Encyclopedia > Sohio

Article Content

Standard Oil of Ohio

Redirected from Sohio

Standard Oil of Ohio or Sohio was an American oil company that was acquired by British Petroleum, now part of BPAmoco.

It was one of the successor companies to Standard Oil after the anti-trust breakup in 1911. Standard Oil of Ohio was the original Standard Oil company founded by John D. Rockefeller.

BP ceased use of the Sohio name in 1991.

All Wikipedia text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License

Search Encyclopedia

Search over one million articles, find something about almost anything!

Featured Article

1904

... (+ 1957) March 1 - Glenn Miller, bandleader (+ 1944) March 2 - Dr. Seuss, author (+ 1991) March 8 - Victor de Kowa[?], actor (+ 1973) March 6 - Joseph Schmidt[?], ...