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History. Postcards depicting Esso gas stations in Tennessee (left) and Pennsylvania. In 1911, Standard Oil was broken up into 34 companies, some of which were named Standard Oil and had the rights to that brand in certain states (the other companies had no territorial rights).
8 Νοε 2024 · Standard Oil, U.S. company and corporate trust that from 1870 to 1911 was the industrial empire of John D. Rockefeller and associates, controlling almost all oil production, processing, marketing, and transportation in the United States. It originated in Cleveland, Ohio.
Standard Oil is the common name for a corporate trust in the petroleum industry that existed from 1882 to 1911. The origins of the trust lay in the operations of the Standard Oil Company (Ohio), which had been founded in 1870 by John D. Rockefeller.
Esso: from "baby standard" to petrochemicals. In the early years, the name - Standard Oil / Esso - could be taken literally. When John Rockefeller started his company, he found the petroleum business in chaos, with quality and price differing from place to place.
Orignated as Vacuum Oil operations in Liverpool, became Anglo-American Oil Company in 1888; separated from Standard Oil in 1911; merged with Jersey Standard in 1931; introduced Esso brand 1934; became Esso Petroleum Company in 1951; changed to modern usage 1999: Esso Standard Oil Company (Uruguay), S.A.
29 Μαΐ 2018 · Background. In the 1850s a new industry emerged when refiners discovered that refined petroleum (which up until that point had been bought chiefly for its supposed medicinal properties) made an ideal fuel for lamps. (It would not become important for fueling engines until the twentieth century.)
Embodying the phonetic rendition of the initials ‘S’ and ‘O’ in Standard Oil, Jersey Standard brings out a new blend of fuel under the trade name Esso.
