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	Standard Oil - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Standard Oil Trust quickly attracted attention from antitrust authorities and the Ohio Attorney General filed and won an antitrust suit in 1892.
		Standard Oil, being formed well before the discovery of the Spindletop oil field and a demand for oil other than for heat and light, was well placed to control the growth of the oil business.
		Oil literally could not leave the oil field unless Standard Oil agreed to move it: the "posted price" for oil was the price that Standard Oil agents printed on flyers that were nailed to posts in oil producing areas, and producers were in a take-it-or-leave-it position.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Standard_Oil (1110 words)

	Standard Oil -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Standard Oil (1863 - 1911) was an (Click link for more info and facts about oil refining) oil refining organization founded by (United States industrialist who made a fortune in the oil business and gave half of it away (1839-1937)) John D. Rockefeller (1839-1937) and partners beginning in 1863.
		Standard Oil, by this time, was often not appreciated by the its competitors and some of the public.
		Standard Oil, formed well before the discovery of (Click link for more info and facts about Spindletop) Spindletop and a demand for oil other than for heat and light, was well placed to control the growth of the oil business.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/st/standard_oil.htm (1325 words)

	Information On: Standard Oil (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Standard Oil, formed well before the discovery of Spindletop and a demand for oil other than for heat and light, was well placed to control the growth of the oil business.
		The Standard Oil, seller of oil to the people, which was made up of many sub-corporations either by actual ownership or by ownership of their stock or bonds; 2.
		The "Standard Oil" man was constantly reminded in a thousand and one ways that punishment for disloyalty is sure and terrible, and that in no corner of the earth can he escape it, nor can any power on earth protect him from it.
	www.informationslurp.com /List_of_american_companies/Standard_oil.html (947 words)

	Saudi Aramco - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Standard Oil of California passed this concession to an affiliate called California-Arabian Standard Oil Co. (Casoc).
		After a long search for oil that lasted around four years without success, the first accomplishment they had was in Dhahran in 1938, a well referred to as Dammam number 7.
		In 1948 Standard Oil of California and the Texas Oil Company were joined as investors by Standard Oil of New Jersey who purchased 30% of the company, and Socony Vacuum who purchased 10% of the company, leaving Standard Oil of California and the Texas Oil Company with equal 30% shares.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Saudi_Aramco (1312 words)

	Standard oil antitrust (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Standard Oil did well after the 1911 breakup because it was still the...
		Standard Oil Trust attracted attention from antitrust authorities and the OhioAttorney General filed and won an antitrust suit in 1892.
		Standard Oil Trust attracted attention from antitrust authorities and the OhioOhiois a Midwestern state in the northeastern corner of the United States.
	www.dresspageant.com /standard+oil+antitrust.html (1135 words)

	Chronolgy of Oil Events (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Oil sands are mined and the oil extracted at Pechelbronn field in Alsace, France.
		Oil is collected from tunnels dug at Sulphur Mountain in Ventura County by the brothers of railroad baron Leland Stanford, the same year that these techniques are applied to the Pechelbronn oil mine in France.
		At the height of the industry in 1856, sperm oil sold for $1.77 a gallon, and the United States was producing 4 to 5 million gallons of spermaceti and 6 to 10 million gallons of train oil annually.
	www.sjgs.com /history.html (2997 words)

	A People’s History of the United States
		Due in part to catastrophes like the oil spill from the Exxon Valdez on March 24th 1989 and the recent increase in reporting on Global Warming, by now most people are at least passively aware of the environmental dangers involved with the world’s dependency on oil.
		The Standard Oil Trust was dissolved under court order in 1911 creating many smaller regional companies, including Standard Oil of New Jersey (Exxon), Standard Oil of New York (Mobil), Standard Oil of California (Chevron), Standard Oil of Ohio (Sohio), Standard Oil of Indiana (Amoco), Continental Oil (Conoco), and Atlantic Oil (ARCO).
		These giant oil companies have a long and continuing history of abusing the human rights of the people on whose land they drill for oil as well as showing a careless disregard for the environment.
	web.mit.edu /thistle/www/v13/3/oil.html (1752 words)

