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Texaco

Texaco, Inc. ("The Texas Company") is an American oil brand owned and operated by Chevron Corporation.[5] Its flagship product is its fuel "Texaco with Techron". It also owned the Havoline motor oil brand. Texaco was an independent company until its refining operations merged into Chevron, at which time most of its station franchises were divested to Shell plc through its American division.

Texaco, Inc.
Formerly
  • The Texas Company (1902–1959)[1]
  • Texaco (1959–2001)
  • ChevronTexaco (2001–2005)[2]
Type
IndustryPetroleum
Founded1902; 121 years ago (1902) (as Texas Fuel Company) in Beaumont, Texas, U.S.[1]
FoundersJoseph S. Cullinan
Thomas J. Donoghue
Lewis Henry Lapham
Arnold Schlaet
FateAcquired by Chevron Corporation in October 2001,[3] changed to "ChevronTexaco" until 2005, when it became a brand of it[2]
Headquarters,
U.S.
Number of locations
2,000+ (2006)[4]
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Michael K. Wirth (Chairman & CEO)
ProductsGasoline, natural gas, motor oils, other petrochemicals
BrandsHavoline (1931–2001)
OwnerChevron Corporation (2001–present)
SubsidiariesIndian Oil Co. (1931–1943)
Websitetexaco.com

Texaco began as the "Texas Fuel Company", founded in 1902[6] in Beaumont, Texas, by Joseph S. Cullinan, Thomas J. Donoghue, and Arnold Schlaet upon the discovery of oil at Spindletop. The Texas Fuel Company was not set up to drill wells or to produce crude oil. To accomplish this, Cullinan organized the Producers Oil Company in 1902, as a group of investors affiliated with The Texas Fuel Company. Men such as John W. ("Bet A Million") Gates invested in "certificates of interest" to an amount of almost ninety thousand dollars.[7] Future restructuring would merge Producers Oil Company and The Texas Fuel Company as Texaco when the company needed additional funding, which J.W. Gates provided in the amount of approximately $590,000 in return for company stock.

Texaco was one of the Seven Sisters which dominated the global petroleum industry from the mid-1940s to the 1970s. Its current logo features a white star in a red circle (a reference to the lone star of Texas), leading to the long-running advertising jingles "You can trust your car to the man who wears the star" and "Star of the American Road."[citation needed] The company was headquartered in Harrison, New York, near White Plains, prior to the merger with Chevron.

Texaco gasoline comes with Techron, an additive developed by Chevron, as of 2005, replacing the previous CleanSystem3. The Texaco brand is strong in the U.S., Latin America, and West Africa. It has a presence in Europe as well; for example, it is a well-known retail brand in the UK, with around 980 Texaco-branded service stations.[8]

History Edit

1902–38: Beginnings Edit

 
Texas Company Building at 1111 Rusk St. in Houston. The company moved to larger facilities in 1989
 
"The Texas Company" Galveston station, c. 1910-20

Texaco was founded in Beaumont, Texas as the "Texas Fuel Company" in 1902,[6] by Jim Hogg, Joseph S. Cullinan, John Warne Gates, and Arnold Schlaet. On 1 May 1902, the Texas Company was formed from the assets of Texas Fuel assets, and additional capitalization.[9] In 1905, it established an operation in Antwerp, Belgium, under the name Continental Petroleum Company, which it acquired control of in 1913.[10] In 1915, Texaco moved to new 13 story offices on 1111 Rusk St., Houston, Texas. In 1928, Texaco became the first U.S. oil company to sell its gasoline nationwide under one single brand name in all of the then 48 states.[11]

 
TEXACO MOTOR OIL Poster (1928)
 
Antique Texaco advertising, Gippsland Motor Garage, Old Gippstown
 
Vintage Texaco gas pump (1925)

In 1931, Texaco purchased Indian Oil Company, based in Illinois. This expanded Texaco's refining and marketing base in the Midwest and also gave Texaco the rights to Indian's Havoline motor oil, which became a Texaco product. The next year, Texaco introduced Fire Chief gasoline nationwide, a so-called "super-octane" motor fuel touted as meeting or exceeding government standards for gasoline for fire engines and other emergency vehicles.[12] It was promoted through a radio program over NBC hosted by Ed Wynn, called the Texaco Fire Chief.

In 1936, the Texas Corporation purchased the Barco oil concession in Colombia, and formed a joint venture with Socony-Vacuum, now Mobil, to develop it. Over the next three years the company engaged in a highly challenging project to drill wells and build a pipeline to the coast across mountains and then through uncharted swamps and jungles.[13] During this time, Texaco also illegally supplied the fascist Gen. Franco faction in Spanish Civil War, despite a federal fine, with a total 3,500,000 barrels (560,000 m3) of oil.[14]

Also in 1936, marketing operations "East of Suez" (including Asia, East Africa, and Australasia) were placed into a joint venture with Standard Oil Company of California – Socal (now Chevron) – under the brand name Caltex, in exchange for Socal placing its Bahrain refinery and Arabian oilfields into the venture.[15] The next year, Texaco commissioned industrial designer Walter Dorwin Teague to develop a modern service station design.

