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The following section is an excerpt from Wikipedia's Amoco page on 29 April 2022, text available via the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
Amoco is a brand of fuel stations operating in the eastern United States, and owned by British company BP since 1998. The "Amoco Corporation" (/æməkoʊ/) was an American chemical and oil company, founded in 1889 around a refinery in Whiting, Indiana, and was officially the "Standard Oil Company of Indiana" until 1985. Originally part of the Standard Oil Trust, it focused on producing gasoline for the new automobile market. In 1911, as part of the break-up of the Standard Oil Trust, it became an independent corporation. Incorporated in Indiana, it was headquartered in Chicago, and formally adopted the name Amoco in 1985. Amoco merged operations with BP in 1998.
Although the Amoco Corporation ceased to exist in 1998, the Amoco name was resurrected in 2017 as a brand that service station owners could choose to use when they purchased supplies from BP in selected areas of the United States.
In 1925, Standard Oil of Indiana absorbed the "American Oil Company", founded in Baltimore in 1910, and incorporated in 1922, by Louis Blaustein and his son Jacob. The combined corporation operated or licensed gas stations under both the Standard name and the American or Amoco name (the latter from American oil company) and its logo using these names became a red, white and blue oval with a torch in the center. By the mid-twentieth century it was ranked the largest oil company in the United States. In 1985, it changed its corporate name to Amoco. Amoco merged with British Petroleum in December 1998 to form BP Amoco, renamed BP in 2001.
The firm's innovations included two essential parts of the modern industry, the gasoline tanker truck and the drive-through filling station. Its "Amoco Super-Premium" lead-free gasoline was marketed decades before environmental concerns led to the eventual phase out of leaded gasoline throughout the United States. Amoco's headquarters were located in the Amoco Building (also called the Standard Oil Building, and nicknamed "Big Stan", now the Aon Center) in Chicago, Illinois.
In October 2017, BP revealed that it would be reintroducing the Amoco name to select US markets. As of 2021, there were over 100 new Amoco locations in the states of Georgia, New York, New Jersey, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Michigan, Indiana, Wisconsin, Missouri, Florida, Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Illinois.
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| 10 May 1996 | Announced Actions for May 10, 1996 Amoco Oil Company, settling charges that its “Crystal Clear Amoco Ultimate” advertising campaign included unsubstantiated claims, among others, that Amoco premium gasoline, because it is refined more than competitors’ brands, delivers superior engine performance and environmental benefits, and that its clear color demonstrates its superiority. | Press Release (text) Agency: FTC Topic: Amoco |
| 13 September 1996 | AMOCO to Settle FTC Charges Over "Crystal Clear" Ad Campaign Under the proposed settlement, Amoco Oil has agreed not to make any performance or environmental benefit claim for any of its gasolines without first having scientific evidence to back it up. | Press Release (text) Agency: FTC Topic: Amoco |