He also risked his newfound TV stardom at its zenith to challenge Texaco when the sponsor tried to prevent black performers from appearing.

The club also had back to back triumphs in the Texaco Cup in 1974 and 1975.

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.

* 1931 – The Texas Company ( Texaco's corporate name ) purchases Indian Oil Company, based in Illinois, a move that expands Texaco's refining and marketing base in the Midwest and also gives Texaco the rights to Indian's manufacturing processes of Havoline " Wax Free " motor oil, which becomes a Texaco product and provides the company with a higher-quality motor oil product.

* 1954 – Texaco adds 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.

Texaco has also has also been 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.

Dwight is also home of the first Keeley Institute, the John R. Oughton House, the Ambler's Texaco Gas Station, Frank L. Smith Bank, and the Pioneer Gothic Church.

Brookhaven also was home to one of the first Shell stations in Delaware County, which converted from Texaco in 2004 ( originally opened in 1981 ).

When the television version launched on June 8, 1948, Texaco also made sure its employees were featured prominently throughout the hour, usually appearing as smiling " guardian angels " performing good deeds of one or another kind, and a quartet of Texaco singers opened each week's show with the following theme song:

Texaco Star Theater was also the highest rated television show of the 1950 – 1951 television season, the first season in which the Nielsen ratings were used.

* 1948-The Texaco Star Theater, starring Milton Berle, becomes the first major successful U. S. television program ; The Toast of the Town also debuts

Valero is also one of the United States ' largest retail operators with approximately 6, 800 retail and branded wholesale outlets in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, and the Caribbean under the Valero, Diamond Shamrock, Shamrock, Ultramar, Beacon, and Texaco brands.

In the autumn of 1942, he also became the announcer for Fred Allen's Texaco Star Theater show on the CBS network, but a personality conflict between Allen and Godfrey led to his early release from the show after only six weeks.

He was also one of the founders of Texaco Oil Company.

A joint venture with Texaco to introduce small Superquinn convenience stores at petrol forecourts, SuperQ, also failed.

He also made his One Day International debut in 1997 in the Texaco Cup, but scored 1, making it his only appearance in a limited overs international.

Since Dale Jarrett had taken the seat of his # 28 car, Irvan instead ran a car numbered 88 but also sponsored by Texaco Havoline.

In addition to G-Energy, the company's oils and lubricants are also sold under the Gazpromneft ( industrial oils and lubricants ), SibiMotor ( light vehicles and commercial transport ) and Texaco ( marine oils, produced under Chevron's license ) brands with over 300 trade names.

Chevron acquired Texaco in 2001, and asserts that Texaco completed its agreement to clean up its share of the waste generated by the joint venture between Texaco and Petroecuador, the state run oil company.

An oil exploration consortium consisting of the Venezuelan state oil company, Venezuelan Petroleum, Inc. ( Petróleos de Venezuela, S. A .-- PDVSA ), Cambria Oil, and Texaco expressed interest in the construction of a refinery at Puerto Castilla in 1993, with production aimed at the local market.

All five major petrol station chains in the country operated a scheme during the late 1990s-Esso had " Tiger Miles " ( with Tesco ClubCard points offered as an alternative ), Maxol had " Points Plus ", both of which operated on the principle of getting items from a gift catalogue, with Shell using Dunnes ' scheme, Texaco using the SuperQuinn system, and Statoil operating a cash-back system, " Premium Club ".

* 1985 – Pennzoil wins a US $ 10. 53 billion judgment against Texaco, in the largest civil verdict in the history of the United States, stemming from Texaco executing a contract to buy Getty Oil after Pennzoil had entered into an unsigned, yet still binding, buyout contract with Getty.

His last radio series was The Texaco Star Theater, which began September 22, 1948 on ABC and continued until June 15, 1949, with Berle heading the cast of Stang, Kelton and Gallop, along with Charles Irving, Kay Armen, and double-talk specialist Al Kelly.

