Directors cast at any regular or special meeting at which a quorum is present.





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                                                        ITEM 14(a)3, EXHIBIT 4.2

                 SECOND AMENDED AND RESTATED GUARANTY AGREEMENT
                                 (Subsidiaries)


         SECOND AMENDED AND RESTATED GUARANTY AGREEMENT, dated as of January
28, 1997 (this "Guaranty Agreement"), among TESORO ALASKA PETROLEUM COMPANY, a
Delaware corporation, TESORO EXPLORATION AND PRODUCTION COMPANY, a Delaware
corporation, and TESORO PETROLEUM COMPANIES, INC., a Delaware corporation,
DIGICOMP, INC., a Delaware corporation, TESORO TECHNOLOGY PARTNERS COMPANY, a
Delaware corporation, INTERIOR FUELS COMPANY, an Alaskan corporation, TESORO
ALASKA PIPELINE COMPANY, a Delaware corporation, TESORO NORTHSTORE COMPANY, an
Alaskan corporation, TESORO REFINING, MARKETING & SUPPLY COMPANY, a Delaware
corporation, TESORO NATURAL GAS COMPANY, a Delaware corporation, TESORO BOLIVIA
PETROLEUM COMPANY, a Texas corporation, TESORO GAS RESOURCES COMPANY, INC., a
Delaware corporation, TESORO E&P COMPANY, L.P., a Delaware limited partnership,
TESORO VOSTOK COMPANY, a Delaware corporation, TESORO COASTWIDE SERVICES
COMPANY, a Delaware corporation, COASTWIDE MARINE SERVICES, INC., a Texas
corporation, KENAI PIPE LINE COMPANY, a Delaware corporation TESORO FINANCIAL
SERVICES HOLDING COMPANY, a Delaware corporation, VICTORY FINANCE COMPANY, a
Delaware corporation, and TESORO MARINE SERVICES COMPANY, a Delaware
corporation  (the "Guarantors"), in favor of BANQUE PARIBAS, individually, as
Administrative Agent and as an Issuing Bank, and the other financial
institutions now or hereafter parties to the Credit Agreement (as such term is
hereinafter defined).

                                    RECITALS

         A.      Tesoro Petroleum Corporation, Banque Paribas, as
Administrative Agent, The Bank of Nova Scotia, as Documentation Agent and
various lenders (the "Lenders") entered into that certain Amended and Restated
Credit Agreement dated as of June 7, 1996 (the "Credit Agreement").

         B.      The conditions precedent to the effectiveness of the Credit
Agreement included the execution and delivery of that certain Amended and
Restated Guaranty Agreement dated of even date therewith by certain
Subsidiaries of the Company (the "1996 Guaranty Agreement") which by Amended
and Restated Guaranty Agreement dated as of September 12, 1996 (the "Prior
Guaranty Agreement"), such 1996 Guaranty Agreement was amended and restated to
include additional entities as Guarantors to obtain the benefits thereof under
the Credit Agreement.

         C.      The Company desires to include an additional entity as a
Guarantor to obtain the benefits thereof under the Credit Agreement.

         D.      Therefore, in consideration of the premises contained herein,
the Guarantors and the Administrative Agent agree to amend and restate the
Prior Guaranty Agreement as follows:





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                                   AGREEMENT

         1.  Defined Terms.  As used in this Guaranty Agreement, capitalized
terms defined in the Credit Agreement are used herein as defined therein unless
otherwise noted herein, and the following additional capitalized terms shall
have the following meanings:

                 "Collateral" shall mean any Property in which the Agent is
         granted a Lien from time to time as security for the Lender
         Indebtedness.

                 "Contribution Obligation" shall mean an amount equal, at any
         time and from time to time and for each respective Guarantor, to the
         product of (i) its Contribution Percentage times (ii) the sum of all
         payments made previous to or at the time of calculation by all
         Guarantors in respect of the Obligations, as a Guarantor or debtor
         under any Loan Document (less the amount of any such payments
         previously returned to any Guarantor by operation of law or otherwise,
         but not including payments received by any Guarantor by way of its
         rights of subrogation and contribution under this Guaranty Agreement),
         provided, however, such Contribution Obligation for any Guarantor
         shall in no event exceed such Guarantor's Maximum Guaranteed Amount.

                 "Contribution Percentage" shall mean for any Guarantor for any
         applicable date as of which such percentage is being determined, an
         amount equal to the quotient of (i) the Net Worth of such Guarantor as
         of such date, divided by (ii) the sum of the Net Worth of all the
         Guarantors as of such date.

                 "Maximum Guaranteed Amount" shall mean, for each Guarantor,
         the greater of (i) the "reasonably equivalent value" or "fair
         consideration" (or equivalent concept) received by such Guarantor in
         exchange for the obligation incurred hereunder by such Guarantor,
         within the meaning of any state or federal fraudulent conveyance or
         transfer laws applicable to such Guarantor; or (ii) the lesser of (A)
         the maximum amount that will not render such Guarantor insolvent, or
         (B) the maximum amount that will not leave such Guarantor (after
         giving effect to this Guaranty Agreement) with Property deemed an
         unreasonably small capital.  Clauses (A) and (B) are and shall be
         determined pursuant to and as of the appropriate date mandated by such
         applicable state or federal fraudulent conveyance or transfer laws and
         to the extent allowed by law take into account the rights to
         contribution and subrogation under this Guaranty Agreement so as to
         provide for the largest Maximum Guaranteed Amount possible.

                 "Net Payments" shall mean an amount equal, at any time and
         from time to time and for each respective Guarantor, to the difference
         of (i) the sum of all payments made previous to or at the time of
         calculation by such Guarantor in respect to the Obligations, as a
         Guarantor, and in respect of its obligations contained in this
         Guaranty Agreement or any other Financing  Document, less (ii) the sum
         of all such payments previously returned to such Guarantor by
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         Guarantor by way of its rights of subrogation and contribution under
         this Guaranty Agreements.

                 "Net Worth" shall mean for any Guarantor, calculated on and as
         of any applicable date on which such amount is being determined, the
         greater of (i) zero or (ii) the difference between (A) the sum of all
         such Guarantor's property, at a fair valuation and as of such date,
         minus (B) the sum of all such Guarantor's debts, at a fair valuation
         and as of such date, excluding the Obligations.

                 "Obligations" shall mean (i) all Lender Indebtedness now or
         hereafter owing, including, but not limited to, (A) the unpaid
         principal of and accrued interest on (including interest accruing on
         or after the filing of any petition in bankruptcy, or the commencement
         of any insolvency, reorganization or like proceeding, relating to the
         Company, whether or not a claim for post-filing or post-petition
         interest is allowed in such proceeding) the Notes, and (B) the
         obligation of the Company to otherwise reimburse the Lender, whether
         on account of fees, indemnities, costs, taxes, expenses (including all
         fees and disbursements set forth in Sections 2.21 or 9.04 of the
         Credit Agreement) or otherwise, (ii) payment of and performance of any
         and all present or future obligations of the Company according to the
         terms of any present or future interest or currency rate swap, rate
         cap, rate floor, rate collar, exchange transaction, forward rate
         agreement or other exchange or rate protection agreements or any
         option with respect to any such transaction now existing or hereafter
         entered into between the Company and the Administrative Agent or any
         of the Lenders (or any of their Affiliates) and authorized pursuant to
         the terms of the Credit Agreement; (iii) payment of and performance of
         any and all present or future obligations of the Company according to
         the terms of any present or future swap agreements, cap, floor,
         collar, exchange transaction, forward agreement or other exchange or
         protection agreements relating to crude oil, natural gas or other
         hydrocarbons or any option with respect to any such transaction now
         existing or hereafter entered into between the Company and the
         Administrative Agent or any of the Lenders (or any of their
         Affiliates) and authorized pursuant to the terms of the Credit
         Agreement; and (iv) any and all other sums payable by the Company or
         any of its Subsidiaries under or in respect of any Financing Document.

         2.  Guarantee.  (a)  Each of the Guarantors hereby unconditionally and
irrevocably and jointly and severally guarantees to the Agent, the Issuing
Banks and each Lender the prompt and complete payment when due (whether at the
stated maturity, by acceleration or otherwise) of the Obligations, and each of
the Guarantors further agrees, jointly and severally, to pay any and all
expenses which may be paid or incurred by the Agent, either Issuing Bank or any
Lender in enforcing any rights with respect to, or collecting, any or all of
the Obligations and/or enforcing any rights with respect to, or collecting
against, any Guarantor under this Guaranty Agreement; provided, however, that,
notwithstanding anything herein or in any other Financing Document to the
contrary, the maximum liability of each Guarantor hereunder and under the other
Financing Documents shall in no event exceed the Maximum Guaranteed Amount for
such Guarantor.





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         (b)     Each Guarantor agrees that the Obligations may at any time and
from time to time exceed the Maximum Guaranteed Amount for such Guarantor
without impairing this Guaranty Agreement or affecting the rights and remedies
of the Agent, either Issuing Bank or any Lender.

         (c)     No payment or payments made by the Company, any Guarantor, any
other guarantor or any other Person or received or collected by the Agent,
either Issuing Bank or any Lender from the Company, any Guarantor, any other
guarantor or any other Person by virtue of any action or proceeding or any
set-off or appropriation or application at any time or from time to time in
reduction of or in payment of the Obligations shall be deemed to modify,
reduce, release or otherwise affect the liability of each Guarantor hereunder,
which shall, notwithstanding any such payment or payments, other than payments
made by such Guarantor in respect of the Obligations or payments received or
collected from such Guarantor in respect of the Obligations, remain liable for
the Obligations up to the Maximum Guaranteed Amount for such Guarantor until
the Obligations are paid in full.

         (d)     It is the intention of the parties hereto that all
intercompany indebtedness either owed to or by any Guarantor not be included as
either an asset or a liability, respectively, in determining the solvency or
capital of any Guarantor.  Accordingly, each Guarantor agrees that in
connection with any determination of the Maximum Guaranteed Amount, such
intercompany indebtedness may be treated in the manner that would achieve the
result intended by the first sentence of this subsection (d).

         (e)     Right to Collect on the Notes.  The Company and the Guarantors
are personally obligated and fully liable for the amounts due under the Notes.
The Lenders have the right to sue on the Notes and obtain a personal judgment
against the Company and the Guarantors for satisfaction of the amounts due
under the Notes either before or after a judicial foreclosure of the Alaska
Deed of Trust under Alaska Statute 09.45.170 - 09.45.220.

         (f)     Senior Debt.  Tesoro Alaska's guarantee of the payment of the
Obligations constitutes Senior Debt as such term is defined in that certain
Subordination Agreement dated December 15, 1993, among the Company, Tesoro
Alaska, and the State of Alaska, attached as Exhibit 7 to the Settlement
Agreement dated December 15, 1992, among the Company, Tesoro Alaska, and the
State of Alaska.

         3.  Right of Contribution.  Each Guarantor agrees that after all the
Obligations have been paid in full that if its then current Net Payments are
less than the amount of its then current Contribution Obligation, such
Guarantor shall pay to the other Guarantors an amount (together with any
payments required of the other Guarantors by this Section 3) such that the Net
Payments made by all Guarantors in respect of the Obligations shall be shared
among all of the Guarantors in proportion to their respective Contribution
Percentage. The provisions of this Paragraph 3 shall in no respect limit the
obligations and liabilities of any Guarantor to the Agent, the Issuing Banks or
any Lender, and each Guarantor shall remain liable to the Agent, the Issuing
Banks and each Lender for the full amount guaranteed by such Guarantor
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         4.  Right of Set-off.  The Agent, the Issuing Bank and each Lender is
hereby irrevocably authorized upon the occurrence of an Event of Default
without notice to the Guarantors, any such notice being expressly waived by
each Guarantor, to set-off and credit against any credits, indebtedness or
claims, in any currency, in each case whether direct or indirect or contingent
or matured or unmatured, at any time held or owing by the Agent, either Issuing
Bank or any Lender to or for the credit or the account of any Guarantor, or any
part thereof in such amounts as the Agent, such Issuing Bank or such Lender may
elect, against and on account of the obligations and liabilities of the
applicable Guarantor to the Agent, the Issuing Banks and the Lenders hereunder
and claims of every nature and description of the Agent, the Issuing Banks and
the Lenders against such Guarantor, in any currency, whether arising hereunder,
under the Credit Agreement, any other Financing Document or otherwise, as the
Agent, either Issuing Bank or any Lender may elect, whether or not the Agent,
such Issuing Bank or such Lender has made any demand for payment and although
such obligations, liabilities and claims may be contingent or unmatured.  The
Agent agrees to notify (promptly after receipt of notice by the Agent) the
Company and the applicable Guarantor of any such set-off and the application
made by the Agent, such Issuing Bank or any such Lender, provided that the
failure to give such notice shall not affect the validity of such set-off and
application.  The rights of the Agent, either Issuing Bank and each Lender
under this paragraph are in addition to other rights and remedies (including,
without limitation, other rights of set-off) which any such Person may have.
If foreign currency is exchanged for U.S. Dollars by the Agent, either Issuing
Bank or any Lender, such Person shall use the rate of exchange prevailing at
the time for customers exchanging a similar amount of currency.

         5.  No Subrogation.  Notwithstanding any payment or payments made by
any Guarantor hereunder or any set-off or application of funds of any
Guarantors by the Agent, either Issuing Bank or any Lender, any such Guarantor
shall not be entitled to be subrogated to any of the rights of the Agent,
either Issuing Bank or any Lender against the Company or any collateral
security or guaranty or right of offset held by any such Person for the payment
of the Obligations, nor shall any Guarantor seek or be entitled to seek any
contribution or reimbursement from the Company in respect of payments made by
any such Guarantor hereunder, until all Obligations are paid in full.  If any
amount shall be paid to any Guarantor on account of such subrogation rights at
any time when all of the Obligations shall not have been paid in full, such
amount shall be held by such Guarantor in trust for the Agent, the Issuing
Banks and the Lenders, segregated from other funds of such Guarantor, and
shall, forthwith upon receipt by such Guarantor, be turned over to the Agent in
the exact form received by such Guarantor (duly indorsed by such Guarantor to
the Agent, if required), to be applied against the Obligations, whether matured
or unmatured in such order as the Agent may determine.

         6.  Amendments, etc. with respect to the Obligations; Waiver of
Rights.  Each Guarantor shall remain obligated hereunder notwithstanding that,
without any reservation of rights against the Guarantors and without notice to
or further assent by the Guarantors, any demand for payment of any of the
Obligations made by the Agent, either Issuing Bank or any Lender may be
rescinded and any of the Obligations continued, and the Obligations, or the
liability of any other party upon or for any part thereof, or any collateral
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from time to time, in whole or in part, be renewed, extended, amended, modified,
accelerated, compromised, waived, surrendered or released by the Agent, the
Issuing Banks or the Lenders and the Credit Agreement, the Notes and any
collateral security document or other guaranty or document in connection
therewith (including, without limitation, the other Financing Documents) may be
amended, modified, supplemented or terminated, in whole or in part, as the
Agent, the Issuing Banks or the Lenders may deem advisable from time to time,
and any collateral security or guaranty or right of offset at any time held by
the Agent, the Issuing Banks or the Lenders for the payment of the Obligations
may be sold, exchanged, waived, surrendered or released, all without the
necessity of any reservation of rights against the Guarantors and without notice
to or further assent by the Guarantors which will remain bound hereunder,
notwithstanding any such renewal, extension, modification, acceleration,
compromise, amendment, supplement, termination, sale, exchange, waiver,
surrender or release.  Neither the Agent, either Issuing Bank nor any Lender
shall have an obligation to protect, secure, perfect or insure any Lien at any
time held as security for the Obligations or this Guaranty Agreement or any
Property subject thereto. When making any demand hereunder against any
Guarantor, the Agent may, but shall be under no obligation to, make a similar
demand on the Company or any other guarantor, and any failure by the Agent to
make any such demand or to collect any payments from the Company or any such
other guarantor, or any release of the Company or other guarantor, shall not
relieve any such Guarantor of its obligations or liabilities hereunder, and
shall not impair or affect the rights and remedies, express or implied, or as a
matter of law, of the Agent, the Issuing Banks of the Lenders against each
Guarantor.  For the purposes hereof "demand" shall include the commencement and
continuance of any legal proceedings.

         7.  Guaranty Absolute and Unconditional.  Each Guarantor waives any
and all notice of the creation, renewal, extension or accrual of any of the
Obligations and notice of or proof of reliance by the Agent, either Issuing
Bank or any Lender upon this Guaranty Agreement or acceptance of this Guaranty
Agreement, and the Obligations (and any of them) shall conclusively be deemed
to have been created, contracted or incurred and extended, amended and waived
in reliance upon this Guaranty Agreement, and all dealings between the Company
or the Guarantors and the Agent, either Issuing Bank or any Lender shall
likewise be conclusively presumed to have been had or consummated in reliance
upon this Guaranty Agreement.  Each Guarantor waives diligence, presentment,
protest, demand for payment and notice of default or nonpayment, notice of
intention to accelerate maturity and notice of acceleration of maturity to or
upon the Company or the Guarantors with respect to the Obligations.  Each
Guarantor understands and agrees that this Guaranty Agreement shall be
construed as a continuing, absolute, completed, unconditional (except as
expressly conditioned pursuant to the terms hereof) and irrevocable guarantee
of payment and not of collection without regard to (a) the validity, regularity
or enforceability of the Credit Agreement, the other Financing Documents, any
of the Obligations or any collateral security or guaranty therefor or right of
offset with respect thereto at any time or from time to time held by the Agent,
either Issuing Bank or any Lender, (b) any defense, set-off or counterclaim
which may at any time be available to or be asserted by the Company or any
other Person liable for the Obligations against the Agent, either Issuing Bank
or any Lender, or (c) any other circumstance whatsoever (with or without notice
to or knowledge of the Company or any Guarantor) which constitutes, or might be
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to constitute, an equitable or legal discharge of the Company or any other
Person liable for the Obligations, or of any Guarantor under this Guaranty
Agreement, in bankruptcy or in any other instance.  When pursuing its rights
and remedies hereunder against any Guarantor, the Agent, the Issuing Banks and
the Lenders may, but shall be under no obligation to, pursue such rights and
remedies as they may have against the Company or any other Person or against
any collateral security or guaranty for the Obligations or any right of offset
with respect thereto, and any failure by the Agent, the Issuing Banks or the
Lenders to pursue such other rights or remedies or to collect any payments from
the Company or any such other Person or to realize upon any such collateral
security or guaranty or to exercise any such right of offset, or any release of
the Company or any such other Person or any such collateral security, guaranty
or right of offset, shall not relieve any Guarantor of any liability hereunder,
and shall not impair or affect the rights and remedies, whether express,
implied or available as a matter of law, of the Agent, either Issuing Bank or
any Lender against any Guarantor.  This Guaranty Agreement shall remain in full
force and effect and be binding in accordance with and to the extent of its
terms upon each Guarantor and the respective successors and assigns thereof,
and shall inure to the benefit of the Agent, Issuing Banks and the Lenders, and
the respective successors, indorsees, transferees and assigns thereof, until
all the Obligations and the obligations of the Guarantors under this Guaranty
Agreement shall have been satisfied by payment in full.

         8.  Reinstatement.  This Guaranty Agreement shall continue to be
effective, or be reinstated, as the case may be, if at any time payment, or any
part thereof, of any of the Obligations is rescinded or must otherwise be
restored or returned by the Agent, either Issuing Bank or any Lender upon the
insolvency, bankruptcy, dissolution, liquidation or reorganization of the
Company or any Guarantor, or upon or as a result of the appointment of a
receiver, intervenor or conservator of, or trustee or similar officer for, the
Company or any Guarantor or any substantial part of such Person's property, or
otherwise, all as though such payments had not been made.

         9.  Payments.  Each Guarantor hereby guarantees that payments
hereunder will be paid, without set-off or counterclaim and in immediately
available funds and in lawful currency of the United States of America, to
Agent in Houston, Texas, at the Agent's Payment Office, not later than 11:00
A.M., Houston time.

         10.  Representations and Warranties.  Each Guarantor hereby represents
and warrants that:

                 (a)      Corporate Existence.  Each Guarantor (other than
         Tesoro E&P Company, L.P.) is a corporation duly organized, validly
         existing, and in good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction of
         its incorporation and has the corporate power and authority and the
         legal right to own and lease its property and to conduct its business.

                 (b)      Corporate Power; Authorization.  Each Guarantor
         (other than Tesoro E&P Company, L.P.) has the corporate power and
         authority and the legal right to make, deliver and perform this
         Guaranty Agreement.  Each Guarantor has taken all necessary corporate
         action to authorize the execution, delivery and performance of this
         Guaranty Agreement.





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                 (c)      Partnership Existence and Authorization.  Tesoro E&P
         Company, L.P. is a limited partnership duly formed, validly existing
         and in good standing under the laws of the State of Delaware and has
         the partnership power and authority and the legal right to own and
         lease its property and to conduct its business.  Tesoro E&P Company,
         L.P. has the partnership power and authority and the legal right to
         make, deliver and perform this Guaranty Agreement and has taken all
         necessary partnership action to authorize the execution, delivery and
         performance of this Guaranty Agreement.

                 (d)      Enforceable Obligations.  This Guaranty Agreement has
         been duly executed and delivered by each Guarantor and constitutes a
         legal, valid and binding obligation of such Guarantor enforceable
         against such Guarantor in accordance with its terms, except as
         enforceability may be limited by applicable bankruptcy, insolvency,
         reorganization, moratorium or similar laws affecting the enforcement
         of creditors' rights generally and by general equitable principles.

         11.  No Waiver; Cumulative Remedies.  Neither the Agent, either
Issuing Bank nor any of the Lenders shall by any act, delay, indulgence,
omission or otherwise be deemed to have waived any right or remedy hereunder or
to have acquiesced in any Default or Event of Default or in any breach of any
of the terms and conditions hereof.  No failure to exercise and no delay in
exercising, on the part of the Agent, either Issuing Bank or any Lender, any
right, power or privilege hereunder shall operate as a waiver thereof, nor
shall any single or partial exercise of any right, power or privilege preclude
any other or further exercise thereof, or the exercise of any other power,
privilege or right.  A waiver by the Agent, either Issuing Bank or any Lender
of any right or remedy hereunder on any one occasion shall not be construed as
a bar to any right or remedy which any such Person would have on any future
occasion.  The rights and remedies herein provided are cumulative, may be
exercised singly or concurrently, and are not exclusive of any rights or
remedies provided by law.

