University of Wyoming
Universal Oil Products Company (UOP) played a major role in the development of the petroleum industry. UOP was established in 1915, having been instituted in 1914 by Jesse A. Dubbs, inventor, and J. Ogden Armour, financier, as the National Hydrocarbon Company. C.P. Dubbs, son of the founder, headed research and development of technologies for the oil refining, petrochemical, and gas processing industries, centered in Independence, Kansas. In 1919 Universal Oil Products introduced Dubb's very successful thermal cracking process which was utilized worldwide. Headquartered in Chicago and then Des Plaines, Illinois, UOP offered the first viable catalytic condensation process and during World War II the company introduced needed innovations in aviation fuels and gasoline production.
The collection contains the corporate records of the Universal Oil Products Company from inception to the 1970s which include the Legal Department with documentation of numerous legal actions taken by the company in patent actions and mergers among other actions. These files contain a wide variety of legal documentation including photographs and other evidentiary materials dating back to the early years of the company. The files of the Records Center, highlighted in a 1978 article titled "Records Management at UOP, Inc." in "Information and Records Management " are included. Blueprints, site information, photographs, some personnel records, and other documentation are contained.
There are no access restrictions on the materials for research purposes, and the collection is open to the public.
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There are no known other archival collections created by the Universal Oil Products Company at the date of processing.
Item Description, Box Number, Folder Number, Collection Name, Collection Number, American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming.