D. G. Scofield
Demetrius Gustavus Scofield (January 28, 1843 – July 31, 1917)
He served as secretary to the now-defunct
By 1879 he was a key employee of the
Pacific Coast Oil Company[7] responsible for bringing other skilled workers to California. In that year, the Pacific Coast Oil Company completed a five-mile (8 km) long, 2-inch-diameter (51 mm) pipeline from Pico Canyon to a new refinery near Newhall
.
In 1906, Pacific Coast Oil Company was acquired by
Standard Oil of California
.
The Associated Press reported that on July 30 1917, he shot and killed himself at his home. He was 74 and despondent over his wife's death five years before.[8]
He was the namesake of the oil tanker, the MS D. G. Scofield which was, on 1 May 1939,[9] the first oil tanker to load oil in Saudi Arabia.
References
- ^ a b c Ripley: The San Fernando (Newhall) Pass, Part 14
- ^ Ex-Pacific Coast Oil Co. Headquarters, Newhall, California
- ^ Ode to the Man Behind Mentryville By DEMETRIUS G. SCOFIELD
- ^ Places, Earth, Pioneer Oil Refinery
- ^ The Pioneer Refinery in the early 1880s
- ^ Marker database First Commercial Oil Well In California, Pico #4
- ^ Ripley: The San Fernando (Newhall) Pass, Part 15
- ^ Richmond Times-Dispatch. (Richmond, Va.), 31 July 1917. Page 1.
- ^ "Saudi Aramco: A Global Presence for Oil Market Stability". Archived from the original on 2010-04-28. Retrieved 2010-02-04.
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