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Tesoro's corporate headquarters, completed in 2009, at San Antonio, Texas. Tesoro was founded in 1968 [6] by Dr. Robert Van Osdell West Jr (1921–2006), [7] and was primarily engaged in petroleum exploration and production. Tesoro began operating its first refinery, near Kenai, Alaska, in 1969. Tesoro became the first Fortune 500 company to be ...
Atlantic was founded as the "Atlantic Petroleum Storage Company" in 1866, in the then-fledgling oil business. [2] In 1874, the company, now known as "Atlantic Refining", was purchased by John D. Rockefeller and integrated as part of Standard Oil. [3] The acquisition gave Rockefeller a major presence on the East Coast in his growing empire.
Tesoro Corporation, later known as Andeavor, an American oil and gas company; Dipartimento del Tesoro, or simply "Tesoro", the Italian department of treasury; Tesoro High School, in Las Flores, California, U.S. Tesoro, a 13th-century translation of Li Livres dou tresor by Brunetto Latini; El tesoro, a 2016 Colombian telenovela
Natrona, Pennsylvania, built by the Pennsylvania Salt Manufacturing Company in the 1850s with later additions; Peale, Pennsylvania (1883–1912) Saxonburg, Pennsylvania, founded by John A. Roebling and other German immigrants it was the site of his first wire works in the United States (see also Roebling, New Jersey)
Map of the United States with Pennsylvania highlighted. There are 56 municipalities classified as cities in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. [1] Each city is further classified based on population, with Philadelphia being of the first class, Pittsburgh of the second class, Scranton of the second class A, and the remaining 53 cities being of the third class.
This partial list of city nicknames in Pennsylvania compiles the aliases, sobriquets and slogans that cities, boroughs, and towns in Pennsylvania are known by (or have been known by historically), officially and unofficially, to municipal governments, local people, outsiders or their tourism boards or chambers of commerce. City nicknames can ...
Founded in 1889 by Standard Oil, Indiana Standard traded as Standard Oil of Indiana until 1985, though initially gained control of the Amoco name by purchasing the American Oil Company in 1925. Until this rebranding, Standard Oil of Indiana continued to use both Standard and Amoco as brand names, and for a time was the largest oil company in ...
Pennsylvania oil production peaked in 1891, when the state produced 31 million barrels of oil, 58% of the nation's oil that year. But 1892 was the last year that Pennsylvania wells provided a majority of the oil produced in the US, and in 1895, Ohio surpassed Pennsylvania as an oil producer.