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The Oil Creek Refining Company was founded by Dennis McGraw and incorporated in 1919-20 as a home-owned oil refinery that operated in East Titusville. It was the first company to market motor oil in refinery-sealed, disposable cans and invented the first Pennsylvania motor oil with zero-pour. The company operated service stations in Titusville, Pleasantville, and Corry, partnered with Standard Oil of Pennsylvania in November 1935 to sell Esso gasoline products at its service stations, had those service stations bought out by Socony-Vacuum in 1938, and was officially dissolved in July 1942.
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Titusville, Pennsylvania · United States
