Founded in 1909 following the discovery of a large oil field in Masjet Soleiman, in Iran, the company was originally called the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC). In 1913, the company was granted a ...

The National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) was established in 1948 and is owned by the government of Iran. It is a member of OPEC. Headquartered in Tehran, Iran, NIOC was first called the Anglo Persian ...

there was a growing resentment in Iran to the huge imbalance in oil revenues that the British government and the Iranian government were receiving from the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (AIOC), formerly ...

Within two years, the Anglo-Persian Oil Company was established to produce and bring Iranian oil to world markets. After the first Pahlavi king, Reza Shah rose to power with the full support of the ...

As the democratically elected leader of Iran from 1951 to 1953, Mosaddegh championed nationalisation of Iran’s oil industry. This had previously been in the hands of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company – a ...

Fraser planned the merger which combined Britain’s two largest oil distributors into one company, Shell-Mex & BP (for “British Petroleum”) Ltd., to market Anglo-Iranian and Shell Oil Co.

The prices for various types of Iranian crude oil for the third month of 2025 were announced by the International Affairs Directorate of the company. Accordingly, Iran’s light crude oil will be ...

A poetic documentary following the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas’s journey through Iran in 1951 on a film assignment for the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company. Constructed almost entirely from archival ...