 
1939 Texaco tanker truck by Dodge on display at the Henry Ford Museum

In 1938, Texaco introduced Sky Chief gasoline, a premium fuel developed from the ground up as a high-octane gasoline rather than just an ethylized regular product. In 1939, Texaco became one of the first oil companies to introduce a "Registered Rest Room" program to ensure that restroom facilities at all Texaco stations nationwide maintained a standard level of cleanliness to the motoring public.

After the onset of World War II in 1939, Texaco's CEO, Torkild Rieber, admirer of Hitler, hired pro-Nazi assistants who cabled Berlin "coded information about ships leaving New York for Britain and what their cargoes were." This espionage easily enabled Hitler to destroy the ships.[16] In 1940, Rieber was forced to resign when his connections with German Nazism, and his illegal supply of oil to the fascist forces during the Spanish Civil War were made public by the Herald Tribune through information produced by British Security Coordination.[17][18][19] Life Magazine portrayed Rieber's resignation as unfair, advocating that he only dined with Westrick, and lent him a company car.

 
Historic gasoline pumps in the Ambler's Texaco Gas Station, Dwight, Illinois

During the war, Texaco ranked 93rd among United States corporations in the value of military production contracts.[20] In 1947, Caltex expanded to include Texaco's European marketing operations. That same year, Texaco merged its British operation with Trinidad Leaseholds under the name Regent; it gained full control of Regent in 1956,[21] but the Regent brand remained in use until 1968–9. In 1954, the company added the detergent additive Petrox to its "Sky Chief" gasoline, which was also souped up with higher octane to meet the antiknock needs of new cars with high-compression engines.

The next year, Texaco became the sole sponsor of The Huntley-Brinkley Report on NBC-TV. In 1959, the Texas Company changed its corporate name to Texaco, Inc. to better reflect the value of the Texaco brand name, which represented the biggest selling gasoline brand in the U.S. and only marketer selling gasoline under one brand name in all (by then) 50 states. It also acquired McColl-Frontenac Oil Company Ltd. of Canada and changes its name to Texaco Canada Limited.[22] Around this time, Paragon Oil, a major fuel oil distribution company in the northeastern U.S., was acquired.

1964–98: Various ventures Edit

 
Texaco gas pumps in Milford, Illinois, photographed in 1977
 
Station in Arroyo Grande, California, 1977

In 1964, Texaco introduced the "Matawan" service station design at a station in Matawan, New Jersey.[23] Two years later, Texaco replaced the long-running banjo sign with a new hexagon logo that had previously been test-marketed with the "Matawan" station design introduced two years earlier. The new logo featured a red outline with TEXACO in black bold lettering and a small banjo logo with a red star and green T at bottom. The following year, the Regent name was replaced by Texaco at British petrol stations.[24] In 1970, in response to increasingly stringent federal emission standards that would ultimately lead to the mandating of unleaded gasoline in 1975, and later-model cars and trucks, Texaco introduced lead-free Texaco as the first regular-octane lead-free gasoline at stations in the Los Angeles area and throughout Southern California. Lead-free Texaco became available nationwide in 1974. On November 20, 1980, the Lake Peigneur/Jefferson Island disaster occurred. Two years later, a new service station design was introduced. Several product names were also changed with the advent of self-service including Lead-free Texaco to Texaco Unleaded, Fire Chief to Texaco Regular, and Super Lead-free Sky Chief to Texaco Super Unleaded.

At the end of 1981 and the beginning of 1982, members of the Medellín Cartel (including the now famous "Pablo Escobar"), the Colombian military, the U.S.-based corporation Texas Petroleum, the Colombian legislature, small industrialists, and wealthy cattle ranchers came together in a series of meetings in Puerto Boyacá, and formed a paramilitary organization known as Muerte a Secuestradores ("Death to Kidnappers", MAS) to defend their economic interests, and to provide protection for local elites from kidnappings and extortion.[25][26][27] By 1983, Colombian internal affairs had registered 240 political killings by MAS death squads, mostly community leaders, elected officials, and farmers.[28]

 
Texaco fuel station in Poá (São Paulo), Brazil, 2009

On November 19, 1985, Pennzoil won a US$10.53 billion verdict against Texaco in the largest civil verdict in US history. This was due to the fact that Texaco established a signed contract to buy Getty Oil after Pennzoil entered into an unsigned, yet still binding, buyout contract with Gordon Getty.[29] In 1987, Texaco filed for bankruptcy. It was the largest in U.S. history until 2001.[30]

In January 1989, Texaco and Saudi Aramco agreed to form a joint venture known as Star Enterprise in which Saudi Aramco would own a 50% share of Texaco's refining and marketing operations in the eastern U.S. and Gulf Coast.[31] In 1989, Texaco introduced System3 gasolines in all three grades of fuel, featuring the latest detergent additive technology to improve performance by reducing deposits that clog fuel injection systems. The Toronto-based Texaco Canada Incorporated subsidiary was sold to Imperial Oil with all Texaco Canada retail operations converted to Esso brand.[32][33] Two years later, the company was awarded the National Medal of Arts.[34] In 1993, several dozen tribal leaders and residents from the Ecuadoran Amazon filed a billion-dollar class-action lawsuit against Texaco, as a result of massive ecological pollution of the area and rivers around Texaco's Ecuadorian offshore drilling sites, causing toxic contamination of approximately 30,000 residents.[35]

