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Caltex

Caltex is a petroleum brand name of Chevron Corporation used in the Asia-Pacific region, the Middle East, and Southern Africa. Headquartered in Singapore, it is also the brand name of non-Chevron petroleum companies in some countries (such as New Zealand, and previously Australia and South Africa) under a trademark licensing agreement with Chevron. Caltex was also the name of the joint venture between Chevron and Texaco which used the Caltex brand name in its operations, until both parent companies merged in 2001 to form ChevronTexaco (later renamed simply to Chevron in 2005). The joint venture was created on 30 June 1936 as California Texas Oil Company Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Bahrain Petroleum Company and was a holding company owning the shares of 5 Texaco marketing subsidiaries: The Texas Company (Australasia, China, India, Philippine Islands, South Africa) Ltd.. In exchange Texaco was awarded a 50% stake in BAPCo. This was followed by Texaco gaining a 50% interest in the California Arabian Standard Oil Co (Aramco) in December 1936. The joint venture officially adopted the name Caltex shortened from its original name in 1968, and was eventually known as Caltex Corporation prior to the Chevron-Texaco merger.…

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Caltex is a petroleum brand name of Chevron Corporation used in the Asia-Pacific region, the Middle East, and Southern Africa. Headquartered in Singapore, it is also the brand name of non-Chevron petroleum companies in some countries (such as New Zealand, and previously Australia and South Africa) under a trademark licensing agreement with Chevron. Caltex was also the name of the joint venture between Chevron and Texaco which used the Caltex brand name in its operations, until both parent companies merged in 2001 to form ChevronTexaco (later renamed simply to Chevron in 2005). The joint venture was created on 30 June 1936 as California Texas Oil Company Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Bahrain Petroleum Company and was a holding company owning the shares of 5 Texaco marketing subsidiaries: The Texas Company (Australasia, China, India, Philippine Islands, South Africa) Ltd.. In exchange Texaco was awarded a 50% stake in BAPCo. This was followed by Texaco gaining a 50% interest in the California Arabian Standard Oil Co (Aramco) in December 1936. The joint venture officially adopted the name Caltex shortened from its original name in 1968, and was eventually known as Caltex Corporation prior to the Chevron-Texaco merger.…

Key claims

  1. date of establishment: 1936 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95
  2. date of establishment: 1917 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95
  3. date of establishment: 1933 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95
  4. date of foundation: 1967 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95

Discussion questions

  1. Summarise the article in your own words. Which single claim would you verify first, and why?
  2. The record states that the date of establishment is "1936". What evidence would count against this claim?
  3. The record states that the date of establishment is "1917". What evidence would count against this claim?
  4. The record states that the date of establishment is "1933". What evidence would count against this claim?
  5. The record states that the date of foundation is "1967". What evidence would count against this claim?
  6. Which claim in this article is most likely to be revised as the sources update? How would you check its current status?
  7. If two sources disagreed about one of these facts, what would you need in order to trust one over the other?

Bibliography

  1. Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365331447

Key claims and bibliography are generated from the same tracked claims and sources as the article page.