Unocal Corporation was reorganized in 1983, and Union Oil Company of California became an operating subsidiary of a new Delaware-based holding company, Unocal Corporation.
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Unocal Corporation was reorganized in 1983, and Union Oil Company of California became an operating subsidiary of a new Delaware-based holding company, Unocal Corporation.
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In 1997, Unocal sold its western United States refining and marketing operations to Tosco Corporation, including the rights to the Union 76 brand for refining and marketing.
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Unocal Corporation was one of the key players in the CentGas consortium, an attempt to build the Trans-Afghanistan Pipeline to run from the Caspian area, through Afghanistan and probably Pakistan, to the Indian Ocean.
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In 1996, Unocal Corporation opened an office in Kandahar, Afghanistan, while the Taliban were in the process of taking control of the country.
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Unocal Corporation rented a house in central Kandahar directly across the street from one of [Osama] bin Laden's new compounds.
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Taliban and Unocal were in negotiations in Texas to discuss arrangements for the gas pipeline from Turkmenistan to Pakistan in 1997 although it faced competition with from the Argentine Bridas Corporation.
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Unocal Corporation suspended work on the project following the US cruise missile strikes on Afghanistan in response to the 1998 US Embassy bombings and completely pulled out in December 1998 citing low oil prices and a need to cut costs in addition to regional instability.
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Unocal Corporation was the third-largest member of the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline from the Caspian Sea to the Mediterranean Sea.
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Unocal Corporation has been actively cleaning up the site since the mid-90s, receiving praise from the Sierra Club for their habitat restoration work.
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