Shelby Pierce plunks down a penholder on the desk in his 52nd-floor office in the Amoco Building. The base of the penholder is cool, white marble. Its surface is polished to perfection. Its edges are ...

The Amoco Oil Co. refinery in Yorktown has inadvertently produced three forms of dioxins, one of which is known to be so toxic that Virginia Institute of Marine Science officials won’t allow their ...

Amoco boosts budget: Amoco Corp. announced a capital and exploration budget of $4.35 billion for 1991, an increase of 10 percent from the company`s 1990 budget of $3.95 billion. The budget also ...

The State Water Control Board has issued the Amoco Oil Co. refinery in Yorktown a series of citations for incorrectly reporting the discharge of petroleum in the York River and improperly conducting ...

Amoco Oil Co. and Exxon Corp. said yesterday that they would introduce new, cleaner formulas of gasoline in test markets that include Baltimore. The moves come as oil companies gear up to meet new ...