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Restored 1928 Phillips 66 Service Station. 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.
Conoco gas station and quick shop in Miles City, Montana. Along with sister brands, Phillips 66, and 76, "Conoco" (/ ˈ k ɒ n ə k oʊ /), [39] is a major American brand of oil and gas station that has been owned by Phillips 66 since 2012 and was originally the brand used by its originator, Conoco Inc., from 1875 to its merger with Phillips ...
In 2015, ConocoPhillips and Phillips 66 agreed to pay $11.5 million to settle a lawsuit alleging that hundreds of their gas stations violated California anti-pollution laws since 2006. The civil complaint, filed in January 2013, alleged that the companies violated state laws on the operation and maintenance of underground gasoline storage tanks ...
The first Phillips 66 logo, branded by the Phillips Petroleum Co. in 1930. The Phillips 66 shield logo, linking it to U.S. Route 66, was introduced in 1930. [11] After a series of changes to the color scheme including the popular dark green with orange and blue trim, [11] the company settled on black and orange color scheme that would last nearly thirty years.
In 1938 and in 1941, Phillips donated 127,000 acres (510 km 2) of his Ranch to the Boy Scouts of America, complete with water, mineral and timber rights. The only condition was that it be used "for the benefit of the members of the Boy Scout organization" and the second larger donation had only the condition that it pay its fair share of taxes ...
The Brontosaurus logo is parodied in the Toy Story and Cars franchise films as being the "Dinoco" gas station chain, perhaps an allusion to gasoline and its origin as a fossil fuel, as well as a portmanteau between the "dinosaur" in Sinclair's logo and the suffixes of the "Amoco", "Conoco", and "Sunoco" franchises. [citation needed]
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 Hughes Conoco Service Station at 400 Southwest Taylor Street in Topeka, Kansas, was built in 1930 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It includes elements of Tudor Revival architecture and other late 19th and 20th century revival styling.