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Transportation Company - Cities Service Oil - Energy
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Company NameCities Service Oil
CategoryEnergy
Year Founded1910
Final Year of Operation1965
TerminationName Change
Successor/ParentCitgo (Details)
CountryUnited States (Details)
Source of TextTroveStar
Transportation Company - Cities Service Oil - Energy



Company History: Cities Service was founded in 1910 by Henry L. Doherty.
Successor/Parent History:
Citgo Petroleum Corporation (or Citgo, stylized as CITGO) is a United States–based refiner, transporter and marketer of transportation fuels, lubricants, petrochemicals and other industrial products. Headquartered in the Energy Corridor area of Houston, it is majority-owned by PDVSA, a state-owned company of the Venezuelan government.
The company traces was founded as Cities Service Company by oil entrepreneur Henry Latham Doherty in 1910.
Cities Service Company inaugurated use of the Citgo brand (officially styled "CITGO") for its refining, marketing and retail petroleum businesses in 1965.
In 1986, fifty percent of Citgo was sold to Petróleos de Venezuela, S.A. (PDVSA) , which acquired the remainder in 1990, resulting in the current ownership structure.
Brief History:
The U.S. is a country of 50 states covering a vast swath of North America, with Alaska in the northwest and Hawaii extending the nation’s presence into the Pacific Ocean. Major Atlantic Coast cities are New York, a global finance and culture center, and capital Washington, DC. Midwestern metropolis Chicago is known for influential architecture and on the west coast, Los Angeles' Hollywood is famed for filmmaking.

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Item created by: gdm on 2017-10-12 16:26:23. Last edited by Alain LM on 2023-05-21 05:27:47

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