Hess Corporation is an American global independent energy company headquartered in New York City, founded in 1933 by Leon Hess as an oil delivery business and later merged with Amerada Petroleum in 1969 to form Amerada Hess. It explores for and produces crude oil and natural gas, with major operations offshore Guyana and in the Bakken shale region of North Dakota.
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Company Type Founded Year Founded Year HeadquartersNew York City, United States 2 Company Type
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A major oil and gas company; classified in the atlas petroleum-industry.
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1. Wikidata: Hess Corporation
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History
In 1919, British oil entrepreneur Lord Cowdray formed the Amerada Corporation to explore oil production in North America.
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Headquartered in New York City, the company ranked 394th in the 2016 annual ranking of Fortune 500 corporations.
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