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The 1960s
Cities Service Unveils New Marketing Logo - CITGO
1960 The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) was founded by Venezuela, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq and Kuwait.
1960 With annual revenues exceeding $1 billion, Cities Service is operating in five countries, producing 47 million barrels of crude a day.
1960 John F Kennedy elected President of the United States.
1961 Berlin Wall built.
1961 Cities Service acquired Belgium chemical company ASED.
1962 U.S. astronaut John H. Glenn, Jr. became the first American to orbit the earth.
1962 Cities Service Chairman W. Alton Jones died in a plane crash.
1962 Cities Service builds the butyl rubber plant at Lake Charles.
1962 Venezuela announced the cessation of oil exploration concessions to gain greater sovereignty over its natural resources.
1962 The 5-mile long Rafael Urdaneta bridge, connecting the city of Maracaibo to the rest of Venezuela, opened to traffic and became a national landmark.
1963 John F. Kennedy assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald.
1963 Cities Services buys Tennessee Copper Company at Copperhill, Tennessee.
1963 Cities Services moves some departments from its Bartlesville offices to Tulsa.
1964 Cities Service launches the “Eager Beaver” advertising campaign.
1964 J. Ed Warren named CEO of Cities Service.
1964 The Beatles stormed America and appeared on ’The Ed Sullivan Show.”
1965 Cities Service research lab begins researching means of producing cleaner burning fuels.
1965 U.S. escalates war in Viet Nam.
1965 Cities Service unveiled its new marketing logo—CITGO. Also introduced CITGO Premium with Titanium and ERO (Extra Range Oil).
1966 National Organization for Women (NOW) formed.
1966 John L. Burns named Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Cities Service.
1966 The Green Bay Packers, the National Football League champions, beat the American Football League’s champions, the Kansas City Chiefs, 35-10 in the first Super Bowl ever.
1967 Six employees are killed and 14 injured in a major explosion and fire at the Lake Charles Refinery’s Alkylation Unit.
1967 First heart transplant.
1968 President Lyndon Baines Johnson announces he won’t seek re-election; Richard M. Nixon defeats Hubert H. Humphrey for President.
1968 By 1968, Cities Service’s Natural Gas Liquids (NGL) Company totaled 79 plants and three fractionation facilities.
1968 Martin Luther King and Robert F. Kennedy assassinated.
1968 Cities Services offshore field produces 100 million barrels of oil; announces move of headquarters personnel to Tulsa.
1969 Neil Armstrong becomes the first person to step on the moon.
1969 Cities Service bids on several Alaskan oil and gas tracts.
1969 Woodstock-“Three Days of Peace and Love” draws hundreds of thousands to a farm in New York.
1969 Cities Service pioneered smokeless flare tips and contaminant recovery units at its refineries.

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