Listings in Oil & Gas Companies
Anderson-Prichard Oil
The Anderson-Prichard Oil Company was originally founded in the late 1910s in Oklahoma, and served a major role in the oil and gas industry for over the next fifty years. After successful early petroleum oil discoveries in Oklahoma, Louisiana, and Texas, the corporation expanded quickly, building a large refinery in Cyril, Oklahoma. The company later went public in the 1940s and acquired Kanotex Refining in 1953. By 1955, the corporation was listed as a Fortune 500 company. In 1960, the companys assets were broken up and sold off for over $123 million. The assets were bought by a few different groups, including Occidental and Seagram corporations. One portion which included included the Anderson-Prichard marketing and distribution units was incorporated in Delaware as a completely new organization, named APCO Oil Corporation. The initial, family-owned company ceased existence in 1960, and APCO Oil was a completely different company.
APCO Oil
APCO Oil Company was incorporated in 1960 in Delaware, at a time when external investors bought a portion of the respectable Oklahoma company, Anderson-Prichard Oil, obtaining its product marketing and distribution divisions. The company maintained gas stations from Oklahoma through nearby states until its dismantling in the late seventies, and its familiar brand name may still be seen sometimes on independent gas stations in rural Oklahoma and elsewhere.
Chevron
Chevron Corporation is an American multinational energy corporation. One of the successor companies of Standard Oil, it is headquartered in San Ramon, California, and active in more than 180 countries. Chevron is engaged in every aspect of the oil, natural gas, and geothermal energy industries, including hydrocarbon exploration and production; refining, marketing and transport; chemicals manufacturing and sales; and power generation. Chevron is one of the world’s largest oil companies; as of 2019, it ranked eleventh in the Fortune 500 list of the top US closely held and public corporations and 28th on the Fortune Global 500 list of the top 500 corporations worldwide.[6][7] It was also one of the Seven Sisters that dominated the global petroleum industry from the mid-1940s to the 1970s. Chevron is incorporated in California. [8] Chevron’s downstream operations manufacture and sell products such as fuels, lubricants, additives and petrochemicals. The company’s most significant areas of operations are the west coast of North America, the U.S. Gulf Coast, Southeast Asia, South Korea and Australia . In 2010, Chevron sold an average of 3.1 million barrels per day (490×103 m3/d) of refined products like gasoline, diesel and jet fuel.
Energy Transfer
The company was formed as La Grange Energy, L.P. by Energy Transfer in September 2002. In February 2006, it became a public company via an initial public offering.[2] In June 2015, the company made a proposal to acquire Williams Companies.[3] The offer was rejected.[4] In October 2018, the company acquired Energy Transfer Partners and changed its name to Energy Transfer LP.
ExxonMobil
Exxon Mobil Corporation, doing business as ExxonMobil, is an American multinational oil and gas corporation headquartered in Irving, Texas. It is the largest direct descendant of John D. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil,[2] and was formed on November 30, 1999 by the merger of Exxon (formerly the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey) and Mobil (formerly the Standard Oil Company of New York). ExxonMobil’s primary brands are Exxon, Mobil, Esso, and ExxonMobil Chemical.[3] ExxonMobil is incorporated in Texas.[4] One of the world’s largest companies by revenue, ExxonMobil from 1996 to 2017 varied from the first to sixth largest publicly traded company by market capitalization.[5][6] The company was ranked ninth globally in the Forbes Global 2000 list in 2016.[7] ExxonMobil was the tenth most profitable company in the Fortune 500 in 2017.[8] As of 2018, the company ranked second in the Fortune 500 rankings of the largest United States corporations by total revenue.[9] Approximately, 55.56% of the company’s shares are held by institutions. As of March 2019, ExxonMobil’s largest shareholders include The Vanguard Group (8.15%), BlackRock (6.61%), and State Street Corporation (4.83%). ExxonMobil is one of the largest of the world’s Big Oil companies.[9] As of 2007, it had daily production of 3.921 million BOE (barrels of oil equivalent); but significantly smaller than a number of national companies. In 2008, this was approximately 3% of world production, which is less than several of the largest state-owned petroleum companies.[10] When ranked by oil and gas reserves, it is 14th in the worldwith less than 1% of the total.[11][12] ExxonMobil’s reserves were 20 billion BOE at the end of 2016 and the 2007 rates of production were expected to last more than 14 years.[13] With 37 oil refineries in 21 countries constituting a combined daily refining capacity of 6.3 million barrels (1,000,000 m3), ExxonMobil is the largest refiner in the world,[14][15][16] a title that was also associated with Standard Oil since its incorporation in 1870.[2][needs update] ExxonMobil has been criticized for its slow response to cleanup efforts after the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska, widely considered to be one of the world’s worst oil spills in terms of damage to the environment. ExxonMobil has a history of lobbying for climate change denial and against the scientific consensus that global warming is caused by the burning of fossil fuels. The company has also been the target of accusations of improperly dealing with human rights issues, influence on American foreign policy, and its impact on the future of nations.