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The Emeryville Research Center of Shell Development Company in Emeryville, California was a major research facility of Shell Oil Company in the United States from 1928 until 1972, when Shell Development relocated to Houston, Texas. [1]
The Shell Martinez Refinery in Martinez, California, the first Shell refinery in the United States, supplied Shell and Texaco stations in the West and Midwest [12] until its sale to PBF Energy in 2020. [13] Shell fuel previously included the RU2000 and SU2000 lines (later there was a SU2000E) but they have been superseded by the V-Power line. [14]
In 1929, Shell Chemicals was founded. [30] By the end of the 1920s, Shell was the world's leading oil company, producing 11 percent of the world's crude oil supply and owning 10 percent of its tanker tonnage. [30] During the Spanish Civil War the company sold oil to the Nationalist side of Francisco Franco. [32]
Pennzoil is an American motor oil brand currently owned by Shell plc. The former Pennzoil Company had been established in 1913 in Pennsylvania, being active in business as an independent firm until it was acquired by Shell in 2002, becoming a brand of the conglomerate. [1]
In May 2021, HollyFrontier agreed to purchase the Shell Anacortes Refinery near Anacortes, Washington, with capacity of 149,000 bbl/d, for $350 million. [11] In August 2021, HollyFrontier agreed to purchase the assets of Sinclair Oil Corporation, including its two refineries near Casper, Wyoming, and Sinclair, Wyoming, for $2.6 billion. [12]
The Economics of the Pacific Coast Petroleum Industry (3 vol. University of California Press, 1944–47) Beaton, Kendall. Enterprise In Oil: A History Of Shell In The United States (1957) pp 59–112, 269-96; considerable detail on service stations; Blackford, Mansel G. The politics of business in California, 1890-1920 (Ohio State University ...
Shell Oil Company's Taylor 653 reached a depth of 21,500 feet (6,600 m), penetrating into the Miocene age Monterey Formation, but found no oil at those depths. Deeper reservoir oil was extremely hot; the temperature of oil in the 4th zone, discovered in 1925, and determined later to have an average depth of 9,150 feet (2,790 m), was ...
The Emeryville Shellmound, in Emeryville, California, is a sacred burial site of the Ohlone people, a once-massive archaeological shell midden deposit (dark, highly organic soil, temple and burial ground containing a high concentration of human food waste remains, including shellfish).