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Corporate lineage · Archive

Who acquired whom.

From Texas wildcatters to Permian super-majors. Trace an operator through decades of acquisitions and name changes.

3,328 transactions · Archive

The Chains

A few of the deepest chains.

Each arrow is a recorded acquisition or merger. Click any node to open its brief.

  1. From TEXACO INC.

  2. From PENNZOIL-QUAKER STATE COMPANY

  3. From ATLANTIC RICHFIELD COMPANY

  4. From AMOCO PRODUCTION COMPANY

  5. From MOBIL OIL CORPORATION

The directory. Every company in alphabetical order.

Showing top entries per letter. Use the search above for the full index: 3,340 companies total, with lineage tracing on every page.

A

See all 293 A companies

B

See all 235 B companies

C

See all 340 C companies

D

See all 120 D companies

E

See all 162 E companies

F

See all 80 F companies

G

See all 141 G companies

H

See all 143 H companies

I

See all 49 I companies

J

See all 44 J companies

K

See all 63 K companies

L

See all 82 L companies

M

See all 258 M companies

N

See all 119 N companies

O

See all 83 O companies

P

See all 269 P companies

Q

See all 19 Q companies

R

See all 100 R companies

S

See all 280 S companies

T

See all 220 T companies

U

See all 58 U companies

V

See all 42 V companies

W

See all 108 W companies

X

Y

See all 9 Y companies

Z

See all 10 Z companies

a name on a lease is rarely the name that holds it today.

Trace the chain to the name that answers.

The directory is a free, open archive of 3,328 oil & gas transactions: target and acquirer name-pairs you can walk backward to find who a company became. No account, no search box to unlock.

Once you have the current entity, the county records directory tells you where that county keeps its deed and lease index, and the permit tracker shows what that operator is filing now.