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  1. 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). [1] A Richfield service station located in Tucson, Arizona, July 1939.

  2. Atlantic Petroleum was an oil company in the Eastern United States headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and a direct descendant of the Standard Oil Trust. [1] It was also one of the companies that merged with Richfield Oil Corporation to form the "AtlanticRichfield Co.", later known as ARCO. After an unsuccessful spinoff from ARCO ...

  3. Nov 15, 2024 · The Atlantic Richfield Company was created in 1966 by the merger of Richfield Oil Corporation and Atlantic Refining Company. Atlantic Refining, whose predecessor firms date back to the 1850s, was incorporated in 1870 and, after 1892, became one of the eastern companies of the Standard Oil Trust. After the U.S. Supreme Court’s dissolution of ...

  4. www.company-histories.com › Atlantic-RichfieldAtlantic Richfield Company

    1999: Foundation laid for merger between ARCO and BP Amoco. Company History: Atlantic Richfield Company, better known as ARCO, is the seventh-largest U.S. oil company. A vertically integrated company, ARCO explores for, produces, refines, and markets crude oil, natural gas, and natural gas liquids.

  5. A 1957 oilfield discovery in Alaska Territory will helped establish 49th state. Two years before Alaska statehood, Richfield Oil Corporation made an oil discovery that greatly benefited the exploration company (today’s ARCO) and the “north to the future” state. Richfield Oil began in the petroleum business in 1915 as the Rio Grande Oil ...

  6. 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). [1] The Richfield Oil Corporation was founded in 1905, [2] and opened its first automotive service station in Los Angeles in 1917. [3]

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  8. Apr 13, 2000 · The Federal Trade Commission has accepted a proposed consent order that would remedy the likely anticompetitive effects of the proposed $27 billion merger of BP Amoco p.l.c. (BP Amoco) and Atlantic Richfield Company (ARCO). Under the terms of the order, BP Amoco would be required to divest all of ARCO's assets relating to oil production on ...

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