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With North Sea oil becoming important the centre developed ways to seal cracks in oil pipelines, [27] and ways to extend the life of the BP Forties Oil Field by ten years were evaluated by the head of BP research, Sir John Cadogan in 1984, with tests at Bothamsall in Nottinghamshire. [28]
Its first employee was Jack Birks, [10] later managing director of BP. From 1950 it was the main geophysical research site of BP, until BP sold the site in 1957 for £12,000. Research moved to Sunbury-on-Thames, in Surrey, in 1957. Sunbury Research Centre had been built around the same time as the Kirklington site, in the early 1950s.
BP Canada was a Canadian petroleum company and subsidiary of British Petroleum that existed between 1955 and 1992. The name refers to a group of companies that ...
BP is the fourth-largest investor-owned oil company in the world by 2021 revenues (after ExxonMobil, Shell, and TotalEnergies). [8] BP had a market capitalisation of US$98.36 billion as of 2022, placing it 122nd in the world, [9] [10] and its Fortune Global 500 rank was 35th in 2022 with revenues of US$164.2 billion. [11]
The closure of the Texaco refinery coincided with those of the refineries of Imperial Oil Ltd., Gulf Canada, and BP. These massive closures of refineries were made in the 80s during the oil crisis. The BP Montreal East/Anjou Refinery was situated on the current grounds of the Metropolitan golf club in the Anjou district of the city of Montreal ...
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The International Centre for Advanced Materials (ICAM) [1] is a research partnership made up of the energy company, bp, and the four universities:The University of Manchester, The University of Cambridge, The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Imperial College London. The ICAM is an experimental organisation, both in its research ...
Castrol was founded by C.C.Wakefield in 1899, making lubricants (Wakefield lubricator) for railways.. The research site is based at Bozedown House, a former private residence originally built by William Fanning c.1870 and then rebuilt by Charles Palmer in 1907 [2] after the original house was destroyed by fire.