15 Facts About Amoco

Amoco is a brand of fuel stations operating in the United States, and owned by BP since 1998.

The Amoco Corporation was an American chemical and oil company, founded by Standard Oil Company in 1889 around a refinery in Whiting, Indiana, and was officially the Standard Oil Company of Indiana until 1985.

Amoco merged with British Petroleum in December 1998 to form BP Amoco, renamed BP in 2001.

Amoco's headquarters were located in the Amoco Building in Chicago, Illinois.

The "Amoco" lead-free gasoline was sold at American's stations in the eastern and southern U S alongside American Regular gasoline, which was a leaded fuel.

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Lead-free Amoco was introduced in the Indiana Standard marketing area in 1970.

The Amoco name continued to be used outside the U S and as a brand on certain American Oil products.

Carlin's Amoco Station was built at Roanoke, Virginia, around 1947; it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2012.

BP chose to rename its gasolines with the Amoco name, changing its midgrade and premium offerings to the Silver and Ultimate brandings that Amoco used.

Some independently owned BP stations, including former Amoco stations, switched to a different brand due to the public relations fallout as a result of the oil spill.

The italicized word "Amoco" is shown after red, white, and blue horizontal stripes, taken from the divided ellipse of the former Amoco logo.

In 1976, Amoco sponsored the Barney Oldfield Speedway attraction at Marriott's Great America theme park in Gurnee, Illinois.

Andretti provided great publicity for Amoco by winning races at Phoenix and Cleveland that year, part of his 52 career IndyCar wins.

Amoco was ordered by a federal judge Charles Norgle in a 1990 ruling to pay $120 million in damages and restitution to France.

Amoco brand returned to the Pittsburgh market in Fall 2020, when locally-based Coen Markets announced a marketing deal with BP to sell Amoco-branded gasoline at all of its fuel-offering locations.