Petro Star Inc.

Petro Star Inc., an Alaskan Native Corporation-owned subsidiary of Arctic Slope Regional Corporation, supplies aviation turbine fuel, diesel, fuel oil, automotive gasoline, and naval distillate to the Department of Defense via the Defense Logistics Agency Energy as a prime contractor, competing predominantly under full-and-open (non-set-aside) delivery orders, though some orders carry partial small business set-asides. The vendor is a minority-owned, self-certified small disadvantaged business headquartered in Anchorage, Alaska, and operates across Alaska and western United States locations with multi-modal delivery infrastructure (tanker, barge, truck, railcar, pipeline).

Petro Star's federal portfolio is overwhelmingly concentrated in fuel logistics. The company holds a $220.6 million single-award Indefinite Delivery Contract with DLA Energy (SPE60224D0481) effective October 1, 2025 through September 30, 2026, covering bulk petroleum products including aviation turbine fuels (JP5, Jet A, JA1), naval distillate (F76), diesel fuel, and automotive gasoline across the Rocky Mountain, West Coast, and offshore regions with estimated annual quantities from 89 million to 626 million gallons. Individual delivery orders under this IDC range from under one hundred dollars to over ten million dollars; representative recent awards include a $12.9 million delivery order for aviation turbine fuel (April 7, 2026), an $8.5 million delivery order for aviation turbine fuel (March 5, 2026), a $1.7 million delivery order for aviation turbine fuel (January 28, 2026), and a $1.2 million delivery order for diesel fuel (January 12, 2026). Pricing across all delivery orders uses fixed-price with economic price adjustment mechanisms to account for fuel market fluctuations. Petro Star also holds a second single-award IDIQ with DLA Energy (SPE607-25-R-0204) awarded April 1, 2026, valued at $8.8 million, for into-plane aviation turbine fuel delivery (Jet A, Jet A-1, JP-8) to commercial airports across eleven western states and territories through March 31, 2029, with 24/7 delivery capability and MIL-STD-1548H compliance requirements.

Customer concentration is extreme. The Defense Logistics Agency Energy accounts for approximately 93 percent of Petro Star's combined potential value across all awards (5,533 awards totaling $6.64 billion), with the Defense Logistics Agency proper accounting for an additional $36.7 million across 63 awards. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Coast Guard, and Bureau of Land Management Alaska Region represent minor supplementary customers. This concentrated dependency on DLA Energy—particularly for routine fuel delivery operations—positions the vendor as a mission-critical supplier for federal defense logistics but creates significant recompete risk if the underlying IDC is not renewed or if award mechanisms shift away from the incumbent contractor model.

Activity remains steady across recent years, with 449 awards in 2025 and 111 awards recorded through mid-April 2026 (a partial-year figure reflecting the April 1, 2026 IDC transition). The vendor's award footprint includes approximately 5,929 prime awards across a 40-year history beginning in 1986; 5,611 of these awards map to NAICS 324110 (Petroleum Refineries) and are predominantly coded under PSC Liquid Propellants and Fuels, Petroleum Base (3,286 awards) and Fuel Oils (2,563 awards). The vendor does not carry a formal small business set-aside designation on the primary IDC vehicle, though the contract includes provisions reserving approximately 30.81 to 31 percent of fuel quantities for small business concerns, and individual delivery orders are sometimes designated as partial small business set-asides. Petro Star competes on commercial terms (lowest-price technically acceptable) rather than as a set-aside-eligible firm.

Petro Star is a wholly owned subsidiary of Arctic Slope Regional Corporation, a prominent Alaskan Native Corporation based in Anchorage that operates a diversified portfolio of federal contracting subsidiaries spanning defense, civilian, aerospace, technology, and energy sectors. The parent company holds a $10 billion multiple-award contract with Naval Supply Systems Command and a $98 million single-award contract with NASA's Goddard Space Center, demonstrating its role as a sophisticated federal prime contractor. Within this corporate structure, Petro Star Inc. functions as a specialized petroleum logistics subsidiary leveraging the parent's Alaskan positioning and Native Corporation status to secure and maintain critical fuel supply relationships with DLA Energy and other federal defense customers. Place of performance for all awards reviewed is Anchorage, Alaska, reflecting the vendor's operational hub and logistics infrastructure footprint in the region.