Petroleum-related Stock
Certificates of the World
My interest in petroleum-related stocks and bonds is mainly in the vignettes of oil fields that grace many of these items. I've provided images of some of the more attractive examples, especially from older certificates (and will continue to post more as time permits). Alas, many of these illustrations are from stocks from sources other than my collection, so if you have petroleum-related stocks or bonds that you would like to sell or trade, please contact me at: scholle1@nmt.edu. PLEASE DO NOT CONTACT ME FOR INFORMATION ON STOCK VALUES OR COMPANY HISTORIES. I have no such information and can be of no help on such matters.
North American stocks/bonds:
Pennsylvania Rock Oil Co., Pennsylvania (1855)
Old Burning Springs Oil Co. of Wirt County, West Virginia (1864)
The Buchanan Farm Oil Co., New York (1864)
Lancaster Oil Co., Canada West (1864)
Bunker Hill Petroleum Co., New York (1865)
Bull Creek Oil Co., Pleasants County, West Virginia (1865)Kentucky and West Virginia Oil & Coal Co., New York (1865)
Phil Sheridan Oil Co., Venango County, Pennsylvania (1865)
Star Oil Co., Venango County, Pennsylvania (1865)
William Penn Oil Co., Venango County, Pennsylvania (1865)
Tarr Story and Cherry Run Oil Co., Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (1865)
Lancaster and Clarion River Oil Co., Lancaster City, Pennsylvania (1865)
Frost Petroleum Co., New York (1866)
Farmers Rail Road Co., Venango County, Pennsylvania (1866)
First National Petroleum Co., California (1860's)
Greene County Basin Oil Co., Pennsylvania (1860's)
Buffalo Pipe Line Co., New York (ca. 1870's)
Puente Crude Oil Co., Arizona (1900)
Freeman & Nelson White Oil Co., California (1900)
The Kaltenbach Oil Co., Beaumont, Texas (1901)
Altoona Midway Oil Co., Delaware (1902)
Eastern Consolidated Oil Co., Maine (1902)
St. Mary's Franco-American Petroleum Co., West Virginia (1902)
National Consolidated Oil Co., West Virginia (1902)
Clear Fork Oil Co. of Cadiz, Ohio (ca. 1905)
Amalgamated Mining and Oil Co. bond, Arizona (1907)
The International Petroleum and Oil Development Co., Ltd., Utah (1909)
California Diamond Oil Co. of San Francisco, California (1900's)
Range 16 Oil Co., Arizona (1910)
Uncle Sam Oil Co., Kansas and Oklahoma (1915)
West Penn Oil & Gas Co., Delaware (1917)
Eastern Petroleum Co., West Virginia (1917)
Barnett Oil and Gas Co., Delaware (1917)
Bankers Oil Co., Minnesota (1918)
Miller-Baxter Oil Co. of Wichita Falls, Texas (1918)
Black Tail-Wyoming Oil Co., Wyoming (1918)
Lusk and Mule Creek Oil Co., Wyoming (1919)
Central States Oil and Development Co., Wyoming (1919)
Pay Check Oil & Refining Co. of Fort Worth, Texas (1919)
Big 4 Oil and Refining Co., Texas (1919)
The Hueco Basin Oil Co. of El Paso, TX (1919)
The Glenrock Oil Co., Virginia (1919)
The Marland Oil Co., Maryland (1919)Bankers & Merchants Petroleum Co., Fort Worth, Texas (1920)
Texas-Atlantic Oil Co. of Fort Worth, Texas (1920)
Occident Oil and Refining Co., Delaware (1920)
Twin City Oil & Gas Co., Delaware (1920)
Jones Oil & Gas Co., Delaware (1920)
Texcalokan Oil & Gas Co., Maine (1920)
Twenty Mile Oil Co., Lusk, Wyoming (1920)
Invincible Oil Corp., Virginia (ca. 1920)National Petroleum Co. of Houston, Texas (1921)
Southwest Texas Oil & Gas Co., Sanderson, TX (1921)
The Capitol Petroleum Co., Denver, Colorado (1921)
Midvale Oil & Gas Co. of Tulsa, Oklahoma (1922)
