Tauber Oil Company:
Integrity, Service, and Professionalism Since 1953
Founded in 1953 by O. J. Tauber, Sr., this third-generation, Houston-based family business continues to excel as an independent marketer of petroleum and petrochemical products for major and independent oil companies, major petrochemical producers and consumers, and small- to medium-sized end-users.
Tauber Oil Company is a service-oriented marketing company that has earned a reputation for reliable performance and untarnished character. Our customers expect and receive the expertise of a specialist.
Change is a fact of life, but our customers can be assured that we will continue to meet and exceed their requirements with the highest level of customer service.
Our Origin Story
After the death of his father, O. J. Tauber, Sr. moved to Houston at 8 years old. Mr. Tauber was able to finish only the 8th grade before he had to start working full-time to help support his mother, brother, and sister. He worked as a caddie at the River Oaks Country Club, and as a bellboy at the old Lamar Hotel in downtown Houston.
Sometime after that, he was hired by the Southern Pacific Railroad. A mentor of his at Southern Pacific suggested that opportunities existed if he became either a stenographer or a train engineer. Mr. Tauber promptly learned shorthand and typing and eventually became a traffic manager for the Southern Pacific Railroad
Later, he left Southern Pacific for a job as traffic manager at a small Houston refinery called Eastern States Refining. From his position as traffic manager, he moved up the ladder until he was buying crude oil and selling the finished products. It was then that he saw the niche that would later become his vision, called Tauber Oil Company.
In the ‘40s and ‘50s, because of the antitrust laws that existed at that time, the major oil companies were barred from transacting business with each other. While Mr. Tauber was attempting to sell one company’s overage of gasoline or diesel fuel, he found that another company’s inventory might be in shortage. In observing these inventory imbalances, he saw the logic of business-to-business communications well ahead of his time. It was then that the inception of the industry’s first inter-refinery marketer became a reality.
Hence, the birth of Tauber Oil Company in 1953.
Carrying on O.J.’s Legacy
A New Generation of Taubers
O.J. eventually passed the business on to his sons, David W. Tauber, Sr. and Richard Tauber, who continued to grow the business. Today, the company is managed by the third generation of Taubers–Jonathan C. Tauber and David W. Tauber, Jr.–who maintain the same business ethics as their father and grandfather. We pride ourselves on this tradition.
Meet Our Leadership
President
Jonathan C. Tauber
Executive Vice President
David W. Tauber, Jr.
Co-Chairman
Richard E. Tauber
Co-Chairman
David W. Tauber, Sr.
Chief Financial Officer
Joseph E. Sassin
Sr. Vice President of Finance
Rob Smith
General Counsel
Jonathan Lietzke
The Tauber Organization Today
Tauber Oil Company now has three subsidiaries and an offshoot exploration company under its auspices.
Tauber Petrochemical Co. provides wholesale oil and gas products, as well as logistics services for commodity companies.
Interconn Resources merged with Tauber in 2012 to continue offering marketing services to the natural gas industry.
TransOil was founded in 2006 and offers crude purchasing and marketing services to producers in Texas, Oklahoma, and New Mexico.
Tauber’s exploration arm has been going strong for over 50 years, with many active developments along the Gulf Coast today.
Tauber in the Community
Tauber Oil Company supports a variety of local charitable and community projects.
We are committed to giving back to the places we live and work.
His Grace Foundation provides physical, emotional, and financial support for the patients and families in the Bone Marrow Transplant Unit (BMTU) of Texas Children’s Hospital.
Star of Hope is a Christ-centered community dedicated to meeting the needs of homeless men, women, and their children. Positive life changes are encouraged through structured programs that focus on spiritual growth, education, employment, life management, and recovery from substance abuse.
The Houston Food Bank is committed to leading the fight against hunger.
The Boy Scouts of America is one of the nation’s largest and most prominent values-based youth development organizations, providing programs for young people that build character, train them in the responsibilities of citizenship, and develop personal fitness. For more than 100 years, Boy Scouts of America has helped build future leaders by combining educational activities and lifelong values with fun.
Magnificat offers faith, hope and charity by providing housing, food, work and spiritual support while our residents–of all races and creeds– build their lives in community.
Snowdrop Foundation is dedicated to assisting patients and families at Texas Children’s Cancer Center through funding for continued research to eliminate childhood cancer and scholarships for college-bound pediatric cancer patients and survivors.
Bling for Bravery is a program developed through the Snowdrop Foundation to celebrate and reward the bravery of the pediatric cancer patients at Texas Children’s Cancer Hospital in Houston.