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Texaco is associated with the Havoline brand of motor oil and other automotive products. It is one of the sponsors of NASCAR.

It has also been associated with the Metropolitan Opera radio broadcasts, as well as such entertainment legends as Bob Hope and Milton Berle (many of their shows were originally sponsored by Texaco).

Texaco's patented gasoline additive is called CleanSystem3.

1 Major events

• Late 1950s - Bought Paragon Oil, a major fuel oil distribution company in the northeastern United States.
• 1984 - Bought Getty Oil (including Tidewater PetroleumTidewater Petroleum was a petroleum company. It sold its products under the trademarks Tydol, Veedol and Flying A. It was eventually taken over by Getty Oil, and now is incorporated in ChevronTexaco.), the Getty name and stations in the Northeastern United States was sold to Power Test and is still today.
• 19851985 is a common year starting on Tuesday. Events January events January 1 Creation of the Internet's Domain Name System. January 17 British Telecom annouces they are going to abolish the famous red telephone boxes. January 23 A debate in the House of Lor - On November 19November 19 is the 323rd day of the year (324th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 42 days remaining. Events 461 St. Hilarius becomes Pope. 1493 Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to go ashore on an island he only saw for the Pennzoil won a US$10.53 billion verdict from Texaco in the largest civil verdict in US history (Texaco established a signed contract to buy Getty Oil after Pennzoil entered into an unsigned, yet still binding, buyout contract with Getty).
• 19981998 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar), and was designated the International Year of the Ocean''. Events January January 1998 A massive ice storm, caused by El Nino, strikes New England, southern Ontario and Quebec, resulting - Formed joint ventureA joint venture is a business relationship between two or more parties to undertake economic activity together. All parties agree to share in the profits and losses of the enterprise. The venture is for one specific project only, rather than for a continu Equilon with Royal Dutch Shell, combining their Western and Midwestern U.S. refining and marketing.
• 19981998 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar), and was designated the International Year of the Ocean''. Events January January 1998 A massive ice storm, caused by El Nino, strikes New England, southern Ontario and Quebec, resulting - Formed joint venture Motiva with Royal Dutch Shell and Saudi Aramco, a joint venture combining their Eastern and Gulf Coast U.S. refining and marketing businesses.
• 2001 - Shell purchased Texaco's share of the joint ventures to permit Texaco to merge with Chevron. Shell may exclusively use the Texaco brand in the U.S. through 2004, and non-exclusively through 2006.
• 2001 - Chevron merged with Texaco to became ChevronTexaco.