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From: Hachiroku ハチロク on 8 Mar 2010 17:55 On Mon, 08 Mar 2010 17:30:22 -0500, Bill Putney wrote: > Steve wrote: >> Hachiroku ハチロク wrote: >> >>> Around here, Gulf seems to do the best. We do not have Chevron ( :(...I >>> like Techron, too...) or Amoco. >> >> Got Texaco? Its the same gasoline s (ChevronTexaco is one company now, >> just like BP/Amoco, ExxonMobil, Royal Dutch Shell, etc.- merger madness >> a few years back.) The odd thing is that most of those companies kept >> their lubricating oil operations separate after mergers. Mobil engine >> oil is different than Exxon, Havoline is different than Chevron Delo, >> etc. Of course Shell is the nuttiest- they own and market Shell (non >> heavy duty), Quaker State, and Pennzoil under the SOPUS (Shell Oil >> Products US) corp, but their heavy duty oils (Rotella in the US, Helix >> elsewhere) are yet another division, and all the oil formulations are >> measurably different if you look at an oil analysis of each. Kinda like >> GM of the 1960s- not that many parts would interchange between a Buick >> and a Chevy. > > I thought Shell and BP were the same company. BP owns Castrol.
From: Steve on 9 Mar 2010 10:47 Hachiroku ハチロク wrote: > On Mon, 08 Mar 2010 17:30:22 -0500, Bill Putney wrote: >> >> I thought Shell and BP were the same company. > > > BP owns Castrol. > > And Amoco... unless something changed while I wasn't looking. These days that's entirely possible! <google google google...> Shell is still part of Royal Dutch.
From: DAS on 9 Mar 2010 11:16 The only thing BP and Shell have in common is being 'British' (Shell founded by a Brit, was then Anglo-Dutch for a hundred years, now nominally Dutch because HQ only in The Hague). Both shares traded in London (not only there). BP is now bigger than Shell. DAS To reply directly replace 'nospam' with 'schmetterling' -- "Bill Putney" <bptn(a)kinez.net> wrote in message news:7vlc40Fer6U1(a)mid.individual.net... [...] > > I thought Shell and BP were the same company. > > -- > Bill Putney > (To reply by e-mail, replace the last letter of the alphabet in my address > with the letter 'x')
From: cuhulin on 9 Mar 2010 11:46 There are some Shell and BP gas stations around here.The Wal Mart stores have MurphyUSA gas stations.There are quite a few other name brands of gas stations/convenience stores too that sell gas.Whenever I need gas, I stop off at whichever gas station of whichever brand name is the closest to me.I prefer the small independent name brand gas stations/convenience stores because I don't usually have to wait for a bunch of people ahead of me. I never have had any problems with water in the gas.The price of gas is going up, it must be because Spring time isn't far from now. cuhulin
From: Licker on 14 Mar 2010 15:18
Royal Dutch owns Shell Oil Shell Chemical Pennzoil Ouaker State Motiva Enterprise is a joint venture between Shell Oil and Saudi Aramco. When it comes to deep water offshore oil exploration, you will see Shell Oil, BP, Chevron-Texaco and many others team up in partnership to develop deep water wells in the Gulf Of Mexico. |