BP vs Standard Oil
Side by side, from the public record each company was imported from. Where a figure is missing it is because no source we hold states it — not because it is zero.
Standard Oil is the older of the two, founded in 1870 — 39 years before BP.
- Founded
- 1909
- 1870
- Status
- Active
- Closed 1911
- Headquarters
- London, United Kingdom
- Cleveland, United States
- Industry
- petroleum industry
- petroleum industry
- Founders
- William Knox D'Arcy, Charles Greenway, 1st Baron Greenway
- John D. Rockefeller, William Rockefeller, Henry Morrison Flagler, Stephen V. Harkness, Samuel Andrews
- Employees
- 70,100
- 60,000
- Legal form
- public limited company
- joint-stock company
- Listed on
- New York Stock Exchange
- Not recorded
Facts on both companies come from the public records named on BP and Standard Oil.