         12.  Notices.  All notices, requests and other communications to any
party hereunder shall be in writing (including bank wire, telecopy or similar
teletransmission or writing) and, in the case of any Guarantor, shall be given
to such Guarantor at the address or telecopy number of the Company now or
hereafter provided for in the Credit Agreement and in the case of the Agent,
either Issuing Bank or any Lender, at the address or telecopy number for such
Person now or hereafter provided for in the Credit Agreement.  Each such
notice, request or other communication shall be effective (i) if given by
telecopier during regular business hours, once such telecopy is transmitted to
the telecopy number specified in the Credit Agreement, (ii) if given by mail,
72 hours after such communication is deposited in the mails with first class
postage prepaid, addressed as aforesaid or (iii) if given by any other means
(including, without limitation, by air courier), when delivered at the address
specified in the Credit Agreement; provided that notices to the Agent shall not
be effective until received.

         13.  ENTIRE AGREEMENT.  THIS GUARANTY AGREEMENT, THE CREDIT AGREEMENT,
THE NOTES, THE SECURITY INSTRUMENTS, THE OTHER FINANCING DOCUMENTS REFERRED TO
IN SECTIONS 3.02 THE CREDIT AGREEMENT, AND THE FEE LETTER EMBODY THE ENTIRE





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AGREEMENT AND UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN THE AGENT, THE ISSUING BANKS, THE LENDERS
AND THE OTHER RESPECTIVE PARTIES HERETO AND THERETO AND SUPERSEDE ALL PRIOR
AGREEMENTS AND UNDERSTANDINGS BETWEEN SUCH PARTIES RELATING TO THE SUBJECT
MATTER HEREOF AND THEREOF.  THERE ARE NO UNWRITTEN ORAL AGREEMENTS BETWEEN THE
PARTIES.  ANY CONFLICT OR AMBIGUITY BETWEEN THE TERMS AND PROVISIONS OF THIS
AGREEMENT AND THE TERMS AND PROVISIONS IN ANY OTHER FINANCING DOCUMENT SHALL BE
CONTROLLED BY THE TERMS AND PROVISIONS HEREOF.

         14.  Governing Law; Submission to Jurisdiction, Etc.

         (a)     This Guaranty Agreement and the rights and obligations of the
parties hereunder shall be construed in accordance with and be governed by the
law (without giving effect to the conflict of law principles thereof) of the
State of Texas.

         (b)     ANY LEGAL ACTION OR PROCEEDING WITH RESPECT TO THIS AGREEMENT,
MAY BE BROUGHT IN THE COURTS OF THE STATE OF TEXAS OR OF THE UNITED STATES OF
AMERICA FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS, HOUSTON DIVISION, AND, BY EXECUTION
AND DELIVERY OF THIS AGREEMENT, EACH GUARANTOR HEREBY ACCEPTS FOR ITSELF AND IN
RESPECT OF ITS PROPERTY, GENERALLY AND UNCONDITIONALLY, THE JURISDICTION OF THE
AFORESAID COURTS.  EACH GUARANTOR HEREBY IRREVOCABLY WAIVES ANY OBJECTION,
INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANY OBJECTION TO THE LAYING OF VENUE OR BASED ON
THE GROUNDS OF FORUM NON CONVENIENS, WHICH IT MAY NOW OR HEREAFTER HAVE TO THE
BRINGING OF ANY SUCH ACTION OR PROCEEDING IN SUCH RESPECTIVE JURISDICTIONS.

         (c)     THE COMPANY AND THE AGENT, EACH  ISSUING BANK AND EACH LENDER
HEREBY (I) IRREVOCABLY AND UNCONDITIONALLY WAIVE, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT
PERMITTED BY LAW, TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY LEGAL ACTION OR PROCEEDING RELATING TO
THIS GUARANTY AGREEMENT OR ANY FINANCING DOCUMENT AND FOR ANY COUNTERCLAIM
THEREIN; (II) CERTIFY THAT NO PARTY HERETO NOR ANY REPRESENTATIVE OR AGENT OF
COUNSEL FOR ANY PARTY HERETO HAS REPRESENTED, EXPRESSLY OR OTHERWISE, OR
IMPLIED THAT SUCH PARTY WOULD NOT, IN THE EVENT OF LITIGATION, SEEK TO ENFORCE
THE FOREGOING WAIVERS, AND (III) ACKNOWLEDGE THAT IT HAS BEEN INDUCED TO ENTER
INTO THIS AGREEMENT, THE FINANCING DOCUMENTS AND THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED
HEREBY AND THEREBY BY, AMONG OTHER THINGS, THE MUTUAL WAIVERS AND
CERTIFICATIONS CONTAINED IN THIS SECTION.

         (d)     Each Guarantor that is not a Texas corporation hereby
irrevocably designates the General Counsel of the Company (as of the date
hereof, James C. Reed, Jr.) located at 8700 Tesoro Drive, San Antonio, Texas
78217, as the designee, appointee and agent of such Guarantor to receive, for
and on behalf of such Guarantor, service of process in such respective
jurisdictions in any legal action or proceeding with respect to this Agreement,
the Notes, the Security Instruments or the other Financing Documents.  It is
understood that a copy of such process served on such agent will be promptly
forwarded by mail to such Guarantor at its address set forth opposite its
signature below, 




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but the failure of such Guarantor to receive such copy shall not affect in any
way the service of such process.  Each Guarantor further irrevocably consents to
the service of process of any of the aforementioned courts in any such action or
proceeding by the mailing of copies thereof by registered or certified mail,
postage prepaid, to such Guarantor at its said address, such service to become
effective 30 days after such mailing.

         (e)     Nothing herein shall affect the right of the Agent or any
Lender or any holder of a Note to serve process in any other manner permitted
by law or to commence legal proceedings or otherwise proceed against any
Guarantor in Texas or any other jurisdiction in which assets of any Guarantor
are located.

         15.  Severability.  Any provision of this Guaranty Agreement which is
prohibited or unenforceable in any jurisdiction shall, as to such jurisdiction,
be ineffective to the extent of such prohibition or unenforceability without
invalidating the remaining provisions hereof, and any such prohibition or
unenforceability in any jurisdiction shall not invalidate or render
unenforceable such provision in any other jurisdiction.

         16.  Paragraph Headings.  The Paragraph headings used in this Guaranty
Agreement are for convenience of reference only and are not to affect the
construction hereof or be taken into consideration in the interpretation
hereof.

         17.  Interest.  It is the intention of the parties hereto to conform
strictly to usury laws applicable to each Lender and the Transactions.
Accordingly, if the Transactions would be usurious as to any Lender under
applicable law, then, notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Notes,
this Agreement or in any Financing Document or agreement entered into in
connection with the Transactions or as security for the Obligations, it is
agreed as follows:  (i) the aggregate of all consideration which constitutes
interest as to any Lender under applicable law that is contracted for, taken,
reserved, charged or received by such Lender under the Notes, this Agreement or
under any of the Financing Documents or agreements or otherwise in connection
with the Transactions shall under no circumstances exceed the maximum amount
allowed by such applicable law, (ii) in the event that the maturity of the
Notes is accelerated for any reason, or in the event of any required or
permitted prepayment, then such consideration that constitutes interest as to
any Lender under applicable law may never include more than the maximum amount
allowed by such applicable law, and (iii) excess interest, if any, provided for
in this Agreement or otherwise in connection with the Transactions shall be
cancelled automatically and, if theretofore paid, shall be credited by such
Lender on the principal amount of the Obligations (or, to the extent that the
principal amount of the Obligations shall have been or would thereby be paid in
full, refunded by such Lender to the Company).  The right to accelerate the
maturity of the Notes does not include the right to accelerate any interest
which has not otherwise accrued on the date of such acceleration, and the
Lenders do not intend to collect any unearned interest in the event of
acceleration.  All sums paid or agreed to be paid to each Lender for the use,
forbearance or detention of sums included in the Obligations shall, to the
extent permitted by applicable law, be amortized, prorated, allocated and
spread throughout the full term of the Notes until payment in full so that the
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account of the Obligations does not exceed the applicable usury ceiling, if any.
As used in this Section, the term "applicable law" shall mean the laws of the
State of Texas (or of any other jurisdiction whose laws may be mandatorily
applicable notwithstanding other provisions of this Agreement) or laws of the
United States of America applicable to any Lender and the Transactions, which
would permit such Lender to contract for, charge, take, reserve or receive a
greater amount of interest than under Texas (or such other jurisdiction's) law.
To the extent that Article 5069-1.04 of the Texas Revised Civil Statutes is
relevant to the Lenders for the purpose of determining the Highest Lawful Rate,
the Lenders hereby elect to determine the applicable rate ceiling under such
Article by the indicated (weekly) rate ceiling from time to time in effect,
subject to the Lenders' right subsequently to change such method in accordance
with applicable law.   In no event shall the provisions of Tex. Rev. Civ. Stat.
art. 5069-2.01 through 5069-8.06 or 5069-15.01 through 5069-15.11 be applicable
to the Loans evidenced hereby.

         18.  Counterparts.  This Agreement may be executed in any number of
counterparts and by the different parties hereto on separate counterparts, each
of which when so executed and delivered shall be an original but all of which
shall together constitute one and the same instrument.




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         IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Guaranty Agreement
to be duly executed and delivered by its duly authorized officer on the day and
year first above written.
                                 
                                 TESORO ALASKA PETROLEUM COMPANY
                                 TESORO EXPLORATION AND PRODUCTION COMPANY
                                 TESORO PETROLEUM COMPANIES, INC.
                                 DIGICOMP, INC.
                                 TESORO TECHNOLOGY PARTNERS COMPANY
                                 INTERIOR FUELS COMPANY
                                 TESORO ALASKA PIPELINE COMPANY
                                 TESORO NORTHSTORE COMPANY
                                 TESORO REFINING, MARKETING & SUPPLY COMPANY 
                                 TESORO NATURAL GAS COMPANY
                                 TESORO BOLIVIA PETROLEUM COMPANY
                                 TESORO VOSTOK COMPANY
                                 KENAI PIPE LINE COMPANY
                                 TESORO MARINE SERVICES COMPANY
                                 TESORO COASTWIDE SERVICES COMPANY
                                 COASTWIDE MARINE SERVICES, INC.
                                 
                                 
                                 By:/s/  G. A. WRIGHT                          
                                    --------------------------------------------
                                         G. A. Wright                          
                                         Vice President and Treasurer          
                                                                               
                                                                               
                                 TESORO GAS RESOURCES COMPANY, INC.            
                                 TESORO FINANCIAL SERVICES HOLDING COMPANY     
                                                                               
                                                                               
                                 By:/s/  JEFFREY B. FABIAN                     
                                    --------------------------------------------
                                         Jeffrey B. Fabian                     
                                         President                             
                                                                               
                                                                               
                                 VICTORY FINANCE COMPANY                       
                                                                               
                                                                               
                                 By:/s/  KAREN B. THOMAS                       
                                    --------------------------------------------
                                         Karen B. Thomas                       
                                         Assistant Secretary                   
                                                                               
                                                                               
                                                                               
                                                                               
                                                                               
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                                 BANQUE PARIBAS, AS ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT 
                                                                     
                                                                     
                                 By:/s/  BRIAN MALONE                
                                    --------------------------------------------
                                         Brian Malone                
                                         Vice President              
                                                                     
                                                                     
                                 By:/s/  BARTON D. SCHOUEST          
                                    --------------------------------------------
                                         Barton D. Schouest          
                                         Group Vice President        
                                                                     
                                                                     
                                                                               
                                                                               
                                                                               
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                                                       ITEM 14(a)3, EXHIBIT 4.11



                    FIRST AMENDMENT TO AMENDED AND RESTATED
                               SECURITY AGREEMENT
                                    (Pledge)


       THIS FIRST AMENDMENT TO AMENDED AND RESTATED SECURITY AGREEMENT (Pledge)
(this "First Amendment") is executed as of September 12, 1996, by TESORO
PETROLEUM CORPORATION, a Delaware corporation, with principal offices at 8700
Tesoro Drive, San Antonio, Texas 78217 ("Pledgor"); in favor of BANQUE PARIBAS,
with offices at 1200 Smith Street, Houston, Texas 77002, as Administrative
Agent ("Secured Party") for the Issuing Banks and the Lenders parties to the
Credit Agreement referred to below.

                                   RECITALS:

       A.     Pledgor, Banque Paribas, as Administrative Agent, The Bank of
Nova Scotia, as Documentation Agent and various lenders (the "Lenders") entered
into that certain Amended and Restated Credit Agreement dated as of June 7,
1996 (the "Credit Agreement").

       B.     The conditions precedent to the effectiveness of the Credit
Agreement included the execution and delivery by Pledgor of that certain
Amended and Restated Security Agreement (Pledge) dated of even date therewith
(the "Security Agreement").

       C.     Pledgor and Secured Party mutually desire to amend (i) the
description of the "Collateral" (as defined in the Security Agreement) by
amending Exhibit A to the Security Agreement to include additional Securities
and (ii) the definition of Issuer by amending Schedule 1.02 to the Security
Agreement to include additional Persons.

       D.     Therefore, for and in consideration of the premises and the
agreements herein contained, and other good and valuable consideration, the
receipt and sufficiency of which is hereby acknowledged, Pledgor and Secured
Party hereby agree as follows:

                                   AGREEMENT:

       1.     All capitalized terms used but not defined in this First
Amendment which are defined in the Security Agreement or the Credit Agreement
shall have the same meanings herein as therein unless the context otherwise
requires.

       2.     The definition of Collateral in Section 1.02 of the Security
Agreement and Exhibit A to the Security Agreement are each hereby supplemented
to include the securities described on Exhibit A attached hereto (the
"Additional Securities").

       3.     The definition of Issuer in Section 1.02 of the Security
Agreement and Schedule 1.02 to the Security Agreement are each hereby
supplemented to include the Persons described on Schedule 1.02 attached hereto
(the "Additional Issuers").
<PAGE>   2
       4.     Section 1.02 of the Security Agreement is hereby further amended
and supplemented as follows:

              (i)    the term "Security Agreement", as defined in Section 1.02,
       is hereby amended to mean the Security Agreement, as amended and
       supplemented by this First Amendment, and as the same may from time to
       time be further amended or supplemented.

              (ii)   added thereto is a new definition to read in its entirety
       as follows:

                     "First Amendment" shall mean that certain First Amendment
              to Amended and Restated Security Agreement (Pledge) dated as of
              September 12, 1996, by and between Pledgor and Secured Party.

       5.     Pledgor hereby confirms that it has assigned and granted and does
hereby assign and grant to Secured Party a security interest in, lien upon and
a right of set-off against all of the Collateral, including the Additional
Securities, and all other Property relating thereto, arising therefrom, or in
any way connected therewith, as security for the Obligations.

       6.     Pledgor represents and warrants to Secured Party that (i) there
exists no default or event of default or any condition or act which
constitutes, or with notice or lapse of time would constitute an Event of
Default under the Credit Agreement or the Security Agreement, as amended and
supplemented hereby; (ii) Pledgor has performed and complied with all
covenants, agreements and conditions contained in the Security Agreement, as
amended and supplemented hereby, required to be performed or complied with by
it; and (iii) the representations and warranties of Pledgor contained in the
Security Agreement, as amended and supplemented hereby, were true and correct
when made and are true and correct in all material respects as of the time of
delivery of this First Amendment.

       7.     On and after the date on which this First Amendment becomes
effective, the terms "Security Agreement", "hereof", "herein", "hereunder" and
terms of like import, when used in the Security Agreement shall, except where
the context otherwise requires, refer to the Security Agreement, as amended and
supplemented hereby.

       8.     Except as amended by this First Amendment, the Security Agreement
shall remain in full force and effect, and Pledgor hereby reaffirms all
covenants, representations and warranties made in the Security Agreement, as
amended and supplemented hereby.

       8.     This First Amendment shall benefit and bind the parties hereto
and their respective assigns, successors and legal representatives.





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       WITNESS THE EXECUTION HEREOF as of the date first above written.


PLEDGOR:                                   TESORO PETROLEUM CORPORATION
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                                           By: /s/ G. A. WRIGHT                 
                                              ----------------------------------
                                           Name:  G.A. Wright
                                           Title: Vice President, Corporate
                                                  Communications and Treasurer


SECURED PARTY:                             BANQUE PARIBAS, AS ADMINISTRATIVE
- -------------                              AGENT


                                           By: /s/ BRIAN MALONE                 
                                              ----------------------------------
                                           Name:  Brian Malone
                                           Title: Vice President



                                           By: /s/ BARTON D. SCHOUEST           
                                              ----------------------------------
                                           Name:  Barton D. Schouest
                                           Title: Group Vice President





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                                 SCHEDULE 1.02

                               ADDITIONAL ISSUERS


Tesoro Financial Services Holding Company, a Delaware corporation





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                                   EXHIBIT A

                             ADDITIONAL SECURITIES


1000 shares of the common stock of Tesoro Financial Services Holding Company, a
Delaware corporation ("TFHSC"), registered in the name of Tesoro Petroleum
Corporation on the books of TFHSC, as represented by Certificate No. 1.





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                                                       ITEM 14(a)3, EXHIBIT 10.5



                   AMENDED AND RESTATED EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT

       This Amended and Restated Employment Agreement (the "Agreement") is
entered into as of December 12, 1996, by and between James C. Reed, Jr.
("Employee"), and Tesoro Petroleum Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the
"Company").

                                   Recitals:

       A.     The Company and Employee are parties to an Employment Agreement
dated December 14, 1994, including all amendments thereto prior to the date
hereof (the "Prior Agreement").

       B.     The Company wishes to continue the employment of Employee as its
Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary; as such, Employee
shall have certain responsibilities and shall receive certain compensation and
benefits.

       C.     Employee and the Company wish to formalize the continuation of
this employment relationship by amending and restating the Prior Agreement,
including extending its term, and by setting forth certain additional
agreements between Employee and the Company.

       THE PARTIES AGREE AS FOLLOWS:

       1.     Employment and Duties.

       During the term of this Agreement, the Company agrees to employ Employee
as  Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary, and Employee
agrees to serve the Company in such capacity on the terms and subject to the
conditions set forth in this Agreement.  Employee shall devote substantially
all of his business time, energy and skill to the affairs of the Company as the
Company, acting through its Board of Directors or its Chief Executive Officer,
shall reasonably deem necessary to discharge Employee's duties in such
capacity.  Employee may participate in social, civic, charitable, religious,
business, educational or professional associations, so long as such
participation would not materially detract from Employee's ability to perform
his duties under this Agreement.  Employee shall not engage in any other
business activity during the term of this Agreement without the prior written
consent of the Company, other than the passive management of Employee's
personal investments or activities which would not materially detract from
Employee's ability to perform his duties under this Agreement.

       2.     Compensation.

       (a)    Salary; Withholding.  During the term of this Agreement, the
Company shall pay Employee a base salary of $275,000 per year ("base salary"),
payable in arrears in equal bi-weekly installments.  The parties shall comply
with all applicable withholding requirements in connection with all
compensation payable to Employee.  The Company's Board of Directors may, in its
sole discretion, review and adjust upward Employee's base salary from time to
time, but no downward adjustment in Employee's base salary may be made during
the term of this Agreement.
<PAGE>   2
       (b)    Annual Incentive Plan.  The Company shall establish an Annual
Incentive Compensation Plan for executive officers in which the Employee shall
be entitled to participate in a manner consistent with his position with the
Company and the evaluations of his performance by the Board of Directors or any
appropriate committee thereof.

       (c)    Stock Options and Restricted Stock Grants.  The Employee shall be
entitled to receive stock options and restricted stock grants under the
Company's plans in effect from time to time, if any, commensurate with his
position with the Company and the evaluations of his performance by the Board
of Directors or any appropriate committee thereof.

       (d)    Flexible Perquisites Arrangement.  The Employee shall receive
annually a stipulated amount of $20,000 which will be expended by the Company
on behalf of the Employee or paid to the Employee, at the Employee's election,
to cover various business-related expenses such as monthly dues for country,
luncheon or social clubs, automobile expenses and financial and tax planning
expenses. The Employee may elect at any time by written notice to the Company
to receive any of such stipulated amount which has not been paid to or on
behalf of the Employee.  In addition, the Company will pay on behalf of the
Employee up to $15,000 to pay an initiation fee or fees for a country, luncheon
or social club or clubs and will pay directly to the Employee an amount equal
to 65 percent of the amount so paid on the Employee's behalf to offset the
applicable income tax expense to the Employee.  In addition, the Company will
pay additional initiation fees and reimburse the Employee for related tax
expenses to the extent the Board of Directors or a duly authorized committee
thereof determines such fees are reasonable and in the best interest of the
Company.

       (e)    Other Benefits.  Employee shall be eligible to participate in and
have the benefits under the terms of all life, accident, disability and health
insurance plans, pension, profit sharing, incentive compensation and savings
plans and all other similar plans and benefits which the Company from time to
time makes available to its management executives, including, without
limitation, those listed on Exhibit A, in the same manner and at least at the
same participation level as other senior management executives.

       3.     Business Expenses.

       The Company shall promptly reimburse Employee for all appropriately
documented, reasonable business expenses incurred by Employee in accordance
with Company policies.

       4.     Term.

       This Agreement shall commence effective as of December 12, 1996, and if
not terminated earlier as herein provided, shall terminate on December 31,
1998.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, if the Company shall not have offered to
the Employee the opportunity to enter into a new employment agreement prior to
December 31, 1998, with terms, in all respects, no less favorable to the
Employee than the terms of this Agreement and with a term lasting until at
least December 31, 2000, the Employee shall have the right to elect by written
notice delivered to the Company prior to January 31, 1999, to terminate his
employment and such termination shall be deemed to have been for Good Reason in
accordance with Section 5 and the Employee shall be





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entitled to all payments and benefits as if he had terminated his employment
for Good Reason in accordance with Section 5 on December 30, 1998.

       5.     Termination by the Company Without Cause, Termination by Employee
              for "Good Reason" or Failure to Extend Employment Contract.

