Marathon Oil in North America, including $600 million in the Eagle Ford and $200 million in the Bakken formation. The company owns 277,000 net acres in the Bakken formation. Marathon began as The Ohio Oil Company in 1887. In 1889, it was purchased by John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil. It remained a part of Standard Oil until Standard Oil was broken in 1911. In 1930, The Ohio Oil Company bought the Transcontinental Oil Company and established the "Marathon" brand name. In 1962, the company changed its name to "Marathon Oil Company". In 1982, Mobil made a hostile offer to buy the company;
George Bishop (businessman) an owner of the River Ridge Golf Club to the west of Houston. Bishop is married and resides in The Woodlands, Texas. George Bishop (businessman) George H. Bishop (born 1937) is an American billionaire businessman. He is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of GeoSouthern Energy, a petroleum and natural gas exploration company. He is ranked #324 on the Forbes 400 list of the richest Americans and is ranked #814 on the list of the world's billionaires with a net worth of US$2.5 billion. Bishop was born in 1937. Bishop founded GeoSouthern Energy, an oil company. He serves as its