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Pure Oil. Vintage Pure Oil sign located at Cuyahoga Valley National Park near Richfield, Ohio. Pure Oil Company was an American petroleum company founded in 1914 and sold to what is now Union Oil Company of California in 1965. The Pure Oil name returned in 1993 as a cooperative (based in Rock Hill, South Carolina since 2008) which has grown to ...
Products. Gasoline, Motor Oil, Kerosene, Lubricants. Associated Oil Company (Flying A) was an American oil and gas company once headquartered in San Francisco, California [1] and served much of the Pacific West Coast, including Hawaii, as well as the Orient [2] and merged with the Tidewater Oil Company in 1938. [3]
Sohio (1928–1991)[3] The Standard Oil Company (Ohio)was an American petroleum companythat existed from 1870 to 1987. The company, known commonly as Sohio, was founded by John D. Rockefeller. [4][2]It was established as one of the separate entities created after the 1911 breakup. In the 1960s, The Standard Oil Company partnered with BP, in the ...
Richfield Oil Corporation. Richfield Oil Corporation was an American petroleum company based in California from 1905 to 1966. In 1966, it merged with Atlantic Refining Company to form the Atlantic Richfield Company (later renamed ARCO). [1] A Richfield service station located in Tucson, Arizona, July 1939.
ExxonMobil, an American multinational oil and gas corporation presently based out of Texas, has had one of the longest histories of any company in its industry.A direct descendant of John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil, the company traces its roots as far back as 1866 to the founding of the Vacuum Oil Company, which would become part of ExxonMobil through its own merger with Mobil during the 1930s.
Occidental Petroleum. Occidental Petroleum Corporation (often abbreviated Oxy in reference to its ticker symbol and logo) is an American company engaged in hydrocarbon exploration in the United States and the Middle East as well as petrochemical manufacturing in the United States, Canada, and Chile.
Sinclair Oil Corporation. Sinclair Oil Corporation was an American petroleum corporation founded by Harry F. Sinclair on May 1, 1916. The Sinclair Oil and Refining Corporation amalgamated the assets of 11 small petroleum companies. [ 3] Originally a New York corporation, Sinclair Oil reincorporated in Wyoming in 1976. [ 4]
The first Phillips 66 logo, branded by the Phillips Petroleum Co. in 1930. The Phillips 66 shield logo, linking it to U.S. Route 66, was introduced in 1930 in a black and orange color scheme that would last nearly thirty years. In 1959, Phillips replaced these colors with red, white and black, the one still deployed.