July 18, 1627 - French explorers noticed oil seeping out of  ground near Cuba, NY; Franciscan Missionary Joseph DeLa Roch D'Allion described phenomenon; first recorded mention of oil on North American Continent (Seneca Oil Spring located near spillway end of Cuba Lake on Oil Spring Indian Reservation).

November 25, 1875 - Isaac Elder Blake founded Continental Oil and Transportation Co. in Ogden, UT to distribute coal, oil, kerosene, grease,  candles; one of first petroleum marketers in West; based on belief that if kerosene were imported from eastern refineries by railroad tank cars, sold in bulk, prices would drop, demand would rise; 1885 - acquired by Standard Oil; 1909 - built the West's first filling station  1913 - independent, top marketer of petroleum products in Rocky Mountain region; 1929 - merged with Marland Oil Co.; renamed the Continental Oil Company; nearly 3,000 wells, thousands of retail outlets in 30 states; September 15, 1929 - stock traded on the New York Stock Exchange; 1972 - more than $2.3 billion in assets; September 30, 1981 -  DuPont  acquired Conoco for $7.4 billion; became wholly owned DuPont subsidiary; October 22, 1998 - went public again, largest IPO in history, nearly $4.4 billion; August 2002 - merged with Phillips Co. created sixth-largest publicly traded oil company in world, third-largest in United States

1876 - California Star Oil Works discovered small amounts of oil in Pico Canyon in Southern California (35 miles northeast of Los Angeles); Alexander Mentry made first significant oil discoveries at Pico No. 4; Frederick Taylor, native of New York, kerosene distiller, became involved with company; Demetrius Scofield, junior partner; 1877 - Mentry put in charge of drilling, later made superintendent.

September 10, 1879 - Charles N. Felton, Lloyd Tevis, George Loomis and others formed Pacific Coast Oil Co.; acquired assets of California Star Oil Works (Newhall Refinery and oil properties in Pico Canyon in Los Angeles); George Loomis first President; Taylor and Scofield join company's board; 1900 - acquired by Standard Oil Company (New Jersey); 1906 - Standard Oil Company of California formed to take over Pacific coast marketing area of Pacific Coast Oil, Iowa Standard; 1984 - acquired Gulf Oil Corp., name changed to Chevron Corp.; 2001 - merged with Texaco, created ChevronTexaco, second- largest U.S. oil company; 2005 - name changed to Chevron.

May 11, 1880 - Solomon Robert Dresser, of Bradford, PA, received a patent for "Packing for Artesian Wells"; Dresser Cap Packer, cylindrical packer, using rubber for a tight fit, that sealed crude oil from water and other elements; founded S.R. Dresser Manufacturing Co.; 1885 - built coupling, using rubber for a tight fit,  to join pipes together so they would not leak natural gas; permitted long-range transmission of natural gas from fields to faraway cities; converted to public company;

January 2, 1882 - John D. Rockefeller officially united Standard Oil Company with its various producing, refining, marketing affiliates; formed  Standard Oil Trust, nation's first sanctioned monopoly; $70 million trust controlled 14,000 miles of underground pipeline, all oil cars of Pennsylvania Railroad; (eventually acquired 90 percent of the world's oil refining capacity. Under the terms of the Standard Oil Trust Agreement, brokered by Rockefeller and eight other trustees, the oil giant could be acquired, sold, combined, divided as necessary; August 1, 1882 - Standard Oil of New York incorporated; August 5, 1882 - Standard Oil Company of New Jersey established; 1892 - Ohio Supreme Court ruled in favor of splitting Standard Oil's monopoly (Rockefeller maintained company's choke-hold on industry; shifted its holdings to companies located in other states; 1899 - Rockefeller formally reunited these companies under New Jersey-based Standard Oil Company; 1890 - Sherman Antitrust Act passed; 1911 - U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Standard Oil was illegal under terms of the Sherman Act; forced company to shed primary holdings.

September 5, 1885 - Sylvanus Bowser, inventor of first U.S. gas pump (built in his barn), sold first pump to Jake Gumper, owner of service station in Fort Wayne, IN; pump held one barrel of gasoline, used marble vales and a wooden plunger; patented in 1887.

