gulf oil company history
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- Company History. Gulf Oil in famous for being one of the original members of the seven sisters, the original American oil companies and continues to provide high quality products and services throughout the world. Gulf Oil was founded in 1901 at the time of the discovery of oil at Spindle top, Texas. Gulf promoted the idea of branded product sales by selling gasoline in containers and from pumps marked with the distinctive Orange Disk logo.
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- Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill. On April 20, 2010, an explosion on the Deepwater Horizon Macondo oil well drilling platform started the largest marine oil spill in U.S. history, releasing millions of barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico.
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Gulfstream History All business aviation, regardless of manufacturer, traces its roots to Gulfstream. Roy Grumman, co-founder of Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation, proposed the development of a purpose-built business aircraft at World War II’s end.
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- Compare: See the Word Our Flesh Become (“Verbum caro factum est) Translations: In The Ending Of The Year - Version 1 by John Mason Neale from Carols for Christmas-tide. In The Ending Of The Year - Version 2 by John Mason Neale Alt. by George R. Woodward.
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Spindletop History The Spindletop oilfield again boomed in the 1950s, with the production of sulphur by Texas Gulf Sulphur Company (later Texasgulf), until about 1975. Salt-brine extraction became a lucrative operation in the 1950s. In 1963–66 even deeper oil production was achieved with an average depth of 9,000 feet.
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Deepwater Horizon oil spill The Deepwater Horizon oil spill (also referred to as the BP oil spill, the BP oil disaster, the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, and the Macondo blowout) began on 20 April 2010 in the Gulf of Mexico on the BP-owned Transocean-operated Macondo Prospect.il cleanup crews worked four days a week on 55 miles of Louisiana shoreline throughout 2013. Oil continued to be found as far from the Macondo site as the waters off the Florida Panhandle and Tampa Bay, where scientists said the oil and dispersant mixture is embedded in the sand.
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Standard Oil Standard Oil. Standard Oil Co. Inc. was an American oil producing, transporting, refining, and marketing company. Established in 1870 by John D. Rockefeller as a corporation in Ohio, it was the largest oil refinery in the world of its time. Its controversial history as one of the world's first and largest multinational corporations ended in 1911, when the United States Supreme Court ruled that Standard Oil was an illegal monopoly. Standard Oil dominated the oil products market initially through horizontal int
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- Gulf Manganese Corp. Ltd. engages in the exploration and evaluation of gold and base metals. It conducts exploration activities on the granted tenements at Wollogorang in the Northern Territory and Ebagoola in North Queensland. The company was founded on May 11, 1993 and is headquartered in Ascot, Australia.
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- The history of Shell Oil Company is best told through the efforts of its people - people whose imagination, talent, and hard work have produced many significant achievements. Many of these achievements have been historical firsts and stand today as milestones in the petroleum industry. 1912 - 1941. Early Milestones.
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Company Overview of Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation was formerly known as Gulfstream American Corp and changed its name to Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation in November 1982. The company was founded in 1958 and is based in Savannah, Georgia with...
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Deepwater Horizon oil spill The Deepwater Horizon oil spill (also referred to as the BP oil spill, the BP oil disaster, the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, and the Macondo blowout) is an industrial disaster that began on April 20, 2010, in the Gulf of Mexico on the BP-operated Macondo Prospect.
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- In other parts of the world (non-US) Gulf Oil is widely recognized under the flagship-Gulf Oil International Ltd. The Hinduja Group, a private Indian business family acquired the rights to the Gulf brand after the company was acquired by Chevron in the US.
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BP Settlement in Gulf Oil Spill Is Raised to $20.8 Billion Energy & Environment. BP Settlement in Gulf Oil Spill Is Raised to $20.8 Billion. WASHINGTON — The Justice Department on Monday announced a final settlement with the oil giant BP of $20.8 billion for its role in the disastrous 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, raising the total from the initial $18.7 billion settlement announced in July.
