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| Item 7.01 | Regulation FD Disclosure. |
On November 18, 2021, Valero Energy Corporation (the “Company”) issued a press release (the “Tender Offer Press Release”) announcing the commencement of an offer to purchase for cash (the “Tender Offer”) by the Company any and all of its outstanding 2.700% Senior Notes due 2023 and up to a maximum aggregate purchase price of $1,000,000,000 of its outstanding 1.200% Senior Notes due 2024, 3.650% Senior Notes due 2025, 2.850% Senior Notes due 2025, 10.500% Senior Notes due 2039, 8.750% Senior Notes due 2030, 7.500% Senior Notes due 2032, and 6.625% Senior Notes due 2037 and the 4.375% Senior Notes due 2026 issued by Valero Energy Partners LP and guaranteed by the Company. The Tender Offer is subject to the terms and conditions set forth in the Offer to Purchase dated November 18, 2021.
A copy of the Tender Offer Press Release is attached hereto as Exhibit 99.1 and incorporated into this Item 7.01 by reference. The information provided pursuant to this Item 7.01, including Exhibit 99.1, is “furnished” and shall not be deemed to be “filed” with the Securities and Exchange Commission for the purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), or otherwise subject to the liabilities of that section, nor shall such information be deemed incorporated by reference in any filing under the Exchange Act, or the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, unless specifically identified in such filing as being incorporated by reference in such filing.
| Item 9.01 | Financial Statements and Exhibits. |
(d) Exhibits.
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| 99.1 | Press release dated November 18, 2021 | |
| 104 | Cover Page Interactive Data File (embedded within the Inline XBRL document) | |
SIGNATURE
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
| VALERO ENERGY CORPORATION | ||||
| Date: November 18, 2021 | by: | /s/ Richard J. Walsh | ||
| Richard J. Walsh | ||||
| Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary | ||||