Kuwait Oil Company Archive 1934-1976

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Kuwait Oil Company Archive 1934-1976

http://archiveshub.ac.uk/data/gb1566-koc

125 linear metres

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BP Archive

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SNAC Resource ID: 6284596

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Morath Adolf photographer

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Dickson, H. R. P. (Harold Richard Patrick), 1881-1959

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Epithet: Lieutenant-Colonel Indian Army, Political Agent at Bahrain British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000471.0x000186 ...

Kuwait Oil Company Limited 1934-1975

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Wilson Raymond photographer

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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...