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Getty Petroleum Marketing was sold to Lukoil in 2000, and Lukoil sold it to Cambridge Securities LLC in February 2011. Getty Petroleum filed for bankruptcy protection (Chapter 11) on December 5, 2011. [7] At one point, Getty Oil owned a majority stake of ESPN, before Getty's purchase by Texaco which then sold ESPN to ABC in 1984. [8]
Their forebear J. Paul Getty was judged in the 1950s to be the richest man in the U.S., and possibly the world, thanks to a fortune built from oil wells in Oklahoma and Saudi Arabia.
George Getty (1855–1930) was a lawyer who became an independent oilman in 1904. He was married with one son, a daughter having died in infancy in a typhoid epidemic in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He lent his son Jean Paul money to invest in oil wells and in 1916, George and Jean Paul incorporated the Getty Oil Company.
Jean Paul Getty Sr. (/ ˈ ɡ ɛ t i /; December 15, 1892 – June 6, 1976) was an American-born British petroleum industrialist who founded the Getty Oil Company in 1942 and was the patriarch of the Getty family. [1]
Oil prices bounced around quite a bit in 2024. They rallied more than 20% at one point -- topping $85 per barrel -- before cooling off toward the end of the year. Oil was recently below $70 a ...
Getty [55] J. Paul Getty, Sir Paul Getty, John Paul Getty III, Ariadne Getty, Balthazar Getty: 5.4 (2015) Getty Oil United States: Erdemoğlu [56] İbrahim Erdemoğlu, Ali Erdemoğlu 5.3 (2024) [7] SASA Polyester (carpet) Turkey: Bouygues Martin Bouygues, Olivier Bouygues: 5.2 (2024) [7] Bouygues Group France: Tung Chee Hwa and Chee Chen [16] 5 ...
‘Americans just work harder’ than Europeans, says CEO of Norway’s $1.6 trillion oil fund, because they have a higher ‘general level of ambition’ Eleanor Pringle April 25, 2024 at 3:43 AM
In 1984, the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) purchased ESPN from Rasmussen and Getty Oil. [2] Initially, ABC Sports and ESPN operated as separate entities. However, ESPN started to integrate into ABC Sports once The Walt Disney Company purchased Capital Cities/ABC in 1996.