Union Oil Company of California records 1884-2005

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Union Oil Company of California records 1884-2005

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The Union Oil Company of California was a major petroleum producer, refiner, and marketer incorporated in Santa Paula, California, on October 17, 1890. The company, later reorganized under the Unocal Corporation, remained one of America's oldest and largest independent enterprises, with operations throughout southern California, the United States, and Southeast Asia, up until its 2005 merger with the ChevronTexaco Corporation. Photographs, negatives, and employee publications comprise the bulk of the collection, but the records also contain early field and gauge reports, financial ledgers, correspondence to and from the company's founders, lease and stock agreements, annual reports to stockholders, speeches and remarks by company executives, films, and various memorabilia.

90 boxes (45 linear ft.); 68 oversize boxes; 52 cartons

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University of California, Los Angeles. Library Special Collections.

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The Union Oil Company of California was incorporated on October 17, 1890, in Santa Paula, California, after founding members Lyman Stewart, Wallace L. Hardison and Thomas Bard merged their respective California oil interests: Hardison and Stewart Oil, Sespe Oil, and Torrey Canyon Oil. Union's early years were marked by struggle and infighting between the company's founders; nonetheless, its first producing wells accounted for nearly one-fourth of California's oil production. By 1900, Lyman Stewa...