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OH 0667

About the Interviewee

IntervieweeLEWIS, Harold (b. 1917)
ProfessionsExecutive
EmployersCaltex Petroleum Corporation

About this oral history

Interview ID #OH 0667
Date(s) of interview
DescriptionExecutive. Education; employment with Standard Oil of California; early experiences in refinery construction; transfer to Caltex; assignment to Bahrain; refinery construction in Australia (Boral, Ampol); refinery construction in Japan; relations between Caltex and Nippon Oil; military fuel oil contracts; postwar refinery expansion; Caltex East; Caltex in Korea, Philippines; executive transfers; decision of Texaco and Socal to reenter European market, 1967; crude purchases; OPEC.
Interviewer(s)Ronald E. Marcello
Physical Description48 pp.
Terms of UseOpen