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Vol. 14, No. 28 Week of July 12, 2009
Providing coverage of Alaska and northern Canada's oil and gas industry

BP in Alaska: BP’s early history

Company’s origins go back 100 years

Frank Baker

For Petroleum News

The first commercial oil discovery in the Middle East in 1908 brought about the birth of British Petroleum a year later, and it quickly grew into one of the world’s largest oil companies. In the years that followed, BP became well-established in the Middle East, with subsequent discoveries of large....


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