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23 unusual facts about Texaco


Albert Lee Giddens

After graduation Giddens joined the Texaco corporate law division, before founding his own firm in 1979.

AutoExpreso

AutoExpreso transponders can be replenished at Texaco, Puma, and Total stations in Puerto Rico or at designated replenishment lanes at select toll plazas.

Bicker, Lincolnshire

About 110 yards (100 m) of the A17 is in the parish, including the Bicker Bar roundabout at the A52, and the Bicker Bar motel and Texaco services.

Black Canaan

Talman was an employee of Texaco, and wrote to Howard concerning contributions to his company periodical, The Texaco Star.

Blue Sky Studios

Using their proprietary animation pipeline, the studio produced over 200 spots for clients such as Chrysler, M&M/Mars, General Foods, Texaco, and the United States Marines.

Bluegrass, Minnesota

Bluegrass contains several abandoned buildings, including an old Texaco gas station with the pumps restored.

Breezanddijk

Today, it has a population of four and its solitary commercial establishment is a Texaco gas station for travelers upon the dike.

Cole Palen

Between his savings from his employment at Texaco as a mechanic and earnings from the film deal, he was able to purchase the property by paying the back taxes owed on it.

Dick Burrus

He served as a county commissioner, and worked as a fish buyer and Texaco distributor until his retirement in 1962.

Gianfranco Brancatelli

The following season saw Brancatelli on the move again, this time going back to Eggenberger Motorsport where he would serve as a driver in the teams 3rd Texaco Ford Sierra RS500.

Glenrio, New Mexico and Texas

A Texaco station (1950) and a diner (Brownlee Diner/Little Juarez Café, 1952) were constructed in Texas using the art moderne architectural style.

Joe Crozier

The team was bailed out by their play-by-play announcer who used his wife's Texaco card to front the $1,500 bill.

Libya–Malta relations

In 1980 an oil rig of the Italian company Saipem commissioned by Texaco to drill on behalf of the Maltese government 68 nautical miles south-east of Malta had to stop operations after being threatened by a Libyan gunboat.

Malborough

The village is also home to a large Co-op newsagent and Texaco petrol station, which is widely used by people from nearby villages such as Hope Cove, Bolberry, South Huish, South Milton and Galmpton.

Ralph Fonseca

Fonseca on his return to Belize after university acted as assistant general manager of Texaco oil company in Belize.

Red Farmer

He was a member of the first Class of Inductees into the Talladega-Texaco Walk Of Fame.

Roden Cutler

After school, he worked for the Texas Company Australasia, which later became Texaco.

Royal Signals Motorcycle Display Team

In the 1980s, the team participated prominently in a British television advertisement for Texaco petrol stations.

Shannon Charles Thomas

During his trial, it was revealed that Thomas had also taken part in a robbery on January 4, 1994 where Keith Clay shot Melathethil Tom Varughese, a clerk at a Texaco gas station.

Texaco Trophy

The series were sponsored by American oil company Texaco replacing the previous sponsorship by Prudential (between 1972 and 1982).

Thomas A. O'Donnell

O'Donnell served as president and board chairman of CALPET until it was sold to the Texas Company (later known as Texaco).

Tickencote

On the northbound A1, sandwiched against the B1081 access road, is the Bloody Oaks Service Station with an OK Diner and a JET (previously a Texaco forecourt) petrol station.

U.S. Route 66 in California

This oversight has since been corrected; the diner remains open, complete with memorabilia of the roadside Texaco which is no longer in operation at the site.


2008 Sharpie 500

Texaco's Havoline brand motor oil, owned by Chevron, has announced that they will not return to NASCAR.

Ambler's Texaco Gas Station

Located at the intersection of U.S. Route 66 and Illinois Route 17 in Dwight, Illinois, United States, Ambler's Texaco Station was built in 1933 by Jack Schore on property originally owned by Otto Strufe.

Ambler's Texaco Gas Station, also known as Becker's Marathon Gas Station, is a historic filling station located at the intersection of Old U.S. Route 66 and Illinois Route 17 in the village of Dwight, Illinois, United States.

