Standard Oil of Indiana became which company?

• A. BP
• B. ExxonMobil
• C. Amoco
• D. Chevron

Answer: (C)

Renaming and mergers in the oil industry show how a historic company can carry on under a different brand. Standard Oil of Indiana eventually adopted the Amoco name in 1985 to reflect a new branding identity. That Amoco brand continued to exist, and in 1998 Amoco merged with British Petroleum to form BP Amoco, later shortened to BP. So the direct evolution of Standard Oil of Indiana is into Amoco.

Other brands listed come from different branches of the old Standard Oil legacy or from later mergers that aren’t the direct rebranding of Standard Oil of Indiana: ExxonMobil traces back to Standard Oil of New Jersey/New York, Chevron to Standard Oil of California, and BP Amoco is the later merged entity rather than the immediate rebranding of the Indiana company.