Gulf Oil was a major global oil company in operation from 1901 to 1985. The eighth-largest American manufacturing company in 1941 and the ninth largest...
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coast of the United States in the Gulf of Mexico on the BP-operated Macondo Prospect, considered the largest marine oil spill in the history of the petroleum...
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ecology has been damaged by industrialization and oil spills. The Persian Gulf is in the Persian Gulf Basin, which is of Cenozoic origin and related to...
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environmental threats to the Gulf are agricultural runoff and oil drilling. There are 27,000 abandoned oil and gas wells beneath the gulf. These have generally...
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Gulf Oil LP is an American oil company formed when Chevron Corporation acquired the naming rights to the Gulf Oil brand in the United States for $13 billion...
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The Gulf War oil spill, or the "Persian Gulf oil spill", was one of the largest oil spills in history, resulting from the Gulf War in 1991. In January...
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an oil spill. During the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, significant air quality issues were found on the Gulf Coast, which is the downwind of DWH oil spill...
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Gulf oil spill may refer to: Ixtoc I oil spill – Gulf of Mexico 1979 Gulf War oil spill – Persian Gulf 1991 Deepwater Horizon oil spill – Gulf of Mexico...
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Ixtoc 1 was an exploratory oil well being drilled by the semi-submersible drilling rig Sedco 135 in the Bay of Campeche of the Gulf of Mexico, about 100 km...
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Offshore oil and gas in the Gulf of Mexico is a major source of oil and natural gas in the United States. The western and central Gulf of Mexico, which...
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Deepwater Horizon explosion (redirect from Gulf of Mexico oil platform explosion)
explosion also caused an oil well fire and a massive offshore oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, considered the largest accidental marine oil spill in the world...
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The Arabian Gulf Oil Company (Agoco; Arabic: شركة الخليج العربي للنفط) is an oil company based in Benghazi, Libya, engaged in crude oil and natural gas...
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John Wyer (redirect from Gulf Oil Racing)
cars running in the light blue and orange livery of his longtime sponsor Gulf Oil. Wyer was born in Kidderminster, England in 1909. As team manager and team...
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of US-led coalition forces in the Gulf War. The fires were started in January and February 1991, and the first oil well fires were extinguished in early...
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Chevron Corporation (redirect from Standard Oil of California)
1988, its name was changed to Saudi Arabian Oil Company—Saudi Aramco. Standard Oil of California and Gulf Oil merged in 1984, which was the largest merger...
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competitors. Numerous regional competitors (such as Pure Oil in the East, Texaco and Gulf Oil in the Gulf Coast, Cities Service and Sun in the Midcontinent,...
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on the Gulf Coast. The discovery of oil and gas deposits along the coast and offshore, combined with easy access to shipping, have made the Gulf Coast...
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The 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has been described as the worst environmental disaster in the United States, releasing about...
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rebranding of the Standard Oil Company of California since its own acquisition of Gulf Oil. ExxonMobil is mostly composed of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey...
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the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (a predecessor of BP), Shell plc, three of Chevron's predecessors (Standard Oil of California, Gulf Oil and Texaco), and...
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The Kuwait Gulf Oil Company (KGOC) is a national oil company in the State of Kuwait. KGOC operates under Kuwait Petroleum Corporation. It manages Kuwait's...
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concession. He found help from Gulf Oil. In 1927, Gulf Oil took control of the concessions that Holmes made years ago. But Gulf Oil was a partner in the Iraq...
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have been three major oil spills in the Gulf of Mexico: The Ixtoc I oil spill, from June 1979 to March 1980 The Deepwater Horizon oil spill, from April 2010...
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with 21,000 ships crossing the gulf annually. This route is often used for the delivery of Persian Gulf oil, making the gulf an integral waterway in the...
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Horizon oil spill (also referred to as the BP oil spill, the Gulf of Mexico oil spill or the Macondo blowout). It was a massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico...
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Deepwater Horizon (redirect from Deepwater Horizon oil rig)
1 bn for US oil spill claims". Reuters. 2 September 2014. Retrieved 3 September 2014. "BP found "grossly negligent' in Gulf of Mexico oil spill". New...
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called the Canadian Gulf Oil Company. In 1956 Canadian Gulf Oil merged with the British American Oil Company (of which Gulf Oil was the controlling shareholder)...
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features of the city and is named for the Gulf Oil Corporation. Built as the headquarters for the Gulf Oil Company, the structure was designed by the...
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(1876–1950). By the 1950s, the Gulf Oil Corporation of Pittsburgh had become British American's controlling shareholder. In 1956 Gulf merged its Canadian subsidiary...
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the brackish coastal areas of the gulf. In 1937, Pure Oil Company (now Chevron Corporation) and its partner Superior Oil Company (now part of ExxonMobil...
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