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Joseph Bell was the first son of John Bell Sr. and Margaret Watson, both agricultural entrepreneurs. He grew up in Farlam, a small village in the Rural District of Brampton, in the county of Cumberland; he had three siblings: Jane (1864), Richard (1865) and John Jr. (1868). [1]
ExxonMobil is mostly composed of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey (Jersey Standard) and the Standard Oil Company of New York (Socony). The two companies partnered on a semi-frequent basis during their infancy before pursuing mergers and acquisitions, with Jersey Standard buying Texas-based Humble Oil and Socony merging with Standard descendant Vacuum Oil to form Socony-Vacuum. [3]
Pickens has claimed that after realizing a more than doubling of stock appreciation for Gulf shareholders (as well as its management that fought him at every turn), Mesa's shares were the last to be paid out by Chevron. The forced merger of Gulf and Chevron was controversial, with the U.S. Senate considering legislation to freeze oil industry ...
A search is underway for five people who made a submarine expedition to view the wreckage of the Titanic, which sank 111 years ago while crossing the Atlantic Ocean to the United States.
Thirty years ago today on September 1, 1985, the 73-year-old Titanic wreckage was finally discovered. The tragedy of the RMS Titanic rocked the world on April 15, 1912, when the "unsinkable" ship ...
What do the Titanic and the BP oil spill have in common? Robert Ballard, the oceanographer who rocketed to international fame when he discovered the wreck of the mammoth British oceanliner in 1985 ...
In a merger completed February 1, 2000, Illinova Corp. became a wholly owned subsidiary of Dynegy Inc. and Chevron's stake increased up to 28%. [38] However, in May 2007, Chevron sold its stake in the company for approximately $985 million, resulting in a gain of $680 million.
Prior to the merger with Chevron, Texaco's headquarters was a 750,000-square-foot (70,000 m 2) building in Harrison, in Westchester County, New York, near to White Plains. [ 49 ] [ 50 ] In 2002, Chevron Corporation sold the former Texaco Headquarters to Morgan Stanley .