The Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC; Persian: شرکت نفت ایران و انگلیس) was a British company founded in 1909 following the discovery of a large oil field...

Burmah Oil founded Anglo-Persian Oil Company to succeed the early prospecting in Persia of William Knox D'Arcy with Burmah Oil owning 97%. Burmah Oil became...

were the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (a predecessor of BP), Shell plc, three of Chevron's predecessors (Standard Oil of California, Gulf Oil and Texaco)...

The Anglo-Persian Agreement (Persian: قرارداد ۱۹۱۹) involved Great Britain and Persia, and centered on the drilling rights of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company...

of World War II Anglo-Iraqi War (1941) Anglo-Persian Oil Company Anglo-Persian War (1856–1857) Anglo-Russian Convention of 1907 Anglo-Soviet Treaty of...

National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC; Persian: شرکت ملّی نفت ایران, romanized: Sherkat-e Melli-ye Naft-e Irān) is a government-owned national oil and natural...

Transport Company, and Atlantic Richfield Co. Shares were held in the following proportions: 23.75% each to the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, Royal Dutch/Shell...

Kuwait Oil Company Limited was established in 1934, through an alliance between the Anglo-Persian Oil Company and the American Gulf Oil Company, and is...

government had contracted with the Anglo-Persian Oil Company for the supply of oil for the Royal Navy. The Anglo-Persian Oil Company was in the proposed path of...

Anglo-Persian Oil Company in 1909, established as a subsidiary of Burmah Oil Company to exploit oil discoveries in Iran. In 1935, it became the Anglo-Iranian...

BP, continuation of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company which acquired Standard Oil of Ohio and Standard Oil of Indiana Marathon Oil and Marathon Petroleum,...

initially opened by the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (renamed the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company from 1935 and the British Petroleum Company from 1954) on 29 June...

("Haji") Williamson was an English adventurer who became an oil company representative in the Persian Gulf. Williamson's early life was packed with adventure...

early 20th century. The Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (formerly the Anglo-Persian Oil Company and currently BP) had been drilling for oil in Iran since 1913....

the Iranian assets of the BP controlled Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (AIOC) and expelled Western companies from oil refineries in the city of Abadan. The AIOC...

consumers. The British Anglo-Iranian Oil company (AIOC) filed a lawsuit requesting a provisional injunction for the seizure of oil products carried by the...

quantities of oil in 1908. The Burmah Oil Company created the Anglo-Persian Oil Company to take over the concession in 1909. The D'Arcy Concession was...

The oil industry owed its early success to Sheikh Khaz'al. Once oil was discovered in Masjed Soleyman in 1908, by the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC)...

The Persian famine of 1917–1919 (Persian: قحطی ۱۲۹۶-۱۲۹۸ ایران) was a period of widespread mass starvation and disease in Iran under the rule of the Qajar...

The Standard Oil Company (Ohio) was an American petroleum company that existed from 1870 to 1987. The company, known commonly as Sohio, was founded by...

(Persian: پالایشگاه آبادان Pālāyeshgāh-e Ābādān) is an oil refinery in Abadan, Iran near the coast of the Persian Gulf. Built by the Anglo-Persian Oil...

in the Turkish Petroleum Company (TPC). The other shareholders were the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC) with 47.5%, the Anglo Saxon Petroleum Co 22.5%...

chemical and oil company, founded by Standard Oil Company in 1889 around a refinery in Whiting, Indiana, and was officially the Standard Oil Company of Indiana...

at Cairo in 1950. In 1934, the Kuwait Oil Company (KOC) was formed as a joint venture by Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC) (now BP, and Gulf. Both APOC and...

HMS Conundrum was the unofficial name given to the large drums used for laying the World War II Normandy landings PLUTO pipeline. The drums were cone-ended...

had won from the Persian government. Together, and with capital from the British Government, they founded the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, which made the...

British Tanker Company Limited was the maritime transport arm of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, the forerunner of BP. Formed in 1915 with an initial fleet...

Wealth from the Mount Morgan mine funded Persian oil exploration, establishing the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, which became BP in 1954. Wealth from the...

main factors that triggered the search for oil in Arabia: The discovery of oil by the Anglo-Persian Oil Company at Masjid-i-Sulaiman in the mountains of...

It was discovered in 1928 and developed by Anglo-Persian Oil Company. It began production of Crude oil in 1930. The total proven reserves of the Gachsaran...