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Oil Companies
Texas City Refining Company
- 1908: Refinery operations begin
- 1909: bought by Waters-Pierce Oil Company
- 1909: bought by SW. Fordyce
- 1910: Fordyce and H. Clay Pierce formed Pierce Fordyce Oil Association, named the plant Pierce-Fordyce Oil Company
- 1917: renamed Pierce Oil Corporation
- 1924: renamed Pierce Petroleum Corporation
- 1929: Pierce Petroleum Refinery shut down
- 1930: refinery bought by Sinclair Consolidated Oil Corporation (but not put into production)
- 1936: refinery bought by Southport Petroleum (in production again)
- 1941: renamed American-Liberty Oil Company
- 1942: Defense Plant Corporation (DPC) units built
- 1944: refinery in production: operated by Southport (American Liberty Oil Company)
- 1947: part of the land and facilities bought by Sid Richardson
- 1947: remainder (the Avgas facilities) bought by Petrol Refining Inc.
- 1949: refinery shut down
- 1951: renamed Texas City Refining Inc.
- 1960: bought Sid Richardson refinery and terminal property
- 1964: one of Texas City Refining Inc. owners, the Grange League Federation, merged with Eastern States Farmers Exchange Inc. to become Agway
- 1965: Agway merged with another of Texas City Refining Inc.'s owners, the Pennsylvania Farm Bureau, leaving Agway and the Southern States Cooperative (SSC) as owners
- 1988: Phibro Refining-Texas City Inc. bought refinery and terminal assets from Agway and the SSC
- 1992: renamed Phibro Energy USA, Inc.
- 1996: renamed Basis Petroleum, Inc.
- 1997: bought by Valero Energy Corporation
Terminal Oil & Refining Company
- 1922: Operations begin
- 1930: Terminal Oil and Refining Company shut down
- 1930: refinery bought by Atlantic Pipe Line Company
- 1930: refinery bought by Stone brothers of Houston, became Stone Oil Company
- 1948: bought by Pan American Refining Company
Knox Process Corporation
- 1924: built refinery
- 1926: renamed Petroleum Conversion Corporation
- 1930: went into receivership
Republic Oil Refining Company
- 1931: Operations begin
- 1944: DPC units built and operating
- 1957: bought by Plymouth Oil Company.
- 1962: bought by Marathon Oil Company
- 1982: Marathon Oil bought by U.S. Steel
- 1991: U.S. Steel renamed USX Corporation
- 2001: USX restructuring, creating USX-Marathon Group and USX-US Steel Group
Pan American Refining Corporation
- 1933: Operations begin
- 1954 renamed American Oil Company
- 1985 Standard Oil of Indiana renamed Amoco Corporation
- 1998 Amoco Corporation merges with BP, becomes BP Amoco PLC (Public Limited Company)
- 2001 BP Amoco plc renamed BP PLC
Seaboard Oil Company
- 1934: Refinery operations begin
- 1938: Refinery shut down
Chemical Companies
1936 Union Chemical & Mineral Company
- 1939: Plant closed
- 1941: Carbide and Carbon Chemicals Corporation's (subsidiary of Union Carbide and Carbon Corporation) Texas City plant operating
- 1957: Union Carbide and Carbon Corporation renamed Union Carbide Corporation
- 2001: Union Carbide Corporation bought by Dow Chemical Company
Monsanto Chemical Company
- 1942: Plant begins operations in Texas City
- 1964: Monsanto Chemical Company renamed Monsanto Company
- 1986: Monsanto's Texas City plant bought by Sterling Group Inc. Sterling Group Inc. creates Sterling Chemicals Inc. to operate the plant
- 2001: Sterling Chemicals Inc. files for bankruptcy.
- 2002: Resurgence Asset Management, LLC $60 million equity investment in Sterling Chemicals Inc for holdings of 87%
Texas City Chemicals Incorporated
- 1953: Phosphate fertilizer plant built
- 1956: Texas City Chemicals Inc files for bankruptcy
- 1957: bought by Smith-Douglas Company
- 1964: Smith-Douglas merges with Borden, Inc.
- 1977: facilities sold to American Oil Company
- 1985: American Oil Company (Standard Oil of Indiana) renamed Amoco Corporation
- 1998: Amoco Corporation merges with BP, becomes BP Amoco plc (public limited company)
- 1998: BP Amoco Chemical Company operating plant
General Aniline & Film Corporation
- 1968: Operations begin
- 1996: Operations shut down
International Minerals & Chemical Corporation
Operations began in 1965.