* Exxon Shipping Company failed to properly maintain the Raytheon Collision Avoidance System ( RAYCAS ) radar, which, if functional, would have indicated to the third mate an impending collision with the Bligh Reef by detecting the " radar reflector ", placed on the next rock inland from Bligh Reef for the purpose of keeping boats on course via radar.

In February 2008, Dellinger represented Exxon Mobil Corporation in the Supreme Court in Exxon Shipping Co. v. Baker, which addressed whether certain punitive damages are available under federal maritime law.

From 1972 to 1999, Exxon was the corporate name of the company previously known as Standard Oil Company of New Jersey or Jersey Standard.

John Walsh, president of Exxon subsidiary Friendswood Development Company, stated that Exxon left New York because the costs were too high.

Mobil, previously known as the Socony-Vacuum Oil Company, was a major American oil company which merged with Exxon in 1999 to form ExxonMobil.

It broke the monopoly into three dozen separate companies that competed with one another, including Standard Oil of New Jersey ( later known as Exxon and now ExxonMobil ), Standard Oil of Indiana ( Amoco ), Standard Oil Company of New York ( Mobil, again, later merged with Exxon to form ExxonMobil ), of California ( Chevron ), and so on.

On Main Street, you can find gas stations such as Mobil and Exxon, as well as a local IGA supermarket, insurance agencies, realtors, a barbershop, the Midtown Motel, Al's Diner, and the local bank, Katahdin Trust Company.

The city was the namesake for Humble Oil and Refining Company, which later merged with the Exxon corporation.

The other group members are ConocoPhillips Transportation ( shares formerly owned by ARCO and acquired by Phillips during its acquisition of ARCO Alaska as part of the settlement between BP and the FTC ) ( 28. 29 %), Exxon Mobil ( 20. 34 %), Koch Alaska Pipeline Company ( 3. 08 %), and Unocal ( 1. 36 %).

The Lago Oil and Transport Company, owned by Exxon, opened in 1929.

From the 1980s to 2003, Crandon was the center of an environmental debate to construct a mining operation at the proposed Crandon mine, a rich copper deposit discovered by the Exxon Coal and Minerals Company.

Alyeska Pipeline Service Company, the company that built the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System in the 1970s, initially was a consortium of BP, ARCO, ConocoPhillips, Exxon, Mobil, Unocal, and Koch Alaska Pipeline Company.

In the early 1960s, Humble Oil & Refining Company purchased Tidewater's western refining and marketing properties, with the intention of rebranding Flying A stations in the western U. S. to Enco ( later Exxon ).

The Tax Foundation was organized on December 5, 1937 in New York City by Alfred P. Sloan, Jr., Chairman of the General Motors Corporation ; Donaldson Brown, GM Financial Vice President ; William S. Farish, President of Standard Oil Company of New Jersey ( Exxon ); and Lewis H. Brown, President of Johns-Manville Corporation, who later became the first Chairman of the Board of The Tax Foundation.

When a fire was reported, telephones would ring in ten locations including Station # 1, Millwood Shell ( which was recently changed back to Millwood Shell after it was an Exxon station ), Deems Mobil, and the private homes of the Fire Company officers.

The discovery hastened the negotiations over the composition of TPC, and on 31 July 1928 the shareholders signed a formal partnership agreement to include the Near East Development Corporation ( NEDC ), an American consortium of five large US oil companies that included Standard Oil of New Jersey ( later Exxon, eventually ExxonMobil in 1999 ), Standard Oil Company of New York ( Socony ) ( later Mobil, which eventually amalgamated to ExxonMobil ), Gulf Oil ( which later merged with Chevron in 1984 ), the Pan-American Petroleum and Transport Company, and Atlantic Richfield Co. ( later ARCO ; eventually acquired by BP in 1999 ).

The original product, launched in 1923 and mainly intended for killing flies and mosquitoes, was mineral oil based and manufactured by the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey before the company, now part of ExxonMobil, renamed itself first Esso and later Exxon.

After almost 80 more dry holes had been drilled throughout the state, Humble Oil Company ( later to become Exxon ) discovered Florida's first producing oil well on September 26, 1943 in the northwest portion of what is now Big Cypress National Preserve.

One of these successor companies was Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, the precursor to Esso and later Exxon, which retained the ownership of the Bayway facilities.

In 1965 Enjay Chemical, a subsidiary of the Esso Chemical Company ( which later became Exxon Chemical ) in the Standard Oil Company New Jersey ( known publicly mostly by the Esso, Enco and Humble brands ) assumed all of the chemical processing assets and products at Bayway.

