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    Amoco (/ˈæməkoʊ/ AM-ə-koh) is a brand of fuel stations operating in the United States and owned by British conglomerate BP since 1998. The Amoco Corporation...
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    Amoco Cadiz was a VLCC (very large crude carrier) owned by Amoco Transport Corp and transporting crude oil for Shell Oil. Operating under the Liberian...
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    BP (redirect from BP-AMOCO)
    BP p.l.c. (formerly The British Petroleum Company p.l.c. and BP Amoco p.l.c.; stylised in all lowercase) is a British multinational oil and gas company...
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  • Amoco Building may refer to: Amoco Building (Denver) Amoco Building (New Orleans) Aon Center (Chicago), formerly called the Amoco Building This disambiguation...
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    The Aon Center (200 East Randolph Street, formerly Amoco Building) is a modern supertall skyscraper located in the Northeast corner of the Chicago Loop...
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    The Amoco Cadiz oil spill took place on 16 March 1978, when the oil tanker Amoco Cadiz, owned by the American petroleum company Amoco, ran aground on...
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    acquired many Standard Oil descendants, most notably Standard Oil of Ohio and Amoco (Standard Oil of Indiana). Saudi Aramco, the state-owned oil company of...
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  • 17 oil refineries in the UK. By 2000 there were 12 refineries namely: BP Amoco, Coryton refinery (later Petroplus, closed 2012) Carless, Harwich refinery...
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  • name, with Amoco being the last one to have widespread use of the "Standard" name, as it gave Midwestern owners the option of using the Amoco name or Standard...
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    1966, Castrol was acquired by Burmah, which was renamed Burmah-Castrol. BP Amoco purchased the company in 2000. The company was founded in Glasgow in 1886...
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  • to form Amoco Corporation in 1985. Amoco Corporation merged with BP and became BP Amoco PLC (Public Limited Company) in 1998. In 2001 BP Amoco PLC was...
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    Carlin's Amoco Station is a historic Amoco service station located at Roanoke, Virginia. It was built about 1947, and remodeled about 1953 in the Streamline...
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    advantage of the opportunity were Amoco Corporation and Dome Petroleum, neither of which is any longer in existence. Amoco took over Dome after the company...
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  • merged with the Amoco Rugby Club to form the Chicago Blaze Rugby Football Club. The new club would retain the colors blue for Amoco and red for Nomads...
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  • Superwreck. Amoco Cadiz: The Shipwreck That Had to Happen. New York: William Morrow and Company. ISBN 0688069541. Visser, Auke (26 August 2010). "Amoco Cadiz"...
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  • MT Haven, formerly Amoco Milford Haven, was a VLCC (very large crude carrier), leased to Troodos Shipping (a company run by Loucas Haji-Ioannou and his...
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    Company of Azerbaijan Republic (SOCAR) and 13 oil companies, among them Amoco, BP, ExxonMobil, Lukoil and Equinor. As Western oil companies are able to...
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    Amoco Junction was a junction in the Pacific Electric Railway's Southern District. It was located in Nevin, South Central Los Angeles at 25th Street and...
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    oxidant. Amoco (as Standard Oil of Indiana) purchased the Mid-Century/ICI technology, and the process is now known by their name. In the Amoco process...
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    It became the Amoco North Building after Amoco bought Standard Oil Company (Indiana) and renamed all of its subsidiaries with the Amoco trade name, and...
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    of Pan American was merged with Standard Oil of Indiana in 1954 to form Amoco. Edward L. Doheny was a prospector who became wealthy in the 1880s from...
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    north-western France. The village and port of Portsall is part of the commune. The Amoco Cadiz oil tanker ran aground off Portsall in 1978, causing a large crude...
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  • American businessman and philanthropist who founded the American Oil Company (AMOCO). Blaustein was born in Lithuania (then part of the Russian Empire) to a...
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  • Harnischfeger filed for bankruptcy. December 11, 1998 FSR Firstar AN Amoco BP purchased Amoco. December 11, 1998 CCL Carnival Corp. GRN General Re Berkshire...
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    changed its name to Amoco Corporation in 1985. Amoco merged with British Petroleum in December 1998 to become BP-Amoco. BP-Amoco sold the Mandan Refinery...
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    Bush administration. At Lollapalooza 2007, Vedder spoke out against BP Amoco dumping effluent in Lake Michigan, and at the end of "Daughter", he sang...
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  • Burmah-Castrol was purchased by London-based multinational BP (then, "BP Amoco plc") in 2000. At the time of purchase, Burmah-Castrol had a turnover of...
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    until its merger with Amoco in late 1998, at which time the Amoco Canada Petroleum Company became part of the BP group. Amoco Canada was renamed BP Canada...
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    Corporation was acquired by Amoco Corporation. Amoco expanded Cyprus into a diversified worldwide mining company. Amoco spun off Cyprus Minerals Company...
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    with Standard Oil of Indiana in 1954 to form Amoco. BP acquired the refinery as part of its merger with Amoco in 1999. As of January 2005, it was the second...
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