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Gulf Oil Corp.Major U.S. petroleum company. Gulf Oil began with an oil gusher near Beaumont, Texas, in 1901 and was incorporated in 1907. The oil well was developed by the Pittsburgh Mellon family (see Andrew W. Mellon). Gulf became the first oil company to enter the consumer gasoline market when it opened a drive-in filling station in Pittsburgh in 1913. By 1923 the Gulf refinery in Port Arthur, Texas, was the largest in the world. Gulf Oil continued to develop oil fields in Texas, Oklahoma, and Louisiana, as well as in Mexico and Venezuela. In 1984 it was bought by Chevron, another oil company. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| The first plant was a JV set up in 1964 between PIC (60%), BP (20%) and Gulf Oil Corp. Getty was bought by Texaco in 1984, the year Chevron bought Gulf Oil Corp. Pickens orchestrated some of the highest-profile takeover attempts of the 1980s, unsuccessfully targeting Gulf Oil Corp. |
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