In 1930 from a Junkers F.13 leased by the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (a forerunner of BP), the site of the first oil strike in the Middle East (1908), looks deserted. Today, its wells produce ...

The company discovered oil seven years later. Initially known as the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, the firm was renamed British Petroleum in 1954. And the 1970 discovery of an oil field in the North ...

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 ...

It is a member of OPEC. Headquartered in Tehran, Iran, NIOC was first called the Anglo Persian Oil Company (APOC) in 1908, and APOC was the first company to extract petroleum from the Middle East.

On November 27, 1932, the Persian Government announced the cancellation of the concession, which since 1909 has been owned by the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, a British corporation in which the British ...