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Gulf Oil
Gulf Oil
was a major global
oil
company
from the 1900s to the 1980s. The eighth-largest American manufacturing company in 1941 and the ninth-largest in 1979, Gulf Oil was one of the so-called
Seven Sisters oil companies
. Prior to its merger with
Standard Oil of California
, Gulf was one of the chief instruments of the
Mellon family
fortune; both Gulf and
Mellon Financial
had their headquarters in
Pittsburgh
,
Pennsylvania
.
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