Esso Australia [SEP] parent company
Esso Australia
Esso Australia is an Australian affiliate of ExxonMobil, the US based oil giant. Esso operates a number of oil and gas platforms in Bass Strait, south east of Melbourne, Australia, as well as a gas processing facility at Longford and Long Island Point (LIP) in Hastings.
Esso Australia operated retail petrol operations until 1990, when its stations were acquired by Mobil Australia.
History.
Between 1933 and 1962 Esso was owned by Stanvac or Standard Oil. The trademark for Esso was first registered
one of the Seven Sisters that dominated the global petroleum industry from the mid-1940s to the 1970s.
History.
Exxon replaced the Esso, Enco, and Humble brands in the United States in 1973. The Esso name was a trademark of Standard Oil Company of New Jersey, and attracted protests from other Standard Oil spinoffs because of its phonetic similarity to the acronym of the name of the parent company, Standard Oil. As a result, Standard Oil Company of New Jersey was restricted from using Esso in the U.S., except