by stormy@scmedia.us | Mar 9, 2023
Kirby VenSyn Petroleum Company is formed. Kirby Petroleum Company operated as a Houston based independent oil and gas exploration and development company until 1956 when, after the sale of its producing properties, the remaining non-producing acreage was merged with...
by stormy@scmedia.us | Mar 9, 2023
River Terminals Corporation is purchased. The history of Kirby Inland Marine, the nation’s largest inland tank barge operator, can be traced to 1948, when a group of Houston investors, including George Peterkin, Sr., father of Kirby’s former Chairman Emeritus, George...
by stormy@scmedia.us | Mar 9, 2023
John Henry Kirby forms Kirby Petroleum Company. The history of Kirby can be traced back to 1921 when John Henry Kirby, a pioneer in the development of the Houston business community, formed Kirby Petroleum Company, an oil and gas exploration and development company....