Brownfield status

A strip of the Texaco lands in Mississauga is slated to be part of the Waterfront Trail.

Clarence P. Cazalot, Jr.

Cazalot entered the oil business less than one year after graduating from university when he was contracted by Texaco as a geophysicist in 1972, doing testing on offshore oil wells in the Gulf of Mexico.

Dick Johnson Racing

Proving that the Australian developed Sierra was the fastest Group A touring car in the world, Johnson easily qualified the car on pole in front of the Eggenberger Texaco Sierra's and the Andy Rouse example, and went on to an early race lead.

Donington Grand Prix Exhibition

-- Hill's name in full to clarify that it's Graham, not Damon --> Mansell, Hunt and Alonso amongst others, a small collection of racing motorcycles, including a Daijiro Kato Honda and a Barry Sheene Heron Texaco Suzuki and a number of collections of trophies and awards gained by a selection of British drivers and riders.

Free Burma Coalition

Under the leadership of Zarni, then a graduate student at University of Wisconsin–Madison, it galvanized principally American students, attracted much media attention, and helped force over forty multinational corporations to withdraw from Burma, including ARCO, PepsiCo, and Texaco.

Gorgon gas project

WAPET was the operator on behalf of various joint ventures comprising Chevron, Texaco, Shell and Ampolex (the exploration division of Ampol).

Guaynabo, Puerto Rico

El Nuevo Día, Chrysler, Santander Securities, Puerto Rico Telephone, and many sales offices for large US firms (such as Texaco, Microsoft, American Airlines, Dell and others) have their Puerto Rican headquarters in Guaynabo.

Lou Dematteis

His work has been exhibited on four continents and in 2007 he received a grant from the Open Society Institute to exhibit his work from the Ecuadoran Amazon in the communities in Ecuador most affected by the contamination left in the region as a result of Texaco's oil extraction practices.

Mellon Financial

Alcoa, Gulf Oil (now Chevron-Texaco), Westinghouse (now CBS Corporation and Siemens) and Rockwell, all were directly founded and managed by the bank.

Norwich City F.C. in European football

After being beaten finalists the previous year, Norwich had a second go at the Texaco Cup in the 1973–74 season.

Pennzoil

Pennzoil, represented by Joe Jamail and Baine Kerr, won $10.53 billion from Texaco, represented by Dick Miller.

Philip Dakin Wagoner

On 26 June 1940, one day after the surrender of France, Torkild Rieber of Texaco sponsored a celebratory dinner for Gerhardt Westrick at the Waldorf Astoria New York.

Poly Technologies

Poly has established business relations with hundreds of enterprises and governmental organizations of nearly 100 countries and regions, including many world famous multinational corporations such as Boeing of the United States, Bombardier Inc. of Canada, Chevron - Texaco of the United States, Benz of Germany, Ferrari of Italy, State Corporation 'Rosoboronexport' and Japanese Sagawa Logistic Co., Ltd.

Saul Tepper

Additionally, his illustrations appeared in advertising for major companies such as General Electric, Coca-Cola, General Motors, Mobil and Texaco.

Socialist Party of Honduras

In April 1980 some of its leaders were arrested, accused of involvement in the kidnapping of a Texaco official (the action had been claimed by the PRTC).

Thomas Peter Lee

In 1903 he moved to Saratoga, Texas, where he gained employment with the newly formed Texas Company, which eventually became Texaco, and when he left that organization ten years later, he had attained the rank of general superintendent of production.

Tom Herron

For the 1979 season, he finally got his big break, as a full works, manufacturer backed rider for the Texaco Heron Suzuki team in the 500cc world championship, alongside two-time world 500cc world champion Barry Sheene, and future Truck racer Steve Parrish.

Trans-Arabian Pipeline

It was founded as a joint venture between the Standard Oil company of New Jersey (now ExxonMobil), Standard Oil of California (Chevron), The Texas Company (better known as Texaco, now a part of Chevron), and Socony-Vacuum Oil Company (ExxonMobil), however, it eventually became a fully owned subsidiary of Aramco.