More Obscure ExxonMobil History
h-Exxon got into the chipmaking business in the 1970's and under its ownership developed the microprocessor that powers this portable gaming console.
What is the Nintendo Gameboy?
This asset manager is the largest owner of ExxonMobil stock (8% of the company) on behalf of millions of private investors.
What is Blackrock?
Two of the seven sisters, which both had headquarters in New York City at various points, merged into this entity that still exists today.
What is ExxonMobil?
h-Exxon Corporate Strategic Research scientists prepared a special version of a Toyota sedan and presented it to Toyota executives in 1981 by modifying it with this h-Exxon-developed technology (which is becoming increasingly popular) to boost fuel economy.
What is the hybrid drivetrain?
Esso sponsored the first radio broadcast of a game of this major North American sports league in 1936.
What is the NHL?
Esso sold this guide at its service stations starting in the 1930's that enabled black motorists to find hotels, restaurants, and other establishments that provided safe refuge during the segregationist / Jim Crow era and also was the subject of a 2018 film that won 3 Oscars.
What is The Green Book?
These ExxonMobil assets, while not on ExxonMobil's balance sheet, are worth nearly 2 trillion dollars at current prices.
What are oil-equivalent barrels (or barrels of oil equivalent)?
Three of the seven sisters, none of which had a major presence in New York City, merged to create this company that still exists today.
What is Chevron?
After leaving the company, a former Exxon upstream engineer developed this program to make voices pitch-perfect using technology originally developed to map underground oil/gas deposits by using sound waves.
What is Auto-Tune?
Since 2016, Mobil 1 is the "official motor oil" of this major North American sports league.
What is the NBA?
The global rights to this trademark had to be "sold back" to Exxon Mobil Corporation during the sale of the corporation's French affiliate in 2025 to a Canadian company.
What is Esso?
What are XTO and Pioneer Natural Resources?
Several formerly company-owned assets were brought back to the fold after ExxonMobil acquired this oil and gas company (not part of the seven sisters).
Building upon core technology discovered by the Nobel Laureate Stanley Wittingham at Exxon's Corporate Strategic Research, this company commercialised the first practical rechargeable lithium battery in 1990.
What is Sony?
An Exxon (Esso) sponsored racing team became the second all-female team in history to win a class victory at this famous 24 hour endurance race in 1975.
What is Le Mans?
This company operates just sixteen service stations in the United States with the "Standard" brand and effectively prevents ExxonMobil from using the Esso trademark/branding across the United States.
What is Chevron?
This independently governed 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization has managed donations of 200+ million dollars from ExxonMobil to support community impact projects across the globe.
What is The ExxonMobil Foundation?
This member of the seven sisters and ExxonMobil have 50/50 joint ownership of Infineum, a lubricant additives company.
What is Shell?
Al Gore and this intergovernmental agency, which had ExxonMobil scientists directly supporting / authoring its work from the mid 1990's to mid 2010's, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 for their contributions to sharing knowledge on man-made climate change.
What is the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change?
From 1978 to 2021, ExxonMobil was one of the main sponsors of this famous race in Alaska.
What is the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race?
Heritage Exxon created the modern petrochemical industry by producing this chemical at its Baton Rouge refinery 106 years ago.
What is isopropyl alcohol?
This ultramodern ExxonMobil facility, which was codenamed "Project Delta" and took 2.5 years to build, used 830,000 tons of concrete for its foundation.
What is the ExxonMobil Houston Campus?
The research division of this member of the seven sisters published a journal article that extended the science behind Lee Raymond's (former XOM CEO) dissertation topic ("An Analytical Study of the Transient Behaviour and Stability of Tubular Reactors and Catalyst Particles") and represents Lee Raymond's only known citation on Google Scholar.
What is Mobil?
ExxonMobil developed this technology in the 2010's and then donated it so that it could be used royalty free to reduce the cost of plant control systems.
What is the Open Process Automation Standard?
Mobil began its entry into Formula 1 racing in 1978 by starting technical collaborations with this Formula 1 team; they were able to win the Formula 1 driver's and constructor's title in 1980.
What is Williams?