Emails between Chevron PR staff and external firms on attack ads focused on Lago Agrio plaintiffs.
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Standard Oil briefing on legislation being proposed in the U.S. around Aramco’s discriminatory labor practices.
A memo to SONJ publicist Earl Newsom about the situation in Washington as various Congressional leaders are attempting to address discriminatory hiring and labor practices at Saudi Aramco’s U.S. offices.
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1950s Aramco Survey of US Opinion on Oil Companies’ Involvement in International Relations
Results from a 1950s opinion survey Standard Oil of New Jersey commissioned to gauge how Americans view its partnership with Aramco and activities in the Middle East.
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Joint statement from investor-owned oil companies and government of Iran on 1954 oil deal
Joint press release from a consortium of 8 oil companies and the government of Iran about how the oil industry will operate there and how/whether BP will be compensated for loss in revenue due to changes to its oil contract with the country. What’s quite interesting to note here is that the release appears to […]
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Standard Oil Pamphlet on Red Line Agreement
An overview of Standard Oil of New Jersey’s (today ExxonMobil) activities in the Middle East, including an explanation of the “Red Line Agreement,” from the Earl Newsom Archive at UW Madison in Wisconsin.
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1946 Standard Oil report on Venezuela
A report from Standard’s PR firm, Earl Newsom & Associates, which had been sent to Venezuela to try to help with worker protests against the company’s subsidiary (Creole).
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1946 Earl Newsom Trip to Venezuela for Standard Oil of New Jersey
A packet of documents from the Earl Newsom Papers, housed at University of Wisconsin, Madison, covering Newsom’s trip to Venezuela for his client Standard Oil of New Jersey (the company known as ExxonMobil today) to develop a PR strategy to deal with increasingly fraught labor issues in the country, and to beat back the idea […]
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1945 Standard Oil of New Jersey in Venezuela
A packet of documents from the Earl Newsom Papers, housed at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, chronicling Standard Oil of New Jersey’s dealings in Venezuela in 1945.