Union Oil Co. of California Tuesday offered $120 million in debentures to the public through a group of underwriters headed by Dillon, Read & Co., to raise money to retire a similar amount held by Gulf Oil Corp..

The Portuguese government granted operating rights for Block Zero to the Cabinda Gulf Oil Company, a subsidiary of ChevronTexaco, in 1955.

* ATP Oil and Gas, a Texas-based oil and gas company that operates in the Gulf of Mexico and the North Sea

* Gulf Oil, an oil company

The Standard Oil Company was slow to appreciate the economic potential of the Spindletop oil field, and the Gulf Coast generally, which gave greater opportunity to others ; Spindletop became the birthplace of oil giants Texaco and Gulf Oil.

Although in 1899 Standard Oil controlled more than 85 % of the oil production in the older oil regions in the Appalachian Basin and the Lima-Indiana trend, it never controlled more than 10 % of the oil production in the new Gulf Coast province.

Pei finally saw his architecture come to life in 1950, when he designed a corporate building for Gulf Oil in Atlanta, Georgia.

* 1991 – Battle at Rumaila Oil Field brings an end to the 1991 Gulf War.

It runs in a crescent through Mali, Niger, on the border with Benin and then through Nigeria, discharging through a massive delta, known as the Niger Delta or the Oil Rivers, into the Gulf of Guinea in the Atlantic Ocean.

Safaniya Oil Field, the world's largest offshore oilfield, is located in the Persian Gulf.

Saudi Arabian Oil Company ( Saudi Aramco ) technicians have determined that very deep aquifers lie in many areas of northern and eastern Arabia and that the Wasia, the largest aquifer in Saudi Arabia, contains more water than the Persian Gulf.

* January 8 – The French tanker Betelgeuse explodes at the Gulf Oil terminal at Bantry, Ireland ; 50 are killed.

* Louisiana Offshore Oil Port, a deep-water port in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Louisiana

In 1948 the petroleum concession was given to the Mozambique Gulf Oil Company.

* 1967-General Atomics to Gulf Oil

Magnetic anomaly detectors employed to detect submarines during World War II harnessed the fluxgate magnetometer, an inexpensive and easy to use technology developed in the 1930s by Victor Vacquier of Gulf Oil for finding ore deposits.

In 1948 the petroleum concession was given to the Mozambique Gulf Oil Company.

T. Boone Pickens hostile takeover bid of Gulf Oil in 1984 lead to shockwaves that such a large company could be raided.

Gulf Oil was a major global oil company from the 1900s to the 1980s.

The eighth-largest American manufacturing company in 1941 and the ninth-largest in 1979, Gulf Oil was one of the so-called Seven Sisters oil companies.

Gulf also participated in a partnership with other majors, including Texaco, to build the Pembroke Catalytic Cracker refinery at Milford Haven and the associated Mainline Pipelines fuel distribution network.

* 1988 – Texaco and Saudi Aramco agree 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.

Many other oil companies had operations in the area, including larger companies such as Shell, Texaco, Exxon, Mobil, Gulf, and Arco, as well as smaller operations ( but with a large local presence ) such as Santa Fe Energy, Berry Petroleum, Tannehill, M. H.

He has taken substantial or controlling positions in various corporations including RJR Nabisco, TWA, Texaco, Phillips Petroleum, Western Union, Gulf & Western, Viacom, Uniroyal, Dan River, Marshall Field's, E-II ( Culligan and Samsonite ), American Can, USX, Marvel Comics, Revlon, Imclone, Federal-Mogul, Fairmont Hotels, Blockbuster, Kerr-McGee, Time Warner and Motorola.

The group comprised Anglo-Persian Oil Company ( now BP ); Gulf Oil, Standard Oil of California ( SoCal ) and Texaco ( now Chevron ); Royal Dutch Shell ; and Standard Oil of New Jersey ( Esso ) and Standard Oil Company of New York ( Socony ) ( now ExxonMobil ).

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.

The South China Sea and Gulf of Thailand now submerge the former low-lying areas of the peninsula.

Shortly before leaving he had issued a famous instruction to F. Gaspar Barazeuz who was leaving to go to Ormuz ( a kingdom on an island in the Persian Gulf, now part of Iran ), that he should mix with sinners:

Other areas of the Gulf Coast have benefited less, though economic development fueled by tourism has greatly increased property values along the coast, and is now a severe danger to the valuable but fragile ecosystems of the Gulf Coast.

* Glaucus Sinus, now Gulf of Fethiye in Turkey

Between 250 to 300 million years ago, freshwater streams flowing from ancient mountains brought silt, sand and gravel into what is now the Gulf of St. Lawrence.

The shallow basin that now underlies the Gulf was an extensive region of river valley and wetlands during the transition between the end of the Last Glacial Maximum and the start of the Holocene, which, according to University of Birmingham archaeologist Jeffrey Rose, served as an environmental refuge for early humans during periodic hyperarid climate oscillations, laying the foundations for the legend of Dilmun

During the Ice Ages, the sea level of the Atlantic Ocean dropped so much that the Baltic Sea, the Gulf of Bothnia, and the Gulf of Finland disappeared, and the countries now surrounding them, including Germany, Poland, the other Baltic countries and Scandinavia, were directly joined by land.

Since Hurricane Katrina, Mississippi has removed the requirement that casinos on the Gulf Coast operate on barges and now allows them on land along the shoreline.

Once a coastal city near the mouth of the Euphrates on the Persian Gulf, Ur is now well inland, south of the Euphrates on its right bank, from Nasiriyah.

Carnival celebrations, usually referred to as Mardi Gras, were first celebrated in the Gulf Coast area of the United States, but now occur in many other states.

The Texian Army controlled the Gulf Coast, so all communication with the Mexican interior would now be transferred overland.

The promontory adjoining the city is evidently that noticed by Ptolemy (), but the Caralitanum Promontorium of Pliny can be no other than the headland, now called Capo Carbonara, which forms the eastern boundary of the Gulf of Cagliari, and the southeast point of the whole island.

Their first bus was in the impoverished South Bronx of New York City, but they now operate in 12 states, including on the Gulf Coast.

Gulf's former headquarters, originally referred to as " the Gulf Building " ( now the Gulf Tower office condos ), is an art-deco skyscraper.

Starting on May 10 of that year, he explored parts of Newfoundland, the areas now the Canadian Atlantic provinces and the Gulf of St. Lawrence.

The growth began along the Gulf coast but is now occurring most rapidly in areas north of Tampa.

* Achaea, on the southern shore of the Corinthian Gulf, becomes part of what is effectively now the Athenian Empire.

Later, in 1982, Time Inc. ( which would go on to merge with Warner Communications to become Time Warner ) and Gulf + Western's Paramount Pictures unit ( now part of Viacom ) would buy stakes in the venture.

Originally known as the Mid-South Conference, the Gulf South Conference was formed by six universities in the summer of 1970: Delta State, Florence State ( now North Alabama ), Jacksonville State, Livingston ( now West Alabama ), Tennessee – Martin and Troy State ( now Troy ).