Robert H. Foster started Foster Fuels as a Gulf Oil Dealership with one 1500-gallon oil delivery truck. Sales volume for the first year was 200,000 gallons of home heating oil.
Today, the company has over 350 employees and does business all over Maine, from Madawaska to Cape Elizabeth. R.H. Foster Energy, LLC has four Energy Services locations—Machias, Jackman, Ellsworth, and Hampden.
The company owns 21 Foster’s and Shell On The Run locations with 12 of those stores offering Freshies® food. The company also operates a wholesale transportation unit, supplying approximately 75-80 dealers with gasoline, distillate products and propane.
Additional address - PO Box 161
Hampden, ME 04444. Additional contact names - Robert Tracy, Brenda Gerow, Bruce Twombly & Tom Guerrette. Additional emails - rtracy@rhfoster.com, bgerow@rhfoster.com & btwombly@rhfoster.com. See website for more contact names and emails.