       The Company may, by delivering 30 days prior written notice to Employee,
terminate Employee's employment at any time without cause, and the Employee
may, by delivering 30 days prior written notice to the Company, terminate
Employee's employment for "good reason," as defined below.  If such termination
without cause or for good reason occurs or if the Company fails to offer to the
Employee a new employment contract prior to December 31, 1998, with terms, in
all respects, no less favorable to the employee than the terms of this
Agreement, Employee shall be entitled to receive a lump-sum payment equal to
the sum of (a) two times the sum of (i) his base salary at the then current
rate and (ii) the sum of the target bonuses under all of the Company's
incentive bonus plans applicable to Employee for the year in which the
termination occurs and (b) if termination occurs in the fourth quarter of a
calendar year, the sum of the target bonuses under all of the Company's
incentive bonus plans applicable to Employee for the year in which the
termination occurs prorated daily based on the number of days from the
beginning of the calendar year in which the termination occurs to and including
the date of termination.  Employee shall also receive all unpaid bonuses for
the year prior to the year in which the termination occurs and shall receive
(i) for a period of two years following termination of employment continuing
coverage and benefits comparable to all life, health and disability insurance
plans which the Company from time to time makes available to its management
executives and their families, (ii) a lump-sum payment equal to two times the
stipulated flexible perquisites amount pursuant to Section 2(d), and (iii) two
years additional service credit under the current non-qualified supplemental
pension plans, or successors thereto, of the Company applicable to the Employee
on the date of termination.  All unvested stock options held by Employee on the
date of the termination shall become immediately vested and all restrictions on
Restricted Stock then held by the Employee shall terminate.

       For purposes of this Section 5, "good reason" shall mean the occurrence
of any of the following events:

       (a)    Removal, without the consent of Employee in writing, from one or
more of the offices Employee holds on the date of this Agreement or a material
reduction in Employee's authority or responsibility but not termination of
Employee for "cause," as defined below; or

       (b)    The Company otherwise commits a material breach of this
Agreement.

       The Company shall pay any attorney fees incurred by Employee in
reasonably seeking to enforce the terms of this Section 5.

       6.     Termination upon Death or Disability.

       If the Employee's employment is terminated because of death or on
account of his becoming permanently disabled (as defined below), the Employee,
or his estate, if applicable, shall be entitled to receive the Employee's base
salary earned pro rata to the date of his





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termination of employment, plus unpaid bonuses for the year prior to the year
in which the termination occurs.  All unvested stock options held by the
Employee on the date of termination shall become immediately vested and all
restrictions on restricted stock held by the Employee shall terminate.

       For purposes of this Agreement, Employee shall be deemed to be
"permanently disabled" if Employee shall be considered to be permanently and
totally disabled in accordance with the Company's Long-Term Disability Income
Plan.  If there should be a dispute between the Company and Employee as to
Employee's physical or mental disability for purposes of this Agreement, the
question shall be settled by the opinion of an impartial reputable physician or
psychiatrist agreed upon by the parties or their representatives, or if the
parties cannot agree within ten calendar days after a request for designation
of such party, then a physician or psychiatrist shall be designated by the San
Antonio, Texas Medical Association.  The parties agree to be bound by the final
decision of such physician or psychiatrist.

       7.     Termination by the Company for Cause.

       The Company may terminate this Agreement at any time if such termination
is for "cause," as defined below, by delivering to Employee written notice
describing the cause of termination 30 days before the effective date of such
termination and by granting Employee at least 30 days to cure the cause.  In
the event the employment of Employee is terminated for "cause," Employee shall
be entitled only to his base salary earned pro rata to his date of termination
with no entitlement to any base salary continuation payments or benefit
continuation (except as specifically provided by the terms of an employee
benefit plan of the Company).  Except as otherwise provided in this Agreement,
the determination of whether Employee is terminated for "cause" shall be made
by the Board of Directors of the Company, in the reasonable exercise of its
business judgment, and shall be limited to the occurrence of the following
events:

       (a)    Conviction of or a plea of nolo contendere to the charge of a
felony (which, through lapse of time or otherwise, is not subject to appeal);

       (b)    Willful refusal without proper legal cause to perform, or gross
negligence in performing, Employee's duties and responsibilities;

       (c)    Material breach of fiduciary duty to the Company through the
misappropriation of Company funds or property; or

       (d)    The unauthorized absence of Employee from work (other than for
sick leave or disability) for a period of 30 working days or more during a
period of 45 working days.

       8.     Voluntary Termination by Employee.

       Employee may terminate this Agreement at any time upon delivering 30
days written notice to the Company.  In the event of such voluntary termination
other than for "good reason," as defined above, Employee shall be entitled to
his base salary earned pro rata to the date of his resignation, plus unpaid
bonuses for the year prior to the year in which the termination occurs, but no
base salary continuation payments or benefits continuation (except as
specifically provided





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by the terms of an employee benefit plan of the Company).  On or after the date
the Company receives notice of Employee's resignation, the Company may, at its
option, pay Employee his base salary through the effective date of his
resignation and terminate his employment immediately.

       9.     Termination Following Change of Control.

       Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, should
Employee at any time within two years of a change of control cease to be an
employee of the Company (or its successor), by reason of (i) involuntary
termination by the Company (or its successor) other than for "cause" (following
a change of control, "cause" shall be limited to the conviction of or a plea of
nolo contendere to the charge of a felony (which, through lapse of time or
otherwise, is not subject to appeal), or a material breach of fiduciary duty to
the Company through the misappropriation of Company funds or property), or (ii)
voluntary termination by Employee for "good reason upon change of control" (as
defined below), the Company (or its successor) shall pay to Employee within ten
days of such termination the following severance payments and benefits:

       (a)    A lump-sum payment equal to three times the base salary of the
Employee at the then current rate;

       (b)    A lump-sum payment equal to the sum of (i) three times the sum of
the target bonuses under all of the Company's incentive bonus plans applicable
to the Employee for the year in which the termination occurs or the year in
which the change of control occurred, whichever is greater, and (ii) if
termination occurs in the fourth quarter of a calendar year, the sum of the
target bonuses under all of the Company's incentive bonus plans applicable to
Employee for the year in which the termination occurs prorated daily based on
the number of days from the beginning of the calendar year in which the
termination occurs to and including the date of termination; and

       (c)    A lump-sum payment equal to the amount of any unpaid bonuses to
which the Employee is entitled under any incentive bonus plan.

       The Company (or its successor) shall also provide to Employee (i) for a
period of three years following termination of employment continuing coverage
and benefits comparable to all life, health and disability plans of the Company
in effect at the time a change of control is deemed to have occurred; (ii) a
lump-sum payment equal to three times the stipulated flexible perquisites
amount pursuant to Section 2(d); and (iii) three years additional service
credit under the current non-qualified supplemental pension plans, or
successors thereto, of the Company applicable to the Employee on the date of
termination.


                     For purposes of this Agreement, a "change of control"
              shall be deemed to have occurred if (i) there shall be
              consummated (A) any consolidation or merger of the Company in
              which the Company is not the continuing or surviving corporation
              or pursuant to which shares of the Company's Common Stock would
              be





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              converted into cash, securities or other property, other than a
              merger of the Company where a majority of the Board of Directors
              of the surviving corporation are, and for a two year period after
              the merger continue to be, persons who were directors of the
              Company immediately prior to the merger or were elected as
              directors, or nominated for election as director, by a vote of at
              least two-thirds of the directors then still in office who were
              directors of the Company immediately prior to the merger, or (B)
              any sale, lease, exchange or transfer (in one transaction or a
              series of related transactions) of all or substantially all of
              the assets of the Company, or (ii) the shareholders of the
              Company shall approve any plan or proposal for the liquidation or
              dissolution of the Company, or (iii) (A) any "person" (as such
              term is used in Sections 13(d) and 14(d)(2) of the Securities
              Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act"), other than
              the Company or a subsidiary thereof or any employee benefit plan
              sponsored by the Company or a subsidiary thereof, shall become
              the beneficial owner (within the meaning of Rule 13d-3 under the
              Exchange Act) of securities of the Company representing 20
              percent or more of the combined voting power of the Company's
              then outstanding securities ordinarily (and apart from rights
              accruing in special circumstances) having the right to vote in
              the election of directors, as a result of a tender or exchange
              offer, open market purchases, privately negotiated purchases or
              otherwise, and (B) at any time during a period of two years
              thereafter, individuals who immediately prior to the beginning of
              such period constituted the Board of Directors of the Company
              shall cease for any reason to constitute at least a majority
              thereof, unless the election or the nomination by the Board of
              Directors for election by the Company's shareholders of each new
              director during such period was approved by a vote of at least
              two-thirds of the directors then still in office who were
              directors at the beginning of such period.

              For purposes of this Section 9, "good reason upon change of
              control" shall exist if any of the following occurs:

              (i)    without Employee's express written consent, the assignment
              to Employee of any duties inconsistent with the employment of
              Employee to the positions set forth in Section 1, or a
              significant diminution of Employee's positions, duties,
              responsibilities and status with the Company from those
              immediately prior to a change of control or a diminution in
              Employee's titles or offices as in effect immediately prior to a
              change of control, or any removal of Employee from, or any
              failure to reelect Employee to, any of such positions;





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              (ii)   a reduction by the Company in Employee's base salary in
              effect immediately prior to a change of control;

              (iii)  the failure by the Company to continue in effect any
              thrift, stock ownership, pension, life insurance, health, dental
              and accident or disability plan in which Employee is
              participating or is eligible to participate at the time of the
              change of control (or plans providing Employee with substantially
              similar benefits), except as otherwise required by the terms of
              such plans as in effect at the time of any change of control or
              the taking of any action by the Company which would adversely
              affect Employee's participation in or materially reduce
              Employee's benefits under any of such plans or deprive Employee
              of any material fringe benefits enjoyed by Employee at the time
              of the change of control or the failure by the Company to provide
              the Employee with the number of paid vacation days to which
              Employee is entitled in accordance with the vacation policies of
              the Company in effect at the time of a change of control;

              (iv)   the failure by the Company to continue in effect any
              incentive plan or arrangement (including without limitation, the
              Company's Incentive Compensation Plan and similar incentive
              compensation benefits) in which Employee is participating at the
              time of a change of control (or to substitute and continue other
              plans or arrangements providing the Employee with substantially
              similar benefits), except as otherwise required by the terms of
              such plans as in effect at the time of any change of control;

              (v)    the failure by the Company to continue in effect any plan
              or arrangement with respect to securities of the Company
              (including, without limitation, any plan or arrangement to
              receive and exercise stock options, stock appreciation rights,
              restricted stock or grants thereof or to acquire stock or other
              securities of the Company) in which Employee is participating at
              the time of a change of control (or to substitute and continue
              plans or arrangements providing the Employee with substantially
              similar benefits), except as otherwise required by the terms of
              such plans as in effect at the time of any change of control or
              the taking of any action by the Company which would adversely
              affect Employee's participation in or materially reduce
              Employee's benefits under any such plan;

              (vi)   the relocation of the Company's principal executive
              offices to a location outside the San Antonio, Texas, area, or
              the Company's requiring Employee to be based anywhere other than
              at the location of the Company's principal executive offices,
              except for required travel on the Company's business to an extent





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              substantially consistent with Employee's present business travel
              obligations, or, in the event Employee consents to any such
              relocation of the Company's principal executive or divisional
              offices, the failure by the Company to pay (or reimburse Employee
              for) all reasonable moving expenses incurred by Employee relating
              to a change of Employee's principal residence in connection with
              such relocation and to indemnify Employee against any loss
              (defined as the difference between the actual sale price of such
              residence and the fair market value thereof as determined by the
              highest of three appraisals from Member Appraisal Institute-
              approved real estate appraisers reasonably satisfactory to both
              Employee and the Company at the time the Employee's principal
              residence is offered for sale in connection with any such change
              of residence);

              (vii)  any material breach by the Company of any provision of
              this Agreement;

              (viii) any failure by the Company to obtain the assumption of
              this Agreement by any successor or assign of the Company; or

              (ix)   any purported termination of Employee's employment by the
              Company other than termination for cause fully in compliance with
              this Agreement and for purposes of this Agreement, no such
              purported termination shall be effective.

       In the event of a change of control as "change of control" is defined in
any stock option plan or stock option agreement pursuant to which the Employee
holds options to purchase common stock of the Company, Employee shall retain
the rights to all accelerated vesting and other benefits under the terms of
such plans and agreements.

       The Company shall pay any attorney fees incurred by Employee in
reasonably seeking to enforce the terms of this Section 9.

       10.    Exclusivity of Termination Provisions.

       The termination provisions of this Agreement regarding the parties'
respective obligations in the event Employee's employment is terminated are
intended to be exclusive and in lieu of any other rights or remedies to which
Employee or the Company may otherwise be entitled at law, in equity, or
otherwise.  It is also agreed that, although the personnel policies and fringe
benefit programs of the Company may be unilaterally modified from time to time,
the termination provisions of this Agreement are not subject to modification,
whether orally, impliedly or in writing, unless any such modification is
mutually agreed upon and signed by the parties.





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       11.    Vacation.

       Employee shall be entitled to four weeks vacation annually in accordance
with Company policy as in effect from time to time.  In the event Employee does
not use his entire vacation time in any year, Employee shall be entitled to
carry over unused vacation into the following year until his accrued vacation
reaches six weeks or such greater period as may be permitted under the
Company's vacation policy for management executives.

       12.    Nondisclosure.

       During the term of this Agreement and thereafter, Employee shall not,
without the prior written consent of the Board of Directors, disclose or use
for any purpose (except in the course of his employment under this Agreement
and in furtherance of the business of the Company) confidential information or
proprietary data of the Company (or any of its subsidiaries), except as
required by applicable law or legal process; provided, however, that
confidential information shall not include any information known generally to
the public or ascertainable from public or published information (other than as
a result of unauthorized disclosure by Employee) or any information of a type
not otherwise considered confidential by persons engaged in the same business
or a business similar to that conducted by the Company (or any of its
subsidiaries).

       13.    Noncompetition.

       The Company and Employee agree that the services rendered by Employee
hereunder are unique.  Employee hereby agrees that, during the term of this
Agreement and for a period of one year thereafter, he shall not (except in the
course of his employment under this Agreement and in furtherance of the
business of the Company (or any of its subsidiaries)) (i) engage in as
principal, consultant or employee in any segment of a business of a company,
partnership or firm ("Business Segment") that is directly competitive with any
significant business of the Company in one of its major commercial or
geographic markets or (ii) hold an interest (except as a holder of a less than
5 percent interest in a publicly traded firm or mutual fund, or as a minority
stockholder or unitholder in a firm not publicly traded) in a company,
partnership, or firm with a Business Segment that is directly competitive with
the Company, without prior written consent of the Company.

       14.    Remedies.

       Employee acknowledges that irreparable damage would result to the
Company if the provisions of Sections 12 or 13 above are not specifically
enforced and agrees that the Company shall be entitled to any appropriate
legal, equitable or other remedy, including injunctive relief, in respect of
any failure to comply with such provisions.

       15.    Miscellaneous.

       (a)    Complete Agreement.  This Agreement constitutes the entire
agreement between the parties and cancels and supersedes all other agreements
between the parties which may have related to the subject matter contained in
this Agreement, including without limitation the Prior Agreement.





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       (b)    Modification; Amendment; Waiver.  No modification, amendment or
waiver of any provisions of this Agreement shall be effective unless approved
in writing by both parties.  The failure at any time to enforce any of the
provisions of this Agreement shall in no way be construed as a waiver of such
provisions and shall not affect the right of either party thereafter to enforce
each and every provision hereof in accordance with its terms.

       (c)    Governing Law; Jurisdiction.  This Agreement and performance
under it, and all proceedings that may ensue from its breach, shall be
construed in accordance with and under the laws of the State of Texas.

       (d)    Employee's Representations.  Employee represents and warrants
that he is free to enter into this Agreement and to perform each of the terms
and covenants of it.  Employee represents and warrants that he is not
restricted or prohibited, contractually or otherwise, from entering into and
performing this Agreement, and that his execution and performance of this
Agreement is not a violation or breach of any other agreement between Employee
and any other person or entity.

       (e)    Company's Representations.  Company represents and warrants that
it is free to enter into this Agreement and to perform each of the terms and
covenants of it.  Company represents and warrants that it is not restricted or
prohibited, contractually or otherwise, from entering into and performing this
Agreement, and that its execution and performance of this Agreement is not a
violation or breach of any other agreement between Company and any other person
or entity.  The Company represents and warrants that this Agreement is a legal,
valid and binding agreement of the Company, enforceable in accordance with its
terms.

       (f)    Severability.  Whenever possible, each provision of this
Agreement shall be interpreted in such manner as to be effective and valid
under applicable law, but if any provision of this Agreement shall be held to
be prohibited by or invalid under applicable law, such provision shall be
ineffective only to the extent of such prohibition or invalidity, without
invalidating the remainder of such provision or the remaining provisions of
this Agreement.

       (g)    Assignment.  The rights and obligations of the parties under this
Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of their respective
successors, assigns, executors, administrators and heirs, provided, however,
that neither the Company nor Employee may assign any duties under this
Agreement without the prior written consent of the other.

       (h)    Limitation.  This Agreement shall not confer any right or impose
any obligation on the Company to continue the employment of Employee in any
capacity, or limit the right of the Company or Employee to terminate Employee's
employment.

       (i)    Notices.  All notices and other communications under this
Agreement shall be in writing and shall be given in person or by telegraph,
facsimile or first-class mail, certified or registered with return receipt
requested, and shall be deemed to have been duly given when delivered
personally or three days after mailing or one day after transmission of a
telegram or facsimile, as the case may be, to the respective persons named
below.





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       If to the Company:                  Chief Executive Officer
                                           Tesoro Petroleum Corporation
                                           8700 Tesoro Drive
                                           San Antonio, Texas 78217

       If to the Employee:                 James C. Reed, Jr.
                                           9050 Bat Cave Loop
                                           San Antonio, Texas 78266

       IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have executed this Agreement as of the
day and year first above written.


                            COMPANY:         TESORO PETROLEUM CORPORATION



                                             By    /s/ BRUCE A. SMITH          
                                                  ------------------------------
                                                  Bruce A. Smith
                                                  Chairman of the Board of
                                                  Directors, President and Chief
                                                  Executive Officer



                            EMPLOYEE:        /s/ JAMES C. REED, JR.             
                                           -------------------------------------
                                             James C. Reed, Jr.





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                                                                       Exhibit A


                                BENEFITS LISTING

1.     Group Health Plan

2.     Group Life and Accidental Death & Dismemberment Plan

3.     Short Term Disability Income Plan

4.     Long Term Disability Income Plan

5.     Business Travel Accident Insurance Plan

6.     Tesoro Petroleum Corporation Thrift/401K Plan

7.     Tesoro Petroleum Corporation Retirement Plan

8.     Tesoro Petroleum Corporation Amended Executive Security Plan

9.     Tesoro Petroleum Corporation Funded Executive Security Plan

10.    Tax Preparation and Financial Planning

<PAGE>   1
                                                       ITEM 14(a)3, EXHIBIT 10.6



                   AMENDED AND RESTATED EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT

       This Amended and Restated Employment Agreement (the "Agreement") is
entered into as of December 12, 1996, by and between William T. Van Kleef
("Employee") and Tesoro Petroleum Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the
"Company").

                                   Recitals:

       A.     The Company and Employee are parties to an Employment Agreement
dated December 14, 1994, including all amendments thereto prior to the date
hereof (the "Prior Agreement").

       B.     The Company wishes to continue the employment of Employee as its
Executive Vice President, Operations; as such, Employee shall have certain
responsibilities and shall receive certain compensation and benefits.

       C.     Employee and the Company wish to formalize the continuation of
this employment relationship by amending and restating the Prior Agreement,
including extending its term, and by setting forth certain additional
agreements between Employee and the Company.

       THE PARTIES AGREE AS FOLLOWS:

       1.     Employment and Duties.

       During the term of this Agreement, the Company agrees to employ Employee
as Executive Vice President, Operations, and Employee agrees to serve the
Company in such capacity on the terms and subject to the conditions set forth
in this Agreement.  Employee shall devote substantially all of his business
time, energy and skill to the affairs of the Company as the Company, acting
through its Board of Directors or its Chief Executive Officer, shall reasonably
deem necessary to discharge Employee's duties in such capacity.  Employee may
participate in social, civic, charitable, religious, business, educational or
professional associations, so long as such participation would not materially
detract from Employee's ability to perform his duties under this Agreement.
Employee shall not engage in any other business activity during the term of
this Agreement without the prior written consent of the Company, other than the
passive management of Employee's personal investments or activities which would
not materially detract from Employee's ability to perform his duties under this
Agreement.

       2.     Compensation.

       (a)    Salary; Withholding.  During the term of this Agreement, the
Company shall pay Employee a base salary of $285,000 per year ("base salary"),
payable in arrears in equal bi-weekly installments.  The parties shall comply
with all applicable withholding requirements in connection with all
compensation payable to Employee.  The Company's Board of Directors may, in its
sole discretion, review and adjust upward Employee's base salary from time to
time, but no downward adjustment in Employee's base salary may be made during
the term of this Agreement.
<PAGE>   2
       (b)    Annual Incentive Plan.  The Company shall establish an Annual
Incentive Compensation Plan for executive officers in which the Employee shall
be entitled to participate in a manner consistent with his position with the
Company and the evaluations of his performance by the Board of Directors or any
appropriate committee thereof.

       (c)    Stock Options and Restricted Stock Grants.  The Employee shall be
entitled to receive stock options and restricted stock grants under the
Company's plans in effect from time to time, if any, commensurate with his
position with the Company and the evaluations of his performance by the Board
of Directors or any appropriate committee thereof.

       (d)    Flexible Perquisites Arrangement.  The Employee shall receive
annually a stipulated amount of $20,000 which will be expended by the Company
on behalf of the Employee or paid to the Employee, at the Employee's election,
to cover various business-related expenses such as monthly dues for country,
luncheon or social clubs, automobile expenses and financial and tax planning
expenses. The Employee may elect at any time by written notice to the Company
to receive any of such stipulated amount which has not been paid to or on
behalf of the Employee.  In addition, the Company will pay initiation fees and
reimburse the Employee for related tax expenses to the extent the Board of
Directors or a duly authorized committee thereof determines such fees are
reasonable and in the best interest of the Company.

       (e)    Other Benefits.  Employee shall be eligible to participate in and
have the benefits under the terms of all life, accident, disability and health
insurance plans, pension, profit sharing, incentive compensation and savings
plans and all other similar plans and benefits which the Company from time to
time makes available to its management executives, including, without
limitation, those listed on Exhibit A, in the same manner and at least at the
same participation level as other senior management executives.

