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[[File:COLLECTIE TROPENMUSEUM Hoofdgebouw van de Bataafse Petroleum Maatschappij te Batavia TMnr 10014922.jpg|thumb|Bataafsche Petroleum Maatschappij headquarters in [[Jakarta|Batavia]] (1900-1940)]] |
[[File:COLLECTIE TROPENMUSEUM Hoofdgebouw van de Bataafse Petroleum Maatschappij te Batavia TMnr 10014922.jpg|thumb|Bataafsche Petroleum Maatschappij headquarters in [[Jakarta|Batavia]] (1900-1940)]] |
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'''Bataafse Petroleum Maatschappij''' ('''BPM'''), also known as ''Bataafsche Petroleum Maatschappij'' (English: ''Batavian Oil Company'') was a subsidiary of the [[Royal Dutch Shell]] oil company established in 1907 which extracted and refined oil in the [[Netherlands East Indies]].<ref>{{citation| url = http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=sMzIttxRrIwC| title = Mining in the Netherlands East Indies| author =Alex L. Braake| publisher = Ayer Publishing| year= 1944 | pages= 68–9,74}}</ref><ref>{{citation| url = http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=HhcNxEUvQFwC| title = European foreign investments as seen by the U.S. Department of Commerce| publisher = United States. Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce| year = 1923| chapter = |
'''Bataafse Petroleum Maatschappij''' ('''BPM'''), also known as ''Bataafsche Petroleum Maatschappij'' (English: ''Batavian Oil Company'') was a subsidiary of the [[Royal Dutch Shell]] oil company established in 1907 which extracted and refined oil in the [[Netherlands East Indies]].<ref>{{citation| url = http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=sMzIttxRrIwC| title = Mining in the Netherlands East Indies| author =Alex L. Braake| publisher = Ayer Publishing| year= 1944 | pages= 68–9,74}}</ref><ref>{{citation| url = http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=HhcNxEUvQFwC| title = European foreign investments as seen by the U.S. Department of Commerce| publisher = United States. Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce| year = 1923| chapter = Petroleum Production and Trade of the Dutch East Indies| author = Albert T. Coumbe|chapterurl = http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=HhcNxEUvQFwC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA65#v=onepage&q&f=false| pages = 71–86}}</ref> The company was 60 percent owned by the [[Royal Dutch Petroleum Company]], and 40% by the [[Shell Transport and Trading Company]]; it acted as a Dutch holding company for the merged Royal Dutch Shell Group along with its UK analogue the ''Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Company''. The two were merged in 2005 creating a single holding structure for Shell.<ref>{{citation| url =http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=vArc08DO9ykC| title = Historical dictionary of the petroleum industry | author = Marius Vassiliou| authorlink= Marius Vassiliou| publisher =Scarecrow Press| year = 2009| at = "Bataafsche Petroleum Maatschappij", p.78; "Royal Dutch Shell", pp.436-7; also pp.157, 436}}</ref> |
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Revision as of 15:00, 21 September 2014
Industry | Oil extraction |
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Founded | 1907 |
Defunct | 2005 |
Parent | Royal Dutch Shell |
Bataafse Petroleum Maatschappij (BPM), also known as Bataafsche Petroleum Maatschappij (English: Batavian Oil Company) was a subsidiary of the Royal Dutch Shell oil company established in 1907 which extracted and refined oil in the Netherlands East Indies.[1][2] The company was 60 percent owned by the Royal Dutch Petroleum Company, and 40% by the Shell Transport and Trading Company; it acted as a Dutch holding company for the merged Royal Dutch Shell Group along with its UK analogue the Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Company. The two were merged in 2005 creating a single holding structure for Shell.[3]
References
- ^ Alex L. Braake (1944), Mining in the Netherlands East Indies, Ayer Publishing, pp. 68–9, 74
- ^ Albert T. Coumbe (1923), "Petroleum Production and Trade of the Dutch East Indies", European foreign investments as seen by the U.S. Department of Commerce, United States. Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, pp. 71–86
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