Standard Oil Company was founded by Rockefeller in 1870 after building his first oil refinery near Cleveland. The oil industry in the United States enjoyed a near monopoly by 1882, but he's held a ...

Rockefeller, using his wealth to ... “The business case for the refinery makes sense: Nigeria produces crude oil. Dangote wants to end Nigeria’s dependence on imported products,” said ...

Rockefeller's drive toward an oil monopoly, and it is considered one ... even before the demise of S.I.C. Eager to consolidate the refining industry, he set out to eliminate what he called ...

The Rockefeller name is one so deeply entrenched ... his next venture – one that would change history. With the rate of oil production in Pennsylvania accelerating, he opened a refinery near ...

Rockefeller, Sr., the man she had been writing ... Why one should love an oil refinery the outsider may not see; but to the man who had begun with one still and had seen it grow by his own ...

Rockefeller, helped to carve out the modern ... oil products would rapidly expand creating the world's largest oil refinery in Cleveland and setting up Standard Oil in 1865. The rapid expansion ...

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What did Rockefeller first invest his money into? His modest upbringing in upstate New York led him to invest in an oil refinery in Cleveland, Ohio in 1863, when the oil industry was just embryonic. A ...