Tosco Corporation

Tosco
Industrypetroleum
Founded1955 in Santa Monica, California
FateMerged with Phillips Petroleum (ConocoPhillips)
Headquarters

Tosco (from "The Oil Shale Corporation") was an independent US based petroleum refining and marketing corporation based in Stamford, Connecticut. It was founded in 1955 in Santa Monica, California by A&P heir Huntington Hartford, and originally focused on extracting oil from oil shale and developing alternative energy sources.