You may know it as the Standard Oil Building, a handsome dinosaur looming over St. Paul Place in downtown Baltimore. Now, like Madonna and Cher, it has just one name — the Standard — and is ...

When the Standard Oil Refinery in Whiting experienced a devastating explosion just after dawn on Saturday, Aug. 27, 1955, it was felt as far away as Holland, Mich. Across Indianapolis Boulevard, le… ...

In order to free themselves from the Standard Oil Company's monopoly, which has had absolute control of the oil business for a number of years, manipulating the market to suit its pleasure, the ...

Whether we're talking about the 20-year-old Valvoline oil or the 50-year-old Mobil1, both showed significant signs of oxidation, shaken or not.

Standard Oil, founded in 1870 in Cleveland, became the world's richest business and long refined 90 to 95 percent of the world's oil.