Pennzoil-Texaco Dispute Oral History Collection 1990-1993

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Pennzoil-Texaco Dispute Oral History Collection 1990-1993

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/utcah/01291/01291-P.html

The oral history collection includes audiocassette tapes and transcripts of interviews about the legal dispute between American oil companies Pennzoil and Texaco and the background research for the interviews.

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Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

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SNAC Resource ID: 6643342

Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

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Texaco, inc.

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Getty Oil Company

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Pennzoil Company

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Pennzoil Co., headquartered in Houston, Texas is a large oil producing, refining, and marketing company. Pennzoil traces its origins back to two companies, Zapata Petroleum and South Penn Oil Company. In 1983 Pennzoil signed an agreement with Getty Oil for the purchase of Getty. Several days after public announcement of the agreement, Texaco purchased all of Getty Oil. Pennzoil reacted by bringing a suit against Texaco for interfering with its agreement with Getty Oil. After four years of trial,...