references to primary sources . please improve this by adding secondary or tertiary sources . december 2006 learn how and when to remove this template message lion oil industry petroleum products founded 1922 headquarters brentwood tennessee products petrochemical website www.lionoil.com lion oil company was established in 1922 . thomas harry colonel barton was instrumental in the development of the company . 1 lion oil and ford dealer somerville tennessee . circa 1930 1945 in 1955 lion oil was sold to the monsanto company along with what is now el dorado chemical company . lion oil is the only oil refinery monsanto has owned . citation needed lion oil was later sold by monsanto to tosco . citation needed in 1985 lion was struggling and on the verge of shutting down and was sold by tosco to a partnership of ergon refining of jackson mississippi and a group of local investors . this is how it acquired the oil refinery in el dorado arkansas . 2 in march 2011 delek us holdings inc. of brentwood tennessee acquired ergon s 53.7 % majority equity interest ; total equity ownership by delek increased to 88.3 % ; on april 29 2011 delek us became the new operator of lion oil . 3 in october 2011 delek us holdings inc. acquired the remaining 11.7 % interest to increase its equity interest in lion oil to 100 % . 4 lion oil continues as a petroleum supplier with its headquarters in brentwood . references edit thomas harry barton 1881 1960 . the encyclopedia of arkansas . retrieved 2009 02 12 . about lion oil undated quote el dorado refinery acquired in 1985 majority equity interest announcement delek us holding march 2011 remaining equity interest delek us april 2011 external links edit lion oil website arkansas museum of natural resources delek us holdings website this article about a natural gas or petroleum related company is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title lion oil & oldid 731746785 categories oil companies of the united statescompanies established in 1922companies based in arkansasunion county arkansaspetroleum company stubshidden categories articles lacking reliable references from december 2006all articles lacking reliable referencesall articles with unsourced statementsarticles with unsourced statements from march 2015all stub articles navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 27 july 2016 at 07 58 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view