Industry | Oil |
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Founded | 1918 |
Founder | Jack A. Vickers, Sr. |
Defunct | 1980 |
Fate | Sold to Total Petroleum, Mobil Oil and Petro-Lewis |
Headquarters | Wichita, Kansas |
Key people |
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Products | Petroleum products |
Vickers Petroleum Company was an oil company founded by John A. (Jack) Vickers, Sr. In 1918, Vickers established a refinery in Potwin, Kansas to process the output of recently discovered oil fields in Butler County.[2]