One of these is a home heating retailer with a wholesale arm. The other is a terminals and wholesale business with retail attached. That difference explains almost everything about how they behave toward a household account, and it is visible in the filings rather than in the marketing.
Side by side
| Star Group (Petro Home Services) | Global Partners | |
|---|---|---|
| Publishes a rate | No | No |
| How you get a price | Quote by postcode and delivery type | Mostly wholesale and terminals |
| Territory | Northeast and Mid-Atlantic. The retail brand operates across New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Maryland, Pennsylvania and Virginia. | Terminals and supply across the Northeast and beyond, with retail fuel and convenience sites. Its home-heat exposure is largest in New England and New York. |
| Plan types | Will-call, Automatic delivery, Price protection, Budget plan, Service contracts | Wholesale supply, Dealer supply, Retail brands |
| Delivery minimum | Not published on the public site. Ask before enrolling. | Not applicable at the household level for most of the business. |
| Ownership | Star Group, L.P., a publicly traded master limited partnership on the NYSE under SGU. Petro Home Services is its retail brand. | Global Partners LP, a publicly traded master limited partnership on the NYSE under GLP. |
| Register position | Holds credentials in several state registers, including Connecticut. Check the register entry rather than the marketing page. | Appears in state fuel licence and distributor registers, including the Massachusetts active special fuel licensee list. |
| Checked | 10 September 2026 | 10 September 2026 |
What the filings tell a household
Star Group's fiscal year runs to September, which means its fourth quarter is the summer. A pure home heat retailer loses money in the summer, and the filing shows that plainly. That seasonality is the whole reason price protection plans exist: they move cash into the quarter that has none.
Global Partners is a different animal. Terminals and wholesale supply dominate the business, with retail fuel as one part of a larger structure. For a household that matters mainly because the retail brand you buy from may not carry the parent name at all, so checking who you are actually buying from takes an extra step.
Neither company publishes a rate, so the practical comparison for a household comes down to plan terms and territory rather than price. Ask both for a rate at your volume in the same week, because that is the only price comparison that exists.
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Primary sources for this page
- Star Group (Petro Home Services) public siteRead on 10 September 2026.
- Global Partners public siteRead on 10 September 2026.
- SEC EDGAR company filingsStar Group LP is CIK 0001002590. Global Partners LP is CIK 0001323468. Figures on this site are pulled from the XBRL company facts API rather than retyped from a press release.
- EIA State Heating Oil and Propane ProgramWeekly residential delivered price of No. 2 heating oil, national and by state. Collected October to March. The survey pauses after the last March print and resumes in October, which is why every federal page shows March data all summer.