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Superior Oil drill site, West Texas 1949. The Superior Oil Company was founded in 1921 in Coalinga, California, by Keck, [1] after he had accumulated enough leases to start his own firm. [6] Superior Oil began as a drilling contracting firm and grew into other oil services including exploration and production of oil and natural gas.
76 (1932–97) Number of employees. 6,400 (2005) Website. unocal.com (defunct) Union Oil Company of California, and its holding company Unocal Corporation, together known as Unocal / ˈjuːnoʊkæl / was a major petroleum explorer and marketer in the late 19th century, through the 20th century, and into the early 21st century.
Anadarko Petroleum. Anderson-Prichard Oil Corporation. APCO Oil Corporation. Arbusto Energy. ARCO. Arend Petroleum Company. Associated Oil Company. Astral Oil Works. Atlantic Petroleum.
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]
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 ...
Chevron Corporation is an American multinational energy corporation predominantly specializing in oil and gas. The second-largest direct descendant of Standard Oil, and originally known as the Standard Oil Company of California (shortened to Socal or CalSo ), it is active in more than 180 countries. Within oil and gas, Chevron is vertically ...
The history of oil production in California began in the late 19th century. [ 1] In 1903, California became the leading oil-producing state in the US, and traded the number one position back-and forth with Oklahoma through the year 1930. [ 2] As of 2022, California produced 3% of the crude oil of the nation, behind Texas, New Mexico, North ...
Walter Fondren Sr. Born. June 6, 1877. Union City, Tennessee. Died. January 5, 1939. San Antonio, Texas. Walter William Fondren Sr. (June 6, 1877 Union City, Tennessee – January 5, 1939) was an American oil industry businessperson and philanthropist in Texas. He co-founded Humble Oil Company, an antecedent to ExxonMobil .