The History of the Standard Oil Company is a 1904 book by journalist Ida Tarbell. It is an exposé about the Standard Oil Company, run at the time by oil...
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operations of the Standard Oil Company (Ohio), which had been founded in 1870 by John D. Rockefeller. The trust was born on January 2, 1882, when a group of 41...
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Following the 1911 Supreme Court ruling that found Standard Oil was an illegal monopoly, the company was broken up into 34 different entities, divided...
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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...
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The Standard Vacuum Oil Company was an American joint venture by Standard Oil of New Jersey and Socony-Vacuum Oil (aka Mobil) established in 1931 to make...
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The Standard Oil Company (Ohio) was an American petroleum company that existed from 1870 to 1987. The company, known commonly as Sohio, was founded by...
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Amoco (redirect from Standard Oil Company of Indiana)
chemical and oil company, founded by Standard Oil Company in 1889 around a refinery in Whiting, Indiana, and was officially the Standard Oil Company of Indiana...
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Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey v. United States, 221 U.S. 1 (1910), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States found Standard Oil Co....
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Vacuum Oil Company was an American oil company known for its Gargoyle 600-W steam cylinder motor oil. After being taken over by the original Standard Oil Company...
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Chevron Corporation (redirect from Standard Oil Company of California)
specializing in oil and gas. The second-largest direct descendant of Standard Oil, and originally known as the Standard Oil Company of California (shortened...
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ExxonMobil (redirect from Exxon Oil Company)
American multinational oil and gas corporation and the largest direct descendant of John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil. The company, which took its present...
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Petroleum Company, was a German petroleum company that was a subsidiary of Standard Oil and was founded in 1890. From 1950 onwards the company was called...
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Esso (redirect from Eastern States Standard Oil)
the name was primarily used by its predecessor Standard Oil of New Jersey after the breakup of the original Standard Oil company in 1911. The company...
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Saudi Aramco (redirect from California-Arabian Standard Oil)
gas company that is the national oil company of Saudi Arabia. As of 2022[update], it is the second-largest company in the world by revenue and is headquartered...
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Standard Oil Company of Iowa was created in 1885 as a subsidiary of the Standard Oil Trust to handle marketing along the Pacific Coast states of Idaho...
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the company was acquired by the Standard Oil Company (New Jersey). After the antitrust case against Jersey Standard in 1911 and subsequent breakup of...
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Mobil (redirect from Standard Oil of New York)
direct descendant of Standard Oil, Mobil was originally known as the Standard Oil Company of New York (shortened to Socony) after Standard Oil was split into...
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suggested the creation of a consortium of major oil companies, several of which were daughter corporations of John D. Rockefeller's original Standard Oil monopoly...
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Kyso (redirect from Standard Oil Company of Kentucky)
(officially the Standard Oil Company of Kentucky) was an oil company, gasoline distributor, and direct descendant of Standard Oil that operated in the southeastern...
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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 Oil...
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Edwin Drake (redirect from Pennsylvania Rock Oil Company)
of the Oil Finders, Tulsa, Okla.: American Association of Petroleum Geologists, p.12. Tarbell, I.M. (1963). The history of the Standard Oil Company....
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Venango County, Pennsylvania (redirect from History of Venango County, Pennsylvania)
who knew of her work, shared meetings and information over a two-year period which led to her epoch work, The History of the Standard Oil Company, published...
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ENOC (the Emirates National Oil Company) is a global diversified state-owned energy group that operates in the oil, gas, and coal industry. Established...
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its pipeline subsidiary to Standard Oil Company (Indiana) for US$72.5 million (Standard Oil had purchased a 50% interest in the pipeline subsidiary in 1921)...
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Henry Huttleston Rogers (category Standard Oil)
in the oil refining business, becoming a leader at Standard Oil. He also played a major role in numerous corporations and business enterprises in the gas...
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Petroleum Corporation. The company sells aviation fuel, bitumen, diesel oil, furnace Oil, and LP gas. Standard Asiatic Oil Company Limited was established...
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Henry Flagler (category Standard Oil)
founder of Standard Oil, which was first based in Ohio. He was also a key figure in the development of the Atlantic coast of Florida and founder of the Florida...
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John D. Rockefeller (redirect from Religious views of John D. Rockefeller)
beginning at age 20, concentrating his business on oil refining. Rockefeller founded the Standard Oil Company in 1870. He ran it until 1897 and remained its...
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Gulf Oil was one of the Seven Sisters oil companies. Prior to its merger with Standard Oil of California, Gulf was one of the chief instruments of the Mellon...
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Ida Tarbell (category Standard Oil)
Pennsylvania at the beginning of the oil boom, Tarbell is best known for her 1904 book The History of the Standard Oil Company. The book was first published...
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