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46-489: This was the first Formula One car to run on Esso fuel since the 1960s. The car was designed and built from the ground up by the staff at Toyota Motorsports GmbH (TMG) in Cologne , Germany over a period of nineteen months, in preparation for Toyota's entry to Formula One in 2002. After the initial unveiling of the car, the test team, including drivers Mika Salo and Allan McNish took on an intensive testing programme, accumulating

92-657: A $ 241.5 million settlement with the US Department of Justice and the Environmental Protection Agency to resolve allegations of failing to obtain required permits at dozens of the company's oil and gas facilities on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in North Dakota and releasing thousands of tons of illegal air pollution as a result. The settlement included Marathon denying liability for

138-453: A 100% interest to its shareholders. In June 2013, Marathon sold its Angolan oil and gas field to Sinopec for $ 1.52 billion. In September 2013, Marathon sold a 10% stake in an oil and gas field offshore Angola for $ 590 million to Sonangol Group . In October 2014, the company sold its business in Norway to Det Norske Oljeselskap ASA for $ 2.1 billion. In 2017, it sold its interests in

184-546: A flexi disk which was given away free in hardware stores. In the 1930s, Esso acquired Cleveland, an independent company based in North East England. Its founder and principal shareholder, Norman Davis, had spent some of World War I with his brother Manuel in Cleveland , Ohio . Cleveland's products included a benzole blend and an alcohol blend called "Discol". The Esso and Cleveland names continued in use until 1973, when

230-638: A part of Standard Oil until Standard Oil was broken up in 1911. In 1930, The Ohio Oil Company bought the Transcontinental Oil Company, including the "Marathon" brand name. In 1962, the company changed its name to "Marathon Oil Company". In 1959, the Ohio Oil Company acquired Detroit based Aurora Oil Company which operated Speedway 79 stations and became an Ohio Oil subsidiary. In 1962, the Speedway 79 and Marathon stations were consolidated under

276-438: A possible malaria vaccine . The project has resulted in a 63% reduction in malaria parasite prevalence and a 63% reduction in the mortality rate and 97% reduction in severe anemia in children under 5 years old. According to a 2017 study, the company was responsible for 0.19% of global industrial greenhouse gas emissions from 1988 to 2015. As of 2022, Marathon was the seventh-largest emitter of greenhouse gas emissions in

322-547: A presence in southern Ohio today (as it does throughout much of Appalachia in general), though Mobil is the company's primary brand in the Midwest. In February 2016, ExxonMobil successfully asked a U.S. federal court to lift the 1930s, trademark injunction that banned it from using the Esso brand in some states. By this time, as a result of numerous mergers and rebranding, most of the remaining Standard Oil companies that had objected to

368-516: A total of 3,000 laps and 22,967 km at eleven F1 circuits around the world, and also the specialist testing facility at Paul Ricard in Southern France. During the development of the car, the initial designer André de Cortanze was replaced by Austrian Gustav Brunner and he oversaw the continued development of the car, eventually molding the TF102 car, the team's debut racegoing machine based on

414-403: Is also active in 24 Hours of Le Mans and various endurance racing , sponsoring Martini Lancia from 1982 to 1986, Le Mans-winning Peugeot 905 from 1990 to 1993, and Toyota GT-One in 1998–99. Since 1996 Esso currently supplying fuels for all Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup entrants under Mobil brand as ExxonMobil increased its fuel partnership role with Porsche Mobil 1 Supercup as Esso since

460-651: The Athabasca oil sands for $ 2.5 billion and acquired assets in the Permian Basin for $ 1.2 billion. In March 2018, it sold its assets in Libya for $ 450 million to TotalEnergies SE . In December 2022, the company acquired assets in the Eagle Ford from Ensign Natural Resources for $ 3.0 billion in cash. In November 2024, ConocoPhillips acquired the company in a $ 22.5 billion transaction. In July 2024, Marathon agreed to

