BP Archive 1753 1840-2001

Standard Oil Company

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The Standard Oil Company was established by John D. Rockefeller in 1868 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The first Standard Oil Company in Minnesota was established in 1886....

BP Solar

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Amoco Corporation

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D'Arcy William Knox

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British Tanker Company Limited

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Iraq Petroleum Company Limited

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The Iraq Petroleum Company Limited was incorporated in 1911 as the African and Eastern Concessions Limited. It's name was changed to Turkish Petroleum Company Limited in 1912, and to Iraq Petroleum Company Limited in 1929. By the San Remo Oil Agreement of 1920 the shareholding in the Company was arranged as Anglo-Persian Oil Company Limited (47.5 per cent), Shell (22.5 per cent), Compagnie Franaise des Petroles (25 per cent), C. S. Gulbenkian (5 per cent). A concession w...

Burmah Castrol p.l.c.

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BP p. l. c.

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In 1901 William Knox D'Arcy obtained a concession to explore for oil in Iran. From 1905 this work was financed by The Burmah Oil Company Ltd and oil was discovered in 1908. The Anglo-Persian Oil Company Ltd was incorporated on 14 April 1909 and took over ownership of the concession, but was still a subsidiary of Burmah. This changed in 1914 following the British Government's decision to convert its Navy to fuel oil, as it lead to a large investment in the Company by the Government g...

Iranian Oil Participants Limited

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BP Nutrition

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BP Coal

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Burmah Oil Company Limited

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Tanker Insurance Company Limited

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Shell-Mex and B.P. Limited

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Shell-Mex and BP Limited (SMBP) was formed in 1932 when the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC, now BP) and Royal Dutch-Shell decided to merge their United Kingdom marketing operations. APOC held 40 per cent and Shell 60 per cent ownership, reflecting their respective market shares. SMBP acquired the Power Petroleum Company and the Dominion Motor Company in 1934, and the National Benzole Company in 1957. Each brand continued to be marketed separately throughout the existence of the joi...

BP Amoco p.l.c. 1998-2001

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Kuwait Oil Company Limited

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Kuwait Oil Company Limited (KOC) was incorporated in the United Kingdom in February 1934, 50 per cent owned by BP (then called Anglo-Persian Oil Company Limited) and 50 per cent by Gulf Oil Corporation of Pennsylvania (taken over by Standard Oil Company of California in 1984 which subsequently renamed itself Chevron). In December 1934 the Company acquired a concession in Kuwait. The first discovery of oil in Kuwait in commercial quantities was by the KOC in 1938 and prod...

Anglo-Persian Oil Company Limited 1909-1935

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BP Minerals

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Turkish Petroleum Company Limited

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Anglo-Iranian Oil Company Limited 1935-1954

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British Petroleum Company p.l.c. 1982-1998

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British Petroleum Company Limited 1954-1982

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