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petroleum industry

Amoco

Dissolved 1998

Headquarters: Chicago
Founded: 1889
Employees: —

Official website

Photo: Eden, Janine and Jim from New York City · CC BY 2.0 · file

Ships in this registry

Counted from individual vessel records · Wikidata

Reported fleet size

—

No published figure available

Container capacity

—

Not a ranked container line

Gross tonnage on record

109,700

Summed over 1 ships reporting tonnage

In brief

What Amoco is

Full article ↗

Amoco ( AM-ə-koh) is a brand of fuel stations operating in the United States and owned by British conglomerate BP since 1998. The Amoco Corporation was an American chemical and oil company, founded by Standard Oil Company in 1889 around a refinery in Whiting, Indiana, and was officially the Standard Oil Company of Indiana until 1985. In 1911, it became an independent corporation as part of the break-up of the Standard Oil trust. Incorporated in Indiana, it was headquartered in Chicago.

In 1925, Standard Oil of Indiana absorbed the American Oil Company, founded in Baltimore in 1910, and incorporated in 1922, by Louis Blaustein and his son Jacob. The combined corporation operated or licensed gas stations under both the Standard name and the American or Amoco name (the latter from American Oil Company) and its logo using these names became a red, white and blue oval with a torch in the center. By the mid-twentieth century it was ranked the largest oil company in the United States. In 1985, it changed its corporate name to Amoco.

Origin

Who founded it

Amoco was founded in 1889 in Whiting by one named founder on record. Portraits are shown only where a freely licensed photograph exists and its photographer is known.

Founder

John D. Rockefeller

1839–1937

American industrialist and philanthropist (1839–1937)

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Corporate profile

Identity and registration

Legal name: —
Industry: petroleum industry
Legal form: joint-stock company
Country of registration: United States
Headquarters: Chicago
Formed in: Whiting
Founded: 1889
Dissolved: 1998
Employees: —
Head office coordinates: 41.8819, -87.6278

Ships on record here: 2
Vessel types operated: 1
Flag states used: 2
Average vessel age: 53.0 years
Oldest vessel on record: 1973
Newest vessel on record: 1973
Largest vessel by tonnage: 109,700
Average tonnage: 109,700
Market share: —
Parent company: —
Alliance: —
Record source: wikidata
Last refreshed: 2026-09-05

Fleet on record

What this company sails

Composition of the 2 vessels this registry attributes to Amoco. Bars are true proportions of that set, not of the company's full fleet.

By vessel type

Oil tanker2

By flag state

Cyprus1

Liberia1

By shipbuilder

Astilleros Españoles2

Delivery history

10-year fleet record

Ships delivered in each of the last 10 years, counted from the recorded build year of vessels attributed to this company, with the running total of its fleet on record. No deliveries fall inside this window — this company’s vessels on record were all built earlier.

Year	Gross tonnage added	Fleet on record
2017	—	1
2018	—	1
2019	—	1
2020	—	1
2021	—	1
2022	—	1
2023	—	1
2024	—	1
2025	—	1
2026	—	1

Vessel records

Ships on record

2 vessels

Ship	IMO	Type	Flag	Built	Gross tonnage	Deadweight	Length	Builder
MT Haven	7304302	Oil tanker	Cyprus	1973	109,700	233,690	334.0 m	Astilleros Españoles
Amoco Cadiz	7336422	Oil tanker	Liberia	—	—	—	334.0 m	Astilleros Españoles

Ships in registry counts individual vessel records attributed to the company here. Reported fleet is the company’s published total. They measure different things and are shown separately on purpose.

In context

How Amoco compares

Counts over companies and vessels actually held in this directory — not over the world fleet, which is larger. Nothing here is estimated.

With 2 vessels attributed to it here, Amoco is the 341st largest of the 965 operators in this directory that hold at least one ship on record, against a median of 2 across that group. That is a count of individually identified hulls, not the company’s published fleet size — the two are different measurements and both are shown above where available.

United States is the country of registration for 144 commercial operators in this directory, among which Amoco ranks 33rd by ships on record. Between them those companies hold 435 vessels here. 1 of them carry a published container-capacity ranking. See every operator registered in United States.

Founded in 1889, Amoco is 137 years old. This directory holds 41 operators founded within five years either side of that date, whose median fleet on record is 1 ships. The median founding year across all commercial operators here is 1966, and the oldest on record dates to 1514.