       3.     Business Expenses.

       The Company shall promptly reimburse Employee for all appropriately
documented, reasonable business expenses incurred by Employee in accordance
with Company policies.

       4.     Term.

       This Agreement shall commence effective as of December 12, 1996, and if
not terminated earlier as herein provided, shall terminate on December 31,
1998.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, if the Company shall not have offered to
the Employee the opportunity to enter into a new employment agreement prior to
December 31, 1998, with terms, in all respects, no less favorable to the
Employee than the terms of this Agreement and with a term lasting until at
least December 31, 2000, the Employee shall have the right to elect by written
notice delivered to the Company prior to January 31, 1999, to terminate his
employment and such termination shall be deemed to have been for Good Reason in
accordance with Section 5 and the Employee shall be entitled to all payments
and benefits as if he had terminated his employment for Good Reason in
accordance with Section 5 on December 30, 1998.





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       5.     Termination by the Company Without Cause, Termination by Employee
              for "Good Reason" or Failure to Extend Employment Contract.

       The Company may, by delivering 30 days prior written notice to Employee,
terminate Employee's employment at any time without cause, and the Employee
may, by delivering 30 days prior written notice to the Company, terminate
Employee's employment for "good reason," as defined below.  If such termination
without cause or for good reason occurs or if the Company fails to offer to the
Employee a new employment contract prior to December 31, 1998, with terms, in
all respects, no less favorable to the employee than the terms of this
Agreement, Employee shall be entitled to receive a lump-sum payment equal to
the sum of (a) two times the sum of (i) his base salary at the then current
rate and (ii) the sum of the target bonuses under all of the Company's
incentive bonus plans applicable to Employee for the year in which the
termination occurs and (b) if termination occurs in the fourth quarter of a
calendar year, the sum of the target bonuses under all of the Company's
incentive bonus plans applicable to Employee for the year in which the
termination occurs prorated daily based on the number of days from the
beginning of the calendar year in which the termination occurs to and including
the date of termination.  Employee shall also receive all unpaid bonuses for
the year prior to the year in which the termination occurs and shall receive
(i) for a period of two years following termination of employment continuing
coverage and benefits comparable to all life, health and disability insurance
plans which the Company from time to time makes available to its management
executives and their families, (ii) a lump-sum payment equal to two times the
stipulated flexible perquisites amount pursuant to Section 2(d), and (iii) two
years additional service credit under the current non-qualified supplemental
pension plans, or successors thereto, of the Company applicable to the Employee
on the date of termination.  All unvested stock options held by Employee on the
date of the termination shall become immediately vested and all restrictions on
Restricted Stock then held by the Employee shall terminate.

       For purposes of this Section 5, "good reason" shall mean the occurrence
of any of the following events:

       (a)    Removal, without the consent of Employee in writing, from one or
more of the offices Employee holds on the date of this Agreement or a material
reduction in Employee's authority or responsibility but not termination of
Employee for "cause," as defined below; or

       (b)    The Company otherwise commits a material breach of this
Agreement.

       The Company shall pay any attorney fees incurred by Employee in
reasonably seeking to enforce the terms of this Section 5.

       6.     Termination upon Death or Disability.

       If the Employee's employment is terminated because of death or on
account of his becoming permanently disabled (as defined below), the Employee,
or his estate, if applicable, shall be entitled to receive the Employee's base
salary earned pro rata to the date of his 





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termination of employment, plus unpaid bonuses for the year prior to the year in
which the termination occurs. All unvested stock options held by the Employee on
the date of termination shall become immediately vested and all restrictions on
restricted stock held by the Employee shall terminate.

       For purposes of this Agreement, Employee shall be deemed to be
"permanently disabled" if Employee shall be considered to be permanently and
totally disabled in accordance with the Company's Long-Term Disability Income
Plan.  If there should be a dispute between the Company and Employee as to
Employee's physical or mental disability for purposes of this Agreement, the
question shall be settled by the opinion of an impartial reputable physician or
psychiatrist agreed upon by the parties or their representatives, or if the
parties cannot agree within ten calendar days after a request for designation
of such party, then a physician or psychiatrist shall be designated by the San
Antonio, Texas Medical Association.  The parties agree to be bound by the final
decision of such physician or psychiatrist.

       7.     Termination by the Company for Cause.

       The Company may terminate this Agreement at any time if such termination
is for "cause," as defined below, by delivering to Employee written notice
describing the cause of termination 30 days before the effective date of such
termination and by granting Employee at least 30 days to cure the cause.  In
the event the employment of Employee is terminated for "cause," Employee shall
be entitled only to his base salary earned pro rata to his date of termination
with no entitlement to any base salary continuation payments or benefit
continuation (except as specifically provided by the terms of an employee
benefit plan of the Company).  Except as otherwise provided in this Agreement,
the determination of whether Employee is terminated for "cause" shall be made
by the Board of Directors of the Company, in the reasonable exercise of its
business judgment, and shall be limited to the occurrence of the following
events:

       (a)    Conviction of or a plea of nolo contendere to the charge of a
felony (which, through lapse of time or otherwise, is not subject to appeal);

       (b)    Willful refusal without proper legal cause to perform, or gross
negligence in performing, Employee's duties and responsibilities;

       (c)    Material breach of fiduciary duty to the Company through the
misappropriation of Company funds or property; or

       (d)    The unauthorized absence of Employee from work (other than for
sick leave or disability) for a period of 30 working days or more during a
period of 45 working days.

       8.     Voluntary Termination by Employee.

       Employee may terminate this Agreement at any time upon delivering 30
days written notice to the Company.  In the event of such voluntary termination
other than for "good reason," as defined above, Employee shall be entitled to
his base salary earned pro rata to the date of his resignation, plus unpaid
bonuses for the year prior to the year in which the termination occurs, but no
base salary continuation payments or benefits continuation (except as
specifically provided by the terms of an employee benefit plan of the Company).
On or after the date the Company receives notice of Employee's resignation, the
Company may, at its option, pay Employee his





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base salary through the effective date of his resignation and terminate his
employment immediately.

       9.     Termination Following Change of Control.

       Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, should
Employee at any time within two years of a change of control cease to be an
employee of the Company (or its successor), by reason of (i) involuntary
termination by the Company (or its successor) other than for "cause" (following
a change of control, "cause" shall be limited to the conviction of or a plea of
nolo contendere to the charge of a felony (which, through lapse of time or
otherwise, is not subject to appeal), or a material breach of fiduciary duty to
the Company through the misappropriation of Company funds or property), or (ii)
voluntary termination by Employee for "good reason upon change of control" (as
defined below), the Company (or its successor) shall pay to Employee within ten
days of such termination the following severance payments and benefits:

       (a)    A lump-sum payment equal to three times the base salary of the
Employee at the then current rate;

       (b)    A lump-sum payment equal to the sum of (i) three times the sum of
the target bonuses under all of the Company's incentive bonus plans applicable
to the Employee for the year in which the termination occurs or the year in
which the change of control occurred, whichever is greater, and (ii) if
termination occurs in the fourth quarter of a calendar year, the sum of the
target bonuses under all of the Company's incentive bonus plans applicable to
Employee for the year in which the termination occurs prorated daily based on
the number of days from the beginning of the calendar year in which the
termination occurs to and including the date of termination; and

       (c)    A lump-sum payment equal to the amount of any unpaid bonuses to
which the Employee is entitled under any incentive bonus plan.

       The Company (or its successor) shall also provide to Employee (i) for a
period of three years following termination of employment continuing coverage
and benefits comparable to all life, health and disability plans of the Company
in effect at the time a change of control is deemed to have occurred; (ii) a
lump-sum payment equal to three times the stipulated flexible perquisites
amount pursuant to Section 2(d); and (iii) three years additional service
credit under the current non-qualified supplemental pension plans, or
successors thereto, of the Company applicable to the Employee on the date of
termination.


                     For purposes of this Agreement, a "change of control"
              shall be deemed to have occurred if (i) there shall be
              consummated (A) any consolidation or merger of the Company in
              which the Company is not the continuing or surviving corporation
              or pursuant to which shares of the Company's Common Stock would
              be converted into cash, securities or other property, other than
              a merger of the Company where a majority of the Board of
              Directors





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              of the surviving corporation are, and for a two year period after
              the merger continue to be, persons who were directors of the
              Company immediately prior to the merger or were elected as
              directors, or nominated for election as director, by a vote of at
              least two-thirds of the directors then still in office who were
              directors of the Company immediately prior to the merger, or (B)
              any sale, lease, exchange or transfer (in one transaction or a
              series of related transactions) of all or substantially all of
              the assets of the Company, or (ii) the shareholders of the
              Company shall approve any plan or proposal for the liquidation or
              dissolution of the Company, or (iii) (A) any "person" (as such
              term is used in Sections 13(d) and 14(d)(2) of the Securities
              Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act"), other than
              the Company or a subsidiary thereof or any employee benefit plan
              sponsored by the Company or a subsidiary thereof, shall become
              the beneficial owner (within the meaning of Rule 13d-3 under the
              Exchange Act) of securities of the Company representing 20
              percent or more of the combined voting power of the Company's
              then outstanding securities ordinarily (and apart from rights
              accruing in special circumstances) having the right to vote in
              the election of directors, as a result of a tender or exchange
              offer, open market purchases, privately negotiated purchases or
              otherwise, and (B) at any time during a period of two years
              thereafter, individuals who immediately prior to the beginning of
              such period constituted the Board of Directors of the Company
              shall cease for any reason to constitute at least a majority
              thereof, unless the election or the nomination by the Board of
              Directors for election by the Company's shareholders of each new
              director during such period was approved by a vote of at least
              two-thirds of the directors then still in office who were
              directors at the beginning of such period.

              For purposes of this Section 9, "good reason upon change of
              control" shall exist if any of the following occurs:

              (i)    without Employee's express written consent, the assignment
              to Employee of any duties inconsistent with the employment of
              Employee to the positions set forth in Section 1, or a
              significant diminution of Employee's positions, duties,
              responsibilities and status with the Company from those
              immediately prior to a change of control or a diminution in
              Employee's titles or offices as in effect immediately prior to a
              change of control, or any removal of Employee from, or any
              failure to reelect Employee to, any of such positions;

              (ii)   a reduction by the Company in Employee's base salary in
              effect immediately prior to a change of control;





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              (iii)  the failure by the Company to continue in effect any
              thrift, stock ownership, pension, life insurance, health, dental
              and accident or disability plan in which Employee is
              participating or is eligible to participate at the time of the
              change of control (or plans providing Employee with substantially
              similar benefits), except as otherwise required by the terms of
              such plans as in effect at the time of any change of control or
              the taking of any action by the Company which would adversely
              affect Employee's participation in or materially reduce
              Employee's benefits under any of such plans or deprive Employee
              of any material fringe benefits enjoyed by Employee at the time
              of the change of control or the failure by the Company to provide
              the Employee with the number of paid vacation days to which
              Employee is entitled in accordance with the vacation policies of
              the Company in effect at the time of a change of control;

              (iv)   the failure by the Company to continue in effect any
              incentive plan or arrangement (including without limitation, the
              Company's Incentive Compensation Plan and similar incentive
              compensation benefits) in which Employee is participating at the
              time of a change of control (or to substitute and continue other
              plans or arrangements providing the Employee with substantially
              similar benefits), except as otherwise required by the terms of
              such plans as in effect at the time of any change of control;

              (v)    the failure by the Company to continue in effect any plan
              or arrangement with respect to securities of the Company
              (including, without limitation, any plan or arrangement to
              receive and exercise stock options, stock appreciation rights,
              restricted stock or grants thereof or to acquire stock or other
              securities of the Company) in which Employee is participating at
              the time of a change of control (or to substitute and continue
              plans or arrangements providing the Employee with substantially
              similar benefits), except as otherwise required by the terms of
              such plans as in effect at the time of any change of control or
              the taking of any action by the Company which would adversely
              affect Employee's participation in or materially reduce
              Employee's benefits under any such plan;

              (vi)   the relocation of the Company's principal executive
              offices to a location outside the San Antonio, Texas, area, or
              the Company's requiring Employee to be based anywhere other than
              at the location of the Company's principal executive offices,
              except for required travel on the Company's business to an extent
              substantially consistent with Employee's present business travel
              obligations, or, in the event Employee consents to any such
              relocation of the Company's principal executive or divisional





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              offices, the failure by the Company to pay (or reimburse Employee
              for) all reasonable moving expenses incurred by Employee relating
              to a change of Employee's principal residence in connection with
              such relocation and to indemnify Employee against any loss
              (defined as the difference between the actual sale price of such
              residence and the fair market value thereof as determined by the
              highest of three appraisals from Membership Appraisal Institute-
              approved real estate appraisers reasonably satisfactory to both
              Employee and the Company at the time the Employee's principal
              residence is offered for sale in connection with any such change
              of residence);

              (vii)  any material breach by the Company of any provision of
              this Agreement;

              (viii)  any failure by the Company to obtain the assumption of
              this Agreement by any successor or assign of the Company; or

              (ix)   any purported termination of Employee's employment by the
              Company other than termination for cause fully in compliance with
              this Agreement and for purposes of this Agreement, no such
              purported termination shall be effective.

       In the event of a change of control as "change of control" is defined in
any stock option plan or stock option agreement pursuant to which the Employee
holds options to purchase common stock of the Company, Employee shall retain
the rights to all accelerated vesting and other benefits under the terms of
such plans and agreements.

       The Company shall pay any attorney fees incurred by Employee in
reasonably seeking to enforce the terms of this Section 9.

       10.    Exclusivity of Termination Provisions.

       The termination provisions of this Agreement regarding the parties'
respective obligations in the event Employee's employment is terminated are
intended to be exclusive and in lieu of any other rights or remedies to which
Employee or the Company may otherwise be entitled at law, in equity, or
otherwise.  It is also agreed that, although the personnel policies and fringe
benefit programs of the Company may be unilaterally modified from time to time,
the termination provisions of this Agreement are not subject to modification,
whether orally, impliedly or in writing, unless any such modification is
mutually agreed upon and signed by the parties.





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       11.    Vacation.

       Employee shall be entitled to four weeks vacation annually in accordance
with Company policy as in effect from time to time.  In the event Employee does
not use his entire vacation time in any year, Employee shall be entitled to
carry over unused vacation into the following year until his accrued vacation
reaches six weeks or such greater period as may be permitted under the
Company's vacation policy for management executives.

       12.    Nondisclosure.

       During the term of this Agreement and thereafter, Employee shall not,
without the prior written consent of the Board of Directors, disclose or use
for any purpose (except in the course of his employment under this Agreement
and in furtherance of the business of the Company) confidential information or
proprietary data of the Company (or any of its subsidiaries), except as
required by applicable law or legal process; provided, however, that
confidential information shall not include any information known generally to
the public or ascertainable from public or published information (other than as
a result of unauthorized disclosure by Employee) or any information of a type
not otherwise considered confidential by persons engaged in the same business
or a business similar to that conducted by the Company (or any of its
subsidiaries).

       13.    Noncompetition.

       The Company and Employee agree that the services rendered by Employee
hereunder are unique.  Employee hereby agrees that, during the term of this
Agreement and for a period of one year thereafter, he shall not (except in the
course of his employment under this Agreement and in furtherance of the
business of the Company (or any of its subsidiaries)) (i) engage in as
principal, consultant or employee in any segment of a business of a company,
partnership or firm ("Business Segment") that is directly competitive with any
significant business of the Company in one of its major commercial or
geographic markets or (ii) hold an interest (except as a holder of a less than
5 percent interest in a publicly traded firm or mutual fund, or as a minority
stockholder or unitholder in a firm not publicly traded) in a company,
partnership, or firm with a Business Segment that is directly competitive with
the Company, without prior written consent of the Company.

       14.    Remedies.

       Employee acknowledges that irreparable damage would result to the
Company if the provisions of Sections 12 or 13 above are not specifically
enforced and agrees that the Company shall be entitled to any appropriate
legal, equitable or other remedy, including injunctive relief, in respect of
any failure to comply with such provisions.

       15.    Miscellaneous.

       (a)    Complete Agreement.  This Agreement constitutes the entire
agreement between the parties and cancels and supersedes all other agreements
between the parties which may have related to the subject matter contained in
this Agreement, including without limitation the Prior Agreement.





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       (b)    Modification; Amendment; Waiver.  No modification, amendment or
waiver of any provisions of this Agreement shall be effective unless approved
in writing by both parties.  The failure at any time to enforce any of the
provisions of this Agreement shall in no way be construed as a waiver of such
provisions and shall not affect the right of either party thereafter to enforce
each and every provision hereof in accordance with its terms.

       (c)    Governing Law; Jurisdiction.  This Agreement and performance
under it, and all proceedings that may ensue from its breach, shall be
construed in accordance with and under the laws of the State of Texas.

       (d)    Employee's Representations.  Employee represents and warrants
that he is free to enter into this Agreement and to perform each of the terms
and covenants of it.  Employee represents and warrants that he is not
restricted or prohibited, contractually or otherwise, from entering into and
performing this Agreement, and that his execution and performance of this
Agreement is not a violation or breach of any other agreement between Employee
and any other person or entity.

       (e)    Company's Representations.  Company represents and warrants that
it is free to enter into this Agreement and to perform each of the terms and
covenants of it.  Company represents and warrants that it is not restricted or
prohibited, contractually or otherwise, from entering into and performing this
Agreement, and that its execution and performance of this Agreement is not a
violation or breach of any other agreement between Company and any other person
or entity.  The Company represents and warrants that this Agreement is a legal,
valid and binding agreement of the Company, enforceable in accordance with its
terms.

       (f)    Severability.  Whenever possible, each provision of this
Agreement shall be interpreted in such manner as to be effective and valid
under applicable law, but if any provision of this Agreement shall be held to
be prohibited by or invalid under applicable law, such provision shall be
ineffective only to the extent of such prohibition or invalidity, without
invalidating the remainder of such provision or the remaining provisions of
this Agreement.

       (g)    Assignment.  The rights and obligations of the parties under this
Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of their respective
successors, assigns, executors, administrators and heirs, provided, however,
that neither the Company nor Employee may assign any duties under this
Agreement without the prior written consent of the other.

       (h)    Limitation.  This Agreement shall not confer any right or impose
any obligation on the Company to continue the employment of Employee in any
capacity, or limit the right of the Company or Employee to terminate Employee's
employment.

       (i)    Notices.  All notices and other communications under this
Agreement shall be in writing and shall be given in person or by telegraph,
facsimile or first-class mail, certified or registered with return receipt
requested, and shall be deemed to have been duly given when delivered
personally or three days after mailing or one day after transmission of a
telegram or facsimile, as the case may be, to the respective persons named
below.





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       If to the Company:                  Corporate Secretary
                                           Tesoro Petroleum Corporation
                                           8700 Tesoro Drive
                                           San Antonio, Texas  78217

       If to the Employee:                 William T. Van Kleef
                                           4351 F.M. 2673
                                           Canyon Lake, Texas 78133

       IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have executed this Agreement as of the
day and year first above written.


                            COMPANY:         TESORO PETROLEUM CORPORATION



                                             By    /s/ BRUCE A. SMITH           
                                                  ------------------------------
                                                  Bruce A. Smith
                                                  Chairman of the Board of
                                                  Directors, President and Chief
                                                  Executive Officer



                            EMPLOYEE:         /s/ WILLIAM T. VAN KLEEF          
                                             -----------------------------------
                                             William T. Van Kleef





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                                                                       Exhibit A


                                BENEFITS LISTING


1.     Group Health Plan

2.     Group Life and Accidental Death & Dismemberment Plan

3.     Short Term Disability Income Plan

4.     Long Term Disability Income Plan

5.     Business Travel Accident Insurance Plan

6.     Tesoro Petroleum Corporation Thrift/401K Plan

7.     Tesoro Petroleum Corporation Retirement Plan

8.     Tesoro Petroleum Corporation Amended Executive Security Plan

9.     Tesoro Petroleum Corporation Funded Executive Security Plan

10.    Tax Preparation and Financial Planning

<PAGE>   1
                                                      ITEM 14(a)3, EXHIBIT 10.12



                              AMENDED AND RESTATED
                          TESORO PETROLEUM CORPORATION
                       EXECUTIVE LONG-TERM INCENTIVE PLAN


ARTICLE 1.  ESTABLISHMENT, PURPOSE, AND DURATION

1.1    ESTABLISHMENT OF THE PLAN.  Tesoro Petroleum Corporation, a Delaware
       corporation (hereinafter referred to as the "Company"), established an
       incentive compensation plan to be known as the "Tesoro Petroleum
       Corporation Executive Long-Term Incentive Plan" (hereinafter referred to
       as the "Plan"), as set forth in this document.  The Plan permits the
       grant of Nonqualified Stock Options, Incentive Stock Options, SARs,
       Restricted Stock, Performance Units, and Performance Shares.

       The Plan became effective as of September 15, 1993 (the "Effective
       Date"), and shall remain in effect as provided in Section 1.3 herein.

       Effective May 4, 1995, the Plan was amended to limit the number of
       Shares that can be granted in the form of an Option to any Participant
       during any fiscal year of the Company to 500,000.

       Effective June 6, 1996, the Plan was amended to (i) increase the total
       number of Shares available for grant under the Plan and (ii) limit the
       total amount of Restricted Stock that can be awarded under the Plan.

1.2    PURPOSE OF THE PLAN.  The purpose of the Plan is to promote the success
       and enhance the value of the Company by linking the personal interests
       of Participants to those of Company shareholders, and by providing
       Participants with an incentive for outstanding performance.

       The Plan is further intended to provide flexibility to the Company in
       its ability to motivate, attract, and retain the services of
       Participants upon whose judgment, interest, and special effort the
       successful conduct of its operation largely is dependent.

1.3    DURATION OF THE PLAN.  The Plan shall commence on the Effective Date, as
       described in Section 1.1 herein, and shall remain in effect, subject to
       the right of the Board of Directors to terminate the Plan at any time
       pursuant to Article 14 herein, until all Shares subject to it shall have
       been purchased or acquired according to the Plan's provisions. However,
       in no event may an Award be granted under the Plan on or after September
       15, 2003.

ARTICLE 2.  DEFINITIONS

Whenever used in the Plan, the following terms shall have the meanings set
forth below and, when the meaning is intended, the initial letter of the word
is capitalized:





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(a)    "Affiliated SAR" means a SAR that is granted in connection with a
       related Option, and which will be deemed to automatically be exercised
       simultaneous with the exercise of the related Option.

