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BP
The Anglo-Persian Oil Company was a British company founded in 1909 to exploit oil discovered at Masjed Soleyman in south-western Iran, on Bakhtiari land. It built a refinery on Abadan island, leased from Sheikh Khazal of Mohammerah, and the British government became its majority shareholder in 1914. Renamed the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company in 1935, it later became BP.
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