• 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...
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    Humble (/ˈʌmbəl/ UM-bəl) is a city located in the Houston metropolitan area. Humble became an oil boomtown in the early 20th century when oil was first...
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    The Humble Oil Building, is a historic office building, designed in the Italian Renaissance architecture style, located at 1212 Main Street in Houston...
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  • up humble in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Humble may refer to: Humility, the quality of being humble Humble, Denmark Humble, Kentucky, US Humble, Texas...
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    secondary retail brand name for products of the Humble Oil Corporation (which had been acquired by Standard Oil of New Jersey in 1959) in certain parts of...
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  • made it the largest oil company in the world. In 1919, Jersey Standard acquired a 50% share in Humble Oil & Refining Co., a Texas oil producer. In 1920...
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    in 1918 joined Humble Oil & Refining Co. as the company's first geologist. Prior to that time the company had treated the search for oil as largely a hit...
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    The ExxonMobil Building (also known as Exxon Tower, and formerly as Humble Oil Building) at 800 Bell Street in Houston, Texas is a 45-story, 1,200,000 sq ft...
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    Standard Oil name in much of the eastern United States. Jersey Standard grew by acquiring Humble Oil in the 1930s and became the dominant oil company on...
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    replaced in the U.S. by the Exxon brand after the Standard Oil of New Jersey bought Humble Oil, while the Esso name remained widely used elsewhere. In most...
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  • Teagle, became the largest oil producer in the world. It acquired a 50 percent share in Humble Oil & Refining Co., a Texas oil producer. Socony purchased...
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    Philosophy in economics from the University of Houston in 1970. He worked at Humble Oil as an economist from 1965 to 1968 in the Corporate Planning Department...
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    one mile (1.6 km) offshore of Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana. In 1938, Humble Oil built a mile-long wooden trestle with railway tracks into the sea at McFadden...
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    with Jersey Standard buying Texas-based Humble Oil and Socony merging with Standard descendant Vacuum Oil to form Socony-Vacuum. The two companies collaborated...
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  • property. Humble Oil loaned enough money to pay the debts of the H.M. King estate, secured by a first mortgage on the land. Humble struck oil and gas by...
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  • produced a natural gas flare in December 1967. The oil field was confirmed on March 12, 1968, by Humble Oil (which later became part of Exxon) and Atlantic...
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    project promoted by Humble Oil, a subsidiary of Standard Oil of New Jersey, that would have changed the Monterey Bay's look and feel. Humble was intended to...
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    Ross S. Sterling (category American businesspeople in the oil industry)
    In 1911, his brother Frank Sterling, other oilmen, and he formed the Humble Oil Company, a predecessor of present-day Exxon-Mobil. They were joined in...
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  • Imperial Oil Limited (French: Compagnie Pétrolière Impériale Ltée) is a Canadian petroleum company. It is Canada's second-largest integrated oil company...
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    facility. This was constructed in 1962 and 1963 on land donated by the Humble Oil company through Rice University, and officially opened its doors in September...
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    American oil and gas corporation ExxonMobil. The brand was formerly owned and operated by an oil and gas corporation of the same name (Mobil Oil Corporation)...
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    The Exxon Valdez oil spill was a major environmental disaster that occurred in Alaska's Prince William Sound on March 24, 1989. The spill occurred when...
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    Scions of the oil business include two co-founders of Sharp-Hughes Tools, as well as founders and early investors of Texaco and Humble Oil. The founding...
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  • position at Humble Oil in Baytown, Texas in 1934 where he established a mass spectrometry research group. He recruited Frank Field to Humble Oil in 1952 and...
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    1960s, Humble Oil and Refining Company, now known as Exxon, relocated a district office to Kingsville due to the city's close proximity to nearby oil fields...
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  • Humble Pie is the third studio album by English rock band Humble Pie. Released in 1970, it was their first album with A&M Records. This was their first...
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    of Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana in 14 feet (4.3 m) of water. In 1938, Humble Oil built a mile-long wooden trestle with railway tracks into the sea at McFadden...
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    fair included: Eastman Kodak, Ford, General Electric, General Motors, Humble Oil (now ExxonMobil), IBM, RCA, Southwestern Bell (now AT&T), Frito Lay, Pepsi-Cola...
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  • Hartford National Bank, Hartford, CT 1963 ExxonMobil Building (formerly Humble Oil Building) Houston, TX, 1963 McCarran International Airport, Las Vegas...
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  • American businessman who was the chairman, president, and CEO of Standard Oil of New Jersey (now the Exxon Corporation). Rathbone was born in Parkersburg...
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