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William Grove Skelly (June 10, 1878 – April 11, 1957) was an entrepreneur who made a fortune in the oil business. Born in Erie, Pennsylvania, he moved to Kansas in 1916, then to Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1919, where he founded Skelly Oil Company.
Oct. 21—Friday's edition of the Great Bend Tribune will include a 32-page magazine celebrating the Kansas Oil & Gas Hall of Fame inductees of 2021. Eleven individuals will be honored Saturday at ...
The refinery was built in 1906 by the National Refining Company, which was then the second largest oil company in the United States. Built on 75 acres (30 ha), the refinery processed 2,500 barrels per day (400 m 3 /d) of crude oil, compared to today's 108,000-barrel-per-day (17,200 m 3 /d) processing capacity. In 1944, National Refining Company ...
The first commercially successful oil well drilled in the area was the Norman No. 1 near Neodesha, Kansas, on November 28, 1892. [1] The successes that followed of the Nellie Johnstone No. 1 at Bartlesville, Oklahoma in 1897, Spindletop at Beaumont, Texas in 1901, and Oklahoma's Ida Glenn No. 1 at the Glenn Pool Oil Reserve in 1905, demonstrated the existence of a large oil field in the ...
In March 2022, the company acquired Chief Oil & Gas for approximately $2.6 billion. [41] [42] In May 2023, the company sold a portion of its oil and gas assets in the Eagle Ford shale for US$1.4 billion, to Ineos. [43] In October 2024, the company acquired Southwestern Energy in a $7.4 billion all-stock deal and was rebranded as Expand Energy.
Marland's oil empire was destroyed and he was pushed out of the company leadership and replaced as President of Marland Oil by Dan Moran. He lost all of his wealth for the second time. [ 5 ] He and William Skelly were instrumental in the founding of the Kansas-Oklahoma division of the United States Oil and Gas Association , then known as "Mid ...
The predecessor organization, Mid-Continent Oil & Gas Association, was founded on October 13, 1917, after the United States entered World War I, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, which called itself "The Oil Capital of the World". [1] [2] At its creation, the association worked to provide petroleum to the Allied forces. [3]
Westar headquarters at 818 S Kansas Ave. in downtown Topeka. Western Resources was the product of a 1992 merger between the two major electric companies in eastern Kansas, Kansas Gas and Electric (KG&E) of Wichita and Kansas Power and Light (KPL) of Topeka.