In 1994, Texaco's System3 gasolines were replaced by new CleanSystem3 gasoline for improved engine performance. In 1995, Texaco merged its Danish and Norwegian downstream operations with those of Norsk Hydro under the new brand HydroTexaco. This joint venture was sold in 2007, to Norwegian retail interests as YX Energi, following the purchase of Hydro by Statoil. In 1996, Texaco paid over $170 million to settle racial discrimination lawsuits filed by black employees at the company. It was the largest racial discrimination lawsuit settlement in the U.S. at the time, and was particularly damaging to Texaco's public relations when tapes were released of meetings with company executives planning to destroy incriminating evidence.[36]

1999–present: Chevron Corporation Edit

 
A Texaco station in California, 2011

In 1999, the company formed the joint venture Equilon with Shell Oil Company, combining their Western and Midwestern U.S. refining and marketing.[37] This gave rise to the 2006 U.S. Supreme Court antitrust case of Texaco Inc. v. Dagher, which cleared both Texaco and Shell of any antitrust liability concerning the pricing of Equilon's gasoline. That same year, another joint venture, Motiva Enterprises, was formed with Shell Oil Company and Saudi Aramco in which the Star Enterprise operations were merged with the Eastern and Gulf Coast U.S. refining and marketing operations of Shell.[37]

 
Texaco station in Bebington, UK, 2018

In October 2000, Chevron Corporation agreed to buy Texaco for $36 billion.[38] The merger was completed October 9, 2001.[3] As required by the FTC consent agreement,[39] Texaco's interest in the Equilon and Motiva joint ventures were sold to Shell [40][41] Shell began re-branding its Texaco stations as Shell the next year.[42] Around 2003, due to lack of demand, Texaco closed Refineria Panamá, a refinery in Colón, Panama.[43] In July 2004, Chevron regained non-exclusive rights to the Texaco brand name in the U.S.[44] The following year, in August, Texaco introduced the Techron additive into its fuels in the U.S. and parts of Latin America.[45] In 2007, Delek Benelux took over marketing activities for Chevron in Benelux, including 869 filling stations, mostly under the Texaco brand.[46] In 2010, Chevron ended retail operations in the Mid-Atlantic US, removing its brand from 450 stations in Delaware, Indiana, Kentucky, North Carolina, New Jersey, Maryland, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, Washington, D.C.[47]

Corporate headquarters Edit

Prior to the merger with Chevron, Texaco's headquarters was a 750,000-square-foot (70,000 m2) building in Harrison, in Westchester County, New York, near to White Plains.[48][49] In 2002, Chevron Corporation sold the former Texaco headquarters to Morgan Stanley. Morgan Stanley bought the building and the surrounding 107 acres (0.43 km2) for $42 million.[48]

Texaco leased 14 floors of the Chrysler Building in Midtown Manhattan, New York City in the 1930s. As part of the leasing agreement with Texaco the building opened the Cloud Club, a lunch club for executives. Texaco's move to Westchester County in 1977 contributed to the closure of the Cloud Club in 1979.[50]

Leadership Edit

Chairman of the Board President

Elgood C. Lufkin, 1920–1926
Amos L. Beaty, 1926–1927
Ralph C. Holmes, –1933
Charles B. Ames, 1933–1935
Torkild Rieber, 1935–1940
William S. Rodgers, 1944–1953
John S. Leach, 1953–1956
Augustus C. Long, 1956–1965
J. Howard Rambin Jr, 1965–1970
Marion J. Epley, 1970–1971
Maurice F. Granville, 1971–1980
John K. McKinley, 1980–1986
Alfred C. DeCrane Jr, 1987–1996
Peter I. Bijur, 1997–2001
Glenn F. Tilton, 2001

Joseph S. Cullinan, 1901–1913
Elgood C. Lufkin, 1913–1920
Amos L. Beaty, 1920–1926
Ralph C. Holmes, 1926–1933
William S. Rodgers, 1933–1944
Harry T. Klein, 1944–1952
John S. Leach, 1952–1953
Augustus C. Long, 1953–1956
James W. Foley, 1956–1963
J. Howard Rambin Jr, 1964
Marion J. Epley, 1965–1970
Maurice F. Granville, 1970–1971
John K. McKinley, 1971–1983
Alfred C. DeCrane Jr, 1983–1986
James W. Kinnear, 1987–1993

In popular culture Edit

A Texaco station at 6407 West Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, California was used in the opening scene of Cheech & Chong's Next Movie, where the main characters Cheech and Chong siphon gasoline from a tow truck. A Jack in the Box now stands at that location.

In Back to the Future and Back to the Future Part II, a Texaco station in the center of Hill Valley is shown in 1955, 1985, and 2015.

In Stephen King's science fiction short story "The Jaunt", Texaco exists in the future and has shifted from selling oil to water.

Indie Folk band An Unexpected End released a single entitled "Texaco" in 2022.

