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It purchased the small petroleum companies Panhandle Oil Co. in 1956 and the American Liberty Co. of Dallas in 1957, in order to begin actual operations In June 2000, Fina Oil & Chemical Co. was renamed Atofina Petrochemicals Inc. and the headquarters moved to Houston Texas. [1] In 1963, the company acquired Cogsden Petroleum Corp.
Total Plaza (formerly the Entex Building, Louisiana Place, and United Gas Building) is a tower in Downtown Houston, Texas, one block from the Allen Center complex. [4] The building, managed by Brookfield Properties , opened in 1971.
Tidewater, Inc. is a publicly traded international petroleum service company headquartered in Houston, Texas, U.S. It operates a fleet of ships, primarily providing vessels and marine services to the offshore petroleum and offshore wind industries. The company was founded in 1956 by a group of investors led by the Laborde family.
Kirby Corporation, headquartered in Houston, Texas is the largest tank barge operator in the United States, transporting bulk liquid products throughout the Mississippi River System, on the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway, along all three U.S. Coasts, and in Alaska and Hawaii.
Oceaneering International, Inc. is a subsea engineering and applied technology company based in Houston, Texas, U.S. that provides engineered services and hardware to customers who operate in marine, space, and other environments.
Map Showing Lines of the Houston Electric Company c 1907 METRORail along the Main Street Corridor in Downtown A METRO bus driving through the University of Houston campus on Cullen Boulevard. The Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County, Texas, or METRO, provides public transportation in the form of buses, trolleys, and lift vans. [2]
As a result of the Texas oil boom, Cullinan envisioned a single skyscraper that would house offices for booming oil and gas companies across Texas, which would operate under one name as the American Republics Corporation. On May 25, 1925, he established the Petroleum Building Company, a holding company overseen by oil businessman and founder of ...
American General Life Insurance Company is headquartered in the Life Building. [15] Ebro Foods North America Riviana & New World Pasta is in the Riviana Building. [16] [17] The Consulate-General of Norway in Houston was in Suite 1185 in the Riviana Building. [4] [18] It has since relocated in another building in Neartown. [19]