The Scurlock Oil Company was an American

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, with headquarters located in

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History

Founded in 1936 by

Eddy C. Scurlock Eddy Clark Scurlock (January 13, 1905 – January 17, 1988) was an American petroleum industry, oil industry Business magnate, tycoon, entrepreneur, millionaire, and philanthropist, who founded the Scurlock Oil Company; the Eddy Refining Compan ...

, the company was a

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marketer of

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s. It emerged as an important

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er of crude oil and natural-gas condensate. By 1982, the Scurlock Oil Company was transporting of oil a day by

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, or pipeline. Also in 1982, the Scurlock Oil Company was sold to Ashland Oil. When Ashland bought the Permian Corporation in 1991, it merged with Scurlock to form a subsidiary known as Scurlock Permian Corporation. The Scurlock Permian Corporation subsidiary was sold to

Plains All American Pipeline Plains All American Pipeline, L.P. is a master limited partnership engaged in pipeline transport, marketing, and storage of liquefied petroleum gas and petroleum in the United States and Canada. It owns interests in of pipelines, storage capacit ...

in 1999.

References

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