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Fueling what matters. Delivering reliability.

Our story

Acterra Group traces its roots back to 1958, when the company began as a gas station equipment and service enterprise— Petroleum Equipment Services (PES). Over more than six decades, that single-location business grew into a multi-faceted fuel-systems organization, providing equipment, consulting, and specialized services to the fuel, chemical, renewable energy, healthcare, manufacturing, and fleet industries, as well as government applications.

That growth took the company well beyond its original footprint — from offices across the Midwest and Colorado to today’s operations spanning Iowa, Alabama, Texas, Wyoming, Georgia, and Colorado, with headquarters in Marion, Iowa and a federal services office in Rogersville, Alabama. The company’s project history even extends overseas, with work completed for clients in Korea, Jamaica, Egypt, and the Middle East.

 

Through all of that growth, Acterra has remained a full-service fuel-systems integrator, installer, and service provider — handling repair and maintenance for fueling systems, lubrication equipment, and storage tank systems, and installing equipment for fuel management, tank monitoring, leak detection, and lubrication. The company is also a distributor for many OEMs across the petroleum equipment market — the foundation of today’s Line Card.

our values

Since our establishment, Acterra has grown from its roots as a regional petroleum equipment company into a national fuel-systems partner. What hasn’t changed is how we operate. View our core values below:

  • Safety

    Every job, every site, no exceptions. Safety planning happens before a crew ever picks up a tool, not after something goes wrong.

  • Quality

    Workmanship that passes inspection the first time. We'd rather take the extra hour on site than the callback six months later.

  • Reliability

    We show up, and we finish. Customers plan around Acterra's timelines because we build timelines we can actually hold.

  • Curiosity

    We solve problems instead of just flagging them. When something on site doesn't match the plan, our teams work the problem instead of waiting on a change order.

  • One team

    Field, office, and vendor network working as one, so a customer never has to manage the handoffs themselves.

our Experience

Federal Government

  • US Army Corps of Engineers — recurring fueling system repair and maintenance at Department of Defense installations (Air Force, Army, and Navy) across the Midwest, Mountain West, Southwest, and West Coast
  • MATOC subcontracts (multiple prime contractors) — fueling system repairs at DoD installations nationwide, including:
    • Waterloo Army Aviation Support Facility, Waterloo, Iowa
    • Rock Island Arsenal, Rock Island, Illinois
    • Dover Air Force Base, Dover, Delaware
    • McAlester Army Ammunition Plant, McAlester, Oklahoma
    • Defense Supply Center Columbus, Columbus, Ohio
    • Defense Supply Center Tracy, Tracy, California
    • Great Falls Air National Guard Base, Great Falls, Montana
    • Whiteman Air Force Base, Whiteman, Missouri
  • US Air Force — fueling and backup generator systems, Offutt Air Force Base, Omaha, Nebraska
  • Department of Veterans Affairs — backup fueling for emergency generation and E85 equipment, multiple locations in the Midwest and Southeast
  • Current General Services Administration (GSA) Multiple Award Schedule holder for fueling equipment and services

 

State & Higher Education

  •     Current Sourcewell contract holder for aboveground storage tank systems
  •     Iowa Air National Guard and Iowa Army National Guard — fueling facility projects, multiple locations
  •     University of Iowa, University of Northern Iowa, and University of Wisconsin–Platteville — fueling facility projects
  •     Iowa State Penitentiary — multiple fueling facility projects
  •     Iowa DOT and Illinois DOT — fueling and oil storage system projects
  •     State of Kansas — multiple fueling facility projects

 

Municipal & Airport

  •     Aviation fueling projects: Eastern Iowa Airport, Hebron Municipal Airport, Sturgis Municipal Airport, Denver International Airport, Platteville Municipal Airport, Iowa City Municipal Airport, Des Moines International Airport
  •     County projects: Scott County (Iowa), Rock Island County (Illinois), Pitkin County Municipal Building (Aspen, Colorado)
  •     City projects: Davenport, Moline, Rock Falls, Naperville, Prairie du Chien, Corning, and on-call repair, maintenance, and installation for the City of Cedar RapidsBus and school fleet fueling: Linn-Mar School System (Marion, Iowa) and Des Moines MTA

 

Commercial

Some of Acterra’s largest commercial clients include Crown Enterprises, Johnson Construction, Loaf N Jug, Moltus Building Group, McGough Construction, Larson Construction, Ryan Companies, and Roncelli, Inc.

our people

Acterra’s staff bring a combined 250-plus years of experience to client projects. Technicians are factory trained on the latest industry equipment and certified on major fuel management systems — including FuelMaster, Gasboy, PIUSI, OPW, and GIR — as well as tank gauge and monitoring systems from Veeder-Root, Morrison, OPW, and Franklin Fueling.

our Affiliations

Acterra Group is a member of the Petroleum Equipment Institute (PEI), the trade association representing the petroleum equipment and fuel-dispensing industry, and the Steel Tank Institute (STI), the leading standards-development organization for steel storage tanks. These memberships keep our teams current on the latest industry codes, safety standards, and best practices, and reflect our ongoing commitment to quality and compliance on every project.