Standol

The Standard Oil Corporation of Canadia, today shortened to just Standol, is a Canadish multinational energy corporation. It is the third-largest oil company on the Tapanthian continent, behind MP and Jonaco. One of the successor companies of the Eastern Oil Company, it is headquartered in Salisbury, Canadia, and active in more than 40 countries. Standol is engaged in every aspect of the oil and natural gas industries, including hydrocarbon exploration and production; refining, marketing and transport; chemicals manufacturing and sales; and power generation.
Standol was founded in 1904 by Neville Slattery and his family. Following numerous successes in it's early years, the company came to dominate the Canadish oil industry by the early 1910s. However, with the election of a Socialist government in 1921, Standol came under anti-trust laws and was sold to a series of investors led by Theodore Cregsley. Two parts of the company, the Zealandian Oil Company (today Zelco), and Belkan Standard Oil (today Belstol), were spun off at the advice of Cregsley. The company was bailed out in the 1940s after many of it's assets were attacked by Jonathian troops during the Great War. In the 1970s, Standol began investing in electricity and natural gas production.
Today, Standol is one of the largest oil and petroleum companies in Canadia. It operates a number of gas stations across Tapanthia and parts of Allangria, and has mining rights in various parts of the world. Standol has received criticism over the years for it's poor environmental record.
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