Tidewater Oil Company (rendered as "Tide Water Oil Company" from 1887 to 1936) was a major

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refining company during that period. Tidewater was sold many times during its existence. Brands included Tydol, Flying A, and Veedol. The Veedol brand was owned by British Petroleum until 2011, when Veedol was sold by BP to Tidewater India. Now it is part of

Andrew Yule Andrew Yule (2 November 1834 – 18 July 1902) was a businessman who founded Andrew Yule and Co. Early life Andrew was born in Stonehaven- Fetteresso, Scotland, the third and youngest son of Robert Yule, a clothier, and his wife Elizabeth. He h ...

Indian group and manufactures automotive oil for the Indian market. Tidewater does not have its own refinery, so it is dependent on base oil suppliers like HPCL and BPCL, It manufactures a wide range of automotive lubricants.

History

US-NJ(1891) p564 BAYONNE, THE TIDE-WATER OIL COMPANY

Tide Water was founded in

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in 1887. The company entered the

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market and by 1920 was selling gasoline, oil and other products on the East Coast of the United States under its "Tydol" brand. In 1926, control of Tide Water Oil sold out to a new holding company, Tide Water Associated Oil Company, which also acquired a controlling interest in California’s

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. Soon thereafter, Standard Oil Company of New Jersey took control of the company. ''Flying A'' became the primary brand name for the company, though the Tydol and Associated names were also retained in their respective marketing areas. Tidewater Oil Company operated a fleet of oil

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. During

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, it chartered ships to the

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and

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and operated

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s to support the war effort. Ships included: USS Guyandot (AOG-16), SS Byron D. Benson, SS Samuel Q. Brown, Falls of Clyde, and others. During the 1950s, the Associated and Tydol brands gradually fell into disuse, and were dropped entirely in 1956. In 1966,

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(now ConocoPhillips) purchased Tidewater's western refining, distribution and retailing network. Phillips immediately rebranded all Flying A stations in the region to Phillips 66. On the East Coast that year, American-born British petrol-industrialist J. Paul Getty merged his numerous oil interests into Getty Oil Company, and Tidewater Oil was dropped as a corporate brand. In 2000, BP acquired the Veedol brand when it bought

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. In February 2011, BP offered to sell the Veedol brand, which was purchased that October by Tide Water India, part of the

group Indian company.Tide Water buys rights to Veedol trademark
on Live Mint, 2011

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