Strategic Operation Management Case Study, ASB, Malaysia The company that would become BP was founded in 1909 as the Anglo-Persian Oil Company shortly after Englishman William
The company that would become BP was founded in 1909 as the Anglo-Persian Oil Company shortly after Englishman William Knox D’Arcy struck oil in Iran after an eight-year search. In its early years, profitability proved elusive for APOC and, in 1914, Winston Churchill, who was head of the British Navy and believed Britain needed a …