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Gulf Oil was a major global oil company in operation from 1901 to 1985. [1] The eighth-largest American manufacturing company in 1941 and the ninth largest in 1979, Gulf Oil was one of the Seven Sisters oil companies.
Gulf Oil LP is an American oil company formed when Chevron Corporation acquired the naming rights to the Gulf Oil brand in the United States for $13 billion in 1985. [1] [5]By 2010, convenience store chain Cumberland Farms acquired all rights to the brand from Chevron, making it the sole owner and marketer in the country. [2]
Gulf Oil Corporation began operating in Canada in 1942, and two years later formed a Canadian subsidiary called the Canadian Gulf Oil Company. In 1956 Canadian Gulf Oil merged with the British American Oil Company (of which Gulf Oil was the controlling shareholder) and until 1969 operated under the British American name.
Union Oil, for many years based in El Segundo, California, introduced "76" gasoline in 1932. The name referred to the 1776 United States Declaration of Independence, and was also the octane rating of the gasoline in 1932. [13] 76 signs are orange balls with a 76 legend in blue. During the 1960s and '70s, most stations had the 76 ball rotate ...
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]
One million gallons of crude oil have spilled into the Gulf of ... Officials said the origin of the leak appeared to be near the 67-mile long pipeline system owned by Main Pass Oil Company, ...
Editor's note: A previous version of this article stated that Cobalt had $19 billion in cash and liquidity; this has been corrected to show that the company in fact has $2.3 billion in cash and ...
Saudi Aramco (Arabic: أرامكو السعودية ʾArāmkū as-Suʿūdiyyah), officially the Saudi Arabian Oil Company or simply Aramco (formerly Arabian-American Oil Company), is a majority state-owned petroleum and natural gas company that is the national oil company of Saudi Arabia.