Tosco Corporation

Tosco
Industrypetroleum
Founded1955 in Santa Monica, California
FateMerged with Phillips Petroleum (ConocoPhillips)
Headquarters
Stamford, Connecticut

Tosco (from "The Oil Shale Corporation") was an independent US-based petroleum refining and marketing corporation based in Stamford, Connecticut. It was founded in 1955 in Santa Monica, California by A&P heir Huntington Hartford, and originally focused on extracting oil from oil shale and developing alternative energy sources.

Tom O'Malley bought a quarter of the business and assumed the CEO role in 1989. He built TOSCO into the largest independent refiner in the United States prior to merging the company into Phillips 66 in 2001.

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