BP
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The Anglo-Persian Oil Co. was founded in 1909 following the discovery of oil in south-west Persia. It was renamed the Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. in 1935; British Petroleum in 1954; BP Amoco in 1998; and BP in 2001.
Found in 20 Collections and/or Records:
Anglo-Iranian Oil Company Limited (AIOC), 1951-05 - 1951-12
Papers and correspondence on the case relating to the nationalisation of the assets of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company [earlier the Anglo-Persian Oil Company] by the Government of Iran, including drafts of HL's and Vladmir Idelson's Joint Opinion on the case and HL's Separate Opinion.
Also includes HL's draft reply in the Abu Dhabi arbitration and his and Otto Kahn-Freund's Joint Opinion on the case of Petroleum Concessions Limited against Qatar.
Anglo-Iranian Oil Company Limited (AIOC), 1951
Elihu Lauterpacht's slightly annotated copy of Part II of the Memorial submitted by the British Government in the case relating to the nationalisation of the assets of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company [earlier the Anglo-Persian Oil Company] by the Government of Iran.
Anglo-Iranian Oil Company Limited (AIOC), 1951-05
MS Draft Joint Opinion by HL and Vladmir Idelson on the case relating to the nationalisation of the assets of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company [earlier the Anglo-Persian Oil Company] by the Government of Iran, particularly whether the International Court of Justice was competent to judge it.
Anglo-Iranian Oil Company Limited (AIOC), 1951-03 - 1951-05, 1952-12
British Petroleum Calendar, 1964
Correspondence re Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. Ltd and BP, 1945-1966
Copies of correspondence between Matheson & Co. Ltd, Jardine, Matheson & Co. Ltd and Jardine Waugh Ltd; correspondence between Matheson & Co. Ltd and other correspondents, including the Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. Ltd, British Petroleum Co. Ltd and B.P. Trading Ltd, all London; and other letters and papers.
Kuwait Oil Company , 1949-02 - 1949-07, 1935
Papers and correspondence relating to HL's Opinions on whether the concession granted to the Kuwait Oil Company included various islands in the Persian Gulf and whether any further claims by Kuwait to the continental shelf would be included in the concession.
Kuwait Oil Company: exhibits 53-137, 1949 - 1950
Loose documents in the case of the Kuwait Oil Company, found in the back of volume VI. Note that there are large gaps in the number sequence.
Kuwait Oil Company volume I: exhibits 1-2, 1949-11
Documents in the case of the Kuwait Oil Company.
Kuwait Oil Company volume II: exhibits 3-8, 1949-01 - 1950-03
Documents in the case of the Kuwait Oil Company.
Kuwait Oil Company volume III: exhibits 9-12, 1949
Documents in the case of the Kuwait Oil Company.
Kuwait Oil Company volume IV: exhibits 13-23, 1949-02 - 1949-11
Documents in the case of the Kuwait Oil Company.
Kuwait Oil Company volume V: exhibits 24-35, 1949
Documents in the case of the Kuwait Oil Company.
Kuwait Oil Company volume VI: exhibits 36-52, 1949 - 1950
Documents in the case of the Kuwait Oil Company.
"Kuwait, Shelf": Opinion on the Kuwait Oil Company, 1949-06 - 1949-11
Opinion by HL with accompanying papers and correspondence, on the Kuwait Oil Company, and the sea-bed and subsoil outside Kuwait's territorial waters and its islands.
"Kuwait, various opinions", 1949
Extracts and drafts of opinions by HL on the Kuwait Oil Company.
Melford Festival, 1964
Opinion on the Kuwait Oil Company , 1949-03
Two revised versions of HL's Opinion on the Kuwait Oil Company, Quaru [also Qaruh and Quaruh] and other islands and the Continental Shelf, as submitted to the Sheikh of Kuwait and the Foreign Office.
“PRO Research 1948-50, Gulf Oil Arbitrations”, 1949-03 - 1949-05
Later photocopies from the Public Record Office used by Sir Elihu Lauterpacht in his research, including: a (slightly) annotated copy of HL's Opinion on the Kuwait Oil Company for the Foreign Office; correspondence and minutes relating to the company's claim and HL's Opinion, from the Ministry of Fuel and Power and the Foreign Office, including a consultation between Sir Walter Monckton, HL and [Hubert] H L Parker.
The Kuwait Islands Arbitration, 1949-12
Report giving the background to the Concession between the Sheikh of Kuwait and the Kuwait Oil Company Limited.