	A History of the Standard Oil Company
		Republic Oil was dissolved and its assets sold to Indiana Standard, Ohio Standard, and Waters-Pierce.
		Standard Oil of Colorado was chartered in Denver in 1922, the unused charter was recinded in 1926.
		Esso Standard Oil (Jersey Standard) didn't care to have motorists confused, considering it was operating Esso stations in the state at the time and spending significant funds on advertising.
	www.us-highways.com /sohist.htm (1862 words)

	Standard Oil Today
		The former Standards consolidate further to compete in the global petroleum market, and marketing as Standard in the United States is not in the picture.
		In 1991, Standard Oil disappeared in Ohio, the red, white and blue re-done in green, silver, and yellow as BP.
		It purchased Sing Oil in 1990 and Omega Oil of Ohio in 1996.
	www.us-highways.com /sohist1999.htm (2993 words)

	Oil
		The Seneca Oil Spring is located near the spillway end of Cuba Lake on the Oil Spring Indian Reservation.
		August 5, 1882 - Standard Oil Company of New Jersey was established as part of the giant Standard Oil Trust, first great monopoly in American history, eventually acquired 90 percent of the world's oil refining capacity before ordered to dissolve in 1892.
		Oil Baron of the Southwest: Edward L. Doheny and the Development of the Petroleum Industry in California and Mexico.
	www.kipnotes.com /Oil.htm (4556 words)

	John D Rockefeller and Standard Oil. The nightmare begins...
		Of this amount about twenty million were made by the Standard Oil Company; fully a third of the balance was produced by the Tidewater Company, of which the Standard holds a large minority stock, and which for twenty years has had a running arrangement with the Standard.
		The truth is the Standard Oil Company is trying to meet the competition of the low-grade Oriental and Russian oils with high-grade American oil - the crude being kept as low as possible, and the domestic market being made to pay for the foreign cutting.
		How often does one hear it argued, the Standard Oil Company is simply an inevitable result of economic conditions; that is, given the practices of the oil-bearing railroads in 1872 and the elements of speculation and the over-refining in the oil business, there was nothing for Mr.
	www.bilderberg.org /whatafel.htm (8895 words)

	John D Rockefeller and Standard Oil. The nightmare begins...
		In the late 19th century the oil industry was a free-for-all, the law of the jungle ruled.
		These 'in harmony' deals meant those refineries and oil traders not 'in harmony' with standard would find that railroads would refuse point blank to move their oil, whatever the price.
		Oil, of course, is free at source, so once the investment in refining and extraction plant has been made the only really important cost was transportation.
	www.geocities.com /capitolhill/congress/7727/whatafel.htm (936 words)

	Standard Oil Co. v. U. S. (1911) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Such decree was entered upon a bill filed by the United States under authority of the act of July 2, 1890, known as the antitrust act, and had for its object the enforcement of the provisions of that act.
		The decree was against seven individual defendants, the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, thirty-six domestic companies, and one foreign company which the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey controls by stock ownership; these thirty-eight corporate defendants being held to be parties to the combination found to exist.
		[42] I concur in holding that the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey and its subsidiary companies constitute a combination in restraint of interstate commerce, and that they have attempted to monopolize and have monopolized parts of such commerce, - all in violation of what is known as the antitrust act of 1890.
	www.ripon.edu /faculty/bowenj/antitrust/stdoilnj.htm (3443 words)

	ipedia.com: Standard Oil Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Perhaps the most infamous action of Standard Oil was its involvement with IG Farben.
		The Standard Oil, seller of oil to the people, which was made up of many sub-corporations either by actual ownership or by ownership of their stock or bonds;
		Standard Oil of Kentucky - or Kyso was acquired by Standard Oil of California - now part of ChevronTexaco
	www.ipedia.com /standard_oil.html (967 words)