(b)    "Award" means, individually or collectively, a grant under this Plan of
       Nonqualified Stock Options, Incentive Stock Options, SARs, Restricted
       Stock, Performance Units, or Performance Shares.

(c)    "Award Agreement" means an agreement entered into by each Participant
       and the Company, setting forth the terms and provisions applicable to
       Awards granted to Participants under this Plan.

(d)    "Beneficial Owner" shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Rule
       13d-3 of the General Rules and Regulations under the Exchange Act.

(e)    "Board" or "Board of Directors" means the Board of Directors of the
       Company.

(f)    "Cause" means:  (i) willful misconduct on the part of a Participant that
       is materially detrimental to the Company; or (ii) the commission by a
       Participant of one or more acts which constitute an indictable crime
       under United States Federal, state, or local law.  "Cause" under either
       (i) or (ii) shall be determined in good faith by the Committee.

(g)    "Change in Control" of the Company shall be deemed to have occurred if:

       (i)    Any Person other than a trustee or other fiduciary holding
              securities under an employee benefit plan of the Company or a
              corporation owned, directly or indirectly, by the stockholders of
              the Company in substantially the same proportions as their
              ownership of stock or the Company is or becomes the Beneficial
              Owner, directly or indirectly, of securities of the Company
              representing fifty percent (50%) or more of the combined voting
              power of the Company's then outstanding voting securities;

       (ii)   A majority of the Board at any time shall cease to be made up of
              Qualified Directors.  For purposes hereof a Qualified Director is
              a director who meets any of the following criteria:  (1) Was a
              director immediately after the effective date of the
              Reclassification (as defined in the Company's Registration
              Statement on S-4, relating to the 1993 Annual Meeting of
              Stockholders), including the three new directors elected in
              connection therewith; (2) Was a director immediately after the
              Company's 1994 Annual Meeting of Stockholders; (3) Any director
              nominated for election as a director or elected to the Board by
              the directors to fill a vacancy by a vote of directors, and at
              the time of such nomination or election at least a majority of
              the directors were qualified directors; or

       (iii)  The shareholders of the Company approve a merger or consolidation
              of the Company, with any other corporation, other than a merger
              or consolidation which would result in the voting securities of
              the Company outstanding immediately prior thereto continuing to
              represent (either by remaining outstanding or by being





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              converted into voting securities of the surviving entity) at
              least fifty percent (50%) of the combined voting power of the
              voting securities of the Company or such surviving entity
              outstanding immediately after such merger or consolidation, or
              the shareholders of the Company approve a plan of complete
              liquidation of the Company, or an agreement for the sale or
              disposition by the Company of all or substantially all of the
              Company's assets.

       However, in no event shall a "Change in Control" be deemed to have
       occurred with respect to a Participant, if the Participant is part of a
       purchasing group which consummates the Change-in-Control transaction. A
       Participant shall be deemed "part of a purchasing group" for purposes of
       the preceding sentence if the Participant is an equity participant in
       the purchasing company or group (except for (i) passive ownership of
       less than three percent (3%) of the stock of the purchasing company; or
       (ii) ownership of equity participation in the purchasing company or
       group which is otherwise not significant, as determined prior to the
       Change in Control by a majority of the nonemployee continuing
       Directors).

(h)    "Code" means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended from time to
       time.

(i)    "Committee" means the committee, as specified in Article 3, appointed by
       the Board to administer the Plan with respect to grants of Awards.

(j)    "Company" means Tesoro Petroleum Corporation, a Delaware corporation, or
       any successor thereto as provided in Article 17 herein.

(k)    "Director" means any individual who is a member of the Board of
       Directors of the Company.

(l)    "Disability" means a permanent and total disability, within the meaning
       of Code Section 22(e)(3), as determined by the Committee in good faith,
       upon receipt of sufficient competent medical advice from one or more
       individuals, selected by the Committee, who are qualified to give
       professional medical advice.

(m)    "Employee" means any full-time, nonunion employee of the Company or of
       the Company's Subsidiaries.  Directors who are not otherwise employed by
       the Company shall not be considered Employees under this Plan.

(n)    "Exchange Act" means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended
       from time to time, or any successor Act thereto.

(o)    "Fair Market Value" shall mean the average of the highest and lowest
       quoted selling prices for Shares on the relevant date, or (if there were
       no sales on such date) the weighted average of the means between the
       highest and lowest quoted selling prices on the nearest day before and
       the nearest day after the relevant date, as determined by the Committee.

(p)    "Freestanding SAR" means a SAR that is granted independently of any
       Options.





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(q)    "Incentive Stock Option" or "ISO" means an option to purchase Shares,
       granted under Article 6 herein, which is designated as an Incentive
       Stock Option and is intended to meet the requirements of Section 422 of
       the Code.

(r)    "Insider" shall mean an Employee who is, on the relevant date, an
       officer, director, or ten percent (10%) beneficial owner of the Company,
       as defined under Section 16 of the Exchange Act.

(s)    "Nonqualified Stock Option" or "NQSO" means an option to purchase
       Shares, granted under Article 6 herein, which is not intended to be an
       Incentive Stock Option.

(t)    "Option" means an Incentive Stock Option or a Nonqualified Stock Option.

(u)    "Option Price" means the price at which a Share may be purchased by a
       Participant pursuant to an Option, as determined by the Committee.

(v)    "Participant" means an Employee of the Company who has outstanding an
       Award granted under the Plan.

(w)    "Performance Unit" means an Award granted to an Employee, as described
       in Article 9 herein.

(x)    "Performance Share" means an Award granted to an Employee, as described
       in Article 9 herein.

(y)    "Period of Restriction" means the period during which the transfer of
       Shares of Restricted Stock is limited in some way (based on the passage
       of time, the achievement of performance goals, or upon the occurrence of
       other events as determined by the Committee, at its discretion), and the
       Shares are subject to a substantial risk of forfeiture, as provided in
       Article 8 herein.

(z)    "Person" shall have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 3(a)(9)
       of the Exchange Act and used in Sections 13(d) and 14(d) thereof,
       including a "group" as defined in Section 13(d).

(aa)   "Restricted Stock" means an Award granted to a Participant pursuant to
       Article 8 herein.

(ab)   "Retirement" shall have the meaning ascribed to it in the tax-qualified
       pension plan of the Company.

(ac)   "Shares" means the shares of common stock of the Company.

(ad)   "Subsidiary" means any corporation in which the Company owns directly,
       or indirectly through subsidiaries, at least fifty percent (50%) of the
       total combined voting power of all classes of stock, or any other entity
       (including, but not limited to, partnerships and joint ventures) in
       which the Company owns at least fifty percent (50%) of the combined
       equity thereof.





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(ae)   "Stock Appreciation Right" or "SAR" means an Award, granted alone or in
       connection with a related Option, designated as a SAR, pursuant to the
       terms of Article 7 herein.

(af)   "Tandem SAR" means a SAR that is granted in connection with a related
       Option, the exercise of which shall require forfeiture of the right to
       purchase a Share under the related Option (and when a Share is purchased
       under the Option, the Tandem SAR shall similarly be canceled).

(ag)   "Window Period" means the period beginning on the third business day
       following the date of public release of the Company's quarterly sales
       and earnings information, and ending on the twelfth business day
       following such date.

ARTICLE 3.  ADMINISTRATION

3.1    THE COMMITTEE.  The Plan shall be administered by the Executive Long-
       Term Compensation Committee of the Board, or by any other Committee
       appointed by the Board consisting of all Directors who are not Employees
       (the "Committee").  The members of the Committee shall be appointed from
       time to time by, and shall serve at the discretion of, the Board of
       Directors.

       The Committee shall be comprised solely of Directors who are eligible to
       administer the Plan pursuant to Rule 16b-3(c)(2) under the Exchange Act.
       However, if for any reason the Committee does not qualify to administer
       the Plan, as contemplated by Rule 16b-3(c)(2) of the Exchange Act, the
       Board of Directors may appoint a new Committee so as to comply with Rule
       16b-3(c)(2).

3.2    AUTHORITY OF THE COMMITTEE.  The Committee shall have full power except
       as limited by law or by the Articles of Incorporation or Bylaws of the
       Company, and subject to the provisions herein, to determine the size and
       types of Awards; to determine the terms and conditions of such Awards in
       a manner consistent with the Plan; to construe and interpret the Plan
       and any agreement or instrument entered into under the Plan; to
       establish, amend, or waive rules and regulations for the Plan's
       administration; and (subject to the provisions of Article 14 herein) to
       amend the terms and conditions of any outstanding Award to the extent
       such terms and conditions are within the discretion of the Committee as
       provided in the Plan.  Further, the Committee shall make all other
       determinations which may be necessary or advisable for the
       administration of the Plan.  As permitted by law, the Committee may
       delegate its authorities as identified hereunder.

3.3    DECISIONS BINDING.  All determinations and decisions made by the
       Committee pursuant to the provisions of the Plan and all related orders
       or resolutions of the Board of Directors shall be final, conclusive, and
       binding on all persons, including the Company, its stockholders,
       Employees, Participants, and their estates and beneficiaries.

ARTICLE 4.  SHARES SUBJECT TO THE PLAN

4.1    NUMBER OF SHARES. Subject to adjustment as provided in Section 4.3
       herein, the total number of Shares available for grant under the Plan
       may not exceed 2,650,000.  These





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       Shares may be either authorized but unissued or reacquired Shares.

       The following rules will apply for purposes of the determination of the
       number of Shares available for grant under the Plan:

       (a)    While an Award is outstanding, it shall be counted against the
              authorized pool of Shares, regardless of its vested status.

       (b)    The grant of an Option or Restricted Stock shall reduce the
              Shares available for grant under the Plan by the number of Shares
              subject to such Award.

       (c)    The grant of a Tandem SAR shall reduce the number of Shares
              available for grant by the number of Shares subject to the
              related Option (i.e., there is no double counting of Options and
              their related Tandem SARs).

       (d)    The grant of an Affiliated SAR shall reduce the number of Shares
              available for grant by the number of Shares subject to the SAR,
              in addition to the number of Shares subject to the related
              Option.

       (e)    The grant of a Freestanding SAR shall reduce the number of Shares
              available for grant by the number of Freestanding SARs granted.

       (f)    The Committee shall in each case determine the appropriate number
              of Shares to deduct from the authorized pool in connection with
              the grant of Performance Units and/or Performance Shares.

4.2    LAPSED AWARDS. If any Award granted under this Plan is canceled,
       terminates, expires, or lapses for any reason (with the exception of the
       termination of a Tandem SAR upon exercise of the related Option or the
       termination of a related Option upon exercise of the corresponding
       Tandem SAR), any Shares subject to such Award again shall be available
       for the grant of an Award under the Plan.  However, in the event that
       prior to the Award's cancellation, termination, expiration, or lapse,
       the holder of the Award at any time received one or more "benefits of
       ownership" pursuant to such Award (as defined by the Securities and
       Exchange Commission, pursuant to any rule or interpretation promulgated
       under Section 16 of the Exchange Act), the Shares subject to such Award
       shall not be made available for regrant under the Plan.

4.3    ADJUSTMENTS IN AUTHORIZED SHARES.  In the event of any merger,
       reorganization, consolidation, recapitalization, separation,
       liquidation, stock dividend, split-up, Share combination, or other
       change in the corporate structure of the Company affecting the Shares,
       such adjustment shall be made in the number and class of Shares which
       may be delivered under the Plan, and in the number and class of and/or
       price of Shares subject to outstanding Awards granted under the Plan, as
       may be determined to be appropriate and equitable by the Committee, in
       its sole discretion, to prevent dilution or enlargement of rights; and
       provided that the number of Shares subject to any Award shall always be
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ARTICLE 5.  ELIGIBILITY AND PARTICIPATION

5.1    ELIGIBILITY.  Persons eligible to participate in this Plan include all
       full-time, active Employees of the Company and its Subsidiaries, as
       determined by the Committee, including Employees who are members of the
       Board, but excluding Directors who are not Employees.

5.2    ACTUAL PARTICIPATION.  Subject to the provisions of the Plan, the
       Committee may, from time to time, select from all eligible Employees,
       those to whom Awards shall be granted and shall determine the nature and
       amount of each Award.

ARTICLE 6.  STOCK OPTIONS

6.1    GRANT OF OPTIONS.  Subject to the terms and provisions of the Plan,
       Options may be granted to Employees at any time and from time to time as
       shall be determined by the Committee.  The Committee shall have
       discretion in determining the number of Shares subject to Options
       granted to each Participant, but in no event shall the Committee be
       permitted to grant Options to any Participant in excess of 500,000
       Shares during any fiscal year of the Company.  The Committee may grant
       ISOs, NQSOs, or a combination thereof.

6.2    AWARD AGREEMENT.  Each Option grant shall be evidenced by an Award
       Agreement that shall specify the Option Price, the duration of the
       Option, the number of Shares to which the Option pertains, and such
       other provisions as the Committee shall determine.  The Option Agreement
       also shall specify whether the Option is intended to be an ISO within
       the meaning of Section 422 of the Code, or a NQSO whose grant is
       intended not to fall under the Code provisions of Section 422.

6.3    OPTION PRICE.  The Option Price for each grant of an Option shall be
       determined by the Committee; provided that the Option Price shall not be
       less than the Fair Market Value of a Share on the date the Option is
       granted unless such Option is granted in connection with a deferral
       election pursuant to Article XI herein.

6.4    DURATION OF OPTIONS.  Each Option shall expire at such time as the
       Committee shall determine at the time of grant; provided, however, that
       no Option shall be exercisable later than the tenth (10th) anniversary
       date of its grant.

6.5    EXERCISE OF OPTIONS.  Options granted under the Plan shall be
       exercisable at such times and be subject to such restrictions and
       conditions as the Committee shall in each instance approve, which need
       not be the same for each grant or for each Participant.  However, in no
       event may any Option granted under this Plan become exercisable prior to
       six (6) months following the date of its grant.

6.6    PAYMENT.  Options shall be exercised by the delivery of a written notice
       of exercise to the Company, setting forth the number of Shares with
       respect to which the Option is to be exercised, accompanied by full
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       The Option Price upon exercise of any Option shall be payable to the
       Company in full either:  (a) in cash or its equivalent, or (b) by
       tendering previously acquired Shares having an aggregate Fair Market
       Value at the time of exercise equal to the total Option Price (provided
       that the Shares which are tendered must have been held by the
       Participant for at least six (6) months prior to their tender to satisfy
       the Option Price), or (c) by a combination of (a) and (b).

       The Committee also may allow cashless exercise as permitted under
       Federal Reserve Board's Regulation T, subject to applicable securities
       law restrictions, or by any other means which the Committee determines
       to be consistent with the Plan's purpose and applicable law.

       As soon as practicable after receipt of a written notification of
       exercise and full payment, the Company shall deliver to the Participant,
       in the Participant's name, Share certificates in an appropriate amount
       based upon the number of Shares purchased under the Option(s).

6.7    RESTRICTIONS ON SHARE TRANSFERABILITY.  The Committee may impose such
       restrictions on any Shares acquired pursuant to the exercise of an
       Option under the Plan as it may deem advisable, including, without
       limitation, restrictions under applicable Federal securities laws, under
       the requirements of any stock exchange or market upon which such Shares
       are then listed and/or traded, and under any blue sky or state
       securities laws applicable to such Shares.

6.8    TERMINATION OF EMPLOYMENT DUE TO DEATH, DISABILITY, OR RETIREMENT.

       (a)    TERMINATION BY DEATH. In the event the employment of a
              Participant is terminated by reason of death, all outstanding
              Options which are exercisable as of the date of death shall
              remain exercisable at any time prior to their expiration date, or
              for one (1) year after the date of death, whichever period is
              shorter, by such person or persons as shall have been named as
              the Participant's beneficiary, or by such persons that have
              acquired the Participant's rights under the Option by will or by
              the laws of descent and distribution.

              Options which are not exercisable as of the date of death shall
              be forfeited and returned to the Company; provided, however, that
              the Committee may, at its sole discretion, provide for
              accelerated vesting of unvested Options upon such terms as the
              Committee deems advisable.

       (b)    TERMINATION BY DISABILITY.  In the event the employment of a
              Participant is terminated by reason of Disability, all
              outstanding Options which are exercisable as of the date the
              Committee determines the definition of Disability to have been
              satisfied shall remain exercisable at any time prior to their
              expiration date, or for one (1) year after the date that the
              Committee determines the definition of Disability to have been
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              Options which are not exercisable as of the date the Committee
              determines the definition of Disability to have been satisfied
              shall be forfeited and returned to the Company; provided,
              however, that the Committee may, at its sole discretion, provide
              for accelerated vesting of unvested Options upon such terms as
              the Committee deems advisable.

       (c)    TERMINATION BY RETIREMENT. In the event the employment of a
              Participant is terminated by reason of Retirement, all
              outstanding Options which are exercisable as of the date of
              Retirement shall remain exercisable at any time prior to their
              expiration date, or for three (3) years after the effective date
              of Retirement, whichever period is shorter.  Options which are
              not exercisable as of the date of Retirement shall be forfeited
              and return to the Company; provided, however, that the Committee
              may, at its sole discretion, provide for accelerated vesting of
              unvested Options upon such terms as the Committee deems
              advisable.

       (d)    EMPLOYMENT TERMINATION FOLLOWED BY DEATH.  In the event that a
              Participant's employment terminates by reason of Disability or
              Retirement, and within the exercise period following such
              termination the Participant dies, then the remaining exercise
              period under outstanding vested Options shall equal the longer of
              (i) one (1) year following death; or (ii) the remaining portion
              of the exercise period which was triggered by the employment
              termination.  Such Options shall be exercisable by such person or
              persons who shall have been named as the Participant's
              beneficiary, or by such persons who have acquired the
              Participant's rights under the Option by will or by the laws of
              descent and distribution.

       (e)    EXERCISE LIMITATIONS ON ISOS.  In the case of ISOs, the tax
              treatment prescribed under Section 422 of the Internal Revenue
              Code of 1986, as amended, may not be available if the Options are
              not exercised within the Section 422 prescribed time periods
              after each of the various types of employment termination.

6.9    TERMINATION OF EMPLOYMENT FOR OTHER REASONS.  If the employment of a
       Participant shall terminate for any reason other than the reasons set
       forth in Section 6.8 (and other than for Cause), all Options held by the
       Participant which are not vested as of the effective date of employment
       termination immediately shall be forfeited to the Company (and shall
       once again become available for grant under the Plan).  However, the
       Committee, in its sole discretion, shall have the right to immediately
       vest all or any portion of such Options, subject to such terms as the
       Committee, in its sole discretion, deems appropriate.

       Options which are vested as of the effective date of employment
       termination may be exercised by the Participant within the period
       beginning on the effective date of employment termination, and ending
       three (3) months after such date.

       If the employment of a Participant shall be terminated by the Company
       for Cause, all outstanding Options held by the Participant immediately
       shall be forfeited to the Company and no additional exercise period
       shall be allowed, regardless of the vested status of the Options.





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6.10   NONTRANSFERABILITY OF OPTIONS.  No Option granted under the Plan may be
       sold, transferred, pledged, assigned, or otherwise alienated or
       hypothecated, other than by will or by the laws of descent and
       distribution.  Further, all Options granted to a Participant under the
       Plan shall be exercisable during his or her lifetime only by such
       Participant.

ARTICLE 7.  STOCK APPRECIATION RIGHTS

7.1    GRANT OF SARS.  Subject to the terms and conditions of the Plan, a SAR
       may be granted to an Employee at any time and from time to time as shall
       be determined by the Committee.  The Committee may grant Affiliated
       SARs, Freestanding SARs, Tandem SARs, or any combination of these forms
       of SARs.

       The Committee shall have complete discretion in determining the number
       of SARs granted to each Participant (subject to Article 4 herein) and,
       consistent with the provisions of the Plan, in determining the terms and
       conditions pertaining to such SARs. However, the grant price of a
       Freestanding SAR shall be at least equal to the Fair Market Value of a
       Share on the date of grant of the SAR.  The grant price of Tandem SARs
       and Affiliated SARs shall equal the Option Price of the related Option.
       In no event shall any SAR granted hereunder become exercisable within
       the first six (6) months of its grant.

7.2    EXERCISE OF TANDEM SARS.  Tandem SARs may be exercised for all or part
       of the Shares subject to the related Option upon the surrender of the
       right to exercise the equivalent portion of the related Option.  A
       Tandem SAR may be exercised only with respect to the Shares for which
       its related Option is then exercisable.

       Notwithstanding any other provision of this Plan to the contrary, with
       respect to a Tandem SAR granted in connection with an ISO:  (i) the
       Tandem SAR will expire no later than the expiration of the underlying
       ISO; (ii) the value of the payout with respect to the Tandem SAR may be
       for no more than one hundred percent (100%) of the difference between
       the Option Price of the underlying ISO and the Fair Market Value of the
       Shares subject to the underlying ISO at the time the Tandem SAR is
       exercised; and (iii) the Tandem SAR may be exercised only when the Fair
       Market Value of the Shares subject to the ISO exceeds the Option Price
       of the ISO.

7.3    EXERCISE OF AFFILIATED SARS.  Affiliated SARs shall be deemed to be
       exercised upon the exercise of the related Options.  The deemed exercise
       of Affiliated SARs shall not necessitate a reduction in the number of
       related options.

7.4    EXERCISE OF FREESTANDING SARS.  Freestanding SARs may be exercised upon
       whatever terms and conditions the Committee, in its sole discretion,
       imposes upon them.

7.5    SAR AGREEMENT.  Each SAR grant shall be evidenced by an Award Agreement
       that shall specify the grant price, the term of the SAR, and such other
       provisions as the Committee shall determine.





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7.6    TERM OF SARS.  The term of a SAR granted under the Plan shall be
       determined by the Committee, in its sole discretion; provided, however,
       that such term shall not exceed ten (10) years.

7.7    PAYMENT OF SAR AMOUNT.  Upon exercise of a SAR, a Participant shall be
       entitled to receive payment from the Company in an amount determined by
       multiplying:

       (a)    The difference between the Fair Market Value of a Share on the
              date of exercise over the grant price; by

       (b)    The number of Shares with respect to which the SAR is exercised.

       At the discretion of the Committee, the payment upon SAR exercise may be
       in cash, in Shares of equivalent value, or in some combination thereof.

