Bataafse Petroleum Maatschappij

Bataafse Petroleum Maatschappij (BPM)
Industry Oil extraction
Founded 1907
Defunct 2005
Parent Royal Dutch Shell
Bataafsche Petroleum Maatschappij headquarters in Batavia (1900-1940)

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

  1. ↑ Alex L. Braake (1944), Mining in the Netherlands East Indies, Ayer Publishing, pp. 68–9,74
  2. ↑ 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
  3. ↑ Marius Vassiliou (2009), Historical dictionary of the petroleum industry, Scarecrow Press, "Bataafsche Petroleum Maatschappij", p.78; "Royal Dutch Shell", pp.436-7; also pp.157, 436

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