* In September, 2006, Securities America reached a $ 16. 3 million settlement with a group of Exxon Mobil Corp. retirees for failing to supervise an associated broker.

* Joseph Jeffrey Hazelwood, the ship's master of the Exxon Valdez at the time of the Exxon Valdez oil spill in the Prince William Sound, Alaska, on March 24, 1989.

In 1990, in the wake of the Exxon Valdez oil spill, Congress enacted the Oil Pollution Act to consolidate various oil spill and oil pollution statutes into a single unified law, and to provide for a statutory regime for handling oil spill cleanup.

In 1972, Exxon was unveiled as the new, unified brand name for all former Enco and Esso outlets.

Exxon sold the Exxon Building ( 1251 Avenue of the Americas ), its former headquarters in Rockefeller Center, to a unit of Mitsui Real Estate Development Co. Ltd. in 1986 for $ 610 million.

The interlinked ' X's are incorporated in the modern-day ExxonMobil corporate logo, but the original Exxon logo continues for marketing and station signage.

The Exxon Valdez oil spill occurred in Prince William Sound, Alaska, on March 24, 1989, when Exxon Valdez, an oil tanker bound for Long Beach, California struck Prince William Sound's Bligh Reef and spilled of crude oil.

In fact, the tanker's radar was left broken and disabled for more than a year before the disaster, and Exxon management knew it.

In the private sector he has worked for Mitre Corp., GE, Ford, General Motors ; during the late 1970s Singer consulted with Exxon, Shell, Unocal Sun Oil, and ARCO on oil pricing ; and Lockheed Martin, Martin – Marietta, McDonnell-Douglas, ANSER, and IBM on space research.

The credibility of Milloy's website junkscience. com was questioned by Paul D. Thacker, a writer for The New Republic, in the wake of evidence that Milloy had received funding from Philip Morris, RJR Tobacco, and Exxon Mobil.

* 1994 – A jury in Anchorage, Alaska, blames recklessness by Exxon and Captain Joseph Hazelwood for the Exxon Valdez disaster, allowing victims of the oil spill to seek $ 15 billion in damages.

The Montoneros financed their operations by kidnapping and collecting ransoms for businessmen or executives, making as much as $ 14. 2 million in a single abduction of an Exxon executive in 1974.

When Exxon Corporation merged with Mobil Corporation in 1999, the newly merged company ended enrollment in Mobil Corporation's domestic partner benefits for same-sex partners of employees, and it rescinded formal prohibitions against discrimination based on sexual orientation by removing it from the company's Equal Employment Opportunity policy.

* March 13 – The United States Department of Justice announces that Exxon has agreed to pay $ 1 billion for the clean-up of the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska.

He then served for eight years as supervisor of the state driver's license office in Minden, and he was the Exxon distributor in Webster Parish for some four decades.

At Exxon Corporation USA, for instance, 13 1985-top-of-the-line VS300s at the Houston headquarters were used in the 1980s and into the 1990s to receive mainframe reports and make them viewable online by executives.

In 1991, a U. S. House of Representatives committee investigated charges that a Wackenhut executive, working for a consortium of oil companies, illegally spied on a whistleblower, former independent oil executive Chuck Hamel, exposing environmental damage caused by the Exxon Valdez oil spill.

Levels in this episode include a fast-food restaurant ( Duke Burger ), a supermarket, a Disneyland parody called " Babe Land ," a police station, the Exxon Valdez, and Area 51.

* Exxon Valdez

A figure of was a commonly accepted estimate of the spill's volume and has been used by the State of Alaska's Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and environmental groups such as Greenpeace and the Sierra Club.

* 1989 – Exxon Valdez oil spill: In Prince William Sound in Alaska, the Exxon Valdez spills of petroleum after running aground.

* October 11 – of coal sludge spill in Martin County, Kentucky ( considered a greater environmental disaster than the Exxon Valdez oil spill ).

** The trial of Joseph Hazelwood, former skipper of the Exxon Valdez, begins in Anchorage, Alaska.

January 29: Trial relating to Exxon Valdez.

* February 27 – Exxon Valdez oil spill: Exxon and its shipping company are indicted on 5 criminal counts.

The Exxon Valdez

* March 24 – Exxon Valdez oil spill: In Alaska's Prince William Sound the Exxon Valdez spills of oil after running aground.