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Newspaper Article
How British (really) is BP?
2010
Overview
Three outsize Britons presided over BP's birth in 1909: an entrepreneurial buccaneer named William Knox D'Arcy, a young member of Parliament named Winston Churchill, and the Royal Navy's leading \"oil maniac,\" Admiral Sir John Fisher. \"If a single man be permitted to hold the title,\" according to BP's authorized history, \"D'Arcy must go down to posterity as the father of the entire oil industry in the Middle East.\" It's true. Having amassed a fortune in Australia's gold rush, D'Arcy in 1901 gambled on reports that oil abounded in southwest Persia. Finally in 1908, just as D'Arcy was about to abandon his search for oil, a gusher erupted at Majid-i-Suleiman, a plateau in the Zagros Mountains. The oil field was immediately encircled by India's Bengal Lancers, as if it were British territory, and an ecstatic Lieutenant A.T. Wilson wired this coded message to his superiors: \"See Psalm 104 verse 15 third sentence\" (\"That he may bring oil out of the earth to make him a cheerful countenance\").
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New York Times Company
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