Pennsylvania Oil Companies
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Freedom Oil Works Co. and the Valvoline Oil Co.
The Freedom Oil Works Co. was established in Freedom, Pa., Beaver County in 1879. J. W. Craig was the President in the latter nineteenth century when the company refined illuminating oils and all types of lubricating oils.
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Empire – Wolverine – Wolf’s Head
A. L. Confer established his small refinery in Reno in 1879. This was a one-man show. Confer did everything. He proudly painted the Empire name on his one storage tank. The name stuck and grew in stature.
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Crew Levick – Cities Service Group
The Crew Levick Co. was an old Philadelphia company organized in 1862. In time, the Philadelphia firm built a large refinery, the Seaboard Oil Works, on the Delaware River. In the latter 1880’s, William Muir built two refineries in Warren that Crew Levick would become a partner in.
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Atlantic Refining Co.
The Atlantic Refining Co. was created in the nineteenth century by consolidating several Standard Oil Pennsylvania refining operations that were organized in the earliest days of the oil industry. Charles Lockhart and William Frew built their first Pittsburgh refinery, the Brilliant, in 1860.
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American Refining Group, Inc.
American Refining Group, Inc. (ARG) is co-owned by Harry Halloran and based outside of Philadelphia in West Conshohocken. Halloran is the Chief Executive Officer of ARG. In March 1997, the American Refining Group purchased the former Kendall Refinery in Bradford.