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Richfield Oil Corporation was an American petroleum company based in California from 1905 to 1966. In 1966, it merged with Atlantic Refining Company to form the Atlantic Richfield Company (later renamed ARCO).
Richfield's history is dramatically and colorfully told by its former president, Charles S. Jones, in From the Rio Grande to the Arctic: the Story of the Richfield Oil Corporation. Jones delves into the earliest history of Richfield, whose predecessor, the Rio Grande Oil Company, was established by a store-owner in El Paso, Texas, in 1915.
6 days ago · Richfield, the product of several mergers in the first two decades of the 20th century, formally began in 1911 as a refining company financed jointly by the Los Angeles Oil and Refining Company and the Kellogg Oil Company (two of the several companies that were to merge under the Richfield name).
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