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31 unusual facts about ESSO


75 Rockefeller Plaza

It was originally the Esso building, built for Rockefeller's Standard Oil Company (Esso).

Acheson J. Duncan

Besides his work with the Japanese government, Duncan served as consultant to numerous industries and governmental agencies, including the US Army Chemical Corps, Glenn L. Martin Company, and Esso Standard Oil Company.

Big Valley, Alberta

At its peak, the Fenn-Big Valley Field produced 5,352 cubic metres (35,000 barrels) of oil a day for Gulf and similar amounts for Shell and Esso.

Birches Bridge

Birches Bridge is home to Bilbrook railway station and Birches Bridge Shopping Centre, which features a HSBC branch, a Co-operative supermarket and an Esso petrol station amongst other shops and eateries.

Bjørkelangen

Bjørkelangen has three grocery stores (Rimi, REMA1000, and COOP Prix), two gas stations, Shell and Esso, in addition to a number of clothing and other kinds of stores in close proximity of the main street (aka "Gågata").

Brega

During the 1960s and 1970s it was run in partnership with the international oil company Esso.

Centre 200

In March 2000, Centre 200 hosted the 2000 Esso Canadian National Championship for women's ice hockey, during which Ontario defeated Quebec to win the gold medal.

Chiseldon

The village has a surgery, as well as two hotels, an Esso petrol station, two shops (one housing a post office) and various other businesses.

Ed Helwer

He worked as an Esso agent from 1963 to 1974, and was a Macleod Authorized Dealer from 1974 to 1983.

Eldon Group

Some of the company’s major customers worldwide are Ericsson, Siemens, Nokia, Alcatel, Olivetti, Honeywell, ABB, GE, SHELL, ESSO, Carrier, OTIS, Volvo and Ford.

Emiliano Mutti

In 1965, interest in research led him to accept a job with the Esso Production Research Lab in Bordeaux, the European affiliate of Exxon Production Research Company in Houston.

Esso Journalism Award

Esso Journalism Award (Prêmio Esso de Jornalismo), formerly known as Esso Reportage Award (Prêmio Esso de Reportagem), is an annual Brazilian journalism award given by the company Esso in Brazil.

Fawley, Hampshire

It was acquired by Esso in 1925, and it was rebuilt and extended in 1951.

Goblin Vacuum Cleaners

After years of sitting empty the site was bought and built on by Esso.

Hastings, Victoria

Hastings is home to the Esso and BlueScope Steel manufacturing plants, and it is not uncommon to see large oil tankers docked near Long Island in Westernport Bay.

Jedem das Seine

An ExxonMobil ad campaign in January 2009 touted Tchibo coffee drinks at the company's Esso stores with the slogan Jedem den Seinen! The ads were withdrawn after protest from the Central Council of Jews in Germany, and a company spokesman said its advertising contractor had been unaware of the proverb's association with Nazism.

Jonathan Legear

On 7 October 2012, Legear was involved in a car accident, where he crashed his car inside an Esso gas station located in Tongeren, having mistaken the accelerator pedal for the brake.

Kingdom of Libya

This situation changed suddenly and dramatically in June 1959 when research prospectors from Esso (later renamed Exxon) confirmed the location of major petroleum deposits at Zaltan in Cyrenaica.

Little Aston Hall

Unoccupied from 1950 the house became the Midlands regional headquarters of Esso in 1954.

Llanelwedd

In 2009, these are both Esso brand, and the one nearest the Llanelwedd Arms has a Co-operative supermarket on the site.

Longford, Victoria

In September 1998, a large explosion at an Esso operated oil and natural gas processing plant was responsible for an almost complete shutdown of Victoria's natural gas supply for weeks thereafter.

Metropolitan Bible Church

For this reason, the adjacent Esso was demolished and relocated to the other side of Bank Street, allowing the church to expand its size.

