National Iranian Oil Company
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The National Iranian Oil Company is a government-owned national oil and natural gas producer and distributor under the direction of the Ministry of Petroleum of Iran. NIOC was established in 1951 and
National Iranian Oil Company headquarters
The Shah opens the facilities of International Naval Oil Company of Iran in 1970
Emblem of NIOC from the 1950s to the 1970s
Anglo-Persian Oil Company
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The Anglo-Persian Oil Company was a British company founded in 1909 following the discovery of a large oil field in Masjed Soleiman, Persia. The British government purchased 51% of the company in 1914
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…Middle East. In 1923, Burmah Oil employed future Prime Minister, Winston Churchill as a paid consultant; to lobby the British government to allow the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC) to have exclusive rights to Persian oil resources, which were successfully granted. In 1935, Rezā Shāh requested the international community to…
The former Anglo-Persian Oil Company building (now Foreign Ministry No. 3) in Tehran
William Knox D'Arcy negotiated rights to prospect for oil in most of the Iran territory.
Workers of the APOC in 1908
Indian soldiers march into the Abadan Refinery, Operation Countenance, 25 August 1941