Sponsorships Edit

Sports Edit

 
Racing driver Nigel Mansell driving in the 1993 CART IndyCar World Series
 
Kenny Irwin Jr. driving in the 1998 NASCAR Winston Cup
 
The No.7 Eggenberger Motorsport Ford Sierra RS500 of Klaus Ludwig and Klaus Niedzwiedz. Eggenberger Motorsport won the 1987 WTCC Entrants Championship

Texaco is associated with the Havoline brand of motor oil and other automotive products. It was one of the sponsors of NASCAR with many drivers, such as Davey Allison, Ernie Irvan, Dale Jarrett, Kenny Irwin Jr., Ricky Rudd, Jamie McMurray, Casey Mears, and Juan Pablo Montoya. Havoline continuously sponsored a car from the early 1980s to 2008. At the end of the 2008 season, Texaco/Havoline ended their sponsorship with NASCAR and Chip Ganassi Racing. This brought a 20-plus-year relationship with the sport to a close.[51]

Texaco was also involved in open wheel racing, sponsoring the Texaco Grand Prix of Houston along with sponsoring drivers like Indianapolis 500 winner Mario Andretti and his son Michael.[citation needed]

In Formula One, Texaco sponsored the Team Lotus in 1972 and 1973, and McLaren from 1974 to 1978. The company returned to Grand Prix racing at a smaller scale in 1997, with their brands appearing on the Stewart SF01 car. Their association with the team and its successor, Jaguar Racing, continued until the end of 2001, in the same timeline they also sponsored ITV's Formula 1 Coverage.[citation needed]

Texaco sponsored the Tom Walkinshaw Racing Rover Vitesse factory team at the 1985 and 1986 European Touring Car Championship (ETCC) under their Bastos brand, and the Ford Sierra RS500 factory cars entered by Eggenberger Motorsport in the 1987 World Touring Car Championship (plus the 1988 ETCC and other European-based championships). Texaco also sponsored cars in the 1987 World Rally Championship.[citation needed]

From 1987 to 1993, Texaco was the major sponsor (through its Australian Caltex offshoot) Colin Bond Racing in Australian touring car racing, first with the Alfa Romeo 75 in 1987, then the Ford Sierra RS500 from 1988 to 1992 and then Toyota Corollas in 1993. From 2000 until 2007, it was title sponsor of Stone Brothers Racing with Russell Ingall winning the 2005 championship. In 2016, Caltex became title sponsor of the Triple Eight Race Engineering car of Craig Lowndes, having previously been an associate sponsor of the team.[52]

From 1984 to 1998, Texaco were the title sponsors of the main One Day International cricket tournament in England, the Texaco Trophy. It also sponsored the Texaco Cup, a football tournament for clubs of the British Isles.[citation needed]

Entertainment broadcast (music or comedy/variety) Edit

Texaco was long associated with the Metropolitan Opera as sole sponsor of its radio broadcasts for 63 years. It was identified as well with such entertainment legends as Ed Wynn, Fred Allen and Milton Berle (many of their shows were originally sponsored by Texaco – see Texaco Star Theatre, which includes the sponsorship lyrics of the opening theme: "We're the men of Texaco, We work from Maine to Mexico..."). Berle's program was broadcast in the same time slot as Fulton J. Sheen's religious program for a while, thus leading to Berle's oft-quoted quip, "We both have the same boss – Sky Chief!"[citation needed]

Texaco was also the sponsor of the weekly Metropolitan Opera radio broadcasts, which air to this day since its inception in 1931.

In the 1930s, comedian Ed Wynn hosted a half hour stand-up comedy/variety show on the NBC Radio Network, billed as "The Texaco Fire Chief", a reference to its regular grade gasoline. This trend continued into the late 1940s, when Wynn was replaced by Milton Berle as television becoming the dominant medium. The title was changed to the 60-minute Texaco Star Theater, which was also broadcast on NBC.[53]

Environmental issues Edit

From 1965 to 1993, Texaco participated in a consortium to develop the Lago Agrio oil field in Ecuador. The company was accused of extensive environmental damage from these operations, and faces legal claims from both private plaintiffs and from the government of Ecuador. The case was widely publicized by environmental activists and was the subject of Crude, a 2009 documentary film by Joe Berlinger.

In turn, Texaco's owner Chevron claims that it was being unfairly targeted as a deep pocket defendant, when the actual responsibility lies with the government and its national oil company, Petroecuador.[54]

Texaco allegedly decided to forgo their standard drilling practices in favor for a minor savings on the cost to produce a barrel of crude oil (approximately $3/barrel). Texaco allegedly dumped toxic wastewater directly into rivers, dumped waste into unlined pits, and created pits that were fitted with overflow pipes to nearby waterways, with pits also never being emptied after the drilling operations were concluded. In total, it is estimated that over 18 billion gallons of toxic waste were released into the Amazon Rainforest. In addition to the liquid pollution, it is alleged that workers burned off toxic natural gasses and some liquid waste, thus releasing highly toxic dioxins into the atmosphere.[55]

Diversification Edit

The NiMH chemistry used in modern hybrid vehicles was invented by ECD Ovonics founder, Stan Ovshinsky, and Dr. Masahiko Oshitani of the Yuasa Company[56][57] In 1994, General Motors acquired a controlling interest in Ovonics's battery development and manufacturing. On October 10, 2001, Texaco purchased GM's share in GM Ovonics, and Chevron completed its acquisition of Texaco six days later. In 2003, Texaco Ovonics Battery Systems was restructured into Cobasys, a 50/50 joint venture between Chevron and Energy Conversion Devices (ECD) Ovonics.[58]

