Unocal Corporation

The Unocal Corporation began in 1890 as the Union Oil Company of California. Unocal is also known as Unocal 76. Union 76[?] gasoline is no longer sold by the company, which sold its retail operations to ConocoPhillips[?].

History

Unocal was founded on October 17, 1890, when it was incorporated in Santa Paula, California, as the Union Oil Company of California. The company was formed when co-founders Lyman Stewart[?], Thomas Bard[?], and Wallace Hardison[?] merged their holdings. The company expanded to national status in 1965, when Union Oil merged with The Pure Oil Company of Illinois[?]. Over the next two decades, Union became the major oil producer in southern Alaska and a major natural gas producer in the Gulf of Mexico. The company was reorganized in 1983 and the Union Oil Company of California became an operating subsidiary of a new holding company, Unocal Corporation.

Its Board of Directors include:

• Charles R. Williamson[?], Chairman and CEO, Unocal Corporation
  
• Timothy H. Ling[?], President/COO, Unocal Corporation
  
• John W. Amerman[?], Former Chairman and CEO, Mattel, Inc.
  
• John W. Creighton, Jr.[?], Vice-Chairman; Former Chairman/CEO, UAL Corporation (United Airlines); Former President/CEO, Weyerhaeuser Company
  
• James W. Crownover[?], Former Director, McKinsey & Company, Inc.
  
• Frank C. Herringer[?], Chairman, Transamerica Corporation
  
• Ferrell P. McClean[?], Former managing director, JP Morgan
  
• Donald B. Rice[?], President, CEO, and Co-Founder, Agensys, Inc.
  
• Kevin W. Sharer[?], Chairman, CEO, and President, Amgen, Inc
  
• Marina v.N. Whitman[?], Prof of Bus Admin/Public Policy, Univ of Michigan