55 gallon drum colors

Blue was Standard Oil,

Yellow for Shell,

Green was Quaker State,

Blue for Chevron/Standard Oil of Ohio

Grey and green Texaco

Black Havolin (made by Texaco) was black (seems to me they had red tops but I don’t remember for sure.

Red for hazardous materials;

Black upper and lower 1/3 with orange in the middle 1/3 for platinum containing catalysts;

Solid black for everything else (numerous).

For the most part, the lids are gray on the open top black or black and orange drums, red on red drums (no matter open top or bung type), and either white or black on black bung type drums.