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OH 0668

About the Interviewee

IntervieweeMacIVER, Murdo (b. 1901)
ProfessionsExecutive
EmployersCaltex Petroleum Corporation

About this oral history

Interview ID #OH 0668
Date(s) of interview
DescriptionExecutive. Educational background; early employment; employment with Standard Oil Company of California; transfer to Caltex, 1938; expansion before World War II; Caltex during World War II; Bapco’s refinery expansion; financing postwar refinery expansion; foreign exchange problems; banking syndicates; accounting methods; tanker construction; training of local nationals; T-2 tankers; relationship between Caltex and subsidiaries; third world financial problems.
Interviewer(s)Ronald E. Marcello
Physical Description43 pp.
Terms of UseOpen