apr 14, 1908 - Anglo-Persian Oil Company created by Burmah Oil
Description:
The Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC) was a British company founded in 1908 following the discovery of a large oil field in Masjed Soleiman, Iran. It was the first company to extract petroleum from Iran. In 1935 APOC was renamed the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (AIOC) and in 1954 it was renamed again to the British Petroleum Company (BP), one of the antecedents of the modern BP public limited company, while its assets in Iran were nationalised and taken over by the National Iranian Oil Company.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Persian_Oil_Company
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Date:
apr 14, 1908
Now
~ 117 years ago