October 17, 1890 - Lyman Stewart and Wallace Hardison (Hardison & Stewart Oil), Thomas Bard (Sespe Oil, Torrey Canyon Oil) merged properties, formed  Union Oil of California in Santa Paula, CA; 1901 - only Stewart remained; moved offices to Los Angeles; 1914 - Will Stewart (son) took over; March 1922 -  fended off hostile takeover from Shell Oil; 1925 - more than 400 service stations on West Coast; February 28, 1950 - registered "76" trademark first used January 2, 1932 (gasoline, lubricating oils and greases, and diesel fuel oils); 1965 - merged with The Pure Oil Company (lL), from regional to national status with operations in 37 states; 1983 - reorganized, became operating subsidiary of holding company, Unocal Corporation; 1985 - fended off takeover bid by Mesa Petroleum (T. Boone Pickens, Jr.);  August 10, 2005 - acquired by Chevron for $17 billion.

January 7, 1913 - William M. Burton, of Chicago, IL, received a patent for the "Manufacture of Gasoline"; thermal "cracking" process to convert oil to produce gasoline (doubled production of gasoline); assigned to Standard Oil Company of Indiana; first 15 years of use saved more than 1 billion barrels of crude oil; 1937 - process superseded by catalytic cracking.

December 1, 1913 - Gulf Refining Company opened first U.S. drive-in automobile service station at high traffic intersection of Baum Boulevard (known as "automobile row") and St. Clair Street, Pittsburgh, PA; brick, pagoda-style station featured free air, water, crankcase service, restrooms, lighted sign for "Good Gulf Gasoline"; open all night; first day sales were 30 gallons at 27 cents each; December 6, 1913  - sold over 350 gallons.

May 1, 1916 - Harry F. Sinclair established Sinclair Oil & Refining Corporation (assemblage of depressed properties, five small profitable refineries, many untested production leases); first operating year: produced six million barrels of crude oil worth $7.5 million; sold 252 million gallons of products through wholesalers and 87 bulk plants, for revenues of almost $17 million, net income of almost $9 million, paid dividends of $5 a share, assets employed in business increased 40 percent; 1918 - stated value of the corporation exceeded $110 million; 1959 - pentagon border and apatosaurus figure logo registered; 1969 - acquired by ARCO.

March 20, 1919 - American Petroleum Institute established in New York City; 1920 - began to issue weekly statistics (first with crude oil production); 1924 - developed, published industry-wide standards for oil field equipment; 1969 - moved offices to Washington, DC; 400 corporate members, one of country's largest national trade associations, only one that represents all aspects of America’s oil and natural gas industry.

May 27, 1919 - Oil struck at England's first inland oilwell at Hardstoft, near Tibshelf, in a Derbyshire coalfield; bore was 3070-ft deep in a sandy limestone horizon near the top of a faulted dome in the main carboniferous limestone measures; June 7, 1919 - oil flowed from well; December 1927 - 2500 tons of oil had been produced; average production of 6 barrels a day compared favorably with US oil wells of the period; 1945 -production ceased; 1952 - well capped.

September 14, 1960 - Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia,   Venezuela formed OPEC (Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries), as a permanent, intergovernmental Organization, at Baghdad Conference on September 10–14, 1960; later joined by: Qatar (1961); Indonesia (1962); Socialist Peoples Libyan Arab Jamahiriya (1962); United Arab Emirates (1967); Algeria (1969); Nigeria (1971); Ecuador (1973–1992), Gabon (1975–1994); objective is to co-ordinate and unify petroleum policies among Member Countries, in order to secure fair and stable prices for petroleum producers; an efficient, economic and regular supply of petroleum to consuming nations; and a fair return on capital to those investing in the industry.

March 4, 1966 - British Petroleum first pumped North Sea Gas ashore.

March 13, 1974 - Five-month oil embargo by Arab countries  lifted; embargo in retaliation for US support of Israel during 1973 Middle East war.

November 3, 1975 - Queen Elizabeth II opened North Sea pipeline, Firth of Forth; October 1970 - drilling rig Sea Quest discovered Forties reservoir; oil produced through some 55 producing wells through pipe which ran 110 miles along the seabed, then 130 miles to oil refinery at Grangemouth.