See also Edit

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External links Edit

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Not to be confused with Texico For the novel by Patrick Chamoiseau see Texaco novel Sky Chief redirects here For the 1940s wristwatch see Benrus Texaco Inc The Texas Company is an American oil brand owned and operated by Chevron Corporation 5 Its flagship product is its fuel Texaco with Techron It also owned the Havoline motor oil brand Texaco was an independent company until its refining operations merged into Chevron at which time most of its station franchises were divested to Shell plc through its American division Texaco Inc FormerlyThe Texas Company 1902 1959 1 Texaco 1959 2001 ChevronTexaco 2001 2005 2 TypePrivate 1902 2001 Subsidiary 2001 2005 Brand since 2005 IndustryPetroleumFounded1902 121 years ago 1902 as Texas Fuel Company in Beaumont Texas U S 1 FoundersJoseph S CullinanThomas J DonoghueLewis Henry Lapham Arnold SchlaetFateAcquired by Chevron Corporation in October 2001 3 changed to ChevronTexaco until 2005 when it became a brand of it 2 HeadquartersSan Ramon California U S Number of locations2 000 2006 4 Area servedWorldwideKey peopleMichael K Wirth Chairman amp CEO ProductsGasoline natural gas motor oils other petrochemicalsBrandsHavoline 1931 2001 OwnerChevron Corporation 2001 present SubsidiariesIndian Oil Co 1931 1943 Websitetexaco comTexaco began as the Texas Fuel Company founded in 1902 6 in Beaumont Texas by Joseph S Cullinan Thomas J Donoghue and Arnold Schlaet upon the discovery of oil at Spindletop The Texas Fuel Company was not set up to drill wells or to produce crude oil To accomplish this Cullinan organized the Producers Oil Company in 1902 as a group of investors affiliated with The Texas Fuel Company Men such as John W Bet A Million Gates invested in certificates of interest to an amount of almost ninety thousand dollars 7 Future restructuring would merge Producers Oil Company and The Texas Fuel Company as Texaco when the company needed additional funding which J W Gates provided in the amount of approximately 590 000 in return for company stock Texaco was one of the Seven Sisters which dominated the global petroleum industry from the mid 1940s to the 1970s Its current logo features a white star in a red circle a reference to the lone star of Texas leading to the long running advertising jingles You can trust your car to the man who wears the star and Star of the American Road citation needed The company was headquartered in Harrison New York near White Plains prior to the merger with Chevron Texaco gasoline comes with Techron an additive developed by Chevron as of 2005 replacing the previous CleanSystem3 The Texaco brand is strong in the U S Latin America and West Africa It has a presence in Europe as well for example it is a well known retail brand in the UK with around 980 Texaco branded service stations 8 Contents 1 History 1 1 1902 38 Beginnings 1 2 1964 98 Various ventures 1 3 1999 present Chevron Corporation 2 Corporate headquarters 3 Leadership 4 In popular culture 5 Sponsorships 5 1 Sports 5 2 Entertainment broadcast music or comedy variety 6 Environmental issues 7 Diversification 8 See also 9 References 10 External linksHistory Edit1902 38 Beginnings Edit nbsp Texas Company Building at 1111 Rusk St in Houston The company moved to larger facilities in 1989 nbsp The Texas Company Galveston station c 1910 20Texaco was founded in Beaumont Texas as the Texas Fuel Company in 1902 6 by Jim Hogg Joseph S Cullinan John Warne Gates and Arnold Schlaet On 1 May 1902 the Texas Company was formed from the assets of Texas Fuel assets and additional capitalization 9 In 1905 it established an operation in Antwerp Belgium under the name Continental Petroleum Company which it acquired control of in 1913 10 In 1915 Texaco moved to new 13 story offices on 1111 Rusk St Houston Texas In 1928 Texaco became the first U S oil company to sell its gasoline nationwide under one single brand name in all of the then 48 states 11 nbsp TEXACO MOTOR OIL Poster 1928 nbsp Antique Texaco advertising Gippsland Motor Garage Old Gippstown nbsp Vintage Texaco gas pump 1925 In 1931 Texaco purchased Indian Oil Company based in Illinois This expanded Texaco s refining and marketing base in the Midwest and also gave Texaco the rights to Indian s Havoline motor oil which became a Texaco product The next year Texaco introduced Fire Chief gasoline nationwide a so called super octane motor fuel touted as meeting or exceeding government standards for gasoline for fire engines and other emergency vehicles 12 It was promoted through a radio program over NBC hosted by Ed Wynn called the Texaco Fire Chief In 1936 the Texas Corporation purchased the Barco oil concession in Colombia and formed a joint venture with Socony Vacuum now Mobil to develop it Over the next three years the company engaged in a highly challenging project to drill wells and build a pipeline to the coast across mountains and then through uncharted swamps and jungles 13 During this time Texaco also illegally supplied the fascist Gen Franco faction in Spanish Civil War despite a federal fine with a total 3 500 000 barrels 560 000 m3 of oil 14 Also in 1936 marketing operations East of Suez including Asia East Africa and Australasia were placed into a joint venture with Standard Oil Company of California Socal now Chevron under the brand name Caltex in exchange for Socal placing its Bahrain refinery and Arabian oilfields into the