Editing Amoco (section)

=== Global expansion ===
[[File:ON HYLAN BOULEVARD, STATEN ISLAND - NARA - 547866.jpg|thumb|170px|American station on Hylan Boulevard, NY City, 1973]]
Standard of Indiana established operations in Venezuela during the 1920s under dictator [[Juan Vicente Gómez|Juan Vicente Gomez]]. However, by 1932, during the worst of the Great Depression, the company sold its interests to [[Standard Oil of New Jersey]].<ref name=":7" /> 

In 1958, Indiana again went overseas by signing a deal with Iran to develop oil interests in the Middle Eastern country, this marked the company's first expansion into the Middle East.<ref name=":7" /> However, during the [[Iranian revolution|1978 Iranian Revolution]], Indiana faced significant challenges as political unrest escalated. The company swiftly shut down its Iranian operations and evacuated all American employees after they received death threats. This marked Amoco's complete withdrawal from Iran. <ref name=":10" /> 

In the following decades, Amoco expanded globally, creating plants, [[oil wells]], or markets in over 30 countries, including [[Italy]], [[Australia]] (acquired by BP in 1984), [[United Kingdom|Britain]], [[Belgium]], [[Brazil]], [[Argentina]], [[South Korea]], [[Taiwan]], [[Pakistan]], [[Norway]], [[Venezuela]], [[Russia]], [[China]], [[Trinidad and Tobago]], [[Egypt]], [[West Germany]]. <ref>{{Cite news |date=1983-05-10 |title=Amoco Italia Sale (Published 1983) |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1983/05/10/business/amoco-italia-sale.html |access-date=2025-01-20 |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":10">{{Cite book |last1=Grant |first1=Tina |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=D4ARAQAAMAAJ |title=International Directory of Company Histories |last2=Derdak |first2=Thomas |date=1996 |publisher=St. James Press |isbn=978-1-55862-342-2 |language=en}}</ref> In addition, the company also acquired a division of [[Tenneco Oil Company]] and [[Dome Petroleum Limited]] becoming one of the world's largest oil companies. <ref>{{Cite web |last=Archives |first=L. A. Times |date=1988-09-02 |title=The Canadian subsidiary of Amoco Corp. completed... |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-09-02-fi-2147-story.html |access-date=2025-01-20 |website=[[Los Angeles Times]]|language=en-US}}</ref>  

In April 1981, reorganized Amoco Production, Amoco Oil, Amoco Chemicals, and Amoco Minerals—its four main units into worldwide operating concerns—into worldwide operating concerns. The Amoco International Oil Company was also merged into Amoco Production, with its refining and marketing operations transferred to Amoco Oil and its marine transportation operations made part of Indiana Standard's supply and technology department.<ref>{{Cite web |date=March 10, 1981 |title=Indiana Standard Reorganizing Units |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1981/03/10/business/company-news-indiana-standard-reorganizing-units.html |access-date=October 25, 2024 |website=The New York Times}}</ref>

In July 1988, Amoco acquired [[Dome Petroleum]], a Canadian company.<ref>{{Cite web |date=July 15, 1988 |title=Amoco Purchase |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1988/07/15/business/company-news-amoco-purchase.html |access-date=October 25, 2024 |website=The New York Times}}</ref> By 1989, Amoco was the fifth-largest gasoline seller in the United States with more than 14,000 stations in 30 states.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Tribune |first=Chicago |date=1987-06-15 |title=LEADED FUEL RUNNING OUT OF GAS |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/1987/06/15/leaded-fuel-running-out-of-gas/ |access-date=2024-10-24 |website=Chicago Tribune |language=en-US}}</ref>

In 1994 Amoco was involved in a consortium with nine other companies that signed an agreement with the government of [[Azerbaijan]] for exclusive rights to develop oil fields in the [[Caspian Sea]]. Also in 1994 Amoco combined with competitors [[Shell plc|Shell Oil]] and [[ExxonMobil|Exxon]] to construct a $1 billion offshore oil platform in the [[Gulf of Mexico]], the deepest in the world at the time. <ref name=":10" />