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1990 Armand Hammer, CEO (Occidental Petroleum), dies at 92
1966 North Sea Gas was 1st pumped ashore by British Petroleum 1960 OPEC (Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries), forms 1948 John Browne, group chief executive, British Petroleum Company 1940 Netherlands rations petroleum 1915 Bataafsche Petroleum Me begins oil extraction of Maracaibo 1914 Henry Colijn appointed as director of Bataafsche Petroleum Co 1914 Dutch Minister of war H Colijn named director of British Petroleum 1913 William M Burton patents a process to "crack" petroleum 1907 Royal Oil and Shell merge to form British Petroleum (BP) 1898 Armand Hammer, New York City, millionaire industrialist, Occidental Petroleum 1884 Adrian S Oppenheim, Dutch lawyer/adviser, British Petroleum/Shell 1878 Vaseline is 1st sold (registered trademark for petroleum jelly) |
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