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The Shell Building is an office building in downtown St. Louis, Missouri. Located at the corner of Locust Street and 13th Street, known as Shell Corner, [3] the 13-story, 48.16 m (158.0 ft), building was the original home of the Shell Oil Company in the United States. The building has a rounded footprint, following the curve of Locust onto ...
The Wood River Refinery is an oil refinery located in Roxana, Illinois, approximately 15 miles (24 km) north of St. Louis, Missouri, on the east side of the Mississippi River. The refinery is currently owned by Phillips 66 and Cenovus Energy and operated by the joint-venture company WRB Refining, LLC (WRB).
Schaeffer Manufacturing Company was founded in 1839 by a German immigrant, Nicholas Schaeffer, in St. Louis, Missouri, [2] under the name Nicholas Schaeffer and Company. . Originally producing soaps and candles, [3] the company began manufacturing oils and greases to support the westward expansion during the 1849 California Gold
Peabody Energy is a coal mining company headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri. [4] [5] Its primary business consists of the mining, sale, and distribution of coal, which is purchased for use in electricity generation and steelmaking. Peabody also markets, brokers, and trades coal through offices in China, Australia, and the United States.
Quaker State is an American brand of motor oils, owned by Shell USA, the US-based division of Shell plc.. The former Quaker State Oil Refining Company had been constituted in 1924 after the Eastern Refining Co. acquired rights to the Quaker State brand name to the Phinny Brothers Oil Company, which had been producing the Quaker lubricants since 1912, gaining reputation in the U.S. after a deal ...
William Barnickel was born in St Louis, Missouri and studied chemistry. During his career, Barnickel worked in Sapulpa, Oklahoma, where he first began working on a way to separate water from crude oil. Barnickel believed that a simple chemical process could be used to recover the crude oil from the wet crude, which would save oil companies ...
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With the decline of railroads in the United States, in the 1950s the building was transitioned to hosting the fledgling daily newspaper, the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. As newspapers also declined and St. Louis became a single major daily newspaper town in the 1980s, the structure was eventually turned into an office and data center building.