NIPPON OIL CORPORATION

VESTURE

1888 year | Nippon Oil established
1914 year | Oil first gushed out of Kurokawa Oil Well No. 5 in Akita Prefecture.
1921 year | Nippon Oil merged with Hoden Oil
1931 year | Mitsubishi Oil established jointly by three Mitsubishi group companies (headquarters, mining, trading) and Associated Oil (later known as Getty Oil) in the United States
1933 year | Koa Oil established
1941 year | Nippon Oil merged with Ogura Oil
1951 year | Nippon Petroleum Refining established jointly by Nippon Oil and Caltex
1967 year | Nippon Oil Staging Terminal established
1968 year | Tohoku Oil established
1973 year | Okinawa CTS established.
1984 year | All the Getty Oil-owned Mitsubishi Oil shares transferred to Mitsubishi group companies. Business alliance formed between Nippon Oil and Mitsubishi Oil
1995 year | Business alliance formed between Nippon Oil and Idemitsu Kosan
1996 year | Nippon Oil terminated business alliance with Caltex and acquired a full stake in Nippon Petroleum Refining
1998 year | Crude oil production started at Rang Dong Oil Field offshore Vietnam
1999 year | Nippon Oil and Mitsubishi Oil merged to form Nisseki Mitsubishi. Business alliance formed between Nisseki Mitsubishi and COSMO Oil.
2001 year | New Service Station brand ENEOS launched
2002 year | Nisseki Mitsubishi Refining, Koa Oil and Tohoku Oil merged into Nippon Petroleum Refining. Nisseki Mitsubishi renamed Nippon Oil
2003 year | Natural gas production started offshore Malaysia (Helang Gas Field)
2004 year | Consignment refining contract signed with China Oil
2005 year | Nippon Oil merged with Nippon Petroleum Gas
2006 year | Business alliance formed with Japan Energy
2007 year | Business/capital alliance formed with SK Corporation (South Korea)
2008 year | Nippon Petroleum Refining merged with Nippon Petrochemicals
2009 year | SANYO ENEOS Solar, a joint company with Sanyo Electric Company for the production and sale of thin-film solar panels, established