Sprague Resources LP engages in the purchase, storage, distribution and sale of refined products and natural gas. The company is headquartered in Portsmouth, New Hampshire and currently employs 654 full-time employees. The company went IPO on 2013-10-25. The firm operates through four segments, including Refined Products, which purchases a range of refined products, heating oil, diesel fuel, residual fuel oil, kerosene, jet fuel and gasoline (primarily from refining companies, trading organizations and producers), and sell them to customers; Natural Gas, which purchases natural gas from natural gas producers and trading companies, and sells and distributes natural gas to commercial and industrial customers in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic United States; Materials Handling, which offloads, stores and prepares for delivery a range of customer-owned products, including asphalt, clay slurry, coal and heavy equipment, and Other Operations, which primarily includes the marketing and distribution of coal and certain commercial trucking activities.