Buckeye Partners, formerly known as the Buckeye Pipeline Company, is a distributor of petroleum in the East and Midwest areas of the United States. A direct descendant of Standard Oil, the company is considered one of the largest independent oil pipelines in the United States.[3] Its global headquarters is located in Houston's River Oaks District, and it maintains an additional U.S. headquarters in Allentown, Pennsylvania.[4][5]
Its predecessor company, the Buckeye Pipe Line Company, was founded in 1886 as part of John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil.[6] It existed as a subsidiary until it became an independent company after Standard Oil's dissolution in 1911.[7]