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Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation In 1982 the company's name changed to Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation, and three years later it was acquired by the Chrysler Corporation, a manufacturer of automobiles. In 1989 Paulson bought the company back from Chrysler and then sold it ten years later to General Dynamics.
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Galliano, Louisiana Location of Louisiana in the United States. Galliano is a census-designated place on the Bayou Lafourche in Lafourche Parish, Louisiana, in the United States. As of the 2000 census, the CDP population was 7,356. It is part of the Houma–Bayou Cane–Thibodaux Metropolitan Statistical Area.
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Transocean reaches $212 million settlement over oil spill claims In this Saturday, June 12, 2010 file photo, crude oil from the BP Deepwater Horizon spill is seen inside a wave as it washes ashore in Orange Beach, Ala. Transocean Ltd. has agreed to a nearly $212 million settlement with Gulf Coast individuals and business owners over the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, plaintiff's lawyers said Wednesday (May 20). Transocean was the owner of the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig, which sank after the April 20, 2010 blowout at BP's Macondo well.
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- 1. Supreme Court affirmed the criminal conviction of a Gulf Oil Corporation executive for aiding and abetting the bribery of an IRS agent. The agent had been acquitted in a separate trial. (Juries may reach different results under any criminal statute). 2. In 1896 (Plessy v.
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- 1998: ARCO subsidiary (Western Midway Co.) and a unit of Mobil Corporation reaches agreement to exchange oil and gas properties in California's San Joaquin Valley and the Gulf of Mexico; The California properties owned by Western Midway go to Mobil, while Mobil oil and gas properties in the Gulf go to Western Midway.
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Gulf Oil GO(GB) was taken over by Chevron and its stations continued to use the Gulf brand name and insignia until 1997 when the network was sold to Shell, although by this stage a fairly large proportion of Gulf stations were supplied by jobbers rather than Gulf Oil (GB). Gulf completely withdrew from the UK in 1997.
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Latest Anadarko News Anadarko to acquire Freeport McMoRan Gulf of Mexico assets for $2B. Anadarko Petroleum has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the deepwater Gulf of Mexico assets of Freeport McMoRan Oil & Gas for $2.0 billion. Anadarko Names Fielder VP, investor relations. Robin Fielder has been named vice president, investor relations for Anadarko Petroleum. Fielder will report to John Colglazier, senior vice president, investor relations and communications.
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History of offshore drilling units The first “offshore” well, defined as, “out of sight of land,” was started on 9 September, 1947 by a tender assist drilling (TAD) unit owned by Kerr-McGee in 15 ft of water in the Gulf of Mexico (GOM).
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Who Owns the Worldâs Oil? This conception is challenging the relations that have been worked out between global oil companies and Islamic nation-states since World War I. A key event in the development of the global oil industry was the destruction of the last Caliphate, the Ottoman Empire, at the end of World War I.
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Deepwater Horizon oil spill The Deepwater Horizon oil spill is an industrial disaster that began on April 20, 2010, in the Gulf of Mexico on the BP-operated Macondo Prospect. Killing eleven people, it is considered the largest marine oil spill in the history of the petroleum industry and estimated to be 8% to 31% larger in volume than the previous largest, the Ixtoc I oil spill. The U.S. government estimated the total discharge at 4.9 million barrels. After several failed efforts to contain the flow, the well was declared
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History of the oil tanker The history of the oil tanker is part of the evolution of the technology of oil transportation alongside the oil industry.
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History Gulf Racing > History History The story of 'Gulf Racing' is unique and stretches back to the 1930's, but it was in the 1960's that the distinctive blue and orange livery became prominent and the iconic brand truly started to form. In 1966 Grady Davis, vice-president of Gulf Oil bought himself a Ford GT40 and formed a lasting friendship with John Wyer. Nine eventful years followed with arguably the most successful commercial partnership in racing history.
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Gulf Oil Gulf Oil Limited Partnership (GOLP), based in Framingham, Massachusetts, has bought a license for North American rights to the Gulf brand from Chevron. Chevron still owned the Gulf brand, but was making almost no direct use of it.