The Indian Refining Company was an American
oil company in operation from the first decade of the 1900s to April 2, 1943. It was bought by the
Texas Company
Texaco, Inc. ("The Texas Company") is an American oil brand owned and operated by Chevron Corporation. Its flagship product is its fuel "Texaco with Techron". It also owned the Havoline motor oil brand. Texaco was an independent company unt ...
in 1931. It had an oil refinery based in
Lawrenceville, Illinois. Indian Refining patented the first "wax free" oil under the Havoline brand. The chemists at the Lawrenceville, Illinois refinery developed the wax free motor oil which led to an Indian Refining patent. The Texas Company (TEXACO) acquired Indian Refining in 1931 primarily to access the formulation for wax free motor oil, which was 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 ]
References
External links
* https://web.archive.org/web/20091027033300/http://geocities.com/indianrefining1931/
* http://www.oldgas.com/info/texacohist.html
Defunct oil companies of the United States
Texaco
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