The Burmah Oil Company Ltd

The Burmah Oil Company was founded in Glasgow, Scotland in 1886 to develop oil interests in the Indian sub-continent. It became an early and major shareholder in BP, so restricted its downstream interests to the sub-continent, where BP had no business. It played a major role in the oil industry in South Asia for about a century through its subsidiaries and in discovery of oil in the Middle East though its significant interest in British Petroleum. Marketing was under the BOC brand in Burma, Pakistan and Assam (India) and through a joint venture Burmah-Shell with Shell in the rest of India. For other uses, see Glasgow (disambiguation). ... Royal motto: Nemo me impune lacessit (English: No one provokes me with impunity) Scotlands location within the United Kingdom Languages English, Gaelic, Scots Capital Edinburgh Largest city Glasgow First Minister Jack McConnell Area - Total - % water Ranked 2nd UK 78,782 km² 1. ... 1886 (MDCCCLXXXVI) is a common year starting on Friday (click on link to calendar) // Events January 18 - Modern field hockey is born with the formation of The Hockey Association in England. ... BP plc, LSE: BP, NYSE: BP, TYO: 5051 , originally British Petroleum, is a British energy company with headquarters in London, one of the four Oil Super Majors in the world along with vertically integrated private sector oil, natural gas, and gasoline companies, Royal Dutch Shell, ExxonMobil, and Total. ... Assam (Assamese: অসম Ôxôm) is a northeastern state of India with its capital at Dispur. ...

The company was involved in a landmark legal case, Burmah Oil Co. v Lord Advocate. Burmah Oil Co. ...

A two-volume history of the company was written by T.A.B. Corley: A history of the Burmah Oil Company, 1886-1924 (published 1983) and A history of the Burmah Oil Company. Vol 2, 1924-66 (published 1988).