American multinational oil and gas company — descended from Standard Oil of New Jersey after the 1911 antitrust breakup — which became the world's largest publicly traded company by revenue in various years and the primary inheritor of Rockefeller's Standard Oil legacy.
Maintained Rockefeller's legacy of operational efficiency and systematic management across a century of industry transformation — while its merger with Mobil in 1999 partially reassembled what the antitrust breakup had separated.
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