William Knox D'Arcy
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William Knox D'Arcy was a British and Australian businessman who was one of the principal founders of the oil and petrochemical industry in Persia. D'Arcy founded the Anglo-Persian Oil Company in 1909
William Knox D'Arcy
Walter Hall and D'Arcy c.1885
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
William Knox D'Arcy
…1917) was a British and Australian businessman who was one of the principal founders of the oil and petrochemical industry in Persia. D'Arcy founded the Anglo-Persian Oil Company in 1909, which later became BP. The D'Arcy Concession was signed in 1901 and allowed D'Arcy to explore, obtain, and market oil, natural gas, asphalt…
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