Editing Amoco (section)

{{Short description|American fuel station chain owned by BP}}
{{redirect|American Oil Company|other uses|Standard Oil (disambiguation)}}
{{distinguish|AAMCO|Aramco}}
{{Citations needed|date=September 2022}}
{{Infobox company
| name = Amoco Corporation
| former_names = {{plainlist|
* Standard Oil Company of Indiana (1911–1985)<ref name=gart>[https://www.garageart.com/history-of-the-standard-oil-company/ History of the Standard Oil Co.] on Garage Art</ref>
* Amoco Corporation (1985–1998)
}}
| logo = Amoco logo.svg
| logo_size = 200
| image = Aon Center in Chicago May 2016.jpg
| image_size = 200
| image_caption = The Amoco Building (now the [[Aon Center (Chicago)|Aon Center]]) housed the Amoco headquarters in [[Chicago]]
| trading_name = Amoco; Standard; and American
| type = [[Public company|Public]]
| industry = [[Fuel industry|Fuel]]
| traded_as = {{NYSE was|AN}} (1985–1998)
| foundation = 1889, as part of the [[Standard Oil|Standard Oil Trust]]
| predecessor = [[Standard Oil]]
| successor = [[BP Amoco]]
| fate = Merged with BP, becoming a [[brand]], but resurfaced in 2017 selling BP fuel.
| defunct = {{end date|1998|12|31}}
| founder = [[John D. Rockefeller]]
| location = [[Aon Center (Chicago)|Amoco Building]]
| hq_location_city = [[Chicago]]
| homepage = {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/19980212072844/http://www.amoco.com/|date=February 12, 1998 |title=Archived official website }}
}}
'''Amoco''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|æ|m|ə|k|oʊ}} {{respell|AM|ə|koh}}) is a [[brand]] of [[filling station|fuel stations]] operating in the United States and owned by British conglomerate [[BP]] since 1998.  The '''Amoco Corporation''' was an American [[chemical]] and [[petroleum|oil]] company, founded by [[Standard Oil Company]] in 1889 around a [[oil refinery|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''',<ref name=gart/> founded in [[Baltimore]] in 1910, and incorporated in 1922, by [[Louis Blaustein]] and his son [[Jacob Blaustein|Jacob]]. The combined corporation operated or licensed gas stations under both the ''Standard'' name and the ''American'' or ''Amoco'' name (the latter from '''''Am'''erican '''o'''il '''co'''mpany'') 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.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1985-04-24-8501240407-story.html |title=Goodbye, Standard; Hello, Amoco Corp. |last=Rosenheim |first=Daniel |date=April 24, 1985 |work=[[Chicago Tribune]]|access-date=2019-08-28 |language=en-US}}</ref> 

The firm's innovations included two essential parts of the modern industry, the [[Tank truck|gasoline tanker truck]] and the [[filling station|drive-through filling station]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.baltimoresun.com/1998/08/12/huge-amoco-began-small-in-baltimore-roots-the-metered-gas-pump-no-knock-gasoline-and-other-innovations-followed-louis-blausteins-founding-of-american-oil-co-in-1910/ |title=Huge Amoco began small in Baltimore; Roots: The metered gas pump, no-knock gasoline and other innovations followed Louis Blaustein's founding of American Oil Co. in 1910 |first=J |last=Leffall |page=1.C |year=1998 |work=[[Baltimore Sun]]|access-date=2013-11-21}}</ref> Its "Amoco Super-Premium" lead-free gasoline was marketed decades before environmental concerns led to the eventual phase out of [[leaded gasoline]] throughout the United States. Amoco's headquarters were located in the Amoco Building (also called the Standard Oil Building, and nicknamed "Big Stan", now the [[Aon Center (Chicago)|Aon Center]]) in [[Chicago]], [[Illinois]].<ref>"[https://web.archive.org/web/19980212072931/http://www.amoco.com/contacts/index.html Contacts]." Amoco. February 12, 1998. Retrieved on March 31, 2010.</ref>

Amoco merged with [[BP]] in December 1998 to form BP Amoco, which was renamed BP in 2001.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Oller |first=Samantha |date=October 11, 2017 |title=What's Behind Amoco's Return? |url=https://www.cspdailynews.com/fuels/whats-behind-amocos-return |access-date=2024-10-23 |website=CSP Daily News |language=en}}</ref> The Amoco name was branded at the gas pump for the highest 93 octane blends. The [[Deepwater Horizon oil spill|''Deepwater Horizon'' oil spill]] of 2010 tarnished the BP brand in the US resulting in a rethinking of US branding. In October 2017, BP announced reintroduction of the Amoco branded stations to select US markets.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Rocco |first1=Matthew |date=10 October 2017 |title=Amoco gas stations are coming back |url=https://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/2017/10/10/amoco-gas-stations-are-coming-back.html |access-date=12 October 2017 |work=Fox Business}}</ref> As of 2023, there were over 600 new Amoco stations in the eastern and midwestern United States.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Amoco &#124; Products and services &#124; Home |url=https://www.bp.com/en_us/united-states/home/products-and-services/amoco/find-a-gas-station-amoco.html}}</ref>