Petró-Chico

Petró-Chico (lit. Petro-Boy, contex. Gasoline-Boy) was the affiliate of Poseidon Energy that operated in Mexico before the Great War.The Courier: "What's 'Petro-Chico?'"Raul Tejada: "You never heard of Petro-Chico, un Amigo de Poseidon Energy? Ah, of course not. They were an oil company in Mexico, back before the War."(Raul Tejada's dialogue)
==Background==
Controlled by the American energy titan Poseidon Energy, Petró-Chico operated in the coastal Mexican state of Veracruz and the neighboring Puebla and Hidalgo states.Sign for Petró-Chico The oil they collected made its way to refineries such as one located on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, and from there to the United States,U.S. billboards shown in loading screens at Mexico's expense.Courier Six: "So what did you do?"Raul Tejada: "I left Mexico City behind. I made my way out to the Gulf Coast, eventually I found an old Petro-Chico refinery nobody had claimed. I stayed there for a little while, and I thought a lot about my life. I thought about the guns I'd lived by and what they'd gotten me. I decided my guns hadn't gotten me anything, and it was time to give it up. I took off that old vaquero outfit, and put on a Petro-Chico jumpsuit. The name tag said 'Miguel,' so I started using the name myself. Eventually I made it to Arizona... but that's another story, boss."(Raul Tejada's dialogue) 
In the wake of the Great War, along with most of North America, the company collapsed, all its infrastructure left abandoned. Some of these buildings served as safe havens for those who survived the Great War, though it's said the company mascot became a negative sticking point in their memory, even two centuries later.Raul Tejada: " "(Raul Tejada's dialogue)
==Assets==
* Company jumpsuits: Company employees wore bright green jumpsuits with a company roundel on the right breast, a name tag on the left (written in cursive), and a large, rectangular logo on the back. Raul Tejada took one from a refinery he was squatting in at one point, later adopting the name on the suit's patch ("Miguel") as an alias. 
* Petró-Chico Boy, as seen on billboards and the jumpsuit, was the company mascot, wearing a stylized vaquero outfit with a wide-brimmed hat, red handkerchief and wielding a fuel-nozzle. 
Petro-Chico_Holdings.png|Mexican states in which Petro-Chico operated facilities
==Behind the scenes==
* As of 2022, the Chicontepec Formation spread over the three Mexican states of Veracruz, Puebla, and Hidalgo is one of the largest oil fields in Mexico, representing its largest reserve. However, oil within is difficult to extract, with the Cantarelli field in the Gulf of Mexico remaining the primary source of Mexican crude. Mexico's output is the fourth largest in the Western hemisphere, after the United States, Canada, and Brazil.
* While Petró-Chico was privately owned and controlled by the American-based Poseidon Energy corporation, the real-life situation is drastically different as the oil industry in Mexico has been state-owned since the 1938 nationalization and formation of Pemex.
==Appearances==
Petró-Chico is mentioned in Fallout: New Vegas and in the Vault Seller's Survival Guide episode "Meet Me in Coswald!".
==Gallery==
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==References==
Category:Mexico
Category:Pre-War companies
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