Conoco Inc.
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Conoco ( ), formerly known as Continental Oil, is an American petroleum brand that is operating under the current ownership of the Phillips 66 Company since 2012 and is headquartered in the Westchase neighborhood of Houston, Texas. The brand is one of the several successors of the original Standard Oil Company ("oil trust" founded 1870 by John D. Rockefeller). Conoco was a subsidiary of Standard Oil from 1884 until 1911 when the Supreme Court of the United States, in an anti-trust legal case, ruled to decouple and break up the monopolized entity of Standard Oil.
Key facts
- Company.location
- Westchase
- Company.name
- Conoco Inc.
- Company.logo
- Conoco logo.svg
- Company.traded_as
- (1998–2002)
- Company.fate
- Merged with Phillips Petroleum, remaining as a brand
- Company.foundation
- in Ogden, Utah
- Company.founder
- Isaac Elder Blake
- Company.area_served
- Worldwide
- Company.defunct
- (as a company)
- Company.owner
- Phillips 66 Company
- Company.hq_location_city
- Houston, Texas
- Company.industry
- Petroleum
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Wikidata facts
- Country
- United States
- Headquarters
- Houston
- Owned by
- Phillips 66
- Industry
- petroleum industry
- Legal form
- public company
- Followed by
- ConocoPhillips
- Official website
- www.conoco.com
- Image
- Conoco Watauga TX.jpg
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- inception
- 1875-01-01
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 2002-01-01
- Commons category
- Conoco
- product or material produced
- gasoline
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Conoco Inc. – amerykańska kompania naftowa z siedzibą w Ogden założona w 1875 roku jako Continental Oil and Transportation Company. Główny dystrybutor węgla, oleju, kerozyny, smarów oraz świeczek na zachodzie Ameryki drugiej połowy XIX w. W późniejszym czasie siedziba przedsiębiorstwa została przeniesiona do Ponca City w stanie Oklahoma. Późniejsze dzieje Conoco to m.in. kłopoty finansowe roku 1929 (czarny czwartek), rola dostawcy surowców podczas II wojny światowej, procesy globalizacyjne lat 80. i wreszcie fuzja z Phillips Petroleum (zob. ConocoPhillips).
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