	Chevron : The Big Oil Boys
		It traces its history back to John D. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil trust; it has benefited from the Middle East’s massive petroleum reserves; it capitalized on the mergers-and-acquisitions wave that swept the oil industry in the 1980s; and it has a dismal environmental record.
		It is the largest combined oil and natural gas producer in the lower 48 U.S. states, largely due to its extensive operations in the Gulf of Mexico.
		Its reserves at the end of 1990 were 2.8 billion barrels of crude oil, condensate and natural gas liquids and 9.3 trillion cubic feet of natural gas.
	multinationalmonitor.org /hyper/issues/1992a/04/mm0492_11.htm.save (2907 words)

	Cold War (1953-1962)
		Since the region contained the world's largest oil reserves, the U.S. was concerned about the stability and friendliness of the Arab regimes in the area, upon which the health of the U.S. economy grew to depend.
		Through the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (AIOC), the British had a monopoly on transporting pumping, refining, oil in most of Iran.
		The original American plan for the Middle East was to form a defensive perimeter along the north of the region.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/c/co/cold_war__1953_1962_.html (6768 words)

	Chevron 125th Anniversary - Non-Flash Timeline
		Scofield is a pioneer of the California oil industry, developing the state's first commercial field at Pico Canyon in 1876 and that year becoming co-founder of the California Star Oil Works, which is acquired by the Pacific Coast Oil Co. on Sept. 10, 1879.
		She is among several aviators who gain publicity for Standard Oil Co. of California by using company products in their record-making flights.
		Margaret Binkley is one of the first female geologists at the Standard Oil Co. of California laboratory in Taft, California.
	www.chevron.com /history/timeline/timeline_noflash.asp?timeline=people (1541 words)

	GrandPrix.com > GP Encyclopedia > Fuel > ChevronTexaco
		When a big oil field was discovered in 1901 Cullinan concluded he would make more money selling oil drilled by others rather than drilling himself and, with the support of New York banker Arnold Schlaet he formed Texas Fuel in 1902.
		When Standard Oil was broken up by the Supreme Court in 1911, the company's West Coast operations were lumped together in the Standard Oil Company of California.
		After the oil crisis in 1973 Caltex lost most of its Saudi holdings to nationalisation and in 1980 Aramco was taken over by the Saudi government.
	www.grandprix.com /gpe/fue-013.html (1013 words)

	57 Wn.2d 56, STANDARD OIL COMPANY OF CALIFORNIA, Respondent, v. THE STATE OF WASHINGTON, Appellant
		Finally, resorting to the rule that a judgment will not be reversed if it can be sustained upon any ground urged before the trial court, the plaintiff proposes that the law in question is forbidden by the United States constitution because it constitutes an undue burden on interstate commerce.
		The case which it claims to be controlling, is Standard Oil Co. v.
		[11] It will be seen that the court in that case did not say that the oil had gained no intrastate character, but simply said that it had not been deprived of its interstate character for purposes of the act.
	www.mrsc.org /mc/courts/supreme/057wn2d/057wn2d0056.htm (2687 words)

	Mohammed Mossadegh hero file
		Iran's economy becomes more and more centred on the production of crude oil from the country's vast reserves, which by the end of the century are estimated at between 89.7 and 99.1 billion barrels, ranking them as the fourth or fifth largest in the world.
		The term of the contract is also extended to the end of 1993, when all oil facilities, including the refinery at Abadan, are to revert to the Iranian Government.
		Under an agreement reached between the government and a consortium of eight foreign oil companies, industry control of the oil companies is restored, but the government's share of income is greatly increased to approximately one-half of the net profits.
	www.moreorless.au.com /heroes/mossadegh.html (4559 words)

	ANCIENNES CARTES ROUTIERES DE FRANCE
		In 1911, the US Supreme Court decided that the monopoly was not in the best interest of the public, and ordered Standard to dissolve into 30 or so separate companies with no ties to the others whatsoever.
		Standard of Kentucky sued Humble, claiming that Esso was a derivative of Standard Oil and had no right to use that name in their territory.
		In 1973, Humble oil became Exxon corporation; all Esso, Enco, and Humble stations in the US were converted to Exxon.
	oldmaps.free.fr /oil/standard.htm (545 words)