In 1948, NBC decided to bring Texaco Star Theater from radio to television, with Berle as one of the show's four rotating hosts.

Berle and Texaco owned Tuesday nights for the next several years, reaching the number one slot in the Nielsen ratings and keeping it, with as much as an 80 % share of the recorded viewing audience.

Its flagship product is its fuel " Texaco with Techron ".

Texaco gasoline comes with Techron, an additive developed by Chevron, as of 2005, replacing the previous CleanSystem3.

Gippsland Motor Garage, Old Gippstown, with 1930s Texaco gasoline pump and signage

* 1936 – Texaco begins supplying the Nationalist rebels in Spain with oil, and continues to do so for the duration of the war, delivering some.

The resulting " Teague " Texaco station design is a functional white building with green trimmings featuring one or more service bays for " Washing ", " Marfak Lubrication ", etc., an office area with large plate glass window for display of tires, batteries, and accessories, along with " Men " and " Ladies " restrooms featuring Texaco-green tile walls and floors.

Sky Chief is dispensed from a silver gas pump in contrast with the red pump used for Fire Chief gasoline – a move that lasts many years until the early 1960s. 1939 Texaco tanker truck by Dodge on display at the Henry Ford Museum.

* 1947 – Texaco merged its British operation with Trinidad Leaseholds under the name Regent ; it gained full control of Regent in 1956, but the Regent brand remained in use until 1968-9.

* 1961 – Texaco introduces the " The Man who wears the Star " campaign with the " Texaco Star Theme " written by W. A.

Hazmi got a recommendation from the mosque for a job at a nearby Texaco station and car wash, a business whose former owner, a Muslim, was known to help young men in need of work.

* 1932 – Texaco introduces Fire Chief gasoline nationwide, a motor fuel that meets the octane requirements for fire engines, and promotes it through a radio program over NBC hosted by Ed Wynn, the " Texaco Fire Chief.

Lead-free Texaco would become available nationwide in 1974, in time for the introduction of 1975-model vehicles.

* 1987 – Texaco files for bankruptcy ; company continues trading under protection of U. S. bankruptcy laws.

* 2007 – Delek Benelux took over marketing activities for Chevron Global Energy Inc. in Benelux, including 869 filling stations, mostly under the Texaco brand.

Texaco was long associated with the Metropolitan Opera as sole sponsor of its radio broadcasts for 63 years.

Other mementos of the past are gone, including the ice plant, which was south of Bridge Road, and the old train station, which now, refurbished and relocated west of Hobe Sound, serves as an office building for Becker Groves and the Texaco station east of the Winn-Dixie plaza.

He was a retired organic chemist for Texaco, having worked in Ghent, Belgium ; Whittier, California, Beacon, New York, and Port Arthur, Texas.

On July 9, 2006, Montoya announced his plans to compete in the NASCAR Nextel Cup series beginning with the 2007 season, racing for Chip Ganassi and Felix Sabates ' NASCAR operation, Chip Ganassi Racing, in the No. 42 Texaco / Havoline Car.

An advertisement for the October 12, 1938 Texaco Star Theatre.

The first Texaco Star Theatre ( spelled Theatre for most of the radio show's run ) was on October 5, 1938.

In 1940, the show became a star vehicle for, with the show re-titled Texaco Star Theatre with Fred Allen and the program airing on October 2, 1940.

He presided over Texaco Star Theatre from 1940 – 42 as an hour-long show on Wednesday and then Sunday nights, to 1942 – 1944 as a half-hour show, until Allen withdrew from work for over a year on his doctor's advice.

He was a smash once the new full season began, Texaco Star Theater hitting ratings as high as 80 and owning Tuesday night for NBC from 8 – 9 p. m.

Part of the problem was variety shows becoming costlier to produce, compared to the Texaco days when, among other factors, name guest stars didn't mind the low appearance fees they got for appearing, because they could bank the exposure they got from even one appearance on the Berle show ; or, with Fred Allen and Ed Wynn in its earlier radio incarnations.