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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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| 1935 | Cashing In Metropolitan Motion Picture Company for Pennzoil |  Topic Page - 193MB - 8:31 |
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Bill Jenkins Popular Hot Rodding, July 1972 View 1972 Pennzoil Bill Jenkins Advertisement - 2,845KB |
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| 27 August 1925 | PENN CO. ASKS FULL PROBE OF ITS ACTIVITIES “The suit filed against the Penn Oil Company in connection with the alleged misuse of the name 'Mobiloil' is another attempt of the Standard Oil interests to discredit competition in the oil industry,” said Alvin L. Newmayer, attorney for the Penn Oil Company. | News Article (text) Publication: Automotive Daily News Dateline: Washington, D.C.  Topics: Pennzoil, Mobil |
| 27 August 1925 | VACUUM CO. ANSWER “Here is our answer to the Penn Oil Company,” said F. W. Lovejoy, director of sales promotion for the Vacuum Oil Company, to the Automotive Daily News, as he pointed to a letter from the National Better Business Bureau. | News Article (text) Publication: Automotive Daily News Dateline: New York, New York Topics: Pennzoil, Mobil |
