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Toyota Field was designed by San Antonio architecture firm, Pro Sports Developments (PSD), which is the sports entertainment division of Luna Architecture and Design. The stadium was designed as a soccer-specific stadium, to strategically expand to upwards of 18,000 seats in 3 total phases and to accommodate UIL , NCAA , MLS and FIFA standard ...
The oil field is an accumulation of petroleum in sediment overlying a deep salt dome, one of several such fields in the Gulf of Mexico region. It was the first oil field to be found in a deep rather than a shallow salt dome, and its discovery led to the search for others like it; the finds that resulted were some of the largest oil fields in the United States. [1]
Tesoro became the first Fortune 500 company to be headquartered in San Antonio, Texas. Tesoro is the word for treasure (or treasury ) in Italian and Spanish . Beginning in the late 1990s, Tesoro grew through a series of acquisitions and initiatives that created Tesoro Corporation, the company focusing on the core business of petroleum refining ...
Midway Sunset Oil Field Geologic Cross Section The Lakeview #2 gusher (not the more famous Lakeview #1 gusher), 20 May 1914. While the Midway-Sunset field is a large contiguous area covering more than 30 square miles (80 km 2), it comprises 22 identifiable and separately-named reservoirs in six geologic formations, ranging in age from the Pleistocene Tulare Formation (the most recent ...
The plans called for the combined company to be headquartered in San Antonio. The combined company was to have two refineries in Texas, 11,000 employees, and 2,600 stores. [19] In 1996, Canadian company Ultramar bought Diamond Shamrock for $1.96 billion in stock and assumed debt. [20] The combined company was renamed "Ultramar Diamond Shamrock ...
The South Texas Oilfield Expo is an oil and gas industry trade show held annually at the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center in San Antonio.Produced by trade show production company Event Equity Partners LLC, the expo was previously held at the American Bank Center in Corpus Christi.
On August 28, 2006, Western Refining bought Giant Industries (GI) for $1.23 billion in cash, creating the fourth-largest publicly traded independent oil refiner in the USA. The combined company created the capacity to handle about 216,000 barrels a day from four refineries, about 84% more than Western's current capacity at the time. [20]
Ira Yates, owner of the ranch and oil field, donated 152 acres (0.62 km 2) of his land for the townsite of Iraan, which town survives to the present day. Redbarn was abandoned in 1952. [10] The two major early operators of the field, Ohio Oil and Mid-Kansas, merged in 1962 to form Marathon Oil, which ran the field until