506-596: The Midwestern United States being a weaker market for Esso. Likewise, The Ohio Oil Company, which eventually became Marathon Oil , did not market its downstream assets under the Standard name due to Sohio and Amoco owning the rights to the name in its core Midwestern territory. The other Standard companies likewise were "Standard" or some variant on that name in their home states, and another brand name in other states. Esso ranked 31st among American corporations in

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552-813: The United States Virgin Islands and Jamaica to TotalEnergies. Those were converted to the Total brand. In 2014, Sol Petroleum purchased Esso operations in The Bahamas , Barbados , Bermuda , Cayman Islands , Dominican Republic , Guadeloupe and Martinique . Rights to continue to operate in those countries under the Esso name were included. Esso S.A.F. is the French subsidiary of ExxonMobil, operating several hundred filling stations and two refineries in France. Established as Esso Standard Sekiyu K.K. in 1962, following

598-579: The "Snack and Shop" and " On the Run " branding depending on the size and the larger sites featured a Costa Cafe. ROC was the name for Esso's self-operated forecourts. By 2015, ROC UK had sold all their sites to operators such as Rontec and Euro Garages, leaving no forecourts directly operated by Esso in the UK. In Australia, Esso is an affiliate of ExxonMobil; it operates oil and gas production. Its retail petrol stations were acquired by Mobil Australia in 1990. In Canada,

644-671: The 2015 season. Marathon Oil Marathon Oil Corporation was an American company engaged in hydrocarbon exploration . In November 2024, it was acquired by ConocoPhillips . Marathon was founded in Lima, Ohio as the Ohio Oil Company . In 1899, the company was acquired by the Standard Oil Company (New Jersey) . After the antitrust case against Jersey Standard in 1911 and subsequent breakup of its holdings, Ohio Oil once again became an independent company. In 1930, Ohio Oil acquired

690-453: The 60% of petroleum in Argentina. In 2011, local consortium Bridas Corporation (formed by Bridas Energy Holdings Limited and Chinese CNOOC International Limited) acquired rights to the Esso brand in Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay. As a result, all the Esso stations were rebranded as "Axion Energy". At the time of the acquisition, Esso had 520 stations (with 450 under franchises), being

736-554: The Cleveland filling stations were re-branded as Esso. Esso traded in Northern Ireland up until the early 2000s. Their forecourts were re-branded as Maxol and Texaco and some remained private. 45 of Euro Garages' forecourts were bought from Esso in 2013, and are operated under the Esso brand. They plan to roll out partner brands such as Starbucks and Spar , replacing the Esso branded shops. ROC used self-branded stores under

782-693: The Esso and Mobil brands are used. In Hong Kong and Singapore, Mobil brand is applied on Esso fuel tank after Mobil service stations began to merge with Esso between 2003 and 2007. Mobil is ExxonMobil's primary retail motor fuel brand in California, Florida, New York, New England, the Great Lakes and the Midwest. Exxon is the primary brand in the rest of the United States, with the highest concentration of retail outlets located in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Texas and in

828-599: The Esso brand is used on stations supplied by Imperial Oil, which is 69.8% owned by ExxonMobil. The stations are owned by third-party retailers such as: Imperial Oil began to sell the majority of its company-owned stations in 2016. Esso also provides aviation fuel services at 80 airport locations in Canada (Aviation and Avitat). Esso has sold most of its assets in the Caribbean. In 2008 it sold its retail operations in Puerto Rico ,

874-399: The Esso name had been acquired by BP . ExxonMobil cited trademark surveys in which there was no longer possible confusion with the Esso name as it was more than seven decades before. Neither BP nor Chevron (which had minimized the use of the Standard name in the 1970s) had any objection to lifting the ban. ExxonMobil did not specify whether they would now open new stations in the U.S. under

920-540: The Esso name; they were primarily concerned about the additional expenses of having separate marketing, letterheads, packaging, and other materials that omit Esso. The Esso name did return to minor station signage at both Exxon and Mobil stations, which also had the effect of ExxonMobil de facto claiming the Standard trademark in Colorado , Kentucky , Montana , North Dakota , Oklahoma and Wyoming as Chevron withdrew from Kentucky in 2010 and BP gradually withdrew sales from