venture 15 The next year Texaco commissioned industrial designer Walter Dorwin Teague to develop a modern service station design nbsp 1939 Texaco tanker truck by Dodge on display at the Henry Ford MuseumIn 1938 Texaco introduced Sky Chief gasoline a premium fuel developed from the ground up as a high octane gasoline rather than just an ethylized regular product In 1939 Texaco became one of the first oil companies to introduce a Registered Rest Room program to ensure that restroom facilities at all Texaco stations nationwide maintained a standard level of cleanliness to the motoring public After the onset of World War II in 1939 Texaco s CEO Torkild Rieber admirer of Hitler hired pro Nazi assistants who cabled Berlin coded information about ships leaving New York for Britain and what their cargoes were This espionage easily enabled Hitler to destroy the ships 16 In 1940 Rieber was forced to resign when his connections with German Nazism and his illegal supply of oil to the fascist forces during the Spanish Civil War were made public by the Herald Tribune through information produced by British Security Coordination 17 18 19 Life Magazine portrayed Rieber s resignation as unfair advocating that he only dined with Westrick and lent him a company car nbsp Historic gasoline pumps in the Ambler s Texaco Gas Station Dwight IllinoisDuring the war Texaco ranked 93rd among United States corporations in the value of military production contracts 20 In 1947 Caltex expanded to include Texaco s European marketing operations That same year Texaco merged its British operation with Trinidad Leaseholds under the name Regent it gained full control of Regent in 1956 21 but the Regent brand remained in use until 1968 9 In 1954 the company added the detergent additive Petrox to its Sky Chief gasoline which was also souped up with higher octane to meet the antiknock needs of new cars with high compression engines The next year Texaco became the sole sponsor of The Huntley Brinkley Report on NBC TV In 1959 the Texas Company changed its corporate name to Texaco Inc to better reflect the value of the Texaco brand name which represented the biggest selling gasoline brand in the U S and only marketer selling gasoline under one brand name in all by then 50 states It also acquired McColl Frontenac Oil Company Ltd of Canada and changes its name to Texaco Canada Limited 22 Around this time Paragon Oil a major fuel oil distribution company in the northeastern U S was acquired 1964 98 Various ventures Edit nbsp Texaco gas pumps in Milford Illinois photographed in 1977 nbsp Station in Arroyo Grande California 1977In 1964 Texaco introduced the Matawan service station design at a station in Matawan New Jersey 23 Two years later Texaco replaced the long running banjo sign with a new hexagon logo that had previously been test marketed with the Matawan station design introduced two years earlier The new logo featured a red outline with TEXACO in black bold lettering and a small banjo logo with a red star and green T at bottom The following year the Regent name was replaced by Texaco at British petrol stations 24 In 1970 in response to increasingly stringent federal emission standards that would ultimately lead to the mandating of unleaded gasoline in 1975 and later model cars and trucks Texaco introduced lead free Texaco as the first regular octane lead free gasoline at stations in the Los Angeles area and throughout Southern California Lead free Texaco became available nationwide in 1974 On November 20 1980 the Lake Peigneur Jefferson Island disaster occurred Two years later a new service station design was introduced Several product names were also changed with the advent of self service including Lead free Texaco to Texaco Unleaded Fire Chief to Texaco Regular and Super Lead free Sky Chief to Texaco Super Unleaded At the end of 1981 and the beginning of 1982 members of the Medellin Cartel including the now famous Pablo Escobar the Colombian military the U S based corporation Texas Petroleum the Colombian legislature small industrialists and wealthy cattle ranchers came together in a series of meetings in Puerto Boyaca and formed a paramilitary organization known as Muerte a Secuestradores Death to Kidnappers MAS to defend their economic interests and to provide protection for local elites from kidnappings and extortion 25 26 27 By 1983 Colombian internal affairs had registered 240 political killings by MAS death squads mostly community leaders elected officials and farmers 28 nbsp Texaco fuel station in Poa Sao Paulo Brazil 2009On November 19 1985 Pennzoil won a US 10 53 billion verdict against Texaco in the largest civil verdict in US history This was due to the fact that Texaco established a signed contract to buy Getty Oil after Pennzoil entered into an unsigned yet still binding buyout contract with Gordon Getty 29 In 1987 Texaco filed for bankruptcy It was the largest in U S history until 2001 30 In January 1989 Texaco and Saudi Aramco agreed to form a joint venture known as Star Enterprise in which Saudi Aramco would own a 50 share of Texaco s refining and marketing operations in the eastern U S and Gulf Coast 31 In 1989 Texaco introduced System3 gasolines in all three grades of fuel featuring the latest detergent additive technology to improve performance by reducing deposits that clog fuel injection systems The Toronto based Texaco Canada Incorporated subsidiary was sold to Imperial Oil with all Texaco Canada retail operations converted to Esso brand 