Holland Oil Company Inc history

1958 Company founder passed away, and Barney B. Holland was elected President of the Company.

Wesberta Oils was registered in Ontario and was struck from the corporate register in 1959.

Pan Western Oils Ltd. was struck from the Alberta Corporate Register on March 15, 1960.

The Financial Post Survey of Oils says that Saskalon Uranium and Oils was dissolved in 1961.

According to the Financial Post Survey of Oils, Marpoint Gas & Oil was sold to Dynamic Petroleum Products Ltd. of Calgary on May 31, 1962.

According to a 1963 letter from a Calgary lawyer who was administrating an estate, federally incorporated Range Oil & Gas is defunct.

1964 The Company built United Service Center, a major Texaco truck center with Mack Truck, Cummins Diesel, and Thermo-King facilities on site in Fort Worth TX and a smaller truck center in Arlington, TX.

New Concord Development was struck from the Alberta Corporate Register on May 31, 1966.

Redwater Consolidated Oils was struck from the Register of Alberta Companies in 1969.

Total Petroleum (North America) was created as the successor to French Petroleum Company of Canada in 1970.

According to the Financial Post Survey of Oils, Mill City Petroleum was taken over by Pan Ocean Oil Corporation in 1971.

Quinalta Petroleum Ltd. was struck from the Alberta Corporate Registry on September 15, 1975.

Petro-Canada, a Canadian Crown corporation, started operating in 1976.

The second was incorporated in 1942 and in 1953 changed its name to Midcon Oil and Gas Ltd. It seems to have been wound up in 1977 but an inquiry with Alberta Registries might provide further information.

Petro-Canada took over Pacific Petroleums Ltd. in 1978. (Pacific had been 48% owned by Phillips Petroleum Co.)

1980 The Company was a typical, mid-sized, family-operated Texaco wholesaler that supplied 100 TEXACO stations and hundreds of commercial accounts with its fleet of trucks.

Little information was found online, however a cease-trade order was issued in 1984.

United Oils of Alberta Limited was struck from the Alberta Corporate Register on September 26, 1986.

Norbaska Mines merged with Dore Explorations Inc. in 1987 to form Dore Norbaska Resources Inc.

Ranger Oil was an Alberta based company with its main office in Calgary. It changed its name again on July 26, 1988 to Resolute Corporation.

It appears Peregrine Petroleum Ltd. was delisted from the stock exchange in 1992 (TSX Venture symbol PGR).

Scurry-Rainbow Oil Limited was acquired by Home Oil Company Limited in 1993.

1, 1995 according to the Financial Post Mines and Energy listing.

1997 Gascard, Inc. was sold to its main competitor, Fuelman, and Barney Holland Oil Company acquired the Fuelman license for 24 North Texas counties.

As of March 3, 1998, Norcen Energy Resources Limited was acquired by Union Pacific Resources Group Inc.

Then Midland Holland became inactive and was discontinued (from the federal corporate register) on 2000-01-24.

Nu-Reality Oils Limited was struck from the Alberta Corporate Register on October 1, 2002.

Solv-Ex was struck from the Alberta Corporate Register on July 2, 2003.

2004 The Company ended its almost 50 year relationship with Texaco and sold its distributorship to Douglass Distributing, Inc., Sherman, Texas.

Trizec Properties was bought out by Brookfield Properties Corp. and Blackstone Group in 2006.

Top 100 Private Companies - The Fort Worth Business Press ranked the Barney Holland Oil Company the 22nd largest privately-held company in Tarrant County with sales in 2008 of $150,000,000.

Eagle Energy advised that this is NOT the Maple Leaf Royalties Corp. that they acquired in January 2016.

In January 2018, the Company reached the significant milestone of 90 years old and is one of the very oldest business in Fort Worth that is still owned and operated by the descendants of the founder.