Compañía Mexicana de Petróleo El Águila SA,
Weetman Pearson, founder
Rail tank car of the company, 1914
Fuel oil railway tank car. Fifteen tons capacity. Anglo-Mexican Petroleum Company. London, 1914
MV San Demetrio reached the Clyde in 1940 with a cargo of aviation spirit despite having been damaged by shellfire from the Admiral Scheer
Petroleum industry in Mexico
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The petroleum industry in Mexico makes Mexico the eleventh largest producer of oil in the world and the thirteenth largest in terms of net exports. Mexico has the seventeenth largest oil reserves in t
Mexican Eagle Petroleum Company
…the Royal Dutch Shell in 1959. Sir Weetman Pearson, Bart. (Viscount Cowdray from 1910) founded the company in 1909 to develop his investments in the Mexican oil fields. Pearson's interests in Mexico had begun in 1889 when he won a contract from the government of Porfirio Díaz for his civil engineering company, S…
A gas station in Puerto Vallarta
Lázaro Cárdenas del Río, president of Mexico from 1934 to 1940. In 1938, Cárdenas ordered the expropriation of all oil companies in Mexico.
Offshore platform in the Gulf of Mexico
A warning sign for a Pemex pipeline to the former Azcapotzalco Refinery. Oil infrastructure such as pipelines can present risks of spills or explosions.