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India 1858–1947 Political subdivisions of the British Raj in 1909. British India is shown in two shades of pink; Sikkim, Nepal, Bhutan, and the Princely states are shown in yellow.
BP p.l.c. (formerly The British Petroleum Company p.l.c. and BP Amoco p.l.c.; stylised in all lowercase) is a British multinational oil and gas company headquartered in London, England. It is one of the oil and gas " supermajors " and one of the world's largest companies measured by revenues and profits. [ 3 ]
After the Indian Rebellion of 1857, the company rule was brought to an end, but the British India along with princely states came under the direct rule of the British Crown. The Government of India Act 1858 created the office of Secretary of State for India in 1858 to oversee the affairs of India, which was advised by a new Council of India ...
Oil in colonial India was mostly exploited by a number of British companies with intricate alliances. Their output began to increase during the first and second world wars to support British troops and industries in the United Kingdom. [4] In 1928, Asiatic Petroleum Company ( India) started cooperation with Burmah Oil Company.
Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited is an Indian public sector oil and gas company, headquartered in Mumbai.It is India's second-largest government-owned downstream oil producer, whose operations are overseen by the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas.
After discovery of oil in the Assam state of India in late 1880s, the first oil refinery was set up at Digboi. Digboi Refinery was commissioned in 1901. [1] Following is a list of oil refineries in India, per the Petroleum Planning and Analysis Cell of the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, Government of India, [2] arranged in decreasing order of their capacity.
Burmah Oil became the largest oil company in the British Empire. The subsidiary was later renamed Anglo-Iranian Oil Company and eventually BP. [3] In 1938, Burmah Oil was the subject of a major nationalist protest and general strike in British Burma, known as the 1300 Revolution. Burmah Oil ultimately conceded a few terms, but the strike ended ...
India was the second top net crude oil (including crude oil products) importer of 205.3 Mt in 2019. [4] By March 2021, India's domestic crude oil production output fell by 5.2% and natural gas production by 8.1% in the FY21 as producers extracted 30.4917 Mt of crude oil and 28.67 BCM of natural gas in the fiscal year.