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Texaco, Inc. ("The Texa s Co mpany") 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 in 2001, at which time most of its station ...
List of shipwrecks: 11 January 1971. Ship. State. Description. Texaco Caribbean. Panama. It was struck by the 12,000-tonne Paracas ( Peru) at 4:10 in thick fog. Paracas had ignored the shipping lanes so that it could take a quicker route down the channel. Texaco Caribbean exploded from the bunker oil fumes in its hold. [3]
Five of the companies were American (Chevron, Exxon, Gulf, Mobil, and Texaco), one was British (British Petroleum), and one was Anglo-Dutch (Royal Dutch/Shell). [4] These companies have since merged into four: Shell, ExxonMobil, Chevron, and BP. [5] The nations with oil reserves were unhappy with the percentage of the profits they had negotiated.
Panama Canal. / 8.997250°N 79.591333°W / 8.997250; -79.591333. The Panama Canal (Spanish: Canal de Panamá) is an artificial 82-kilometre (51-mile) waterway in Panama that connects the Atlantic Ocean with the Pacific Ocean, cutting across the Isthmus of Panama, and is a conduit for maritime trade.
11 knots (13 mph; 20 km/h) Lightburne was a steam tanker built in 1918–1919 by Texas Steamship Company of Bath for The Texas Company, with intention of transporting oil and petroleum products between Mexican and Gulf ports and the Northeast of the United States. The ship was named after R. W. Lightburne, Jr., a Kansas City-based steamship ...
The modern oil tanker. The modern oil tanker was developed in the period from 1877 to 1885. [ 9] In 1876, Ludvig and Robert Nobel, brothers of Alfred Nobel, founded Branobel (short for Brothers Nobel) in Baku, Azerbaijan. It was, during the late 19th century, one of the largest oil companies in the world.
WEPEC Dalain Refinery, 200,000 bbl/day. Sinopec Jinan Company, 21,000 bbl/day. Sinopec Qilu Company Refinery, 195,000 bbl/day. Sinopec Shanghai Gaoqiao Oil Refinery, 220,000 bbl/day. Sinopec Tianjin Company Refinery, 100,000 bbl/day. China National Petroleum Corporation ( PetroChina) Dushanzi Refinery, 120,000 bbl/day.
The history of Panama includes the history of the Isthmus of Panama prior to European colonization. Before the arrival of Europeans, Panama was widely settled by peoples speaking Chibchan languages, Choco languages, and Cueva language. [ 1] There is no accurate knowledge of the size of the Pre-Columbian indigenous population.