June 20, 1977 - Trans-Alaska Pipeline began carrying oil from Arctic Ocean to Prince William Sound (oil arrived 38 days later); world's largest privately funded construction project to that date, cost $8 billion, took three years to build; 1968 - massive oil field (10,000-to-20,000 feet deep) discovered on north coast of Alaska near Prudhoe Bay (ice-packed waters of Beaufort Sea inaccessible to oil tankers); 1972 - Department of the Interior authorized drilling there, moved quickly to begin construction of a pipeline (after Arab oil embargo of 1973); Alyeska Pipeline Service Co. formed by consortium of major oil companies, April 29, 1974 - construction began; under pressure, Alyeska agreed to extensive environmental precautions, including building 50 percent of the pipeline above the ground to protect the permafrost from the naturally heated crude oil and to permit passage of caribou underneath; May 31, 1977 - Trans-Alaska oil pipeline completed; August 1977 - first oil tanker left Valdez en route to lower 48 states; March 24, 1989 - worst fears of environmentalists realized when Exxon Valdez ran aground in Prince William Sound after filling up at port of Valdez - 10 million gallons of oil dumped into water, devastated hundreds of miles of coastline; 2001 - President George W. Bush proposed opening portion of 19-million-acre Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, east of Prudhoe Bay, to oil drilling; 2006 - Senate voted 51-49 in favor of budget resolution that included billions for Arctic drilling; about 800,000 barrels move through pipeline each day. Altogether, pipeline has carried more than 14 billion barrels of oil in its lifetime

July 28, 1977- The 799-mile trans-Alaska pipeline, from Prudhoe Bay to Valdez, began full operation.

April 1980 - Crude-oil closed at an inflation-adjusted record price of $101.70 per barrel.

April 2, 1980 - President Jimmy Carter signed Crude Oil Windfall Profits Tax Act (one year after Carter eliminated controls on oil prices) to take advantage of oil industry's rising profits; generated roughly $227 billion dollars in new taxes.

1984 - Standard Oil Company of California merged with Gulf Oil; largest  merger in U. S. history at time; name changed to Chevron Corp.

November 19, 1985 - Pennzoil won $10.53 billion verdict in case against Texaco; stemmed from Pennzoil's attempted acquisition of Getty Oil (had agreed to pay $5.3 billion for  family-run oil company without written contract signed by both parties; Texaco doubled Pennzoil's bid, Getty accepted, Pennzoil sued); state-court jury ruled that Pennzoil and Getty had engaged in binding contract, handed down single biggest civil verdict in court history.

April 1, 1986 - World oil prices dipped below $10 a barrel.

February 12, 1987 - Texas court upheld initial 1985 decision against Texaco ($10.5 billion fine) for having initiated illegal takeover bid for Getty Oil after Pennzoil had already made a $5.3 billion bid for company, a legally binding  contract to which Getty had consented (despite never signing a formal contract); April 12, 1987 - Texaco filed for bankruptcy.

November 15, 1996 - Texaco announced what was believed to be $ 175 million settlement of racial-discrimination lawsuit (six Texaco employees initially filed $520 million suit in 1994) after Jesse Jackson threat of Texaco boycott, revelation of "secret" audio tape that captured Texaco executives making racial slurs, plotting to derail lawsuit; settlement included one-time salary boost for minority employees, establishment of "diversity training and sensitivity programs".

August 11, 1998 - British Petroleum acquired Amoco for $49 billion, biggest foreign takeover of U.S. company.

October 9, 2001 - Chevron, Texaco merged, formed ChevronTexaco; May 9, 2005 - name changed to Chevron.

November 18, 2001 - Phillips Petroleum Co. and Conoco Inc. announced merger, created third-largest U.S. oil and gas company.

February 3, 2003 - Abandoning a two-month-long general strike that failed to oust President Hugo Chavez, Venezuela's workers returned to work in all sectors but oil industry.

August 10, 2005 - Chevron acquired Unocal $17 billion.

January 30, 2006 - Exxon Mobil reported fourth-quarter earnings of $10 billion on revenue of $99.66 billion = rate of profit of $80,842 per minute; biggest quarterly profit of any company in history (no accounting adjustments); total return to shareholders over last 5 years averaged under 8 percent - same as industry average.

May 1, 2006 - Evo Morales, leftist President of Bolivia, nationalized oil, ordered troops to secure installations of private energy companies; second-largest gas reserves in Latin America; Petrobras, Brazilian state energy company, had most at risk.

December 2007 - Federal government's long-term projections for U. S. sources of energy:

April 29, 2008 -

August 2008 - Domestic crude oil production down 40% since 1985; number of exploratory, developmental wells has almost doubled (Source: Energy Information Division of US Dept. of Energy):

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