	The Saudi Arabian Information Resource - Saudi Aramco: Summary Chronography
		Standard Oil of New Jersey (now Exxon) and Socony-Vacuum Oil (now Mobil) join Socal and Texaco as owners of Aramco.
		East-West Crude Oil Pipeline expansion project is completed, boosting capacity to 3.2 million barrels per day (bpd).
		High-quality oil and gas are discovered south of Riyadh - the first find outside original operating area.
	www.saudinf.com /main/d199.htm (351 words)

	d107
		In August 1991, Captain ******** was appointed by the Administrator of the Office of Oil** Spill Prevention and Response (OSPR) of the Department of Fish and Game to be the pilot representative on the then forming Harbor Safety Committee for the Los Angeles and Long Beach Harbor complex.
		Served as Master of a coastwise trade tank vessel of 19,000 DWT, operated by Standard Oil Co. of California.
		Worked closely with the State of California Office of Oil Spill Prevention and Response (OSPR) as a member and, subsequent to 1992, as chairman, of the Harbor Safety Committee for the Harbors of Los Angeles and Long Beach and surrounding waters.
	www.marlegal.com /d107.htm (1195 words)

	TIME Magazine Archive Article -- Standard Oil Absorbs -- Jan. 04, 1926 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Joint statements of Kenneth R. Kingsbury, President of the Standard Oil Co. of California, and Henry W. De Forest, Chairman of the Pacific Oil Co., revealed that the two companies had been merged.
		If any special significance is to be attached to this one of many recent consolidations in all branches of industry, it is that the Standard Oil Companies have of recent years taken an increasing interest in production of oil.
		Time was when Standard was content to let independents produce, provided Standard could refine all the oil used.
	www.time.com /time/archive/preview/0,10987,728811,00.html (351 words)

	Saudi Arabian Oil Company - Fact Sheet - Hoover's
		State-owned Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Saudi Aramco) is the king of oil.
		It is the world's #1 oil producer, supplying more than 10% of the world's oil demand.
		Motor Oil (Hellas) Corinth Refineries S. Use subsidiary and affiliate information to determine easy cross-sell and upsell opportunities within an organization or business line.
	www.hoovers.com /saudi-aramco/--ID__55881--/free-co-factsheet.xhtml (313 words)

	Rome, Rockefeller, the U.S. and Standard Oil.
		Herbert Hoover (another Standard Oil employee) was put in charge of the Belgium Relief Commission.
		Strikes by oil workers had been a regular feature of the protests against the Tsar in 1903 and 1904, and were a major factor in the 1905 revolution, in which the former Josef Dzhugashvili played a significant, anti-Tsarist role.
		Rockefeller and Standard Oil are the Founders of the State of "Israel."
	www.reformation.org /rockefeller.html (3382 words)

	Dan's SOHIO Timeline
		1881 Standard Oil Trust is formed, combining the interests of 40 companies under a single board of trustees.
		The Standard Oil Co., Rockefeller's original corporation, is limited to the Ohio market.
		Standard Oil of Indiana changes its name to Amoco.
	www.dantiques.com /sohio/timeline.htm (1311 words)

	Ships of Standard Oil of California "SoCal" now Chevron since 1895
		Ships of Standard Oil of California "SoCal" now Chevron since 1895
		Ships of Standard Oil of California "SoCal," [now Chevron] -- since 1895
		The Pacific Coast Oil Company, later known as Standard Oil of California or "SoCal", and now known as Chevron, was founded in 1895.
	www.usmm.org /socalships.html (176 words)

	Cover: San Francisco street map. / H.M. Gousha Company; Standard Oil Company of California / 1953 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		All historical cartographic items are from the David Rumsey Historical Map Collection, http://www.davidrumsey.com/, a large collection of online historical maps.
		RPM Heavy duty motor oil..." and a full color illustration of a sidewalk flower stand.
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	www.davidrumsey.com /maps910022-24619.html (337 words)

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