Gulf Oil Corporation
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Certificate Type
Debenture Bond
Date Issued
April 11, 1990
Canceled
Yes
Printer
American Bank Note Company
Signatures
Machine printed
Approximate Size
12" (w) by 8" (h)
Additional Details
NA
Historical Context
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Although Gulf Oil was originally incorporated in 1907, its beginnings go back to the tapping in 1901 of an enormous oil gusher on Spindletop Hill, near Beaumont, Texas. The development of this well was funded by the Mellon family, known for its banking interests in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Following the discovery, Thomas Mellon built the Gulf refinery in Port Arthur, Texas.
The firm continued to develop oil fields in Texas, Oklahoma, and Louisiana, as well as in Mexico and Venezuela; by 1923 the Port Arthur refinery was the largest in the world. Gulf was the first oil company to enter the consumer gasoline market when it opened a drive-in filling station in Pittsburgh in 1913.
It invested in forms of energy other than oil and had secondary interests in chemicals, minerals, and nuclear power.
The Gulf Oil Corporation ceased to exist as an independent company in 1985, when it merged with Standard Oil of California, with both re-branding as Chevron in the United States.
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