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...
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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...
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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)...
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The Anglo-Persian Agreement (Persian: قرارداد ۱۹۱۹) involved Great Britain and Persia, and centered on the drilling rights of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company...
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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...
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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...
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William Richard Williamson (category Anglo-Persian Oil Company)
("Haji") Williamson was an English adventurer who became an oil company representative in the Persian Gulf. Williamson's early life was packed with adventure...
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oil, but wanted to remain in control of the production of its fuel. It undertook to acquire a controlling interest in The Anglo-Persian Oil Company,...
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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...
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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...
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BP, continuation of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company which acquired Standard Oil of Ohio and Standard Oil of Indiana Marathon Oil and Marathon Petroleum,...
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1952 as a joint venture between the Government of Australia and Anglo-Persian Oil Company. The partnership was established in 1920 on the initiative of...
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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...
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Charles Greenway, 1st Baron Greenway (category Anglo-Persian Oil Company)
had won from the Persian government. Together, and with capital from the British Government, they founded the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, which made the...
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Abadan Crisis (category Anglo-Persian Oil Company)
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...
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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....
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BP (redirect from BP (oil company))
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...
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D'Arcy Concession (category Anglo-Persian Oil Company)
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...
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Bank in the Turkish Petroleum Company (TPC). The other shareholders were (same as in 1914): the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC), in which the British...
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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...
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Abadan Refinery (category Anglo-Persian Oil Company)
(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...
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Nissho Maru Incident (category Anglo-Persian Oil Company)
consumers. The British Anglo-Iranian Oil company (AIOC) filed a lawsuit requesting a provisional injunction for the seizure of oil products carried by the...
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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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Khazʽal Ibn Jabir (category Articles containing Persian-language text)
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)...
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HMS Conundrum (category Anglo-Persian Oil Company)
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...
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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...
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discovered by Anglo-Persian Oil Company in 1938 and developed by National Iranian Oil Company. It began production in 1940 and produces oil. The total proven...
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Naft Khana (category Oil fields of Iraq)
November 17, 1913) and then became part of the Kingdom of Iraq. The Anglo-Persian Oil Company had acquired rights over the area with the 1901 d'Arcy concession...
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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...
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Apolipoprotein C, a family of four proteins that resides on lipoproteins. Anglo-Persian Oil Company, later BP Anarchist People of Color APOC (wrestler) is the ring...
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