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4,783 (February 1, 2022) Website. www.williams.com. The Williams Companies, Inc., is an American energy company based in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Its core business is natural gas processing and transportation, with additional petroleum and electricity generation assets. A Fortune 500 company, [1] its common stock is a component of the S&P 500.
This is a list of large or well-known interstate or international companies headquartered in the Tulsa Metropolitan Area. As of November 2012, Tulsa was home to one Fortune 1000 and two Fortune 500 companies: Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group, energy companies: ONEOK (#219), and The Williams Companies, Inc. (#342).
December 13, 2010. The Oil Capital Historic District (OCHD) is an area in downtown Tulsa, Oklahoma that commemorates the success of the oil business in Tulsa during the early 20th century. During this period, Tulsa was widely known as "The Oil Capital of the World." The area is bounded by 3rd Street on the north and 7th Street on the south ...
Magellan Midstream Partners, L.P. is an American energy pipeline operator based in Tulsa, Oklahoma that primarily transports, stores and distributes refined petroleum products and crude oil. [2][3] It owns ammonia and petroleum pipelines in the Mid-Continent oil province. [2] According to the United States Department of State, it owns "83 ...
In 1923 a group of Tulsa oilmen organized the first International Petroleum Exposition and Congress (IPE); among the IPE's stated purposes was to "firmly establish Tulsa for all time to come as the oil center of the entire world." [23] Tulsa continued to be known and promote itself as the "oil capital of the world" into the 1950s [24] and 1960s.
The discovery of the Glenn Pool Oil Reserve in 1905 brought the first major oil pipelines into Oklahoma, and instigated the first large scale oil boom in the state. Located near what was—at the time—the small town of Tulsa, Oklahoma, the resultant establishment of the oil fields in the area contributed greatly to the early growth and success of the city, as Tulsa became the petroleum and ...
Skelly Oil Company was a medium-sized oil company founded in 1919 by William Grove (Bill) Skelly, Chesley Coleman Herndon and Frederick A. Pielsticker in Tulsa, Oklahoma. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] J. Paul Getty acquired control of the company during the 1930s.
WPX Energy, Inc. (W illiams P roduction and E x ploration) was a company engaged in hydrocarbon exploration. It was organized in Delaware and headquartered in Tulsa, Oklahoma. In 2021, the company merged with Devon Energy. All of the company's assets were in either the Williston Basin (42% of 2019 production) or the Permian Basin (58% of 2019 ...