Phillips Petroleum Company was founded in 1917 by L.E. Phillips and
Frank PhillipsFrank Phillips founded Phillips Petroleum in Bartlesville, Oklahoma in 1917, along with his brother, Lee Eldas "L.E." Phillips, Sr...
, of
BartlesvilleBartlesville is a city in Osage and Washington counties in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. The population was 34,748 at the 2000 census. Bartlesville is located forty-seven miles north of Tulsa and very close to Oklahoma's northern border with Kansas...
,
OklahomaOklahoma is a state located in the South Central region of the United States of America. With an estimated 3,617,316 residents in 2007 and a land area of 68,667 square miles , Oklahoma is the 28th most populous and 20th-largest state...
. Their younger brother,
Waite PhillipsWaite Phillips and his identical twin brother Wiate were born near Conway, Iowa to Civil War veteran Lewis “Lew” Franklin Phillips and Lucinda Josephine “Josie” Faucett Phillips...
was the benefactor of
Philmont Scout RanchPhilmont Scout Ranch is a large, rugged, mountainous ranch located near the town of Cimarron, New Mexico covering approximately of wilderness in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains of the Rocky Mountains of northern New Mexico...
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Phillips Petroleum was headquartered in
Bartlesville, OklahomaBartlesville is a city in Osage and Washington counties in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. The population was 34,748 at the 2000 census. Bartlesville is located forty-seven miles north of Tulsa and very close to Oklahoma's northern border with Kansas...
.
In 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court decided the landmark case of
Phillips Petroleum vs. State of Wisconsin which held that the Federal government should regulate under the Natural Gas Act the prices which natural gas producers charge when selling gas at the wellhead.
In late 1984,
Mesa Power LPMesa Power is a wind energy company owned by T. Boone Pickens. The company had plans to build large wind farms in the western Texas panhandle, the so-called Pampa Wind Project, part of the Pickens Plan. However, on July 8, 2009 the wind farm project was delayed for what were described as...
Company, led by
T. Boone Pickens, Jr.Thomas Boone Pickens, Jr. , known as T. Boone Pickens, is an American financier who chairs the hedge fund BP Capital Management. He was a well-known takeover operator and corporate raider during the 1980s. His takeovers put many independent oil producers out of business...
, attempted a hostile takeover of Phillips Petroleum.
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Phillips Petroleum Company was founded in 1917 by L.E. Phillips and
Frank PhillipsFrank Phillips founded Phillips Petroleum in Bartlesville, Oklahoma in 1917, along with his brother, Lee Eldas "L.E." Phillips, Sr...
, of
BartlesvilleBartlesville is a city in Osage and Washington counties in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. The population was 34,748 at the 2000 census. Bartlesville is located forty-seven miles north of Tulsa and very close to Oklahoma's northern border with Kansas...
,
OklahomaOklahoma is a state located in the South Central region of the United States of America. With an estimated 3,617,316 residents in 2007 and a land area of 68,667 square miles , Oklahoma is the 28th most populous and 20th-largest state...
. Their younger brother,
Waite PhillipsWaite Phillips and his identical twin brother Wiate were born near Conway, Iowa to Civil War veteran Lewis “Lew” Franklin Phillips and Lucinda Josephine “Josie” Faucett Phillips...
was the benefactor of
Philmont Scout RanchPhilmont Scout Ranch is a large, rugged, mountainous ranch located near the town of Cimarron, New Mexico covering approximately of wilderness in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains of the Rocky Mountains of northern New Mexico...
.
Phillips Petroleum was headquartered in
Bartlesville, OklahomaBartlesville is a city in Osage and Washington counties in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. The population was 34,748 at the 2000 census. Bartlesville is located forty-seven miles north of Tulsa and very close to Oklahoma's northern border with Kansas...
.
In 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court decided the landmark case of
Phillips Petroleum vs. State of Wisconsin which held that the Federal government should regulate under the Natural Gas Act the prices which natural gas producers charge when selling gas at the wellhead.
In late 1984,
Mesa Power LPMesa Power is a wind energy company owned by T. Boone Pickens. The company had plans to build large wind farms in the western Texas panhandle, the so-called Pampa Wind Project, part of the Pickens Plan. However, on July 8, 2009 the wind farm project was delayed for what were described as...
Company, led by
T. Boone Pickens, Jr.Thomas Boone Pickens, Jr. , known as T. Boone Pickens, is an American financier who chairs the hedge fund BP Capital Management. He was a well-known takeover operator and corporate raider during the 1980s. His takeovers put many independent oil producers out of business...
, attempted a hostile takeover of Phillips Petroleum. Phillips remained an independent company, but recapitalized with greater debt.
In 1989, 1999, and 2000 explosions happened at this facility. Altogether, 26 men died in these events.
On August 30, 2002,
Conoco Inc.Conoco Inc. was an American oil company founded in 1875 as the Continental Oil and Transportation Company. It is now a brand of gasoline and service station in the United States which belongs to the ConocoPhillips Company....
merged with Phillips Petroleum to form
ConocoPhillipsConocoPhillips Company is an international energy corporation with its headquarters located in the Energy Corridor district of Houston, Texas in the United States. It is the fifth largest private sector energy corporation in the world and is one of the six "supermajor" vertically integrated oil...
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http://www.conocophillips.com/about/Company+History/index.htm The best-known brand of Phillips Petroleum is
Phillips 66The company that made Phillips 66 gasoline began in 1917 as Phillips Petroleum Company, founded by L.E. Phillips and Frank Phillips, of Bartlesville, Oklahoma. In 1927, the company's gasoline was being tested on U.S...
, named in part for
US Highway 66U.S. Route 66 was a highway in the U.S. Highway System. One of the original U.S. highways, Route 66, US Highway 66, was established on November 11, 1926. However, road signs did not go up until the following year...
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