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Certificate Type | Common/Cumulative Preferred Stock |
Date Issued | 1960's |
Canceled | Yes |
Printer | American Bank Note Company |
Signatures | Machine printed |
Notable | NA |
Approximate Measurements |
12" (w) by 8" (h) |
Product Images | Representative of the piece you will receive |
Guaranteed Authentic | Yes |
![]() In 1963 Atlantic purchased the Hondo Oil & Gas Company, a small oil producer in the Western states, from Robert O. Anderson, who took a seat on Atlantic's Board of Directors. Two years later, Anderson was elected chairman. A visionary businessman, Anderson, along with President Thornton F. Bradshaw, guided the company through two significant mergers. The first was with Richfield Oil Corporation. Founded in 1905, Richfield grew quickly into one of the West Coast's leading gasoline marketers, with its own refineries and production properties. Gas wars and financial setbacks pushed Richfield into receivership in the early 1930s. The firm was reorganized in 1936 and once again captured an important share of the gasoline market. In its merger with Atlantic Refining Company on January 3, 1966, Richfield brought along its Alaskan leases and Prudhoe Bay exploration program, providing the new Atlantic Richfield Company with a promising blend of exploration and producing properties. Merger talks heated up again in the late '60s, this time with the Sinclair Oil Corporation, founded by Harry F. Sinclair in 1916. ARCO was attracted by Sinclair's chemical and refining operations as well as its network of crude and product pipelines. The merger was completed in 1969. In 1968, ARCO and its partner Exxon struck oil at Prudhoe Bay on the North Slope of Alaska, the biggest oil strike ever in the Western Hemisphere. At the time, recoverable reserves were estimated at 9.6 billion barrels, a figure that has since increased to over 13 billion barrels. To prepare for the huge volume of oil that would move through the Trans Alaska Pipeline, ARCO began expansion of its refining and marketing capability on the West Coast, including construction of a new refinery at Ferndale, Washington, and upgrading of the Los Angeles refinery. |
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