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Hess Oil and Chemical was founded in 1933 by Leon Hess as an operation out of Asbury Park that sold refining leftovers to hotels as heating fuel. [4] [9] In 1938, he purchased land in Perth Amboy for his first oil storage terminal and in 1958 opened the company's first refinery, located in Port Reading. [11]
Hess Oil and Chemical Corporation was a company founded in the early 1930s by Leon Hess of New Jersey to distribute heating oil. [1] It expanded over the years to include refining and marketing of heating oil and other petroleum products through terminals and gasoline stations.
Leon Hess (March 14, 1914 – May 7, 1999) was an American businessman, the founder of the Hess Corporation and the owner of the New York Jets.Hess built an oil terminal in New Jersey after the Great Depression, building his first refinery in the late 1950s.
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In 2000, Hess acquired the remainder of the Meadville Corporation and rebranded its 178 Merit gas stations as Hess. [3] Those stations became part of Marathon Petroleum's Speedway brand due to the latter company's purchase of Hess's retail assets in 2014. 7 years later, Japanese-based Seven & I Holdings purchased Speedway, making those stations ...
That 1964 Hess Tanker Trailer, based on the real ones that delivered gas to Hess stations, has become a collector’s item, and now sells for approximately $1,500—quite an increase from its ...
Hess Corporation Donates $5 Million to Hurricane Relief in New York and New Jersey NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Hess Corporation (NYS: HES) announced today that is has donated $5 million to relief ...
The Newark Energy Center is a 655-megawatt gas fired power plant in Newark, New Jersey. Approved in 2011, with construction beginning in 2012 [1] it began commercial operations in May 2015. It is situated on a 23 acres (9.3 ha) brownfield east of Doremus Avenue next to a Hess oil terminal on the Passaic River. [2]