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The company was founded in 1966 in Alice, Texas as Pride Oilwell Service Company. In 1978, the company was acquired by Dekalb Corporation. In August 1988, the company was spun out as a public company. [2] In 1996, the company acquired Quitral-Co. Saic, the largest drilling contractor in Argentina, for $140 million. [3] It also acquired Forasol ...
Grant Prideco, Inc. is a supplier of drill pipe and drill stem accessories headquartered in Houston, Texas.Since 2008, it has been a subsidiary of energy services company NOV Inc. Grant Prideco was included on the Fortune magazine top 1000 largest corporations for several years in the mid-2000s [1] [2] and through the 1990s and early 2000s was the world's largest oilfield drill pipe supplier.
On June 21, 1917, the company was re-organized as Humble Oil and Refining Company and incorporated with a capitalization of $1 million. [7] William Stamps Farish II (1881–1942), was the primary organizer. Farish served as vice president for five years and, in 1922, he became the president of Humble Oil and Refining Co.
The ExxonMobil Building (also known as Exxon Tower, and formerly as Humble Oil Building) at 800 Bell Street in Houston, Texas is a 45-story, 1,200,000 sq ft (110,000 m 2) skyscraper built in 1963, designed by Welton Becket & Associates. [1]
The Humble Oil Building, is a historic office building, designed in the Italian Renaissance architecture style, [2] located at 1212 Main Street in Houston, Texas and listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It was constructed by Humble Oil and Refining Company in 1921. The tower section was added on to the building in 1936.
Within two years, on July 31, 1935, the stockholders sold Yount-Lee Oil Company for $46.2 million to Houston attorney, Wright Francis Morrow, who immediately began to parcel off the assets. Stanolind Oil, later a part of Amoco , bought most of the oil inventory and oil-producing properties for over $41 million, which at the time represented one ...
Oct. 2, 2007: The implosion of the Wildcatter ride at Six Flags Over Texas as viewed from the oil derrick tower. The park imploded the ride to make room for its new ride for the 2008 season, the ...
Motiva Enterprises, LLC is an American company that operates as a wholly owned US subsidiary of Saudi Aramco. Headquartered in Houston , Texas , it had revenue of $37 Billion. [ 5 ] Motiva operates as a distributor of Shell and 76 branded gasolines within its operating territory.