As the month winds down to an end, so does this installation of the Company of the Month.
The company that we know as Chevron has many team mates. As well as the Standard Oil parent, there are the Calso and Caltex siblings.
Caltex is a partnership with Chevron and the Texas company Texaco, who is rich in their own history and partnerships. (Did somebody say Shell?)
And how about the 1984 merger with the Getty Oil Company, most people know them as Gulf. And what of their history with their aqquisition of Skelly Oil and Mission Corp?
1947 brought Signal Oil Company in as part of the family, adding 2000 retail stations.
1961, and Standard Oil (Kentucky) was aqquired, along with their 8500 retail outlets, 400 bulk plants, 11 terminals, 15 water terminals, making Socal the number 1 retail marketer in the five southwestern states.
Even Tenneco became part of the family in 1988, making Socaal the largest producer of natural gas at the time.
All of this, and more, gave to us, on October 9th, 2001, the ChevronTexaco Corporation.
