Esso is a trading name for ExxonMobil. Originally, the name was primarily used by its predecessor Standard Oil of New Jersey after the breakup of the original Standard Oil company in 1911. The company adopted the name "Esso", to which the other Standard Oil companies would later object.
Esso enamel steel sign in Manhattan, New York City, photographed in 1938
Historic Esso station in South Carolina, pictured in 2017
Esso gas station in Lares, Puerto Rico, 1942. The Esso brand name remained there until 2008.
Esso price bar in Finland
ExxonMobil Corporation is an American multinational oil and gas corporation and the largest direct descendant of John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil. The company, which took its present name in 1999 per the merger of Exxon and Mobil, is vertically integrated across the entire oil and gas industry, and within it is also a chemicals division which produces plastic, synthetic rubber, and other chemical products. ExxonMobil is headquartered near the Houston suburb of Spring, Texas, though officially incorporated in the U.S. state of New Jersey. It is the largest United States-based oil and gas producing company. ExxonMobil is also the eighth largest company in the world by revenue and the third largest in the US.
An ExxonMobil gas station in Hiawassee, Georgia
ExxonMobil Building. Former ExxonMobil offices in Downtown Houston were vacated in early 2015.
Extinction Rebellion protestors demonstrating against ExxonMobil
Exxon Valdez oil spill cleanup