966-570: The Marathon name and the Ohio Oil Company is renamed Marathon Oil Company. In 1981, Mobil made a hostile takeover offer to buy the company. However, the board of Marathon Oil rejected the offer and instead sold the company to United States Steel . A legal battle ensued thereafter. In 1990, the headquarters was moved to Houston, Texas , but the company's refining subsidiary maintained its headquarters in Findlay, Ohio . In 1984, Marathon purchased

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1012-764: The Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern states. In the 1960s, campaigns featuring heavy spending in different mass media channels became more prominent. Esso spent hundreds of millions of dollars on a brand awareness campaign built around the simple and alliterative theme, "Put a Tiger in Your Tank", which was invented by Emery Smith in 1959. The North American and later European campaign featured extensive television and radio and magazine ads, including photos with tiger tails supposedly emerging from car gas tanks, in England there were faux tiger tails with pink ribbons to tie round underneath

1058-561: The Transcontinental Oil Company, which operated the "Marathon" brand of retail gasoline stations. Ohio Oil continued to use the Marathon brand, and in 1962, Ohio changed its name to the Marathon Oil Company. In January 1982, Marathon was acquired by U.S. Steel . After the acquisition, the USX Corporation was created to act as the parent of U.S. Steel and Marathon Oil, which operated as divisions. In 2001, USX spun off Marathon under

1104-448: The U.S. unit of Husky Energy for $ 505 million. In 1998, Marathon and Ashland Global contributed their refining operations to Marathon Ashland Petroleum LLC (MAP), now Marathon Petroleum . In 2001, USX, the holding company that owned United States Steel and Marathon, spun off the steel business and, in 2002, USX renamed itself Marathon Oil Corporation. In 2003, Marathon sold its Canadian operations to Husky Energy . In 2003,

1150-510: The United Kingdom. Their television advertising song from the 1950s, through to the 1970s, was the famous "Bom, Bom, Bom, Bom, Esso Blue!" One campaign used the well-known song tune of " Smoke Gets in Your Eyes " reworded as: "They asked me how I knew, it was Esso Blue, I of course replied, with lower grades one buys, smoke gets in your eyes. The non-smoking paraffin". The track was released as

1196-800: The allegations but agreeing to pay a $ 64.5 million civil penalty, the largest fine ever imposed for violations of the Clean Air Act from stationary sources, as well as agreeing to invest $ 177 million to bring its facilities into compliance. Since 2003, Marathon Oil and its partners Noble Energy and AMPCO have invested in the Bioko Island Malaria Control Project (BIMCP) in Equatorial Guinea . The project includes distribution of insecticide nets, indoor residual spraying and larval source management, preventive therapy for pregnant women and malaria case management, and investment in

1242-604: The cap of the petrol tank so as to look as if there was a tiger in the tank: these were often seen on the road in the 1960s; at one time in England there was a television advertisement where a sombre man labelled as the advertising manager said that they were no longer going to have the tiger, followed a short while later with advertisements for the save the tiger campaign, promotional events featuring real tigers, billboards, and in Europe station pump hoses "wrapped in tiger stripes" as well as pop music songs. Tiger imagery can still be seen on

1288-632: The company sold 383 thousand barrels of oil equivalent (2,340,000 GJ) per day, of which 26% was from the Eagle Ford Group , 27% was from the Bakken formation , 17% was from Oklahoma , 7% was from the Northern Delaware Basin , 2% was from other U.S. sources, and 20% was from Equatorial Guinea . Marathon Oil began as "The Ohio Oil Company" in 1887. In 1889, the company was purchased by John D. Rockefeller 's Standard Oil . It remained

