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I was looking through some issues of National Petroleum News from 1916-21 on Google.
There were ads for dozens of oil companies all over the country, although many were still in PA.
Ads ancillary equipment like welded steel barrels, seamless steel barrels, wood barrels, pumps,
valves, railcars, and storage tanks, but not for drilling equipment.

Articles about wildcatting in OK, fifty barrel wells in MT, at lot of failed fields, Mexican exploration,
$1250 an acre land along the Gulf of Mexico, post war activity in Palestine, and lack of post war market in Europe.

During the entire period before and after WW I the mood is grim, and business is bad.
A lot of the ads extolled the virtues of reliable quality, and cursed the shysters with their shoddy products.
They all say repeatedly the good guys will survive and the bad guys will perish from the earth.
It looks like many would fail long before the depression.

Tide Water was still in business, in the late 60s or 70s. In south LA. I worked a job for them

Did you work for Standard Oil in Arabia before the Great War? ;)

Oh yes, Flying A.
http://cellar.org/2015/flyinga.jpg
from wiki...

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In the early 1960s, Humble Oil & Refining Company purchased Tidewater's western refining and marketing properties, with the intention of rebranding Flying A stations in the western U.S. to Enco (later Exxon). In 1963, the U.S. Supreme Court nullified the purchase on anti-trust grounds.

In 1966, Phillips Petroleum Company (now ConocoPhillips) purchased Tidewater's western refining, distribution and retailing network. Phillips immediately rebranded all Flying A stations in the region to Phillips 66.

On the East Coast that year, Getty merged his numerous oil interests into Getty Oil Company, and Tidewater Oil was dropped as a corporate brand. Getty retained the Flying A brand for its East Coast stations until 1970, then dropped it in favor of its own Getty trademark. Texaco acquired Getty in 1984.

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Originally Posted by Griff (Post 930479)

Did you work for Standard Oil in Arabia before the Great War? ;)

Nope, but I made Iran back in 67.