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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 its ...
In 2006, the company acquired assets from Chase Oil and formed Concho Resources Inc. In 2007, the company became a public company via an initial public offering. [2] In 2008, the company acquired Henry Petroleum for $584 million. [3] In 2010, the company acquired assets in the Permian Basin from Marbob Energy Corporation for $1.65 billion. [4]
In 1875, the "Continental Oil and Transportation Company" (acronym "Conoco") was founded in Ogden, Utah by Isaac Blake. [8] In 1885, Conoco was reincorporated as part of Standard Oil. [9] After the Supreme Court of the United States dissolved Standard Oil, Conoco became independent in 1913. [10] By 1929, it had become a fully integrated oil ...
ConocoPhillips (NYSE: COP) made a splash on May 29 when it announced an all-stock acquisition of Marathon Oil (NYSE: MRO). The purchase price represents a 14.7% premium to the closing price of ...
Phillips 66 owns 13 refineries with a net crude oil capacity of 2.2 million barrels per day (350 × 10 ^ 3 m 3 /d), 10,000 branded marketing outlets, and 15,000 miles (24,000 km) of pipelines. It has 50 percent stake in DCP Midstream, LLC, a natural gas gatherers and processors with 7.2 billion cubic feet per day (200 × 10 ^ 6 m 3 /d) of ...
The Alexander L. Kielland, a drilling rig operating in the Ekofisk gas field of the North Sea, capsized on 27 March 1980.The incident killed 123 people. The rig was owned by a Norwegian firm, Stavanger Drilling, and was chartered by Phillips Norway, a subsidiary of Phillips Petroleum Co. Survivors and relatives of the deceased sued Phillips Petroleum Co. for damages in federal court in Ohio ...
The company also acquired ARCO's operations in Ecuador. [5] In 2001, the company acquired Canadian Hunter Exploration, expanding its base in Canada. [6] In 2003, the company started production in Algeria. [7] In 2004, the company received approval to develop a gas field in China. [8] In 2006, the company was acquired by ConocoPhillips. [9]
In 2016, Saudi Aramco-owned Motiva Enterprises signed a deal with Phillips 66 Company which would allow Motiva to use the 76 brand on some of its stations in its 26 eastern and Gulf Coast states operating territory. [10] By 2017, the 76 brand was reintroduced into New York, Georgia, Texas, Tennessee and New Jersey. [11]