Universal Oil Products Company (UOP) played a major role in the development of the petroleum industry. UOP was established in 1915, having been instituted in 1914 by Jesse A. Dubbs, inventor and J. Ogden Armour, financier, as the National Hydrocarbon Company. C.P. Dubbs, son of the founder, headed research and development of technologies for the oil refining, petrochemical, and gas processing industries, centered in Independence, Kansas. In 1919 Universal Oil Products introduced Dubb's very succesful thermal cracking process which was utilized worldwide until obsolescing. Headquartered in Chicago and then Des Plaines, Illinois, UOP offered the first viable catalytic condensation process and during World War II the company introduced needed innovations in aviation fuels and gasoline production. In the 21st century UOP licensed over fifty processes and supplied catalyst and adsorbents to the refining industry. UOP came under the Honeywell Company as its parent.
From the description of Universal Oil Products Company records, 1915-1978. (University of Wyoming, American Heritage Center). WorldCat record id: 122533854
