The Scurlock Oil Company was a petroleum

Petroleum

Petroleum or crude oil is a naturally occurring, flammable liquid consisting of a complex mixture of hydrocarbons of various molecular weights and other liquid organic compounds, that are found in geologic formations beneath the Earth's surface. Petroleum is recovered mostly through oil drilling...

 corporation

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 with headquarters located in Houston, Texas

Houston, Texas

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Founded in 1936 by Eddy C. Scurlock

Eddy C. Scurlock

Eddy Clark Scurlock was an American oil industry tycoon, entrepreneur, millionaire and philanthropist...

, the company was a tank car

Tank car

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 marketer

Marketing

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 of petroleum product

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s, which emerged as an important transport

Transport

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er of crude oil and condensate

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By 1982, the Scurlock Oil Company was transporting 200000 barrels (31,797.5 m³) of oil a day by truck

Truck

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, barge

Barge

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 or pipeline

Pipeline transport

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. That same year, the company was sold to Ashland Oil. When Ashland bought the Permian Corporation in 1991, it merged with Scurlock to form a subsidiary known as Scurlock Permian Corporation, which was sold to Plains All American Pipeline

Plains All American Pipeline

Plains All American Pipeline is a publicly traded Master Limited Partnership in the oil pipeline transportation, marketing, and storage business in the United States, LPG business in Canada, and Natural Gas Storage business in Michigan and Louisiana...

in 1999.