7.8    RULE 16b-3 REQUIREMENTS.  Notwithstanding any other provision of the
       Plan, the Committee may impose such conditions on exercise of a SAR
       (including, without limitation, the right of the Committee to limit the
       time of exercise to specified periods) as may be required to satisfy the
       requirements of Section 16 (or any successor rule) of the Exchange Act.

       For example, if the Participant is an Insider, the ability of the
       Participant to exercise SARs for cash will be limited to Window Periods.
       However, if the Committee determines that the Participant is not an
       Insider, or if the securities laws change to permit greater freedom of
       exercise of SARs, then the Committee may permit exercise at any point in
       time, to the extent the SARs are otherwise exercisable under the Plan.

7.9    TERMINATION OF EMPLOYMENT DUE TO DEATH, DISABILITY, OR RETIREMENT.

       (a)    TERMINATION BY DEATH.  In the event the employment of a
              Participant is terminated by reason of death, all outstanding
              SARs which are exercisable as of the date of death shall remain
              exercisable at any time prior to their expiration date, or for
              one (1) year after the date of death, whichever period is
              shorter, by such person or persons as shall have been named as
              the Participant's beneficiary, or by such persons that have
              acquired the Participant's rights under the SAR by will or by the
              laws of descent and distribution.

              SARs which are not exercisable as of the date of death shall be
              forfeited and returned to the Company; provided, however, that
              the Committee may, at its sole discretion, provide for
              accelerated vesting of unvested SARs upon such terms as the
              Committee deems advisable.

       (b)    TERMINATION BY DISABILITY. In the event the employment of a
              Participant is terminated by reason of Disability, all
              outstanding SARs which are exercisable as of the date the
              Committee determines the definition of Disability to have been
              satisfied shall remain exercisable at any time prior to their
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              one (1) year after the date that the Committee determines the
              definition of Disability to have been satisfied, whichever period
              is shorter.

              SARs which are not exercisable as of the date the Committee
              determines the definition of Disability to have been satisfied
              shall be forfeited and returned to the Company; provided,
              however, that the Committee may, at its sole discretion, provide
              for accelerated vesting of unvested SARs upon such terms as the
              Committee deems advisable.

       (c)    TERMINATION BY RETIREMENT.  In the event the employment of a
              Participant is terminated by reason of Retirement, all
              outstanding SARs which are exercisable as of the date of
              Retirement shall remain exercisable at any time prior to their
              expiration date, or for three (3) years after the effective date
              of Retirement, whichever period is shorter.

              SARs which are not exercisable as of the date of Retirement shall
              be forfeited and returned to the Company; provided, however, that
              the Committee may, at its sole discretion, provide for
              accelerated vesting of unvested SARs upon such terms as the
              Committee deems advisable.

       (d)    EMPLOYMENT TERMINATION FOLLOWED BY DEATH.  In the event that a
              Participant's employment terminates by reason of Disability or
              Retirement, and within the exercise period following such
              termination the Participant dies, then the remaining exercise
              period under outstanding vested SARs shall equal the longer of:
              (i) one (1) year following death; or (ii) the remaining portion
              of the exercise period which was triggered by the employment
              termination.  Such SARs shall be exercisable by such person or
              persons who shall have been named as the Participant's
              beneficiary, or by such persons who have acquired the
              Participant's rights under the SAR by will or by the laws of
              descent and distribution.

7.10   TERMINATION OF EMPLOYMENT FOR OTHER REASONS.  If the employment of a
       Participant shall terminate for any reason other than the reasons set
       forth in Section 7.9 (and other than for Cause), all SARs held by the
       Participant which are not vested as of the effective date of employment
       termination immediately shall be forfeited to the Company (and shall
       once again become available for grant under the Plan).  However, the
       Committee, in its sole discretion, shall have the right to immediately
       vest all or any portion of such SARs, subject to such terms as the
       Committee, in its sole discretion, deems appropriate.

       SARs which are vested as of the effective date of employment termination
       may be exercised by the Participant within the period beginning on the
       effective date of employment termination, and ending three (3) months
       after such date.

       If the employment of a Participant shall be terminated by the Company
       for Cause, all outstanding SARs held by the Participant immediately
       shall be forfeited to the Company and no additional exercise period
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7.11   NONTRANSFERABILITY OF SARS.  No SAR granted under the Plan may be sold,
       transferred, pledged, assigned, or otherwise alienated or hypothecated,
       other than by will or by the laws of descent and distribution.  Further,
       all SARs granted to a Participant under the Plan shall be exercisable
       during his or her lifetime only by such Participant.

ARTICLE 8. RESTRICTED STOCK

8.1    GRANT OF RESTRICTED STOCK.  Subject to the terms and provisions of the
       Plan, the Committee, at any time and from time to time, may grant Shares
       of Restricted Stock to eligible Employees in such amounts as the
       Committee shall determine, but in no event shall the total number of
       Shares of Restricted Stock available for grant by the Committee exceed
       500,000 Shares.

8.2    RESTRICTED STOCK AGREEMENT.  Each Restricted Stock grant shall be
       evidenced by a Restricted Stock Agreement that shall specify the Period
       of Restriction, or Periods, the number of Restricted Stock Shares
       granted, and such other provisions as the Committee shall determine.

8.3    TRANSFERABILITY.  Except as provided in this Article 8, the Shares of
       Restricted Stock granted herein may not be sold, transferred, pledged,
       assigned, or otherwise alienated or hypothecated until the end of the
       applicable Period of Restriction established by the Committee and
       specified in the Restricted Stock Agreement, or upon earlier
       satisfaction of any other conditions, as specified by the Committee in
       its sole discretion and set forth in the Restricted Stock Agreement.
       However, in no event may any Restricted Stock granted under the Plan
       become vested in a Participant prior to six (6) months following the
       date of its grant.  All rights with respect to the Restricted Stock
       granted to a Participant under the Plan shall be available during his or
       her lifetime only to such Participant.

8.4    OTHER RESTRICTIONS. The Committee shall impose such other conditions
       and/or restrictions on any Shares of Restricted Stock granted pursuant
       to the Plan as it may deem advisable including, without limitation, a
       requirement that Participants pay a stipulated purchase price for each
       Share of Restricted Stock, restrictions based upon the achievement of
       specific performance goals (Companywide, divisional, and/or individual),
       and/or restrictions under applicable Federal or state securities laws;
       and may legend the certificates representing Restricted Stock to give
       appropriate notice of such restrictions.

8.5    CERTIFICATE LEGEND.  In addition to any legends placed on certificates
       pursuant to Section 8.4 herein, each certificate representing Shares of
       Restricted Stock granted pursuant to the Plan may bear the following
       legend:

              "The sale or other transfer of the Shares of stock represented by
              this certificate, whether voluntary, involuntary, or by operation
              of law, is subject to certain restrictions on transfer as set
              forth in the Tesoro Petroleum Corporation Executive Long-Term
              Incentive Plan, and in a Restricted Stock Agreement.  A copy of
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              and such Restricted Stock Agreement may be obtained from Tesoro
              Petroleum Corporation."

       The Company shall have the right to retain the certificates representing
       Shares of Restricted Stock in the Company's possession until such time
       as all conditions and/or restrictions applicable to such Shares have
       been satisfied.

8.6    REMOVAL OF RESTRICTIONS. Except as otherwise provided in this Article 8,
       Shares of Restricted Stock covered by each Restricted Stock grant made
       under the Plan shall become freely transferable by the Participant after
       the last day of the Period of Restriction.  Once the Shares are released
       from the restrictions, the Participant shall be entitled to have the
       legend required by Section 8.5 removed from his or her share
       certificate.

8.7    VOTING RIGHTS.  During the Period of Restriction, Participants holding
       Shares of Restricted Stock granted hereunder may exercise full voting
       rights with respect to those Shares.

8.8    DIVIDENDS AND OTHER DISTRIBUTIONS.  During the Period of Restriction,
       Participants holding Shares of Restricted Stock granted hereunder shall
       be entitled to receive all dividends and other distributions paid with
       respect to those Shares while they are so held.  If any such dividends
       or distributions are paid in Shares, the Shares shall be subject to the
       same restrictions on transferability and forfeitability as the Shares of
       Restricted Stock with respect to which they were paid.

       In the event that any dividend constitutes a "derivative security" or an
       "equity security" pursuant to Rule 16(a) under the Exchange Act, such
       dividend shall be subject to a vesting period equal to the longer of:
       (i) the remaining vesting period of the Shares of Restricted Stock with
       respect to which the dividend is paid; or (ii) six months.  The
       Committee shall establish procedures for the application of this
       provision.

8.9    TERMINATION OF EMPLOYMENT DUE TO DEATH, DISABILITY, OR RETIREMENT.  In
       the event the employment of a Participant is terminated by reason of
       death, Disability, or Retirement, all unvested Shares of Restricted
       Stock shall immediately be forfeited by the Participant; provided,
       however, that the Committee, in its sole discretion, shall have the
       right to provide for accelerated vesting of some or all unvested Shares
       of Restricted Stock, upon such terms as the Committee deems advisable.
       The holder of the certificates of Restricted Stock shall be entitled to
       have any nontransferability legends required under Sections 8.4 and 8.5
       of this Plan removed from the Share certificates.

8.10   TERMINATION OF EMPLOYMENT FOR OTHER REASONS.  If the employment of a
       Participant shall terminate for any reason other than those specifically
       set forth in Section 8.9 herein, all Shares of Restricted Stock held by
       the Participant which are not vested as of the effective date of
       employment termination immediately shall be forfeited (and, subject to
       Section 4.2 herein, shall once again become available for grant under
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       With the exception of a termination of employment for Cause, the
       Committee, in its sole discretion, shall have the right to provide for
       lapsing of the restrictions on Restricted Stock following employment
       termination, upon such terms and provisions as it deems appropriate.

ARTICLE 9.  PERFORMANCE UNITS AND PERFORMANCE SHARES

9.1    GRANT OF PERFORMANCE UNITS/SHARES.  Subject to the terms of the Plan,
       Performance Units and Performance Shares may be granted to eligible
       Employees at any time and from time to time, as shall be determined by
       the Committee.  The Committee shall have complete discretion in
       determining the number of Performance Units and Performance Shares
       granted to each Participant.

9.2    VALUE OF PERFORMANCE UNITS/SHARES.  Each Performance Unit shall have an
       initial value that is established by the Committee at the time of grant.
       Each Performance Share shall have an initial value equal to the Fair
       Market Value of a Share on the date of grant.  The Committee shall set
       performance goals in its discretion which, depending on the extent to
       which they are met, will determine the number and/or value of
       Performance Units/Shares that will be paid out to the Participants.  The
       time period during which the performance goals must be met shall be
       called a "Performance Period." Performance Periods shall, in all cases,
       exceed six (6) months in length.

9.3    EARNING OF PERFORMANCE UNITS/SHARES.  After the applicable Performance
       Period has ended, the holder of Performance Units/Shares shall be
       entitled to receive payout on the number of Performance Units/Shares
       earned by the Participant over the Performance Period, to be determined
       as a function of the extent to which the corresponding performance goals
       have been achieved.

9.4    FORM AND TIMING OF PAYMENT OF PERFORMANCE UNITS/SHARES.  Payment of each
       Performance Units/Shares shall be made in a single lump sum, within
       forty-five (45) calendar days following the close of the applicable
       Performance Period.  The Committee, in its sole discretion, may pay
       earned Performance Units/Shares in the form of cash or in Shares (or in
       a combination thereof), which have an aggregate Fair Market Value equal
       to the value of the earned Performance Units/Shares at the close of the
       applicable Performance Period.

       Prior to the beginning of each Performance Period, Participants may
       elect to defer the receipt of Performance Unit/Share payout upon such
       terms as the Committee deems appropriate.

9.5    TERMINATION OF EMPLOYMENT DUE TO DEATH, DISABILITY, RETIREMENT, OR
       INVOLUNTARY TERMINATION (WITHOUT CAUSE).  In the event the employment of
       a Participant is terminated by reason of death, Disability, Retirement,
       or involuntary termination without Cause during a Performance Period,
       the Participant shall receive a prorated payout of the Performance
       Units/Shares.  The prorated payout shall be determined by the Committee,
       in its sole discretion, and shall be based upon the length of time that
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       the Performance Units/Shares during the Performance Period, and shall
       further be adjusted based on the achievement of the preestablished
       performance goals.

       Payment of earned Performance Units/Shares shall be made at the same
       time payments are made to Participants who did not terminate employment
       during the applicable Performance Period.  However, the Committee, in
       its sole discretion, shall have the right to accelerate the timing of
       this payout, upon such terms and provisions as it deems appropriate.

9.6    TERMINATION OF EMPLOYMENT FOR OTHER REASONS.  In the event that a
       Participant's employment terminates for any reason other than those
       reasons set forth in Section 9.5 herein, all Performance Units/Shares
       shall be forfeited by the Participant to the Company, and shall once
       again be available for grant under the Plan.  However, the Committee, in
       its sole discretion, may provide a payout on any or all Performance
       Units/Shares, upon such times and provisions as it deems appropriate.

9.7    NONTRANSFERABILITY.  Performance Units/Shares may not be sold,
       transferred, pledged, assigned, or otherwise alienated or hypothecated,
       other than by will or by the laws of descent and distribution.  Further
       a Participant's rights under the Plan shall be exercisable during the
       Participant's lifetime only by the Participant or the Participant's
       legal representative.

ARTICLE 10.  BENEFICIARY DESIGNATION

Each Participant under the Plan may, from time to time, name any beneficiary or
beneficiaries (who may be named contingently or successively) to whom any
benefit under the Plan is to be paid in case of his or her death before he or
she receives any or all of such benefit.  Each such designation shall revoke
all prior designations by the same Participant, shall be in a form prescribed
by the Company, and will be effective only when filed by the Participant in
writing with the Company during the Participant's lifetime.  In the absence of
any such designation, benefits remaining unpaid at the Participant's death
shall be paid to the Participant's estate.

ARTICLE 11.  DEFERRALS

The Committee may permit a Participant to defer such Participant's receipt of
the payment of cash or the delivery of Shares that would otherwise be due to
such Participant by virtue of the exercise of an Option or SAR, the lapse or
waiver of restrictions with respect to Restricted Stock, or the satisfaction of
any requirements or goals with respect to Performance Units/Shares.  If any
such deferral election is required or permitted, the Committee shall, in its
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ARTICLE 12.  RIGHTS OF EMPLOYEES

12.1   EMPLOYMENT.  Nothing in the Plan shall interfere with or limit in any
       way the right of the Company to terminate any Participant's employment
       at any time, nor confer upon any Participant any right to continue in
       the employ of the Company.

       For purposes of the Plan, transfer of employment of a Participant
       between the Company and any one of its Subsidiaries (or between
       Subsidiaries) shall not be deemed a termination of employment.

12.2   PARTICIPATION.  No Employee shall have the right to be selected to
       receive an Award under this Plan, or having been so selected, to be
       selected to receive a future Award.

ARTICLE 13.  CHANGE IN CONTROL

Upon the occurrence of a Change in Control, unless otherwise specifically
prohibited by the terms of Section 18 herein:

(a)    Any and all Options and SARs granted hereunder shall become immediately
       exercisable;

(b)    Any restriction periods and restrictions imposed on Restricted Shares
       shall lapse, and within ten (10) business days after the occurrence of a
       Change in Control, the stock certificates representing Shares of
       Restricted Stock, without any restrictions or legend thereon, shall be
       delivered to the applicable Participants;

(c)    The target payout opportunity attainable under all outstanding
       Performance Units and Performance Shares shall be deemed to have been
       earned for the portion of the Performance Period(s) that passed as of
       the effective date of the Change in Control.  This pro rata value shall
       be paid out in cash to Participants within thirty (30) days following
       the effective date of the Change in Control.  However, regardless of the
       above, Performance Units or Performance Shares that were granted less
       than six (6) months prior to the effective date of the Change in Control
       shall be forfeited in their entirety, and receive no accelerated payout.

(d)    Subject to Article 14 herein, the Committee shall have the authority to
       make any modifications to the Awards as determined by the Committee to
       be appropriate before the effective date of the Change in Control.

(e)    In the event that following the Change in Control the Shares are no
       longer traded over a national public securities exchange, Participants
       holding Options shall have the right to require the Company to make a
       cash payment to them in exchange for their Options.  Such cash payment
       shall be contingent upon the Option holder surrendering his or her
       Option.  The amount of the cash payment shall be determined by adding
       the total "spread" on all outstanding Options. For this purpose, the
       total "spread" shall equal the sum of the differences between:  (i) the
       Fair Market Value of a Share on the date the Option is surrendered by
       the Participant; and (ii) the Option Price applicable to each Share held
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ARTICLE 14.  AMENDMENT, MODIFICATION, AND TERMINATION

14.1   AMENDMENT, MODIFICATION, AND TERMINATION.  At any time and from time to
       time, the Board may terminate, amend, or modify the Plan.  However,
       without the approval of the stockholders of the Company (as may be
       required by the Code, by the insider trading rules of Section 16 of the
       Exchange Act, by any national securities exchange or system on which the
       Shares are then listed or reported, or by a regulatory body having
       jurisdiction with respect hereto), no such termination, amendment, or
       modification may:

       (a)    Materially increase the total number of Shares which may be
              issued under this Plan, except as provided in Section 4.3 herein;
              or

       (b)    Materially modify the eligibility requirements; or

       (c)    Materially increase the benefits accruing under the Plan.

14.2   AWARDS PREVIOUSLY GRANTED.  No termination, amendment, or modification
       of the Plan shall adversely affect in any material way any Award
       previously granted under the Plan, without the written consent of the
       Participant holding such Award.

ARTICLE 15.  WITHHOLDING

15.1   TAX WITHHOLDING.  The Company shall have the power and the right to
       deduct or withhold, or require a Participant to remit to the Company, an
       amount sufficient to satisfy Federal, state, and local taxes (including
       the Participant's FICA obligation) required by law to be withheld with
       respect to any taxable event arising or as a result of this Plan.

15.2   SHARE WITHHOLDING.  With respect to withholding required upon the
       exercise of Options or SARs, upon the lapse of restrictions on
       Restricted Stock, or upon any other taxable event hereunder,
       Participants may elect, subject to the approval of the Committee, to
       satisfy the withholding requirement, in whole or in part, by having the
       Company withhold Shares having a Fair Market Value on the date the tax
       is to be determined equal to the minimum statutory total tax which could
       be imposed on the transaction.  All elections shall be irrevocable, made
       in writing, signed by the Participant, and elections by Insiders shall
       additionally comply with the applicable requirement set forth in (a) or
       (b) of this Section 15.2.

       (a)    AWARDS HAVING EXERCISE TIMING WITHIN PARTICIPANTS' DISCRETION.
              The Insider must either:

              (i)    Deliver written notice of the stock withholding election
                     to the Committee at least six (6) months prior to the date
                     specified by the Insider on which the exercise of the
                     Award is to occur, or

              (ii)   Make the stock withholding election in connection with an
                     exercise of an Award which occurs during a Window Period.





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       (b)    AWARDS HAVING A FIXED EXERCISE/PAYOUT SCHEDULE WHICH IS OUTSIDE
              INSIDER'S CONTROL.  The Insider must either.

              (i)    Deliver written notice of the stock withholding election
                     to the Committee at least six (6) months prior to the date
                     on which the taxable event (e.g., exercise or payout)
                     relating to the Award is scheduled to occur; or

              (ii)   Make the stock withholding election during a Window Period
                     which occurs prior to the scheduled taxable event relating
                     to the Award (for this purpose, an election may be made
                     prior to such a Window Period, provided that it becomes
                     effective during a Window Period occurring prior to the
                     applicable taxable event).

ARTICLE 16.  INDEMNIFICATION

Each person who is or shall have been a member of the Committee, or of the
Board, shall be indemnified and held harmless by the Company against and from
any loss, cost, liability, or expense that may be imposed upon or reasonably
incurred by him or her in connection with or resulting from any claim, action,
suit, or proceeding to which he or she may be a party or in which he or she may
be involved by reason of any action taken or failure to act under the Plan and
against and from any and all amounts paid by him or her in settlement thereof,
with the Company's approval, or paid by him or her in satisfaction of any
judgment in any such action, suit, or proceeding against him or her, provided
he or she shall give the Company an opportunity, at its own expense, to handle
and defend the same before he or she undertakes to handle and defend it on his
or her own behalf.

The foregoing right of indemnification shall not be exclusive of any other
rights of indemnification to which such persons may be entitled under the
Company's Articles of Incorporation or Bylaws, as a matter of law, or
otherwise, or any power that the Company may have to indemnify them or hold
them harmless.

ARTICLE 17.  SUCCESSORS

All obligations of the Company under the Plan, with respect to Awards granted
hereunder, shall be binding on any successor to the Company, whether the
existence of such successor is the result of a direct or indirect purchase,
merger, consolidation, or otherwise, of all or substantially all of the
business and/or assets of the Company.

ARTICLE 18.  LEGAL CONSTRUCTION

18.1   GENDER AND NUMBER.  Except where otherwise indicated by the context any
       masculine term used herein also shall include the feminine; the plural
       shall include the singular and the singular shall include the plural.

18.2   SEVERABILITY.  In the event any provision of the Plan shall be held
       illegal or invalid for any reason, the illegality or invalidity shall
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       the Plan shall be construed and enforced as if the illegal or invalid
       provision had not been included.

18.3   REQUIREMENTS OF LAW.  The granting of Awards and the issuance of Shares
       under the Plan shall be subject to all applicable laws, rules, and
       regulations, and to such approvals by any governmental agencies or
       national securities exchanges as may be required.

       Notwithstanding any other provision set forth in the Plan, if required
       by the then-current Section 16 of the Exchange Act, any "derivative
       security" or "equity security" offered pursuant to the Plan to any
       Insider may not be sold or transferred for at least six (6) months after
       the date of grant of such Award.  The terms "equity security" and
       "derivative security" shall have the meanings ascribed to them in the
       then-current Rule 16(a) under the Exchange Act.

18.4   SECURITIES LAW COMPLIANCE.  With respect to Insiders, transactions under
       this Plan are intended to comply with all applicable conditions of Rule
       16b-3 or its successors under the 1934 Act.  To the extent any provision
       of the plan or action by the Committee fails to so comply, it shall be
       deemed null and void, to the extent permitted by law and deemed
       advisable by the Committee.

18.5   GOVERNING LAW.  To the extent not preempted by Federal law, the Plan,
       and all agreements hereunder, shall be construed in accordance with and
       governed by the laws of the State of Texas.





