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 ...

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 ...

which since 1909 has been owned by the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, a British corporation in which the British Government is a majority stockholder. Great Britain promptly denied Persia's right to ...