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    Burmah Oil Company Ltd v Lord Advocate [1965] AC 75, was a court case, raised in Scotland, and decided ultimately in the House of Lords. The case is an...
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    Burmah Oil, the Myanma Oil and Gas Enterprise was created. The company was involved in a landmark legal case in 1964, Burmah Oil Co. v Lord Advocate,...
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    syndicate, the Burmah Oil Company. By 1908, having sunk more than £500,000 into their Persian venture and found no oil, D'Arcy and Burmah decided to abandon...
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  • Castrol (redirect from Burmah Castrol)
    Limited". In 1966, Castrol was acquired by company Burmah Oil, which was renamed "Burmah-Castrol". Burmah-Castrol was purchased by London-based multinational...
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    The Perkins and Will partnership, and completed in 1973 as the Standard Oil Building (nicknamed "Big Stan"). With 83 floors and a height of 1,136 feet...
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    Hayward (born 21 May 1957) is a British businessman and former CEO of the oil and energy company BP. He replaced the Baron Browne of Madingley on 1 May...
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    support, and in 1905 the Concession Syndicate was established with Burmah Oil Company Ltd. as a major investor, and D'Arcy's operation a subsidiary. More...
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  • The Torrey Canyon oil spill was one of the world's most serious oil spills. The supertanker SS Torrey Canyon ran aground on rocks off the south-west coast...
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    originally established by Kyodo Oil Company (later Japan Energy) in 1989; many of its stores are located within Kyodo Oil (later JOMO) filling stations...
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  • Thumbnail for Deepwater Horizon oil spill
    The Deepwater Horizon oil spill (also referred to as the "BP oil spill") was an environmental disaster which began on 20 April 2010, off the coast of the...
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    The United Kingdom v Iran [1952] ICJ 2 (also known as the Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. case) was a public international law dispute between the UK and Iran....
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    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...
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  • (22 April 2010). "Oil Rig Sinks in the Gulf of Mexico". New York Times. Retrieved 22 April 2010. "BP confirms that Transocean Ltd issued the following...
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  • doctrine of parliamentary supremacy in action is in relation to Burmah Oil Co Ltd v Lord Advocate, where the decision of the courts was overridden with retrospective...
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    Alyeska Pipeline Service Company (category Oil companies of the United States)
    first oil flowed into the pipeline on June 20, 1977, and the first tanker load departed from Valdez on August 1, 1977. Totem Marine Tug & Barge, Inc. v. Alyeska...
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    BP Canada (redirect from Triad Oil Company)
    London. Retrieved 5 Jun 2010. "BP Amoco Agrees Recommended Cash Offer To Buy Burmah Castrol For £3 ($4.7) Billion". BP. 14 March 2000. Retrieved 11 Jun 2010...
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    (April 21, 2010). "Workers Missing After Oil Rig Blast". The New York Times. Retrieved April 21, 2010. "Transocean Ltd. Reports Fire on Semisubmersible Drilling...
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  • November 2008. Commonwealth Oil Refineries Ltd. (1920-1952), 2008, retrieved 15 July 2024 – via Trove "Anglo-Persian Oil Co". Western Argus. Vol. 25, no...
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    crossbench member of the House of Lords. Lord Browne of Madingley is a former partner at Riverstone, where he was co-head of the world's largest renewable...
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    station owners switching brands because of Gulf oil spill". The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate. Retrieved 2012-11-30. "North American road maps...
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  • Castrol India (category Oil and gas companies of India)
    Speciality Chemicals, Ltd. On 1 November 1990, the name of the company was changed from Indrol Lubricants & Specialities Ltd. to Castrol India Ltd. It helped to...
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    Constitution of Australia's provisions on the separation of powers. Burmah Oil Co Ltd v Lord Advocate (1965), which held that the executive cannot exercise prerogative...
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  • This is a list of oil and gas fields operated by BP. All fields in British territory are operated as part of the BP's North Sea Strategic Performance...
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    D'Arcy Concession (category Anglo-Persian Oil Company)
    amounts of oil. Facing high costs, they were about to give up but eventually struck large commercial quantities of oil in 1908. The Burmah Oil Company created...
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    ignited and violently exploded at the isomerization process unit of the BP oil refinery in Texas City, Texas, killing 15 workers, injuring 180 others and...
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    Organization responding to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. He is the chair of the international industry-led Oil and Gas Climate Initiative (OGCI). He is a...
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    out again to Yunnan when the Japanese attacked Panglong. Burmah Oil Co Ltd v Lord Advocate – a landmark 1965 court case on the scope of prerogative power...
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    ExxonMobil joint venture semi-submersible oil platform on location over the Mississippi Canyon Thunder Horse oil field (Block 778/822), in deepwater Gulf...
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    Abadan Crisis (category Anglo-Persian Oil Company)
    Nafti Irân, "Iran Oil Crisis") occurred from 1951 to 1954, after Iran nationalised the Iranian assets of the BP controlled Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (AIOC)...
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  • TNK-BP (redirect from Tyumen Oil Company)
    lit. 'Tyumen Oil Company') was a major vertically integrated Russian oil company headquartered in Moscow. It was Russia's third-largest oil producer and...
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