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 March 10, 2008, the Yes Men responded to a letter from BP ( merged from British Petroleum and Amoco ) accusing them of copyright violation, with a letter apologizing for having forgotten BP with the spoof site half-completed and that " BP does every bit as much damage to this planet as does Exxon, Halliburton, or any other more obviously nefarious company " and deserves its own properly completed spoof site.

Standard Oil of Indiana acquired Pan American in 1925, beginning John D. Rockefeller's association with the Amoco name.

By 1971, all the divisions of Indiana Standard bore the Amoco name including American Oil which was renamed Amoco Oil with American stations renamed Amoco stations.

On August 11, 1998, Amoco announced it would merge with British Petroleum ( BP ) in the world's largest industrial merger.

By 2008, the " Amoco Fuels " brand had been mostly discontinued in favor of " BP Gasoline with Invigorate.

It combined the Standard torch with the Amoco oval.

When the " Pan-Am " name was replaced by " Amoco ", it marked the first time the torch and oval was used with the Amoco name.

In 1961, the torch and oval was redesigned with a flatter oval and a more contemporary torch design with the logo bearing the Standard or American name in the U. S. and the Amoco name outside the U. S.

In May 2008, United States BP stations mostly discontinued use of the " Amoco Fuels " logo as BP introduced its new brand of fuel, " BP Gasoline with Invigorate ".

When CICS was delivered to Amoco with Teletype Model 33 ASR support, it caused the entire OS / 360 operating system to crash ( including non-CICS application programs ).

He led the Upstream E & P business of BP for 5 years taking the business from 1. 5mboepd to 3. 6mboepd through the merger with Amoco and the acquisition of ARCO, thereby more than doubling the size of the business and generating $ 20bn / yr operating cash.

Downtown New Orleans underwent an impressive building boom, with multiple office towers constructed to house the headquarters, or large regional offices, for companies such as Freeport-McMoRan, Pan American Life Insurance, Exxon, Chevron, Gulf Oil, Amoco, Mobil, Murphy Oil and Texaco.

He has been employed by Oxford University, Texaco, British Petroleum, Amoco, Shenandoah Oil, Norsk Hydro, and Fina, and has worked with the Bulgarian and Swedish governments.

Yergin's history has 61 pages of notes and a bibliography of 26 pages that lists as sources not only 700 books, articles, and dissertations, 60 government documents, 28 " data sources ", more than 34 manuscript collections, fifteen government archives, eight oral histories, and four oil company archives ( Amoco, Chevron, Gulf, and Royal Dutch Shell ), but also 80 personal interviews with key individuals like James Schlesinger and Armand Hammer.

The current BP operations in Canada, mainly as a producer of natural gas, is through the 1998 worldwide merger of Amoco ( formerly Standard Oil of Indiana ) with British Petroleum.

* BP ( formerly British Petroleum ), successor to Amoco and Standard Oil of Ohio

In 1967 Amoco Chemical Belgium N. V., now BP, was founded in Geel.

" Heirs of one of the cancer victim workers won a $ 2. 75 million suit against BP Amoco in 2000.

A BP in Lake Villa, Illinois using the Amoco name ( since-converted to BP signage ).

Originally, the plan was for all US BP service stations to be converted to Amoco while all overseas Amoco service stations were to be converted to BP.

But by 2001 BP announced that all Amoco service stations would either be closed or renamed to BP service stations, including the remaining stations still bearing the " Standard " name.

However, BP rebranded its gas as " Amoco Fuels ", including " Amoco Ultimate ".

" In addition, few BP stations continue operation under the Amoco name.

Following the merger of BP and Amoco, he became Group Chief Executive of the combined group on 31 December 1998 until 1 May 2007.

Through the 1998 acquisition of the global operations of Amoco ( formerly Standard Oil of Indiana ) by British Petroleum, BP Canada acquired the assets of former major Canadian oil and gas companies, which included ' Dome Petroleum ' and ' Hudson's Bay Oil and Gas Company '.

In 1998, the worldwide operations of Amoco was acquired by British Petroleum, and its operations amalgamated with other British Petroleum acquisitions of ARCO ( Atlantic Richfield Co .) and Burmah oil in 1999 / 2000.

BP acquired the Texas City refinery as part of its merger with Amoco in 1998.

The refinery had also had five managers in the six years since BP inherited it in its 1998 merger with Amoco.

Davis did not field a Busch team again until 1998, when he fielded the # 93 Amoco Pontiac piloted by sprint car ace Dave Blaney.

In 1968, following that discovery, Indiana Standard acquired the Avisun Corporation and Patchogue-Plymouth, forming the Amoco Fabrics and Fibers Company.

While most oil companies were switching to leaded gasolines en masse during the mid-to-late 1920s, American Oil chose to continue marketing its premium-grade " Amoco-Gas " ( later Amoco Super-Premium ) as a lead-free gasoline by using aromatics rather than tetraethyllead to increase octane levels, decades before the environmental movement of the early 1970s led to more stringent auto emission controls which ultimately mandated the universal phase out of leaded gasoline.

More than a decade later, Amoco was ordered to pay $ 120 million in damages and restitution to France.

Younger members who entered the oil industry at this time would gain industry prominence later in the century, with one becoming chairman of Amoco in the 1990s.

Exxon, ARCO, Shell, Amoco ( later purchased by BP ) and Mobil all had major solar divisions during the 1970s and 1980s.

Standard Oil Company ( Indiana ) was officially renamed Amoco Corporation in 1985.

The Amoco name continued to be used outside the U. S. and as a brand on certain American Oil products.

By 1975, Amoco began phasing in the Amoco name in the old Indiana Standard sales territory.

In 1976 Amoco ( under the " Standard " name ) sponsored the Barney Oldfield Speedway attraction at Marriott's Great America theme park in Gurnee, Illinois.

Concurrently, American Oil introduced in 1932 a logo which was the first to bear the name " Amoco ".

This was used by Midwestern station owners who had the option of using the Amoco name ( more familiar in the East and South ) or using the more familiar Standard name.

The final Amoco logo simply changed the name on the logo to " Amoco ".