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unusual facts about Mobil Oil



Mechanical lubricator

A British patent was granted in 1911 and this lubricator was then manufactured by the Vacuum Oil Company (later Mobil Oil) as the British Detroit Lubricator.

Mobil Showcase Network

A Mobil Oil media expert, Herb Schmertz, wrote canned paid "editorials" placed into newspapers like the New York Times opinion-editorial page.

Offshore drilling on the US Atlantic coast

A number of oil companies bought federal leases offshore North Carolina, but in 1990 the US Secretary of Commerce denied Mobil Oil permission to drill after Congress passed the North Carolina Outer Banks Protection Act, prohibiting leasing and drilling on federal seabed offshore from North Carolina.


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Cheez-It 355 at The Glen

During a 2011 Mobil Oil "Car Swap" at Watkins Glen using the course, Tony Stewart pushed for using the Grand Prix course after driving demonstration laps in both his Chevrolet Impala and the majority of his laps in a McLaren MP4-23 as part of the event with Lewis Hamilton.

Derek Birdsall

During his long career—among much other work—Birdsall designed Penguin book covers and Pirelli calendars; he art-directed several magazines (including Nova and Mobil Oil's Pegasus; and he designed books for the Yale Center for British Art, the Tate, the V&A and the British Council and redesigned the Book of Common Prayer in 2000.

Hugh Stuckey

Hugh also found regular work writing and producing advertisements for Ford Motor Company, Mobil Oil Company,

Santa Rosa Island, California

In the late 1970s Mobil Oil Corporation was granted exploration rights on the island.

Yasuo Tanaka

He graduated in the same year and briefly worked for the Mobil Oil Corporation for three months before leaving to continue his career as a writer.