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                                                      ITEM 14(a)3, EXHIBIT 10.20


                        SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT AND RELEASE

       THIS SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT AND RELEASE (hereinafter "Settlement
Agreement") is made, entered into and effective as of October 1, 1996, by and
between Tesoro E&P Company, L.P., acting through its General Partner, Tesoro
Exploration and Production Company (hereinafter "Tesoro"), Coastal Oil & Gas
Corporation and Coastal Oil & Gas USA, L.P. (collectively referred to as
"Coastal"), and Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company (hereinafter "Tennessee"), as
follows:


                                   WITNESSETH


       WHEREAS, Tesoro and Coastal (collectively referred to as "Sellers") are
Sellers pursuant to a Gas Purchase and Sales Agreement dated January 16, 1979
by and between Tennessee, as buyer, National Exploration Company and Eton
Partnership, as seller, and Gulf Energy & Development Corporation, as gatherer,
as amended, covering certain leases in the Bob West Field and Falcon Field,
Zapata County, Texas and identified as Tennessee's Contract No. 805 and the Gas
Measurement Agreement dated January 16, 1979 by and between Tennessee, National
Exploration Company and Eton Partnership, and Gulf Energy & Development
Corporation (collectively, the "Contract");

       WHEREAS, in 1990 and 1991, Sellers created two 352-acre gas units known
as the Tesoro Exploration and Production Company Guerra 352 Acre Gas Unit
(Guerra A Unit) and the Tesoro Exploration and Production Company U.S.A.-Guerra
352 Acre Gas Unit (Guerra B Unit) (collectively referred to as "the Guerra
Units");

       WHEREAS, the Guerra Units are composed of certain acreage and leases,
limited to particular depths, including certain of the leases that were
originally dedicated to the Contract (such leases insofar as they cover the
particular depths in the Guerra Units are referred to as the "Dedicated
Leases") and other leases and acreage that were not originally dedicated to the
Contract, all of which is more specifically set forth and described in the
Declarations of Unit recorded at Vol. 617, p. 550, and at Vol. 626, p. 168,
respectively, in the official records of Starr County, Texas, and at Vol. 429,
p. 529, and at Vol. 436, p. 210, respectively, in the official records of
Zapata County, Texas, together with any amendments thereto (including the
Amendment recorded in Vol. 516, p. 263 of the official records of Zapata
County, Texas, and at Vol. 719, p. 531 of the official records of Starr County,
Texas), which acreage and leases are collectively referred to herein as "the
Unitized Acreage;"

       WHEREAS, Sellers and Tennessee have had numerous ongoing disputes
involving the rights and obligations of the parties under the Contract;

       WHEREAS, Sellers and Tennessee have litigated certain disputes which
were resolved by
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the Texas Supreme Court in THE LENAPE RESOURCES CORP. V. TENNESSEE GAS
PIPELINE COMPANY, 925 S.W. 2d 565 (Tex. 1996);

       WHEREAS, Tennessee filed suit, styled TENNESSEE GAS PIPELINE COMPANY V.
KCS RESOURCES, INC., TESORO E&P COMPANY, AND COASTAL OIL & GAS CORPORATION,
Cause No. 3,510 in the 49th Judicial District Court of Zapata County Texas
(hereinafter the "Lawsuit") to litigate certain disputes;

       WHEREAS, Sellers denied Tennessee's allegations and filed counterclaims
in the Lawsuit;

       WHEREAS, Tennessee, after the decision by the Texas Supreme Court, has
asserted additional claims for repayment of moneys previously paid by Tennessee
for gas delivered under the Contract;

       WHEREAS, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission ("Commission") issued
Order No. 636, III FERC Stats & Regs. paragraph 30,939 (1992), which, among
other things, requires interstate pipelines that provided bundled sales service
to unbundle the sales, transportation, and storage services offered to
customers and to provide such unbundled services on a non-discriminatory basis;

       WHEREAS, Tennessee has determined that it must terminate, assign or
otherwise realign its existing gas supply contracts with producers, including
but not limited to the Contract, in connection with implementing the
requirements of Order No. 636 in order to provide the unbundled services
contemplated by the Commission in Order No. 636 and to mitigate any costs
resulting from the realignment of Tennessee's existing gas supply contracts;
and

       WHEREAS, Sellers and Tennessee now desire to reach a full and final
settlement and compromise of all matters, claims and causes of action arising
under the Contract or which were asserted or could have been asserted by them
in the Lawsuit or under the Contract.

       NOW, THEREFORE, for and in consideration of the mutual covenants,
promises and agreements herein contained Sellers and Tennessee hereby agree and
stipulate as follows:

       1.  Tennessee and Sellers agree to settle and compromise all matters,
issues, claims, demands, and causes of action, whether known or unknown, which
have arisen, resulted from or arise out of or alleged to have arisen, resulted
from, or arise out of the Contract or the Lawsuit and agree to terminate the
Contract effective as of October 1, 1996 and release each other from the
Contract.  Tennessee shall have no further obligations under the Contract to
Sellers or any obligation to buy gas attributable to Sellers' interests in the
Dedicated Leases.  Sellers shall have no further obligations under the Contract
to Tennessee and shall not be obligated to sell gas attributable to their
interests in the Dedicated Leases to Tennessee.  In consideration of this
Settlement Agreement, Tennessee shall pay to Sellers the aggregate sum of
Seventy-Four Million and 00/100 Dollars ($74,000,000.00) (the "Settlement Sum"),
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wiring instructions timely provided by Sellers, the following wire transfers 
concurrently with the execution of this Settlement Agreement:

                          Tesoro:       $51,800,000.00

                          Coastal:      $22,200,000.00

       2.  In further consideration of this Settlement, Tennessee grants to
Sellers all rights and claims it may have to recover or recoup tax
reimbursements paid by Tennessee to Sellers pursuant to the Contract.  This
grant does not include the right Tennessee may have to any repayment of tax
reimbursements paid by Tennessee directly to KCS Resources, Inc. or its
predecessors ("KCS") pursuant to the Contract.

       3.  In further consideration of this Settlement Agreement, Sellers and
Tennessee, concurrently with the signing of this Settlement Agreement, agree to
execute and deliver the Termination Agreement, a copy of which is attached
hereto and identified as Exhibit "A" (the "Termination Agreement").

       4.  Tennessee shall immediately dismiss Sellers and Sellers shall
immediately dismiss Tennessee from the Lawsuit with prejudice pursuant to the
Agreed Order of Dismissal, a copy of which is attached hereto and identified as
Exhibit "B".

       5.  Tesoro represents and warrants to Tennessee, which representations
and warranties Tesoro acknowledges are material, are relied on by Tennessee in
entering into this Settlement Agreement and shall survive the execution and
delivery of this Settlement Agreement, as follows:

              (a)    Tesoro is the sole owner of all interests formerly owned
by Tesoro Exploration and Production Company in the Dedicated Leases, the
Lawsuit, and the Contract;

              (b)    Except for the assignments to KCS of its back-in interest
and that certain Mortgage, Deed of Trust, Assignment of Production, Security
Agreement and Financing Statement, dated April 20, 1994, between Tesoro
Exploration and Production Company and Texas Commerce Bank National
Association, as agent, as subsequently assigned and amended, Tesoro has not
made any assignment, conveyance, sublease, or transfer to any other person or
entity of any interest in the Dedicated Leases, the Lawsuit, or the Contract;

              (c)    Tesoro is a limited partnership duly organized, and in
good standing under the laws of the State of Delaware and that Tesoro
Exploration and Production Company is the general partner of Tesoro;

              (d)    Tesoro has the power and authority to enter into and
perform this Settlement Agreement, the Agreed Order of Dismissal, and the 
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              (e)    The execution, delivery and performance by Tesoro of this
Settlement Agreement, the Termination Agreement, and Agreed Order of Dismissal
have been duly authorized by all requisite partnership authorities, and this
Settlement Agreement, the Agreed Order of Dismissal, and the Termination
Agreement have been duly and validly executed and delivered on behalf of Tesoro
and are legal, valid and binding obligations of Tesoro enforceable against
Tesoro in accordance with their terms.

       6.  Coastal represents and warrants to Tennessee, which representations
and warranties Coastal acknowledges are material, are relied on by Tennessee in
entering into this Settlement Agreement and shall survive the execution and
delivery of this Settlement Agreement, as follows:

              (a)    Coastal is the sole owner of all interests formerly owned
by Coastal Oil & Gas Corporation in the Dedicated Leases, the Lawsuit, and the
Contract;

              (b)    Except for the assignments to KCS of its back-in interest,
Coastal has not made any assignment, conveyance, sublease, or transfer to any
other person or entity of any interest in the Dedicated Leases, the Lawsuit, or
the Contract;

              (c)    Coastal Oil & Gas USA, L.P. is a limited partnership duly
organized, and in good standing under the laws of the State of Delaware and
that Coastal Oil & Gas Corporation is the general partner of Coastal Oil & Gas
USA, L.P.  Coastal Oil & Gas Corporation is a corporation duly organized, and
in good standing under the laws of the State of Delaware;

              (d)    Coastal has the power and authority to enter into and
perform this Settlement Agreement, the Agreed Order of Dismissal, and the
Termination Agreement; and

              (e)    The execution, delivery and performance by Coastal of this
Settlement Agreement, the Termination Agreement, and Agreed Order of Dismissal
have been duly authorized by all requisite corporate and partnership
authorities, and this Settlement Agreement, the Agreed Order of Dismissal, and
the Termination Agreement have been duly and validly executed and delivered on
behalf of Coastal and are legal, valid and binding obligations of Coastal
enforceable against Coastal in accordance with their terms.

       7.  Tennessee represents and warrants to Sellers, which representations
and warranties Tennessee acknowledges are material, are relied on by Sellers in
entering into this Settlement Agreement and shall survive the execution and
delivery of this Settlement Agreement, as follows:

              (a)    Tennessee is the sole buyer under the Contract and is the
sole owner of all rights and obligations of the Buyer under the Contract and is
the sole owner of all the claims it has made in the lawsuit;

              (b)    Tennessee has not made any assignment, conveyance,
sublease, or transfer to any other person or entity of any interest in the
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              (c)    Tennessee is a corporation duly organized, and in good
standing under the laws of the State of Delaware;

              (d)    Tennessee has the power and authority to enter into and
perform this Settlement Agreement, the Agreed Order of Dismissal, and the
Termination Agreement; and

              (e)    The execution, delivery and performance by Tennessee of
this Settlement Agreement, the Termination Agreement, and Agreed Order of
Dismissal have been duly authorized by all requisite corporate authorities, and
this Settlement Agreement, the Agreed Order of Dismissal, and the Termination
Agreement have been duly and validly executed and delivered on behalf of
Tennessee and are legal, valid and binding obligations of Tennessee enforceable
against Tennessee in accordance with their terms.

       8.  Sellers, for themselves, their affiliates, and their successors and
assigns, covenant and agree that all rights and obligations under the Contract
are terminated and Sellers' interests under the Contract are released.  Sellers
agree that their interests in the Dedicated Leases and the leases pooled
therewith are not now and will not in the future be committed to any other gas
purchase agreement under which Tennessee purchases gas without the express
written agreement of Tennessee.

       9. Tesoro, on behalf of itself, its parent, affiliates, successors,
assigns, agents, officers, directors and employees (collectively, the "Tesoro
Parties"), forever waives, relieves, acquits, and fully discharges Tennessee,
its parent, affiliates, successors, assigns,  agents, officers, directors, and
employees, including, without limitation, El Paso Energy Corporation,
(collectively, the "Tennessee Parties"), of and from any and all claims,
demands, actions, causes of action, suits, damages, liabilities or other
remedies whatsoever, known or unknown, in law or in equity, whether arising by
statute or at common law, that Tesoro now has, had or may hereafter have or
which could have been asserted, whether known or unknown, through and including
the execution date hereof, arising out of, associated with or related in any
way to the Contract or to the claims alleged in the Lawsuit (the "Tesoro
Released Claims"). Tesoro acknowledges that the foregoing is a general release
and' without limiting the generality thereof, is intended to release and
extinguish all of Tesoro's interest in, and rights under, the Tesoro Released
Claims.

       10.  Coastal, on behalf of itself, its parents, affiliates, successors,
assigns, agents, officers, directors and employees (collectively, the "Coastal
Parties"), forever waives, relieves, acquits, and fully discharges the Tennessee
Parties of and from any and all claims, demands, actions, causes of action,
suits, damages, liabilities or other remedies whatsoever, known or unknown, in
law or in equity, whether arising by statute or at common law, that Coastal now
has, had or may hereafter have or which could have been asserted, whether known
or unknown, through and including the execution date hereof, arising out of,
associated with or related in any way to the Contract or to the claims alleged
in the Lawsuit (the "Coastal Released Claims"). Coastal acknowledges that the
foregoing is a general release and, without limiting the generality thereof; is
intended to release and extinguish all of Coastal's interests in, and rights
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       11.  Tennessee, on behalf of the Tennessee Parties, forever waives,
relieves, acquits, and fully discharges the Tesoro Parties and the Coastal
Parties of and from any and all claims, demands, actions, causes of action,
suits, damages, liabilities or other remedies whatsoever, known or unknown, in
law or in equity, whether arising by statute or at common law, that Tennessee
now has, had or may hereafter have or which could have been asserted, whether
known or unknown, through and including the execution date hereof, arising out
of, associated with or related in any way to the Contract or to the claims
alleged in the Lawsuit (the "Tennessee Released Claims"). Tennessee
acknowledges that the foregoing is a general release and, without limiting the
generality thereof; is intended to release and extinguish all of Tennessee's
interests in, and rights under, the Tennessee Released Claims.

       12.    Tesoro agrees to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless the
Tennessee Parties from and against all claims, costs, expenses (including,
without limitation, attorneys fees), damages and liability whatsoever arising
directly or indirectly from or in connection with:

              (a)    any claim by the State of Texas or the Comptroller of the
State of Texas for severance taxes (including any penalties and interest) for
gas attributable to Tesoro's interest in the Dedicated Leases;

              (b)    any claim made by any royalty owner or any other
non-working interest owner in the Unitized Acreage for any royalty arising from
or out of Tesoro's interest in the Dedicated Leases as a result of or in
connection with the Contract, this Settlement Agreement, or the payments made
by Tennessee hereunder;

              (c)    the breach of any representation, warranty or covenant of
Tesoro set forth in this Settlement Agreement;

              (d)    nonperformance by Tesoro of any obligation under this
Settlement Agreement, the Agreed Order of Dismissal, or the Termination
Agreement; and

              (e)    any claim related to the Contract asserted by any person
or entity (other than KCS under the back-in assignments) who claims to have
received the assignment, conveyance, license or other transfer from Tesoro of
any interest under the Lawsuit, the Contract, the Unitized Acreage, or the
Dedicated Leases.

       13.  Coastal agrees to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless the
Tennessee Parties from and against all claims, costs, expenses (including,
without limitation, attorneys fees), damages and liability whatsoever arising
directly or indirectly from or in connection with:

              (a)    any claim by the State of Texas or the Comptroller of the
State of Texas for severance taxes (including any penalties and interest) for
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              (b)    any claim made by any royalty owner or any other
non-working interest owner in the Unitized Acreage for any royalty arising from
or out of Coastal's interests in the Dedicated Leases as a result of or in
connection with the Contract, this Settlement Agreement, or the payments made
by Tennessee hereunder;

              (c)    the breach of any representation, warranty or covenant of
Coastal set forth in this Settlement Agreement;

              (d)    nonperformance by Coastal of any obligation under this
Settlement Agreement, the Agreed Order of Dismissal, or the Termination
Agreement; and

              (e)    any claim related to the Contract asserted by any person
or entity who claims to have received the assignment, conveyance, license or
other transfer from Coastal of any interest under the Lawsuit, the Contract,
the Unitized Acreage, or the Dedicated Leases.

       14.  Tennessee agrees to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless the Tesoro
Parties and Coastal Parties from and against all claims, costs, expenses
(including, without limitation, attorneys fees), damages and liability
whatsoever arising directly or indirectly from or in connection with:

              (a)    any claim by Gulf Energy Pipeline Company, its parents,
affiliates, successors, assigns, agents, officers, directors and employees (the
"Gulf Parties") arising from or in connection with the Contract; provided,
however, if Tennessee, Tesoro or Coastal is held to be liable to the Gulf
Parties for such claim pursuant to either a judgement or a settlement, then
Tesoro and Coastal shall be liable for 565/4100 of the amount of the judgement
or settlement up to a maximum liability of Tesoro and Coastal, collectively, of
Five Hundred Sixty Five Thousand Dollars ($565,000.00) and Tennessee shall be
liable for the remaining portion;

              (b)    any claim made by any customer of Tennessee for any
refund, damages or other compensation as a result of or in connection with the
Contract, this Settlement Agreement, or the payments made by Tennessee
hereunder;

              (c)    the breach of any representation, warranty or covenant of
Tennessee set forth in this Settlement Agreement;

              (d)    nonperformance by Tennessee of any obligation under this
Settlement Agreement, the Agreed Order of Dismissal, or the Termination
Agreement; and

              (e)    any claim related to the Contract asserted by any person
or entity who claims to have received the assignment, conveyance, license or
other transfer from Tennessee of any interest under the Lawsuit or the
Contract.

       15.  This Settlement Agreement and its attachments, including but not
limited to the



                                       7
<PAGE>   8
Termination Agreement, embody the complete and entire agreement among the
parties concerning its subject matter and supersede any prior oral or written
representations, agreements or understandings or any contemporaneous oral
understandings, representations or agreements. This Settlement Agreement may not
be amended except in writing signed by all parties. Each party shall bear its
own costs and attorneys' fees in connection with the preparation, negotiation,
review and documentation of this Settlement Agreement and its various
attachments. The parties may execute this Settlement Agreement in counterparts,
by telecopy, which they shall confirm by promptly furnishing written originals
to each of the other parties. Counterparts when executed by all parties shall
constitute a complete Settlement Agreement as if each party had executed a
single document.

       16.  This Settlement Agreement shall extend to, be binding upon, and
inure to the benefit of the parties and their respective successors and
assigns; provided, however, that any assignment shall not release a party of
its obligations under this Settlement Agreement.

       17.  This Settlement Agreement shall be construed interpreted and
enforced in accordance with the laws of the State of Texas. Venue for any claim
arising out of this Settlement Agreement shall be Harris County, Texas.

       18.  Nothing in this Settlement Agreement or in the Termination
Agreement shall (i) in any way constitute an admission of liability by
Tennessee or Sellers with respect to the Lawsuit or any matters alleged
therein, or (ii) in any way constitute an admission against interest of either
Tennessee or Sellers.

Executed this 24th day of December, 1996.


TENNESSEE GAS PIPELINE COMPANY              COASTAL OIL & GAS USA, L.P.
                                            By Coastal Oil & Gas Corporation
                                                 its Managing Partner

By: /s/ JOHN W. SOMERHALDER II              By: /s/ R. D. ERSKINE              
    ---------------------------------           -------------------------------
Name: John W. Somerhalder II                Name:  R. D. Erskine               
      -------------------------------               ----------------------------
Title: President                            Title: Sr. Vice President        
       ------------------------------              ----------------------------

TESORO E&P COMPANY, L.P.                    COASTAL OIL & GAS CORPORATION
By Tesoro Exploration and Production
     Company its General Partner

By: /s/ BRUCE A. SMITH                      By: /s/ R. D. ERSKINE
    --------------------------------            --------------------------------
Name:  Bruce A. Smith                       Name:  R. D. Erskine
       -----------------------------               -----------------------------
Title: Chairman of the Board                Title: Sr. Vice President
       -----------------------------               -----------------------------
              
                

           
             
                                       8
<PAGE>   9

                                ACKNOWLEDGMENTS


STATE OF TEXAS       )
                     )
COUNTY OF HARRIS     )

       This instrument was acknowledged before me on this 9th day of January,
1997, by John W. Somerhalder II, President of Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company, a
Delaware corporation, on behalf of said company.


[SEAL]                             /s/ ANN C. MEYER                             
                                   ---------------------------------------------
                                   Notary Public in and for the State of Texas



STATE OF TEXAS       )
                     )
COUNTY OF BEXAR      )

       This instrument was acknowledged before me on this 13th day of January,
1997, by Bruce A. Smith, Chairman of the Board of Tesoro Exploration and
Production Company, a Delaware corporation, general partner of Tesoro E&P
Company, L.P., a limited partnership, on behalf of said partnership.


[SEAL]                             /s/ LINDA IDEN                               
                                   ---------------------------------------------
                                   Notary Public in and for the State of Texas




STATE OF TEXAS       )
                     )
COUNTY OF HARRIS     )

       This instrument was acknowledged before me on this 23rd day of December,
1996 by R. D. Erskine, Sr. Vice President of Coastal Oil & Gas Corporation, a
Delaware corporation, on behalf of said corporation.


[SEAL]                             /s/ SHIRLEY A. COOPER                        
                                   ---------------------------------------------
                                   Notary Public in and for the State of Texas





                                       9
<PAGE>   10


STATE OF TEXAS       )
                     )
COUNTY OF HARRIS     )

       This instrument was acknowledged before me on this 23rd day of December,
1996 by R. D. Erskine, Sr. Vice President of Coastal Oil & Gas Corporation, a
Delaware corporation, general partner of Coastal Oil & Gas of Texas, L.P., a
limited partnership, on behalf of said partnership.