1334-457: The company sold its interest in the Yates Oil Field to Kinder Morgan for $ 225 million. In 2007, Marathon acquired Western Oil Sands for $ 6.6 billion and gained ownership of its 20% stake in the Athabasca oil sands in northern Alberta, Canada and other assets in the midwestern United States . In 2011, Marathon completed the corporate spin-off of Marathon Petroleum , distributing

1380-513: The company used the Enco ("Energy Company") brand name, and in a few, the Humble brand name. The objections were mostly made by Standard Oil of Ohio and, in the 1960s, Standard Oil of California (now Chevron Corporation ) after their acquisition of former Esso jobber Standard Oil of Kentucky . The other major Standard Oil spinoff, Standard Oil of Indiana (which became Amoco ) largely did not object due to

1426-674: The dissolution and absorption of EMG Marketing into a subsidiary of the new company, JXTG Nippon Oil & Energy (now Eneos ), in 2017. In 2019, the company began to phase out the Esso and Mobil brands in Japan, replacing it with JX's Eneos EneJet banner. Standard Oil of New Jersey started business in Argentina in 1911, acquiring the "Compañía Nacional de Aceites" (National Company of Oil), which had been founded in 1906 by entrepreneur Emilio Schiffner in Campana, Buenos Aires to produce kerosene . It became

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1472-689: The dissolution of the Standard Vacuum Oil Company . It became Esso Sekiyu K.K. in 1982. After the Exxon and Mobil merger in 1999, the Japanese subsidiaries were reorganized as ExxonMobil Y.K. in 2002, which spun off its downstream business to EMG Marketing G.K. in 2012, and acquired as a subsidiary by TonenGeneral Sekiyu K.K. in the same year. In 2016, JX Holdings and the TonenGeneral Group merged into JXTG Holdings (now Eneos Holdings ), leading to

1518-679: The first oil refinery in Latin America, doing business as "Compañía Nativa de Petróleo". Soon after, it merged with another foreign company operating in Argentina, West India Oil Co. (mostly known as "WICO"). The first petrol pump was placed in the Plaza del Congreso of Buenos Aires , while the first service station opened in 1927 in the city of Santa Fe . The company opened other refineries in Neuquén and Jujuy provinces. The company also introduced its motor oil line, Essolube in 1936. By 1943, Esso produced

1564-621: The initials 'S' and 'O' in the name Standard Oil . Standard Oil Company ( New Jersey ; "Jersey Standard") had the rights in that state, plus in Maryland , West Virginia , Virginia , North Carolina , South Carolina , and the District of Columbia . By 1941, it had also acquired the rights in Pennsylvania , Delaware , Arkansas , Tennessee , and Louisiana . It also used the Esso brand in New York and

1610-575: The merger of Exxon with Mobil in 1999. Williams F1 had one season of Esso sponsorship in 2009 when Petrobras left F1 in 2008 before they returned in 2014. The Esso brand was used in McLaren Formula One cars along with Mobil from 2014 despite Esso actually partnering and supplying fuels for McLaren team from 2015 to 2016 seasons, as well as Exxon from 2015 in United States Grand Prix only, as they are currently ExxonMobil brands after

1656-424: The merger. In 2017, ExxonMobil switched to Red Bull Racing , as well as Faenza-based sister team Scuderia Toro Rosso for one season only. Enco, as sister brand of Esso before both renamed as Exxon in 1973, had sponsored three Indianapolis 500 winning cars in 1965, 1967 and 1968, won by Jim Clark , A. J. Foyt and Bobby Unser , powered by Ford for 1965 and 1967 seasons, and Offenhauser for 1968 season. Esso

1702-495: The name "Esso" (the phonetic pronunciation of Standard Oil's initials, ' S ' and ' O '), to which the other Standard Oil companies would later object. Standard Oil of New Jersey started marketing its products under the Esso brand in 1926. In 1972, the name Esso was largely replaced in the U.S. by the Exxon brand after the Standard Oil of New Jersey bought Humble Oil , while the Esso name remained widely used elsewhere. In most of