Nuestra Señora de Lourdes Chapel

In 1992, the Jesus and the Children and the Holy Spirit stained-glass windows were restored, with a $22,000 donation from Esso Standard Oil Company.

Odell School, North Carolina

It was long recognized as a community gathering place, and as automobiles began to be owned by community residents, the store became a dealer of Standard Oil, Esso and finally Exxon gasoline and petroleum products.

Rotherbaum

An example is the building at Alsterufer street #27, built by Martin Haller—the architect of the Hamburg Rathaus—the building was later owned by Anton Riedemann, the founder of Deutsch-Amerikanischen Petroleum-Gesellschaft; later Esso.

Speedpass

As of 2004, more than seven million people possess Speedpass tags, which can be used at approximately 10,000 Exxon, Mobil and Esso gas stations worldwide.

Stocksfield

Amenities in Stocksfield include two post offices, an Esso petrol station, a Spar self-service store, a newsagent, two hairdressers, a butcher, a first school, a convenience store, a doctor's surgery and a vetinary surgery.

Svein Døvle Larssen

Larssen took a break from his newspaper career from 1960 to 1967, to pursue a career as director of public relations in Esso Norway.

Tomás Batista

Amongst his many awards and recognitions is the second place prize in 1965 for his sculpture "Caracol" in a sculpting contest held for young Latin American artists and sponsored by Esso.

Twin Brooks, Edmonton

The only commercial building in the community is an Esso gas station along 111 Street.

World U-17 Hockey Challenge

The World U-17 Hockey Challenge, originally known as the Quebec Esso Cup, is an international ice hockey tournament held annually in Canada.


A63 road

At the Boot and Shoe junction, with the former A1, there is the Esso Boot & Shoe Service Station, and the Best Western Milford Hotel.

Agostino Bonello

This work led to an assignment at Brega in Libya working for Esso and Homles and Narver Inc., Engineers and Constructors.

Arthur C. Morgan

Cecil Morgan, vice president of Esso Standard Oil Co. (private collection), 1939.

Esso Australia

Esso operates a number of oil and gas platforms in Bass Strait, south east of Melbourne, Australia, as well as a gas processing facility at Longford and Long Island Point (LIP) in Hastings.

General Electric LM500

The first LM-500 engine was delivered to Esso Australia Ltd, in Sale Australia, in 1981 directly driving a Norwlak-Turbo, Inc Sulzer eight stage centrifugal compressor.

Herbert A. Shepard

In management consulting, Herb's clients included Bell-Northern Research, Syncrude, Esso, TRW, Connecticut General Life Insurance Company, Union Carbide, USAID and most of the departments of the federal governments of the U.S.A. and Canada.

Jackie Mittoo

Mittoo assisted Toronto-area reggae musicians, including Earth, Roots and Water, Esso Jaxxon (R. Zee Jackson), Carl Harvey, Lord Tanamo, Boyo Hammond, Carl Otway, The Sattalites, Jackie James and Jason Wilson.

Joan Brosnan Walsh

In 1969 she was a cast member of The Caucasian Chalk Circle Strand Players production and they won the Esso Trophy at the all-Ireland drama festival held in Athlone, County Westmeath.

Scala, Inc

The Company's multimedia software platform powers the digital signage networks of Rabobank, IKEA, Bloomberg Television, Burger King, T-Mobile, Virgin Megastores, Disneyland Resort Paris, McDonald's, Warner Bros., Shell, Esso, Ericsson, The Life Channel, and IBC-13.

SS James Eagan Layne

She was named after the second engineer of the Esso Baton Rouge, who was killed when Esso Baton Rouge was sunk by Reinhard Hardegen's U-123 on 8 April 1942.

Stephen Koroknay

Before becoming the Technical Manager of Esso's upstream activities in Australia, he was the Assistant Area Manager for the Esso/BHP Bass Strait operation, which at the time included twelve offshore platforms producing oil and gas, associated pipelines and three onshore processing plants.