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In 1981, Occidental acquired IBP, Inc., one of largest producers of beef and pork products in the United States. [24] [51] In 1988, the company acquired Cain Chemical for $2 billion. [52] [53] In 2005, the company acquired Vintage Petroleum for $3.8 billion. [54] [55] In 2008, it acquired a 10% stake in Plains All American Pipeline. [56]
Amoco. Anadarko Petroleum. Anderson-Prichard Oil Corporation. APCO Oil Corporation. Arbusto Energy. ARCO. Arend Petroleum Company. Associated Oil Company. Astral Oil Works.
In 1919, Jersey Standard acquired a 50% share in Humble Oil & Refining Co., a Texas oil producer. [5] In 1920, it was listed on the New York Stock Exchange. [12] In the following years it acquired or established Tropical Oil Company of Colombia (1920), Standard Oil Company of Venezuela (1921), and Creole Petroleum Company of Venezuela (1928). [7]
The Texas oil boom, sometimes called the gusher age, was a period of dramatic change and economic growth in the U.S. state of Texas during the early 20th century that began with the discovery of a large petroleum reserve near Beaumont, Texas. The find was unprecedented in its size (worldwide) and ushered in an age of rapid regional development ...
100004250 [3] Added to NRHP. August 8, 2019. The Great Southwest Building, formerly the Petroleum Building and the Great Southwest Life Building, is a historic commercial skyscraper located at 1314 Texas Avenue in Downtown Houston, Texas, United States. Originally built in 1927 as an office space for The Texas Company (now Texaco), the building ...
Humble Oil and Refining Co. was an American oil company founded in 1911 in Humble, Texas. In 1919, a 50% interest in Humble was acquired by the Standard Oil of New Jersey which acquired the rest of the company in September 1959. [ 1] The Humble brand was used by Standard Oil of New Jersey until 1973, when the company rebranded nationwide as ...
Houston Refining. Operating as Houston Refining, LP, LyondellBasell 's Houston refinery is a 268,000-barrel-per-day (42,600 m 3 /d) refinery located on the Texas Gulf Coast in Houston that occupies 700 acres (2.8 km 2) along the Houston Ship Channel. This refinery has been in operation since 1918, and it currently produces gasoline, lubricant ...
Kyle also held several international management positions with Vintage Petroleum from 1996-2005 and has lived and worked in Argentina and other South American countries during much of the last 20 ...