Socony Vacuum Oil
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| legal form | Co., Inc. |
| founding | 1866 |
| resolution | 1931 |
| Seat | United States |
| Branch | mineral oil |
Socony-Vacuum Oil Co., Inc. is the previous name of Mobil Oil Corporation , which is now part of ExxonMobil .
history
The Vacuum Oil Company of Rochester, NY was founded as a petroleum company in the United States in 1866 .
In 1879, John D. Rockefellers Standard Oil took over a 75% stake in Vacuum Oil.
In 1899 the German subsidiary Deutsche Vacuum Oil Company was founded in Hamburg. The refinery in Wedel goes into operation in 1906, followed in 1911 by the refinery in Bremen- Oslebshausen .
In 1911 the South African subsidiary of Vacuum registered its flying horse, the Pegasus , in white as a trademark for its petrol stations. In the following years the horse was colored red (first in Japan).
When the Standard Oil Trust was broken up in 1911, u. a. the Standard Oil Company of New York (Socony).
In 1930 Vacuum Oil acquired Wadhams Oil Corporation and White Star Refining Company.
In 1931 Socony took over all shares in Vacuum Oil Co. and changed its name to Socony-Vacuum Corporation . In 1933, both Socony-Vacuum and Standard Oil of New Jersey (later Exxon ) brought their Far East operations into a 50:50 joint venture called Standard-Vacuum Oil Co. (Stanvac).
In 1934 Socony-Vacuum Corp. changed his name to Socony-Vacuum Oil .
As a result of the annexation of Austria to the German Reich in 1938 and the subsequent reorganization of the industry there, the subsidiary Vacuum Oel AG in Vienna and its refinery in Kagran were incorporated into the German-American Petroleum Company .
In 1955 the name became Socony Mobil Oil Company, Inc and in 1966 Mobil Oil Corporation . The Pegasus brand is simultaneously from left flying on to the right flying turned.
Also in 1955, the company name of Deutsche Vacuum Oil was changed to Mobil Oil AG in Germany and then in 1983 to Mobil Oil AG , still based in Hamburg.
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- ^ Rainer Karlsch , Raymond G. Stokes: Factor oil. The mineral oil industry in Germany 1859-1974. Verlag CH Beck, Munich, 2003, p. 199.