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Texas Company Building at 1111 Rusk St. in Houston. The company moved to larger facilities in 1989 "The Texas Company" Galveston station, c. 1910-20. Texaco was founded in Beaumont, Texas as the "Texas Fuel Company" in 1902, [6] by Jim Hogg, Joseph S. Cullinan, John Warne Gates, and Arnold Schlaet.
The first Phillips 66 service station built in Texas opened on July 27, 1928, on the corner of 5th Street and Main in Turkey, Texas. In January 2019, this Phillips 66 service station in Turkey was recognized by the Texas Historical Commission as a Recorded Texas Historical Landmark, and a Marker Dedication Ceremony to unveil the State ...
OLCO Petroleum Group – 319 stations in Ontario and Quebec; Petro-Canada – 1323 stations and 200 Petro-Pass stations across Canada; some acquired from BP (1983), Petrofina (1981) and Gulf Oil in the 1980s; Pioneer Petroleum – 130 stations in Ontario; 7-Eleven brand gasoline; Shell Canada – Canadian unit of Shell with 1800 stations across ...
A Brief History of the East Texas Oil Field (East Texas Oil Museum) Oil and Texas: A Cultural History (Texas Almanac) Oil Boom (The Depot Museum, Henderson) Spindletop-Gladys City Boomtown Museum; Texas Energy Museum, Beaumont "Santa Rita No. 1 – Big Lake ~ Marker Number: 4587". Texas Historic Sites Atlas. Texas Historical Commission. 1965.
Texaco Doodlebug; Texaco Footballer of the Year; Texaco Hurler of the Year; Texaco Inc. v. Dagher; Texaco Road; Texaco Service Station (Bristow, Oklahoma) Texaco Star Theater; Texaco Station No. 1; Texaco Trophy; Texas Company Filling Station; Tidewater Oil Company
After Texaco relocated to larger offices, the building continued to serve smaller oil and gas companies on upper floors and retail outlets on the ground floor. In 1980, the Great Southwest Life Insurance Company became the new tenants of the building and subsequently changed its name.
The early years of the company were difficult experiencing a loss of about $9 million. In 1933, Shamrock built its first refinery and its first gas station, both in Sunray, Moore County, Texas. James Harold Dunn joined the company in 1938 as a vice president and general manager, having previously been an engineer at the Lone Star Gas Corporation.
In April 1923 Thomas B. Millard bought lot 12 of block 12 in Foyil, Oklahoma where he would build the Foyil Filling Station before selling the property to his brother William J. Millard and moving to Texas in October 1926. William J. Millard sold the property to George W. Vincent and his wife Violet in October 1931.