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manufacture of refined petroleum products

Standard Oil

Dissolved 1911

Headquarters: New York City
Founded: 1870
Employees: 60,000

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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

147

Summed over 1 ships reporting tonnage

In brief

What Standard Oil is

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Standard Oil Company was a corporate trust in the petroleum industry that existed from 1882 to 1911. The origins of the trust lay in the operations of the Standard Oil Company (Ohio), which had been founded in 1870 by John D. Rockefeller. The trust was born on January 2, 1882, when a group of 41 investors signed the Standard Oil Trust Agreement which pooled their securities of 40 companies into a single holding agency managed by nine trustees. The original trust was valued at $70 million. On March 21, 1892, the Standard Oil Trust was dissolved by order of the Supreme Court of Ohio, and its holdings were reorganized into 20 independent companies that formed an unofficial union referred to as "Standard Oil Interests." In 1899, the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey (Jersey Standard) acquired the shares of the other 19 companies and became the holding company for the trust.

Jersey Standard operated a near monopoly in the American oil industry from 1899 until 1911 and was the largest corporation in the United States. In 1911, the landmark Supreme Court case Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey v. United States found Jersey Standard guilty of anticompetitive practices and ordered it to break up its holdings. The charge came about in part as a consequence of the reporting of Ida Tarbell, who wrote The History of the Standard Oil Company.

Origin

Who founded it

Standard Oil was founded in 1870 by 5 named founders 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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Founder

Henry Morrison Flagler

1830–1913

American entrepreneur (1830-1913)

Photo: Unknown authorUnknown author · Public domain · file

Founder

William Rockefeller

1841–1922

American financier, businessman, and Standard Oil co-founder (1841-1922)

Photo: Bain News Service, publisher · Public domain · file

Founder

Stephen V. Harkness

1818–1888

American businessperson (1818-1888)

Photo: James Harrison Kennedy · Public domain · file

Founder

Samuel Andrews

1836–1904

Chemist/inventor (1836-1904)

Photo: Unknown photographer · Public domain · file

Corporate profile

Identity and registration

Legal name: —
Industry: manufacture of refined petroleum products
Legal form: public company
Country of registration: United States
Headquarters: New York City
Formed in: —
Founded: 1870
Dissolved: 1911
Employees: 60,000
Head office coordinates: 40.7128, -74.0061

Ships on record here: 2
Vessel types operated: 2
Flag states used: 1
Average vessel age: 119.0 years
Oldest vessel on record: 1907
Newest vessel on record: 1907
Largest vessel by tonnage: 147
Average tonnage: 147
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 Standard Oil. Bars are true proportions of that set, not of the company's full fleet.

By vessel type

Unclassified1

Tug1

By flag state

United States1

By shipbuilder

Neafie & Levy1

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
Jupiter	8134302	Tug	United States	—	147	—	—	Neafie & Levy
Standard Oil Company No. 16	5173498	Unclassified	—	1907	—	—	—	—

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 Standard Oil 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, Standard Oil 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 Standard Oil 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 1870, Standard Oil is 156 years old. This directory holds 48 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.