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Oklahoma's Ass Kissing Get's Oklahoma Brown Nose

Citgo plans move to Houston

10:51 PM CDT on Monday, April 26, 2004

Associated Press

Citgo Petroleum Corp. said Monday that it will relocate its headquarters and 700 jobs from Tulsa, Okla., to Houston.

Citgo is just the latest company to move white-collar oil jobs to Houston.

San Francisco-based ChevronTexaco Corp. is consolidating the jobs of 3,700 workers and moving them to a downtown skyscraper formerly owned by Enron Corp.

Shell Oil Co., the U.S. arm of the London-based Royal Dutch/Shell Group of Cos., is based in Houston.

Phillips Petroleum Co. pulled up stakes from Bartlesville, Okla., after its 2002 merger with Houston-based Conoco Inc., and the combined company is ensconced in Houston.

Last year, Irving-based Exxon Mobil Corp. relocated hundreds of so-called extraction jobs to Houston from Louisiana, and Halliburton Co. moved its headquarters to Houston from Dallas.