1748-451: The name Marathon Oil Corporation. In 2011, Marathon Oil spun off its downstream operations as Marathon Petroleum . As of December 31, 2020, the company had 972 million barrels of oil equivalent (5.95 × 10  GJ) of estimated proven reserves, of which 86% was in the United States and 14% was in Equatorial Guinea . The company's proved reserves consisted 52% of petroleum , 30% natural gas and 18% natural gas liquids . In 2020,

1794-606: The other states. In 1888, the Anglo American Oil Company opened its head office in London, which eventually became a part of Esso. In August 1998, Tesco announced a partnership with Esso, opening chains of Tesco Express stores located within forecourts, which continues today. In February 2000, the two companies were opening one new store a month, creating 4,000 jobs. Esso Blue was the brand name of Esso's paraffin oil (kerosene) for domestic heaters in countries such as

1840-962: The pumps of successor firm ExxonMobil . Esso, along with its sister brands Exxon and Mobil, are official long-term recommended gasoline of two Volkswagen Group marques (mainly Bentley and Porsche ), all Toyota Group marques and subsidiaries (including Toyota , Lexus , Daihatsu , Hino , and Perodua , shared with Petron ) and General Motors marques and subsidiaries (including Chevrolet , Cadillac , Buick , Holden , SAIC-GM-Wuling and former GM marques such as Opel and Vauxhall ) for automobiles. They are also recommended fuels for KTM motorcycles. Formula One team Lotus had Esso sponsorship from 1962 until 1967 while sponsoring Indianapolis 500 winner and Formula One world champion Jim Clark as well as Brabham from 1964 until 1973. From 2002 to 2009, Esso sponsored Toyota F1 , as well as Jordan and its successor, Midland in 2005 and 2006, after Esso became ExxonMobil's global primary fuel brand through

1886-499: The six New England states, where the Standard Oil Company of New York ( Socony-Vacuum , later Socony Mobil) had the rights, but did not object to the New Jersey company's use of the trademark (the two companies did not merge until November 1999 ). However, in the other states, the other Standard Oil companies objected and, via a 1937 U.S. federal court injunction, forced Jersey Standard to use other brand names. In most states

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1932-482: The states where it held those rights by selling Esso Diesel in those states at stations that sell diesel fuel , thus preventing the trademark from being declared abandoned. It retained the Esso brand in Puerto Rico and the United States Virgin Islands until 2008, when it sold its stations there to TotalEnergies. The Enco brand name was used on locations in the Midwest until 1977, when they were sold to Cheker Oil Co. (now part of 7-Eleven ); Exxon continues to have

1978-546: The third largest producer of Argentine after YPF and Shell , with a 12% market share. Esso is ExxonMobil's primary motor fuel brand worldwide except in Australia, Guam, Mexico, Nigeria, and New Zealand, where the Mobil brand is used exclusively. In Canada (since 2017), Colombia, Egypt, and formerly Malaysia (until 2013, when Petron (the former Esso Philippines) acquired ExxonMobil's Malaysian operations) and Japan (until 2019), both

2024-458: The value of World War II production contracts. During the years of racial segregation in the United States , Esso franchises gave out The Negro Motorist Green Book : An International Travel Guide . In 1973, Standard Oil of New Jersey renamed itself Exxon Corporation, and adopted the Exxon brand name throughout the country. It maintained the trademark rights to the Standard and Esso brands in

2070-404: The work done during the 2001 season. The car was handling poorly and being overweight, Mika Salo described it as being "a piece of shit". Esso Esso ( / ˈ ɛ s oʊ / ) is a trading name for ExxonMobil . Originally, the name was primarily used by its predecessor Standard Oil of New Jersey after the breakup of the original Standard Oil company in 1911. The company adopted

2116-454: The world, the Esso brand and the Mobil brand are the primary brand names of ExxonMobil, while the Exxon brand is used only in the United States alongside Mobil. In 1911, Standard Oil was broken up into 34 companies, some of which were named Standard Oil and had the rights to that brand in certain states (the other companies had no territorial rights). The name Esso is the phonetic pronunciation of

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