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While the reserves were sold, only some of the refineries changed hands, and Getty continued to exist as a downstream entity. Getty gas stations in the Northeast were sold off as a condition of the buyout. The company became known as Getty Petroleum Marketing Inc. [6] Getty Petroleum Marketing was sold to Lukoil in 2000, and Lukoil sold it to ...
Jean Paul Getty Sr. (/ ˈ ɡ ɛ t i /; December 15, 1892 – June 6, 1976) was an American-born British petroleum industrialist who founded the Getty Oil Company in 1942 and was the patriarch of the Getty family. [1]
George Getty (1855–1930) was a lawyer who became an independent oilman in 1904. He was married with one son, a daughter having died in infancy in a typhoid epidemic in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He lent his son Jean Paul money to invest in oil wells and in 1916, George and Jean Paul incorporated the Getty Oil Company.
Their forebear J. Paul Getty was judged in the 1950s to be the richest man in the U.S., and possibly the world, thanks to a fortune built from oil wells in Oklahoma and Saudi Arabia.
The Delaware City Refinery, currently owned by Delaware City Refining Corporation, a subsidiary of PBF Energy, is an oil refinery in Delaware City, Delaware.When operational it has a total throughput capacity of 210,000 barrels per day (33,000 m 3 /d), [1] [2] and employs around 570 individuals.
Sports Authority. A.k.a. the place where you bought your very expensive soccer cleats that you wore approximately three times before dramatically quitting the team.
The Getty Building is a 22-story former office tower in Los Angeles, California. The building was a project of J. Paul Getty and upon completion served as the head office of Getty Oil. The architect for the structure was Claud Beelman whose design was in a New Formalist mode. Construction began on March 14, 1961, and the building opened ...
A former Getty financial advisor accuses the family of cheating on its taxes by millions of dollars. Column: The Getty oil fortune, a family scandal and an alleged multimillion-dollar tax scam ...