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2. Vacuum Oil Company - Wikipedia

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   Vacuum Oil Company was an American oil company known [according to whom?] for their Gargoyle 600-W steam cylinder motor oil. [citation needed] After being taken over by the original Standard Oil Company and then becoming independent again, in 1931 Vacuum Oil merged with the Standard Oil Company of New York to form Socony-Vacuum, later renamed to Mobil and eventually merging with Standard Oil ...

3. Bayway Refinery - Wikipedia

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   In 1947, Esso invested $26 million in a refinery expansion program to meet an increased post-war demand for gasoline and heating oil, and constructed a second, much larger catalytic cracker with an initial processing capacity of 49,000 bbl/d (7,800 m 3 /d), replacing the original 1943 unit. The "Cat" came online in October 1949 and was the ...

4. Successors of Standard Oil - Wikipedia

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   ExxonMobil is mostly composed of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey (Jersey Standard) and the Standard Oil Company of New York (Socony). The two companies partnered on a semi-frequent basis during their infancy before pursuing mergers and acquisitions, with Jersey Standard buying Texas-based Humble Oil and Socony merging with Standard descendant Vacuum Oil to form Socony-Vacuum. [3]

5. Standard Vacuum Oil Company - Wikipedia

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   Standard-Vacuum Oil Co., or "Stanvac," operated in 50 countries, including New Zealand, China, and the region of East Africa, before it was dissolved in 1962. In 1937 the Standard Vacuum Oil Company of New York helped establish and fund an exploration team to explore for oil in China.

6. Esso - Wikipedia

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   The company adopted the name "Esso" (the phonetic pronunciation of Standard Oil's initials, 'S' and 'O'), [2] to which the other Standard Oil companies would later object. Standard Oil of New Jersey started marketing its products under the Esso brand in 1926.

7. SAE J300 - Wikipedia

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   The oil fails the test at a particular temperature if the oil is too viscous. The grade of the oil is that associated with the coldest temperature at which the oil passes the test. For example, if an oil passes at the specified temperatures for 10W and 5W, but fails at the 0W temperature, the oil is grade 5W. It cannot be labeled 0W or 10W.

8. Conoco - Wikipedia

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   The "Continental Oil and Transportation Company" was founded by Isaac Elder Blake in November 1875. [9] [10] Based in Ogden, Utah, the company distributed the recently discovered mineral resources of petroleum / oil (first found in August 1859 by Edwin Drake (1819–1880), in a well drilled at Oil Creek, near Titusville, (Crawford County), in the far northwestern corner of Pennsylvania) and ...

9. Mobil - Wikipedia

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   Mobil is the oldest oil company in New Zealand. Its kerosene first appeared in the country under the Standard Oil brand in the 1870s. Early in 1896, Vacuum Oil of New York established a marketing office on Featherston Street in Wellington selling lamp oil and harness grease.