Tidewater Petroleum

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Tidewater Oil Company

Type	Private
Industry	Petroleum
Founded	1887 in New York City
Founder	E. W. Marland
Defunct	1966; 56 years ago (1966)
Fate	Acquired by Phillips Petroleum Co., then sold to others
Headquarters	United States
Brands	List Tydol Flying A Veedol
Owner	Andrew Yule & Co.
Parent	Tide Water India

Tidewater Oil Company (rendered as "Tide Water Oil Company" from 1887 to 1936) was a major petroleum refining company during that period. Tidewater was sold many times during its existence. Brands included Tydol, Flying A, and Veedol.

The Veedol brand was owned by British Petroleum until 2011, when Veedol was sold by BP to Tidewater India. Now it is part of Andrew Yule Indian group and manufactures automotive oil for the Indian market. Tidewater does not have its own refinery, so it is dependent on base oil suppliers like HPCL and BPCL, It manufactures a wide range of automotive lubricants.

History[]

Tyde Water plant in 1891

Tide Water was founded in New York City in 1887. The company entered the gasoline market and by 1920 was selling gasoline, oil and other products on the East Coast of the United States under its "Tydol" brand.

In 1926, control of Tide Water Oil sold out to a new holding company, Tide Water Associated Oil Company, which also acquired a controlling interest in California’s Associated Oil Company. Soon thereafter, Standard Oil Company of New Jersey took control of the company.

With the merger and creation of "Tidewater Associated Oil Company", Flying A became the primary brand name for the company, though the Tydol and Associated names were also retained in their respective marketing areas.

Tydol gasoline station, circa 1945

During the 1950s, the Associated and Tydol brands gradually fell into disuse, and were dropped entirely in 1956.

BP acquired the Veedol brand when it bought Burmah-Castrol in 2000. In February 2011, BP announced that it would to sell the Veedol brand, which was subsequently acquired by Tide Water India, part of the Andrew Yule group Indian company.^[1]

In 1966, Phillips Petroleum Company (now ConocoPhillips) purchased Tidewater's western refining, distribution and retailing network. Phillips immediately rebranded all Flying A stations in the region to Phillips 66.

On the East Coast that year, American-born British petrol-industrialist J. Paul Getty merged his numerous oil interests into Getty Oil Company, and Tidewater Oil was dropped as a corporate brand.

See also[]

• Bayonne refinery strikes of 1915–16

References[]

External links[]

• Tide Water Oil Co. of India