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The next year Blaffer and Farish moved to Houston to be nearer the Humble field. [3] In 1915, Farish became president of the Gulf Coast Producers Association and subsequently was named president of the Texas-Louisiana Oil and Gas Association. In March 1917, he and others organized the Humble Oil and Refining Company. [3]
Joe B. Foster was the founder of Newfield Exploration Company, a Houston-based oil and gas exploration company. He served as chief executive officer until his retirement from active management in January 2000, and remained as chairman of its board until May 2005.
William Stamps Farish II was appointed chairman of Standard Oil by John D. Rockefeller and went on to become president of Standard Oil from 1937 to 1942. [2] His other grandfather was Robert E. Wood , who was the chief executive officer of the Sears, Roebuck & Co. Wood was the leader in the Old Right movement from the 1920s through the 1960s ...
Helix Energy Solutions Inc., known as Cal Dive International prior to 2006, is an American oil and gas services company headquartered in Houston, Texas.The company is a global provider of offshore services in well intervention and ROV operations of new and existing oil and gas fields.
Humble Oil and Refining Co. was an American oil company founded in 1911 in Humble, Texas. In 1919, a 50% interest in Humble was acquired by the Standard Oil of New Jersey which acquired the rest of the company in September 1959. [1]
On Monday, the U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management released an environmental review of six offshore wind sites covering nearly a half million acres (200,000 hectares) in New York and New Jersey ...
Hess Oil and Chemical was founded in 1933 by Leon Hess as an operation out of Asbury Park, New Jersey that sold refining leftovers to hotels as heating fuel. [4] [9] In 1938, he purchased land in Perth Amboy for his first oil storage terminal and in 1958 opened the company's first refinery, located in Port Reading. [11]
On December 31, 2017, the company had 680 million barrels of oil equivalent (4.2 × 10 9 GJ) of estimated proved reserves, of which over 99% was in the United States and 1% was in the South China Sea. The reserves were 37% petroleum, 19% natural gas liquids and 44% natural gas. [1] The company's properties were as follows: [1]