Talk:Conoco

Corporate description

Using Moody’s Industrials Manual, 1960, I have added the correct corporation description.

I note that CONOCO failed to hold to this in their Prospectus description of the corporation that was “spun off” from du Pont in 1998. I believe that this was too minor of a Securities Fraud for the SEC to be bothered with.

The Continental Oil Company that du Pont bought in the 1981 is the Marland Oil Company that was incorporated in 1920, trading on the New York Stock Exchange. Only the name changed in 1929. This corporation never dissolved while a subsidiary of du Pont and so it is the corporation that is traded today as CONOCO.

1 Moody’s Industrials Manual, 1960.

I was really confused when I read this article so I look at the history, and it looks like it became confusing when you added some information out of chronological order. What information did you add exactly? Do you think you could re-add it in chronological order with what is there now? It doesn't make sense to me to start the article with when it was incorporated, but rather when it was founded. Make sense? Ugly Elephant 13:56, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

N!. Today’s CONOCO stock that is trading on the NYSE is the stock that was incorporated in 1920 as the Marland Oil Company. Only the name changed when Marland bought Continental Oil Company’s assets. Today that same corporation is trading as CONOCO/Phillips. After Marland’s purchase, the Continental Oil Co. stock that continued trading was then a financial holding company (holding some of the stock of Marland). I do not know what Continental’s shareholders did after that.Jcmcapital (talk) 00:42, 28 January 2008 (UTC)

It was present since

Tornsado (talk) 00:30, 7 June 2017 (UTC)

Sponsorship of Grimsby Town

If indeed this is happening, a company that no longer exists is unlikely to be paying anything towards the project.

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Requested move

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The result of the move request was: page moved to common name -- JHunterJ (talk) 14:28, 30 May 2012 (UTC)

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Conoco Inc. → Conoco – Per WP:COMMONNAME as the company was known and branded as Conoco and not as Conoc Inc. Conoco is not ambiguous term and it currently redirects here, so need to add the company type in its name. Beagel (talk) 16:18, 22 May 2012 (UTC)

Mild oppose. According to the ConocoPhillips article, Conoco is still in use as a brand name. Therefore the primary use of 'Conoco' is surely the product still produced by that company, not the defunct company. Conoco (which has many incoming links) should redirect to the current entity not this historical article and the title should be kept. - Sussexonian (talk) 18:48, 26 May 2012 (UTC)

Comment. Brand name, yes, but not a product. There is no separate article about the brand name and probably there is no need for this. The ConocoPhillips article mentions that the name is still used for the chain of service stations and I think that this fact should be added also here. However, I disagree about the primary use of the name. Beagel (talk) 10:19, 27 May 2012 (UTC)

Support, per WP:COMMONNAME. "Conoco" is a household word, likewise with the gas station logo. You need look no further than the references in the article to see how the corporation is treated by reliable sources, including what appears to be its own house organ: "DuPont, Conoco Splitting." "Write Conoco!." "Conoco World Headquarters Address." "Conoco Offices to Close." "DU PONT TO MOVE CONOCO'S OFFICES." Neotarf (talk) 22:52, 29 May 2012 (UTC)

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Convenience Stores in North America

Should this article be added to the Major Convenience Stores in North America sub-group of Convenience Stores? It is a major brand of gas station in the US. Jedieaston (talk) 21:37, 14 July 2017 (UTC)

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