MOBIL
Mobil was founded as part of the the breakup of Standard Oil in 1911.
The company was originally called Socony (Standard Oil Company of New
York). Socony merged with Magnolia Petroleum Company in the thirties and
adopted Magnolia's Pegasus emblem, and it has been used ever since.
Mobil merged with Exxon in 1999 but the Mobil brand and Pegasus emblem
are alive and well.
Royal Dutch Shell is the largest energy company in the world and is
headquartered in the Hague, in the Netherlands. The company was formed
in 1907 with the merger of the Royal Dutch Petroleum Company and Shell
Transport and Trading company of the UK. The two companies merged in
order to compete globally with the biggest US oil company of the day,
John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil. Shell Oil Company is a US-based
subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell that is headquartered in Houston, Texas.
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