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A brand of motor oil, gasoline, and other automotive petroleum products begun in 1913.

History

The following section is an excerpt from Wikipedia's Pennzoil page on 3 October 2018, text available via the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

Pennzoil is an American oil company founded in Los Angeles, California in 1913. In 1955, it was acquired by Oil City, Pennsylvania company South Penn Oil, a former branch of Standard Oil. In 1963, South Penn Oil merged with Zapata Petroleum; the merged company took the Pennzoil name. In 1968 United Gas Corporation became part of Pennzoil. (Although United Gas was a larger company, pre-merger, Pennzoil had successfully used a "leveraged buyout" strategy.) During the 1970s, the company moved its offices to Houston, Texas. In 1977 a spin-off company was formed called Pogo, which stood for Pennzoil Offshore Gas Operators.

Pennzoil was headquartered in Pennzoil Place in Downtown Houston during the 1970s. In 1999 Pennzoil's E&P business (known as PennzEnergy) was acquired by Oklahoma City-based Devon Energy and the now known as Pennzoil-Quaker was purchased by Royal Dutch/Shell Group to form SOPUS—Shell Oil Products US.

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Date	Media or Collection Name & Details	Files
1935	Cashing In Metropolitan Motion Picture Company for Pennzoil	Topic Page - 193MB - 8:31