32 33 Two years later the company was awarded the National Medal of Arts 34 In 1993 several dozen tribal leaders and residents from the Ecuadoran Amazon filed a billion dollar class action lawsuit against Texaco as a result of massive ecological pollution of the area and rivers around Texaco s Ecuadorian offshore drilling sites causing toxic contamination of approximately 30 000 residents 35 In 1994 Texaco s System3 gasolines were replaced by new CleanSystem3 gasoline for improved engine performance In 1995 Texaco merged its Danish and Norwegian downstream operations with those of Norsk Hydro under the new brand HydroTexaco This joint venture was sold in 2007 to Norwegian retail interests as YX Energi following the purchase of Hydro by Statoil In 1996 Texaco paid over 170 million to settle racial discrimination lawsuits filed by black employees at the company It was the largest racial discrimination lawsuit settlement in the U S at the time and was particularly damaging to Texaco s public relations when tapes were released of meetings with company executives planning to destroy incriminating evidence 36 1999 present Chevron Corporation Edit nbsp A Texaco station in California 2011In 1999 the company formed the joint venture Equilon with Shell Oil Company combining their Western and Midwestern U S refining and marketing 37 This gave rise to the 2006 U S Supreme Court antitrust case of Texaco Inc v Dagher which cleared both Texaco and Shell of any antitrust liability concerning the pricing of Equilon s gasoline That same year another joint venture Motiva Enterprises was formed with Shell Oil Company and Saudi Aramco in which the Star Enterprise operations were merged with the Eastern and Gulf Coast U S refining and marketing operations of Shell 37 nbsp Texaco station in Bebington UK 2018In October 2000 Chevron Corporation agreed to buy Texaco for 36 billion 38 The merger was completed October 9 2001 3 As required by the FTC consent agreement 39 Texaco s interest in the Equilon and Motiva joint ventures were sold to Shell 40 41 Shell began re branding its Texaco stations as Shell the next year 42 Around 2003 due to lack of demand Texaco closed Refineria Panama a refinery in Colon Panama 43 In July 2004 Chevron regained non exclusive rights to the Texaco brand name in the U S 44 The following year in August Texaco introduced the Techron additive into its fuels in the U S and parts of Latin America 45 In 2007 Delek Benelux took over marketing activities for Chevron in Benelux including 869 filling stations mostly under the Texaco brand 46 In 2010 Chevron ended retail operations in the Mid Atlantic US removing its brand from 450 stations in Delaware Indiana Kentucky North Carolina New Jersey Maryland Ohio Pennsylvania Virginia West Virginia Washington D C 47 Corporate headquarters EditPrior to the merger with Chevron Texaco s headquarters was a 750 000 square foot 70 000 m2 building in Harrison in Westchester County New York near to White Plains 48 49 In 2002 Chevron Corporation sold the former Texaco headquarters to Morgan Stanley Morgan Stanley bought the building and the surrounding 107 acres 0 43 km2 for 42 million 48 Texaco leased 14 floors of the Chrysler Building in Midtown Manhattan New York City in the 1930s As part of the leasing agreement with Texaco the building opened the Cloud Club a lunch club for executives Texaco s move to Westchester County in 1977 contributed to the closure of the Cloud Club in 1979 50 Leadership EditChairman of the Board PresidentElgood C Lufkin 1920 1926 Amos L Beaty 1926 1927 Ralph C Holmes 1933 Charles B Ames 1933 1935Torkild Rieber 1935 1940 William S Rodgers 1944 1953 John S Leach 1953 1956Augustus C Long 1956 1965 J Howard Rambin Jr 1965 1970 Marion J Epley 1970 1971 Maurice F Granville 1971 1980 John K McKinley 1980 1986 Alfred C DeCrane Jr 1987 1996 Peter I Bijur 1997 2001Glenn F Tilton 2001 Joseph S Cullinan 1901 1913 Elgood C Lufkin 1913 1920 Amos L Beaty 1920 1926 Ralph C Holmes 1926 1933 William S Rodgers 1933 1944 Harry T Klein 1944 1952 John S Leach 1952 1953 Augustus C Long 1953 1956 James W Foley 1956 1963 J Howard Rambin Jr 1964 Marion J Epley 1965 1970 Maurice F Granville 1970 1971 John K McKinley 1971 1983 Alfred C DeCrane Jr 1983 1986 James W Kinnear 1987 1993In popular culture EditThis section needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources in this section Unsourced material may be challenged and removed May 2020 Learn how and when to remove this template message A Texaco station at 6407 West Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles California was used in the opening scene of Cheech amp Chong s Next Movie where the main characters Cheech and Chong siphon gasoline from a tow truck A Jack in the Box now stands at that location In Back to the Future and Back to the Future Part II a Texaco station in the center of Hill Valley is shown in 1955 1985 and 2015 In Stephen King s science fiction short story The Jaunt Texaco exists in the future and has shifted from selling oil to water Indie Folk band An Unexpected End released a single entitled Texaco in 2022 Sponsorships EditSports Edit nbsp Racing driver Nigel Mansell driving in the 1993 CART IndyCar World Series nbsp Kenny Irwin Jr driving in the 1998 NASCAR Winston Cup nbsp The No 7 Eggenberger Motorsport Ford Sierra RS500 of Klaus Ludwig and Klaus Niedzwiedz Eggenberger Motorsport won the 1987 WTCC Entrants ChampionshipTexaco is associated with the Havoline brand of motor oil and other automotive