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Conoco

Conoco ( ), formerly known as Continental Oil, is an American petroleum brand that has been operating under the ownership of the Phillips 66 Company since 2012. It is headquartered in the Westchase neighborhood of Houston, Texas. The brand is one of the several successors of the original Standard Oil Company ("oil trust" founded 1870 by John D. Rockefeller). Continental Oil was a subsidiary of Standard Oil from 1884 until 1911 when the Supreme Court of the United States, in an anti-trust legal case, ruled to decouple and break up the monopolized entity of Standard Oil. Alongside Phillips 66 and 76, it operates as one of the major fuel brands of the Phillips 66 Company. Of those two brands, Conoco has a more dominant presence of gas refueling stations in Colorado, Texas, Montana, Missouri, and Oklahoma in the Midwestern United States, as well as a growing presence in Eastern Pennsylvania following taking over the retail contracts of several Gulf Oil locations there, while having a complete absence in states such as California to the west and Florida to the far southeast. Continental Oil was founded in Ogden, Utah, by Isaac Elder Blake in November 1875 as the Continental Oil and Transportation Company. It was acquired in 1884 by the increasingly dominant Standard Oil Company. Marland Oil Company was founded in 1921 by E. W.…

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Conoco ( ), formerly known as Continental Oil, is an American petroleum brand that has been operating under the ownership of the Phillips 66 Company since 2012. It is headquartered in the Westchase neighborhood of Houston, Texas. The brand is one of the several successors of the original Standard Oil Company ("oil trust" founded 1870 by John D. Rockefeller). Continental Oil was a subsidiary of Standard Oil from 1884 until 1911 when the Supreme Court of the United States, in an anti-trust legal case, ruled to decouple and break up the monopolized entity of Standard Oil. Alongside Phillips 66 and 76, it operates as one of the major fuel brands of the Phillips 66 Company. Of those two brands, Conoco has a more dominant presence of gas refueling stations in Colorado, Texas, Montana, Missouri, and Oklahoma in the Midwestern United States, as well as a growing presence in Eastern Pennsylvania following taking over the retail contracts of several Gulf Oil locations there, while having a complete absence in states such as California to the west and Florida to the far southeast. Continental Oil was founded in Ogden, Utah, by Isaac Elder Blake in November 1875 as the Continental Oil and Transportation Company. It was acquired in 1884 by the increasingly dominant Standard Oil Company. Marland Oil Company was founded in 1921 by E. W.…

Key claims

  1. date of foundation: 1870 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95
  2. date of foundation: 1875 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95
  3. date of foundation: 1921 — 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 foundation is "1870". What evidence would count against this claim?
  3. The record states that the date of foundation is "1875". What evidence would count against this claim?
  4. The record states that the date of foundation is "1921". What evidence would count against this claim?
  5. Which claim in this article is most likely to be revised as the sources update? How would you check its current status?
  6. 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=1370197340

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