[SEAL]                             /s/ SHIRLEY A. COOPER                        
                                   ---------------------------------------------
                                   Notary Public in and for the State of Texas





                                       10
<PAGE>   11
                                  EXHIBIT "A"
                             TERMINATION AGREEMENT

       THIS TERMINATION AGREEMENT (hereinafter "Termination Agreement") is
made, entered into and effective as of October 1, 1996, by and between Tesoro
E&P Company, L.P., acting through its General Partner, Tesoro Exploration and
Production Company (hereinafter "Tesoro"), Coastal Oil & Gas Corporation and
Coastal Oil & Gas USA, L.P. (collectively referred to as "Coastal"), and
Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company (hereinafter "Tennessee"), as follows:

                                   WITNESSETH

       WHEREAS, Tesoro and Coastal (collectively referred to as "Sellers") are
Sellers pursuant to a Gas Purchase and Sales Agreement dated January 16, 1979
by and between Tennessee, as buyer, National Exploration Company and Eton
Partnership, as seller, and Gulf Energy & Development, as gatherer, covering
certain leases in the Bob West Field and Falcon Field, Zapata County, Texas and
identified as Tennessee's Contract No. 805 (the "Contract");

       WHEREAS, in 1990 and 1991, Sellers created two 352-acre gas units known
as the Tesoro Exploration and Production Company Guerra 352 Acre Gas Unit
(Guerra A Unit) and the Tesoro Exploration and Production Company U.S.A.-Guerra
352 Acre Gas Unit (Guerra B Unit) (collectively referred to as "the Guerra
Units");

       WHEREAS, the Guerra Units are composed of certain acreage and leases,
limited to particular depths, including certain of the leases that were
originally dedicated to the Contract (such leases insofar as they cover the
particular depths in the Guerra Units are referred to as the "Dedicated
Leases") and other leases and acreage that were not originally dedicated to the
Contract, all of which is more specifically set forth and described in the
Declarations of Unit recorded at Vol. 617, p. 550, and at Vol. 626, p. 168,
respectively, in the official records of Starr County, Texas, and at Vol. 429,
p. 529, and at Vol. 436, p. 210, respectively, in the official records of
Zapata County, Texas, together with any amendments thereto (including the
Amendment recorded in Vol. 516, p. 263 of the official records of Zapata
County, Texas, and at Vol. 719, p. 531 of the official public records of Starr
County, Texas), which acreage and leases are collectively referred to herein as
"the Unitized Acreage;" and

       WHEREAS, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission ("Commission") issued
Order No. 636, III FERC Stats & Regs. paragraph 30,939 (1992), which, among
other things, requires interstate pipelines that provided bundled sales service
to unbundle the sales, transportation, and storage services offered to
customers and to provide such unbundled services on a non-discriminatory basis;





                                       1
<PAGE>   12
       WHEREAS, Tennessee has determined that it must terminate, assign or
otherwise realign its existing gas supply contracts with producers, including
but not limited to the Contract, in connection with implementing the
requirements of Order No. 636 in order to provide the unbundled services
contemplated by the Commission in Order No. 636 and to mitigate any costs
resulting from the realignment of Tennessee's existing gas supply contracts.

       NOW, THEREFORE, for and in consideration of the mutual covenants,
promises and agreements herein contained Sellers and Tennessee hereby agree to
terminate the Contract and do hereby terminate the Contract as between Sellers
and Tennessee effective as of October 1, 1996 insofar as the Contract covers
Sellers' interest.



Executed this ____ day of ________, 199__.


TENNESSEE GAS PIPELINE COMPANY              COASTAL OIL & GAS USA, L.P.
                                            By Coastal Oil & Gas Corporation
                                                 its Managing Partner

By:                                         By:                                 
    ---------------------------------           --------------------------------
Name:                                       Name:                               
      -------------------------------             ------------------------------
Title:                                      Title:                              
       ------------------------------              -----------------------------


TESORO E&P COMPANY, L.P.                    COASTAL OIL & GAS CORPORATION
By Tesoro Exploration and Production
     Company, its General Partner

By:                                         By:                                 
    ---------------------------------           --------------------------------
Name:                                       Name:                               
      -------------------------------             ------------------------------
Title:                                      Title:                              
       ------------------------------              -----------------------------





                                       2
<PAGE>   13
                                ACKNOWLEDGMENTS


STATE OF TEXAS       )
                     )
COUNTY OF HARRIS     )

       This instrument was acknowledged before me on this _____ day of
_______________, 199__, by __________________________________,
________________________________ of Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company, a
_______________ corporation, on behalf of said company.


[SEAL]                                                                          
                                   ---------------------------------------------
                                   Notary Public in and for the State of Texas


STATE OF TEXAS       )
                     )
COUNTY OF __________ )

       This instrument was acknowledged before me on this _____ day of
_______________, 199__, by __________________________________,
________________________________ of Tesoro Exploration and Production Company,
a Delaware corporation, general partner of Tesoro E&P Company, L.P., a limited
partnership, on behalf of said partnership.


[SEAL]                                                                          
                                   ---------------------------------------------
                                   Notary Public in and for the State of Texas


STATE OF TEXAS       )
                     )
COUNTY OF HARRIS     )

       This instrument was acknowledged before me on this _____ day of
_____________, 199__ by ________________________, Vice President of Coastal Oil
& Gas Corporation, a Delaware corporation, on behalf of said corporation.


[SEAL]                                                                          
                                   ---------------------------------------------
                                   Notary Public in and for the State of Texas





                                       3
<PAGE>   14
STATE OF TEXAS       )
                     )
COUNTY OF HARRIS     )

       This instrument was acknowledged before me on this _____ day of
_____________, 199__ by ________________________, Vice President of Coastal Oil
& Gas Corporation, a Delaware corporation, general partner of Coastal Oil & Gas
of Texas, L.P., a limited partnership, on behalf of said partnership.


[SEAL]                                                                          
                                   ---------------------------------------------
                                   Notary Public in and for the State of Texas





                                       4
<PAGE>   15
                                  EXHIBIT "B"

                                   No. 3,510

TENNESSEE GAS PIPELINE COMPANY             )      IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF
                                           )
                     Plaintiff,            )
                                           )
v.                                         )      ZAPATA COUNTY, TEXAS
                                           )
KCS RESOURCES, INC.                        )
TESORO E&P COMPANY, and                    )
COASTAL OIL & GAS CORPORATION,             )
                                           )
                     Defendants.           )      49TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT


                            JOINT MOTION TO DISMISS

TO THE HONORABLE COURT:

       Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company ("Tennessee"), plaintiff, and Tesoro E&P
Company L.P. ("Tesoro"), and Coastal Oil & Gas Corporation ("Coastal")
defendants, move the Court to dismiss the claims each of them has asserted
against the other in this action because all matters of fact and things in
controversy between Tennessee and Tesoro and Coastal have been fully and
finally compromised and settled.

       WHEREFORE, plaintiff Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company and Tesoro and
Coastal request that the Court dismiss the claims asserted by Tennessee against
Tesoro and Coastal with prejudice and dismiss the claims asserted by Tesoro and
Coastal against Tennessee with prejudice, each party to bear its own costs.


                                   Respectfully submitted,

                                   SUSMAN GODFREY L.L.P.


                                   By:                                          
                                      ------------------------------------------
                                        Mark L.D. Wawro
                                        Texas State Bar No. 20988275
                                        Charles R. Eskridge III
                                        Texas State Bar No. 06666350
<PAGE>   16
                                  EXHIBIT "B"


                                        1000 Louisiana Street, Suite 5100
                                        Houston, Texas 77002-5096
                                        Telephone: 713-651-9366
                                        Facsimile: 713-653-7897

                                        Attorneys for Plaintiff
                                        Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company


                                        SCOTT, DOUGLASS, LUTON
                                         & McCONNICO, L.L.P.



                                        By:                                     
                                           -------------------------------------
                                             Elizabeth N. Miller
                                             State Bar No. 14071100
                                             Jane Webre
                                             State Bar No. 21050060
                                             600 Congress Avenue, Suite 1500
                                             Austin, Texas 78701-3234
                                             Telephone: 512-495-6300
                                             Facsimile: 512-474-0731

                                             Attorney for Defendants
                                             Tesoro E&P Company L.P.
                                             Coastal Oil & Gas Corporation





                                       2
<PAGE>   17
                                  EXHIBIT "B"

                                   No. 3,510

TENNESSEE GAS PIPELINE COMPANY             )      IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF
                                           )
                     Plaintiff,            )
                                           )
v.                                         )      ZAPATA COUNTY, TEXAS
                                           )
KCS RESOURCES, INC.                        )
TESORO E&P COMPANY, and                    )
COASTAL OIL & GAS CORPORATION,             )
                                           )
                     Defendants.           )      49TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT

                           AGREED ORDER OF DISMISSAL

       On _______________, 199__, this Court heard the Joint Motion of
Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company, plaintiff, and Tesoro E&P Company L.P.
("Tesoro"), and Coastal Oil & Gas Corporation ("Coastal"), defendants, seeking
dismissal of the claims each of them has asserted against the other with
prejudice.  The Court finds that all matters in dispute between Tennessee Gas
Pipeline Company and Tesoro and Coastal have been fully and finally compromised
and settled.

       IT IS, THEREFORE, ORDERED that the claims asserted by Tennessee Gas
Pipeline Company against Tesoro and Coastal be and are hereby dismissed with
prejudice to the rights of Tennessee to re-file the claims or any part of them
against Tesoro and Coastal.

       IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that the claims asserted by defendants against
Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company be and are dismissed with prejudice to the
rights of Tesoro and Coastal to re-file the claims or any part of them against
Tennessee.

       Each party is to bear its own costs.

       SIGNED this _____ day of ___________________, 199___.



                                                                                
                                           -------------------------------------
                                           JUDGE PRESIDING
<PAGE>   18
                                  EXHIBIT "B"


APPROVED:

SUSMAN GODFREY L.L.P.



By:                                 
   ---------------------------------
      Mark L.D. Wawro
      Texas State Bar No. 20988275
      Charles R. Eskridge III
      Texas State Bar No. 06666350
      1000 Louisiana Street, Suite 5100
      Houston, Texas 77002-5096
      Telephone: 713-651-9366
      Facsimile: 713-653-7897

Attorneys for Plaintiff
Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company


SCOTT, DOUGLASS, LUTON & McCONNICO, L.L.P.



By:                                 
   ---------------------------------
      Elizabeth N. Miller
      State Bar No. 14071100
      Jane Webre
      State Bar No. 21050060
      600 Congress Avenue, Suite 1500
      Austin, Texas 78701-3234
      Telephone: 512-495-6300
      Facsimile: 512-474-0731

Attorneys for Defendants
Tesoro E&P Company L.P.
Coastal Oil & Gas Corporation





                                       2

<PAGE>   1
                                                      ITEM 14(a)3, EXHIBIT 10.21



                             TERMINATION AGREEMENT

       THIS TERMINATION AGREEMENT (hereinafter "Termination Agreement") is
made, entered into and effective as of October 1, 1996, by and between Tesoro
E&P Company, L.P., acting through its General Partner, Tesoro Exploration and
Production Company (hereinafter "Tesoro"), Coastal Oil & Gas Corporation and
Coastal Oil & Gas USA, L.P. (collectively referred to as "Coastal"), and
Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company (hereinafter "Tennessee"), as follows:

                                   WITNESSETH

       WHEREAS, Tesoro and Coastal (collectively referred to as "Sellers") are
Sellers pursuant to a Gas Purchase and Sales Agreement dated January 16, 1979
by and between Tennessee, as buyer, National Exploration Company and Eton
Partnership, as seller, and Gulf Energy & Development, as gatherer, covering
certain leases in the Bob West Field and Falcon Field, Zapata County, Texas and
identified as Tennessee's Contract No. 805 (the "Contract");

       WHEREAS, in 1990 and 1991, Sellers created two 352-acre gas units known
as the Tesoro Exploration and Production Company Guerra 352 Acre Gas Unit
(Guerra A Unit) and the Tesoro Exploration and Production Company U.S.A.-Guerra
352 Acre Gas Unit (Guerra B Unit) (collectively referred to as "the Guerra
Units");

       WHEREAS, the Guerra Units are composed of certain acreage and leases,
limited to particular depths, including certain of the leases that were
originally dedicated to the Contract (such leases insofar as they cover the
particular depths in the Guerra Units are referred to as the "Dedicated
Leases") and other leases and acreage that were not originally dedicated to the
Contract, all of which is more specifically set forth and described in the
Declarations of Unit recorded at Vol. 617, p. 550, and at Vol. 626, p. 168,
respectively, in the official records of Starr County, Texas, and at Vol. 429,
p. 529, and at Vol. 436, p. 210, respectively, in the official records of
Zapata County, Texas, together with any amendments thereto (including the
Amendment recorded in Vol. 516, p. 263 of the official records of Zapata
County, Texas, and at Vol. 719, p. 531 of the official public records of Starr
County, Texas), which acreage and leases are collectively referred to herein as
"the Unitized Acreage;" and

       WHEREAS, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission ("Commission") issued
Order No. 636, III FERC Stats & Regs. paragraph 30,939 (1992), which, among
other things, requires interstate pipelines that provided bundled sales service
to unbundle the sales, transportation, and storage services offered to
customers and to provide such unbundled services on a non-discriminatory basis;





                                       1
<PAGE>   2
       WHEREAS, Tennessee has determined that it must terminate, assign or
otherwise realign its existing gas supply contracts with producers, including
but not limited to the Contract, in connection with implementing the
requirements of Order No. 636 in order to provide the unbundled services
contemplated by the Commission in Order No. 636 and to mitigate any costs
resulting from the realignment of Tennessee's existing gas supply contracts.

       NOW, THEREFORE, for and in consideration of the mutual covenants,
promises and agreements herein contained Sellers and Tennessee hereby agree to
terminate the Contract and do hereby terminate the Contract as between Sellers
and Tennessee effective as of October 1, 1996 insofar as the Contract covers
Sellers' interest.


Executed this 24th day of December, 1996.


TENNESSEE GAS PIPELINE COMPANY              COASTAL OIL & GAS USA, L.P.
                                            By Coastal Oil & Gas Corporation
                                                 its Managing Partner


By: /s/ JOHN W. SOMERHALDER II              By: /s/ R. D. ERSKINE               
    ---------------------------------           --------------------------------
Name:  John W. Somerhalder II               Name:  R.D. Erskine                 
       ------------------------------              -----------------------------
Title: President                            Title: V.P. Production              
       ------------------------------              -----------------------------


TESORO E&P COMPANY, L.P.                    COASTAL OIL & GAS CORPORATION
By Tesoro Exploration and Production
    Company, its General Partner

By: /s/ BRUCE A. SMITH                      By: /s/ R. D. ERSKINE               
    ---------------------------------           --------------------------------
Name:  Bruce A. Smith                       Name:  R. D. Erskine                
       ------------------------------              -----------------------------
Title: Chairman of the Board                Title: V. P. Production             
       ------------------------------              -----------------------------





                                       2
<PAGE>   3
                                ACKNOWLEDGMENTS


STATE OF TEXAS       )
                     )
COUNTY OF HARRIS     )

       This instrument was acknowledged before me on this 9th day of January,
1997, by John W.  Somerhalder II, President of Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company,
a Delaware corporation, on behalf of said company.


[SEAL]                             /s/ ANN C. MEYER                             
                                   ---------------------------------------------
                                   Notary Public in and for the State of Texas



STATE OF TEXAS       )
                     )
COUNTY OF BEXAR      )

       This instrument was acknowledged before me on this 13th day of January,
1997, by Bruce A. Smith, Chairman of the Board of Tesoro Exploration and
Production Company, a Delaware corporation, general partner of Tesoro E&P
Company, L.P., a limited partnership, on behalf of said partnership.


[SEAL]                             /s/ LINDA IDEN                               
                                   ---------------------------------------------
                                   Notary Public in and for the State of Texas




STATE OF TEXAS       )
                     )
COUNTY OF HARRIS     )

       This instrument was acknowledged before me on this 23rd day of December,
1996 by R.D. Erskine, Sr. Vice President of Coastal Oil & Gas Corporation, a
Delaware corporation, on behalf of said corporation.


[SEAL]                             /s/ SHIRLEY A. COOPER                      
                                   -------------------------------------------
                                   Notary Public in and for the State of Texas





                                       3
<PAGE>   4


STATE OF TEXAS       )
                     )
COUNTY OF HARRIS     )

       This instrument was acknowledged before me on this 23rd day of December,
1996 by R. D. Erskine, Sr. Vice President of Coastal Oil & Gas Corporation, a
Delaware corporation, general partner of Coastal Oil & Gas of Texas, L.P., a
limited partnership, on behalf of said partnership.


[SEAL]                             /s/ SHIRLEY A. COOPER                        
                                   ---------------------------------------------
                                   Notary Public in and for the State of Texas





                                       4

<PAGE>   1
 
                                                         ITEM 14(A)3, EXHIBIT 11
 
                 TESORO PETROLEUM CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIES
 
             INFORMATION SUPPORTING EARNINGS PER SHARE COMPUTATIONS
                    (IN THOUSANDS EXCEPT PER SHARE AMOUNTS)
 
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                                YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31,
                                                              ----------------------------
                                                               1996       1995      1994
                                                              -------    ------    -------
<S>                                                           <C>        <C>       <C>
PRIMARY EARNINGS PER SHARE COMPUTATION
Earnings before extraordinary loss on extinguishment of
  debt......................................................  $76,800    57,489     20,483
Extraordinary loss on extinguishment of debt, net of income
  tax benefit...............................................   (2,290)   (2,857)    (4,752)
                                                              -------    ------    -------
Net earnings................................................   74,510    54,632     15,731
Dividend requirements on preferred stock....................       --        --      2,680
                                                              -------    ------    -------
Net earnings applicable to common stock.....................  $74,510    54,632     13,051
                                                              =======    ======    =======
Average outstanding common shares...........................   25,999    24,557     22,552
Average outstanding common equivalent shares................      500       550        644
                                                              -------    ------    -------
  Average outstanding common and common equivalent shares...   26,499    25,107     23,196
                                                              =======    ======    =======
Primary Earnings Per Share:
  Earnings before extraordinary loss on extinguishment of
     debt...................................................  $  2.90      2.29        .77
  Extraordinary loss on extinguishment of debt, net.........     (.09)     (.11)      (.21)
                                                              -------    ------    -------
  Net earnings..............................................  $  2.81      2.18        .56
                                                              =======    ======    =======
 
FULLY DILUTED EARNINGS PER SHARE COMPUTATION
Net earnings applicable to common stock.....................  $74,510    54,632     13,051
Add: Dividend requirements on preferred stock...............       --        --      2,680
                                                              -------    ------    -------
Net earnings applicable to common stock -- fully diluted....  $74,510    54,632     15,731
                                                              =======    ======    =======
Average outstanding common and common equivalent shares.....   26,499    25,107     23,196
Shares issuable on conversion of preferred shares...........       --        --      1,476
Additional fully diluted shares.............................       50        --         58
                                                              -------    ------    -------
                                                               26,549    25,107     24,730
                                                              =======    ======    =======
Fully Diluted Earnings Per Share*...........................  $  2.81      2.18        .56
                                                              =======    ======    =======
</TABLE>
 
- ---------------
 
* This calculation is submitted in accordance with paragraph 601(b)(11) of
  Regulation S-K, although it is not required by APB Opinion No. 15 because it
  produces an immaterial dilutive effect for 1996 and 1995 and an anti-dilutive
  result for 1994.
 

<PAGE>   1
 
                                                         ITEM 14(A)3, EXHIBIT 21
 
                         SUBSIDIARIES OF THE REGISTRANT
 
     Tesoro Petroleum Corporation is publicly held and has no parent. The
subsidiaries listed below are wholly-owned. Small or inactive subsidiaries are
omitted from the list below. Such omitted subsidiaries, considered in the
aggregate as a single subsidiary, would not constitute a "significant
subsidiary" at the end of the year covered by this annual report.
 
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                              INCORPORATED
                                                              OR ORGANIZED
                                                               UNDER LAWS
                   NAME OF SUBSIDIARY(1)                           OF
                   ---------------------                      -------------
<S>                                                           <C>
Tesoro Alaska Petroleum Company.............................  Delaware
Tesoro Alaska Pipeline Company..............................  Delaware
Tesoro Bolivia Petroleum Company............................  Texas
Tesoro Exploration and Production Company(2)................  Delaware
Tesoro Financial Services Holding Company...................  Delaware
     Victory Finance Company................................  Delaware
Tesoro Gas Resources Company, Inc.(2).......................  Delaware
     Tesoro E&P Company, L.P.(2)............................  Delaware
Tesoro Marine Services Company..............................  Delaware
     Tesoro Coastwide Services Company......................  Delaware
Tesoro Natural Gas Company..................................  Delaware
Tesoro Northstore Company...................................  Alaska
</TABLE>
 
- ---------------
 
(1) Where the name of a subsidiary is indented, it is wholly-owned by its
    immediate parent listed at the margin above it, unless otherwise indicated.
 
(2) Tesoro E&P Company, L.P. is owned 99% by Tesoro Gas Resources Company, Inc.
    and 1% by Tesoro Exploration and Production Company.
 

<PAGE>   1
                                                      ITEM 14(a)3, EXHIBIT 23.1



INDEPENDENT AUDITORS' CONSENT



Board of Directors and Stockholders
Tesoro Petroleum Corporation

We consent to the incorporation by reference in Registration Statement No. 33-
53293 of Tesoro Petroleum Corporation on Form S-8 of our report dated January
23, 1997, appearing in this Annual Report on Form 10-K of Tesoro Petroleum
Corporation for the year ended December 31, 1996.




DELOITTE & TOUCHE LLP

San Antonio, Texas
March 24, 1997

<PAGE>   1
                                                      ITEM 14(a)3, EXHIBIT 23.2



CONSENT OF INDEPENDENT PETROLEUM ENGINEERS AND GEOLOGISTS




       We hereby consent to the references to our firm in the Annual Report of
Tesoro Petroleum Corporation on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December
31, 1996, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission in Washington, D.C.
pursuant to the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.





                                      NETHERLAND, SEWELL & ASSOCIATES, INC.




                                      By:      /s/ CLARENCE M. NETHERLAND       
                                          --------------------------------------
                                                  Clarence M. Netherland
                                                         Chairman



Dallas, Texas
March 21, 1997

<TABLE> <S> <C>

<ARTICLE> 5
<LEGEND>
THIS SCHEDULE CONTAINS SUMMARY FINANCIAL INFORMATION EXTRACTED FROM TESORO
PETROLEUM CORPORATION'S FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AS OF AND FOR THE YEAR ENDED
DECEMBER 31, 1996, AND IS QUALIFIED IN ITS ENTIRETY BY REFERENCE TO SUCH
FINANCIAL STATEMENTS.
</LEGEND>
<MULTIPLIER> 1,000
       
<S>                             <C>
<PERIOD-TYPE>                   YEAR
<FISCAL-YEAR-END>                          DEC-31-1996
<PERIOD-END>                               DEC-31-1996
<CASH>                                          22,796
<SECURITIES>                                         0
<RECEIVABLES>                                  129,528
<ALLOWANCES>                                     1,515
<INVENTORY>                                     74,488
<CURRENT-ASSETS>                               237,343
<PP&E>                                         573,353
<DEPRECIATION>                                 256,842
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<F1>Earnings per share is after an extraordinary loss of $2.3 million 
($.09 loss per share) on extinguishment of debt.
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