Standard Vacuum Oil Company

Beginning February 29, 1928 on NBC, Socony Oil reached radio listeners with a comedy program, Soconyland Sketches, scripted by William Ford Manley and featuring Arthur Allen and Parker Fennelly as rural New Englanders.

[2] In 1933, Socony-Vacuum and Jersey Standard (which had oil production and refineries in Indonesia) merged their interests in the Far East into a 50–50 joint venture.

Standard-Vacuum Oil Co., or "Stanvac," operated in 50 countries, including New Zealand, China, and the region of East Africa, before it was dissolved in 1962.

[3] This led to the beginning of the petroleum industry in China: Before 1937, Chinese oil production was measured in quarts and, in its crude condition, was used solely as a lubricant.

This first well, developed under the most primitive of conditions and with relatively untrained personnel, began to produce over twenty barrels of oil a day.