Editing Standard Oil (section)

==Breakup==
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[[File:Standard Oil chart 2022.png|thumb|289x289px|Abbreviated chart of some of [[Successors of Standard Oil|Standard Oil's successors]]]]
By 1911 the [[Supreme Court of the United States]] ruled, in ''[[Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey v. United States]]'', that Standard Oil of New Jersey must be dissolved under the [[Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890|Sherman Antitrust Act]] and split into 34 companies.<ref name="ReiQO" /><ref name="Briscoe" />  Two of these companies were Standard Oil of New Jersey (Jersey Standard or Esso), which eventually became [[Exxon]], and Standard Oil of New York (Socony), which eventually became [[Mobil]]; those two companies later merged into [[ExxonMobil]].

Over the next few decades, both companies grew significantly. Jersey Standard, led by [[Walter C. Teagle]], became the largest oil producer in the world. It acquired a 50 percent share in [[Humble Oil|Humble Oil & Refining Co.]], a [[Texas]] oil producer. Socony purchased a 45 percent interest in [[Magnolia Petroleum Co.]], a major refiner, marketer, and pipeline transporter. In 1931, Socony merged with [[Vacuum Oil Company|Vacuum Oil Co.]], an industry pioneer dating back to 1866, and a growing Standard Oil spin-off in its own right.<ref name="Briscoe" />

In the [[Asia-Pacific]] region, Jersey Standard had oil production and refineries in the [[Dutch East Indies]] but no marketing network. Socony-Vacuum had Asian marketing outlets supplied remotely from California. In 1933, Jersey Standard and Socony-Vacuum merged their interests in the region into a 50–50 joint venture. Standard-Vacuum Oil Co., or "Stanvac", operated in 50 countries, from [[East Africa]] to [[New Zealand]], before it was dissolved in 1962.

Rockefeller's original company, Standard Oil Company of Ohio ([[Sohio]]), effectively ceased to exist when it was purchased by [[BP]] in 1987.<ref name="19P93" /> BP continued to sell gasoline under the Sohio brand until 1991.<ref name="19P93" /> Other Standard oil entities include "Standard Oil of Indiana" which became [[Amoco]] after other mergers and a name change in the 1980s, and "Standard Oil of California" which became the [[Chevron Corporation|Chevron Corp]].