Case Study: Sullivan Petroleum achieves 80% reduction in data entry and scales without adding staff with Oracle Database Cloud Service and Oracle Application Express

Sullivan Petroleum Uses Cloud to Automate Financial Processes—Cuts Data Entry by 80% and Supports Growth Without Adding Staff

Sullivan Petroleum Co. LLC is a fourth‑generation jobber for Chevron‑Texaco based in Bakersfield, California, operating four convenience stores with a 10‑person staff. The company needed to automate billing and statement creation and put in place a high‑availability, cost‑predictable data infrastructure that could scale to support wholesale and retail growth without adding headcount or heavy hardware investment.

Sullivan deployed Oracle Database Cloud Service and built custom applications with Oracle Application Express to download Chevron data and automatically populate its accounting and billing systems. The solution cut manual data entry by 80%, eliminated weekly and month‑end bottlenecks, reduced paper use by 90%, supported the addition of six gas stations without new hires, avoided the need for an in‑house DBA, and delivered scalable, highly available systems to support future growth.

Sullivan Petroleum

Tim Sullivan

Vice President, Business Operations