The Indian Refining Company was an American oil company in operation from the first decade of the 1900s until April 2, 1943. It was bought by the Texas Company in 1931. It had an oil refinery based in Lawrenceville, Illinois. Indian Refining patented the first "wax free" oil under the Havoline brand. Chemists at the Lawrenceville refinery developed the wax free motor oil leading to an Indian Refining patent. The Texas Company (

Texaco Texaco, Inc. ("The Texas Company") is an American Petroleum, oil brand owned and operated by Chevron Corporation. Its flagship product is its Gasoline, fuel "Texaco with Techron". It also owned the Havoline motor oil brand. Texaco was an Independ ...

) acquired Indian Refining in 1931 primarily to access the formulation for wax free motor oil. The oil was further developed and is currently the standard for all conventional motor oils throughout the world.

Publications

* ''Heavy liquid asphalt binder for road construction, liquid asphalt, road preserver and dust eliminator'', 1909 * ''Inspection of refinery, Georgetown, Ky., by members of The National Petroleum Association, Independent Petroleum Marketers' Association, and by the governor and state officials of Kentucky'', 1910 * ''The old costly method, the economical modern method'', 1910 * ''Havoline tours, book 15, California'', 1911 * ''Annual statement'' (date unknown)https://books.google.com/books?id=UiwCRAAACAAJ

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External links

web.archive.org/web/20091027033300/http://geocities.com/indianrefining1931/

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