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Keck was one of the first oilmen to move his business to Houston, Texas, [5] and by 1931, the company had wells in Texas, Oklahoma, Nebraska, Louisiana and Venezuela. [6] In 1933, the company was the first to use a reflection seismograph to help with finding hydrocarbons. [4] The company was also a "pioneer" in deep offshore drilling. [11]
It purchased the small petroleum companies Panhandle Oil Co. in 1956 and the American Liberty Co. of Dallas in 1957, in order to begin actual operations In June 2000, Fina Oil & Chemical Co. was renamed Atofina Petrochemicals Inc. and the headquarters moved to Houston Texas. [1] In 1963, the company acquired Cogsden Petroleum Corp.
Enterprise Products Partners L.P. (NYSE: EPD) is an American midstream natural gas and crude oil pipeline company with headquarters in Houston, Texas. [6] It acquired GulfTerra in September 2004. The company ranked No. 105 in the 2018 Fortune 500 list of the largest United States corporations by total revenue. [7]
NOV Inc., formerly National Oilwell Varco, is an American multinational corporation based in Houston, Texas.It is a worldwide provider of equipment and components used in oil and gas drilling and production operations, oilfield services, and supply chain integration services to the upstream oil and gas industry.
Nabors Industries Limited is an American global oil and gas drilling contractor that has operated since 1972. Based in Houston, Texas, Nabors operates the world’s largest land drilling rig fleet, with around 500 rigs operating in over 25 countries – in almost every significant O&G basin on the planet.
CDI Corporation is a privately held US company providing engineering, procurement, construction management and staffing services to clients in a range of industries including energy, chemical, semiconductor and battery manufacturing.
The company was founded by J. Trewhella, J. Ross and H. Green in 1973 at Great Yarmouth as Exploration & Production Services (North Sea) Ltd with the objective of carrying out well testing in the North Sea. In 1986, about 84% of the company was acquired by Flextech from whom the management subsequently bought out the business in 1992.
The manufacturing operations of the company at 2nd and Girard Streets in Houston, Texas, where it was located in the 1910s. Today, the site of the building is on the campus of University of Houston–Downtown. A February 1914 advertisement for the Sharp-Hughes Tool Company in Fuel Oil Journal.