Grand Oil & Development Co., Delaware (1922)
Cox Realization Co. of Houston, Texas (1922)
Mexia Meyer $5.00 Bill Golden Lane Syndicate, Texas (1922)
Middle States Oil Corp., Delaware (1923)
Hudson Oil Co., Delaware (1924)
Public Gas Corp., Delaware (1924)
Phoenix Oil Co., Delaware (1928)
Schimmel Production Corp. of Fort Worth, Texas (1928)
Sunset Pacific Oil Co., Delaware (1929)
Nicaragua Oil Corp., Nevada (1920's)
Norman Oil Corp., Delaware (1920's)
South American Oil Co., Delaware (1920's)
Calumet Petroleum Co., Arizona (ca. 1920's)
Rio Oil Co., Vinton, Louisiana (ca. 1920's)
Springfield Oil and Gas Co. of Muskogee, Oklahoma (ca. 1920's)
Carpathia Petroleum Co., Oklahoma (ca. 1920's)
Petroleum Grubstakes. Inc., Colorado (1938)
Venezuelan Petroleum Co., Delaware (1941)
Illinois Oil Co. of Rock Island, Illinois (1943)
Leonard Oil Development Co., Delaware (1944)
West Canadian Oil & Gas Ltd. of Alberta, Canada (1958)
Missouri-Kansas Pipeline Co., Delaware (ca. 1950's)
Barber Asphalt Corp., Delaware (ca. 1950's)
Great Western Oil and Gas Co., Delaware (1960)
Dallas Oil Co., Texas (1960)
Rio Grande Valley Gas Co., Texas (1967)
Stanwood Oil Corp., Pennsylvania (ca. 1960's)
Ladd Petroleum Corp., Delaware (1968)
Canadian Export Gas & Oil Ltd. of Alberta, Canada (1971)
UOP Inc., Delaware (1975)
Tenneco Corp., Delaware (1976)
Texaco Inc., Delaware (1978)
Getty Oil Co., Delaware (ca. 1970's)
Marathon Oil Co., Ohio (ca. 1970's)
Union Oil Co., California (ca. 1970's)
Chieftain Development Co. Ltd., Alberta, Canada (1981)
Quaker State Oil Refining Corp., Delaware (ca. 1980's)
Forest Oil Corp., New York (ca. 1980's)
Oil Resources Inc., Nevada (ca. 1980's)
Latin American stocks:
Compañía Petrolera "La Victoria", Mexico (1913)
Compañía Petrolera "El Alamo de Pánuco", Mexico (1914)
Compañía Nacional Petrolera "El Oro Negro", Mexico (1914)
Compañia Abastecedora de Aceites Para Combustible y Refinadora de Petroleo S.A., Mexico (1915)
Compañia Petrolifera "El Verjel", Mexico (1916)
Compañía Petrolera "El Triunfo", Mexico (1916)
Compañia Petrolera "El Tamelul", Mexico (1916)
Compañia Petrolera "La Tampiqueña", Tampico, Mexico (1916)
Compañía Petrolera "El Esfuerzo Nacional", Mexico (1916)
La Giralda Petroleum Co., Tampico, Mexico (1916)
Compania Petrolera "El Triunfo", Havana, Cuba (1917)
Bacuranao Mining Petroleum Co., Havana, Cuba (1918)
Cuban Venezuelan Oil Voting Trust, Havana, Cuba, and New York (1956)
Astra Compania Argentina de Petroleo, Buenos Aires, Argentina (1958)
European stocks:
Société Anonyme Belgie Pétroles de Tustanowice of Brussels, Belgium (1909)
Russian General Oil Corp., British-Russian (1913)
La Concordia, French-Mexican (1914)
Compagnie Générale de Transport et Importation de Pétrole, France (1921)
Akcja Zakladowa, Poland (1923)
Creditul Minier, Romania (1923)
Pacific Petroleum, Great Britain (1923)
Pétrole Trust, France (1924)
Les Pétroles Réunis, France (1924)
Sociedad Espanola de Combustibles Líquidos y Sus Derivados S.A. of Madrid, Spain (1927)
Compañia La Petrolifera Nacional of San Sebastian, Spain (1928)
Société Béarnaise pour la Recherche et l'Exploitation de la Potasse et du Pétrole, France (1929)
Subsolul Roman Co., Romania (1940)
Norse Petroleum A.S., Norway (1974)
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North American stocks, 1860-1910
North American stocks, 1911-1925
last revised: 12 February 2002
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