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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Enco (brand) (redirect from Enco (oil company))
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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History of ExxonMobil (redirect from Standard Oil of New Jersey)
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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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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Esso (redirect from Eastern States Standard Oil)
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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Wallace Pratt (section Humble Oil)
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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ExxonMobil (redirect from ExxonMobil Oil)
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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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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ExxonMobil Building (redirect from Humble Building)
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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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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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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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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Joe L. Franklin (section Humble Oil)
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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Warren Church (politician) (section Humble Oil)
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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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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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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The Exxon Valdez oil spill was a major environmental disaster that made worldwide headlines in the spring of 1989 and occurred in Alaska's Prince William...
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Mobil (redirect from Standard Oil of New York)
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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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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Offshore drilling (redirect from Offshore oil drilling)
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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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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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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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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not-for-profit environmental law firm, claimed that from 1957 onward Humble Oil, one of predecessors of nowadays ExxonMobil, was aware of rising CO2 in...
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companies produced more than half of the oil in the state: Gulf Production Company, Humble Oil, Southern Crude Oil Purchasing Company (later absorbed by...
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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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of California and Pure Oil constructed a platform just over a mile from the shore at a depth of 13 feet. A year later, Humble Oil built a mile-long wooden...
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