products It was one of the sponsors of NASCAR with many drivers such as Davey Allison Ernie Irvan Dale Jarrett Kenny Irwin Jr Ricky Rudd Jamie McMurray Casey Mears and Juan Pablo Montoya Havoline continuously sponsored a car from the early 1980s to 2008 At the end of the 2008 season Texaco Havoline ended their sponsorship with NASCAR and Chip Ganassi Racing This brought a 20 plus year relationship with the sport to a close 51 Texaco was also involved in open wheel racing sponsoring the Texaco Grand Prix of Houston along with sponsoring drivers like Indianapolis 500 winner Mario Andretti and his son Michael citation needed In Formula One Texaco sponsored the Team Lotus in 1972 and 1973 and McLaren from 1974 to 1978 The company returned to Grand Prix racing at a smaller scale in 1997 with their brands appearing on the Stewart SF01 car Their association with the team and its successor Jaguar Racing continued until the end of 2001 in the same timeline they also sponsored ITV s Formula 1 Coverage citation needed Texaco sponsored the Tom Walkinshaw Racing Rover Vitesse factory team at the 1985 and 1986 European Touring Car Championship ETCC under their Bastos brand and the Ford Sierra RS500 factory cars entered by Eggenberger Motorsport in the 1987 World Touring Car Championship plus the 1988 ETCC and other European based championships Texaco also sponsored cars in the 1987 World Rally Championship citation needed From 1987 to 1993 Texaco was the major sponsor through its Australian Caltex offshoot Colin Bond Racing in Australian touring car racing first with the Alfa Romeo 75 in 1987 then the Ford Sierra RS500 from 1988 to 1992 and then Toyota Corollas in 1993 From 2000 until 2007 it was title sponsor of Stone Brothers Racing with Russell Ingall winning the 2005 championship In 2016 Caltex became title sponsor of the Triple Eight Race Engineering car of Craig Lowndes having previously been an associate sponsor of the team 52 From 1984 to 1998 Texaco were the title sponsors of the main One Day International cricket tournament in England the Texaco Trophy It also sponsored the Texaco Cup a football tournament for clubs of the British Isles citation needed Entertainment broadcast music or comedy variety Edit Texaco was long associated with the Metropolitan Opera as sole sponsor of its radio broadcasts for 63 years It was identified as well with such entertainment legends as Ed Wynn Fred Allen and Milton Berle many of their shows were originally sponsored by Texaco see Texaco Star Theatre which includes the sponsorship lyrics of the opening theme We re the men of Texaco We work from Maine to Mexico Berle s program was broadcast in the same time slot as Fulton J Sheen s religious program for a while thus leading to Berle s oft quoted quip We both have the same boss Sky Chief citation needed Texaco was also the sponsor of the weekly Metropolitan Opera radio broadcasts which air to this day since its inception in 1931 In the 1930s comedian Ed Wynn hosted a half hour stand up comedy variety show on the NBC Radio Network billed as The Texaco Fire Chief a reference to its regular grade gasoline This trend continued into the late 1940s when Wynn was replaced by Milton Berle as television becoming the dominant medium The title was changed to the 60 minute Texaco Star Theater which was also broadcast on NBC 53 Environmental issues EditMain article Lago Agrio oil field From 1965 to 1993 Texaco participated in a consortium to develop the Lago Agrio oil field in Ecuador The company was accused of extensive environmental damage from these operations and faces legal claims from both private plaintiffs and from the government of Ecuador The case was widely publicized by environmental activists and was the subject of Crude a 2009 documentary film by Joe Berlinger In turn Texaco s owner Chevron claims that it was being unfairly targeted as a deep pocket defendant when the actual responsibility lies with the government and its national oil company Petroecuador 54 Texaco allegedly decided to forgo their standard drilling practices in favor for a minor savings on the cost to produce a barrel of crude oil approximately 3 barrel Texaco allegedly dumped toxic wastewater directly into rivers dumped waste into unlined pits and created pits that were fitted with overflow pipes to nearby waterways with pits also never being emptied after the drilling operations were concluded In total it is estimated that over 18 billion gallons of toxic waste were released into the Amazon Rainforest In addition to the liquid pollution it is alleged that workers burned off toxic natural gasses and some liquid waste thus releasing highly toxic dioxins into the atmosphere 55 Diversification EditThe NiMH chemistry used in modern hybrid vehicles was invented by ECD Ovonics founder Stan Ovshinsky and Dr Masahiko Oshitani of the Yuasa Company 56 57 In 1994 General Motors acquired a controlling interest in Ovonics s battery development and manufacturing On October 10 2001 Texaco purchased GM s share in GM Ovonics and Chevron completed its acquisition of Texaco six days later In 2003 Texaco Ovonics Battery Systems was restructured into Cobasys a 50 50 joint venture between Chevron and Energy Conversion Devices ECD Ovonics 58 See also EditChevron Corporation Texaco parent Caltex joint venture between Texaco and Chevron now a major international brand name of Chevron Corporation Cobasys 50 50 joint venture between Chevron and 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