Amoco Corporation, originally known as the Standard Oil Company (Indiana), was a global oil and chemical company. Amoco Corporation was founded in 1189 in Whiting, Indiana around a refinery. Later, in the year 1910, Amoco absorbed the “American Oil Company” founded in Baltimore. And incorporated by Louis Blaustein and his son Jacob. Amoco is now a part of British Petroleum. The most known innovations that came out of the Amoco Corporation are the gasoline tanker truck and the drive-through filling station, two essential parts of the modern petroleum industry. |