Anglo Persian Oil Company Iran
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The Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC) was founded in 1908 following the discovery of a large oil field in Masjed Soleiman, Iran. It was the first company to extract oil from the Middle East. In 1935 APOC was renamed the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (AIOC) and in 1954 became the British Petroleum Company (BP), one of the antecedents of the modern BP Plc.
1953 Iranian coup with Nazi-like men involved
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Iranian fascists and Nazis played prominent roles in the coup regime. Gen. Fazlollah Zahedi, who had been arrested and imprisoned by the British during World War II for his attempt to establish a pro-Nazi government, was made Prime Minister on August 19, 1953. The CIA gave Zahedi about $100,000 before the coup and an additional $5 million the day after the coup to help consolidate support for the coup. Bahram Shahrokh, a trainee of Joseph Goebbels and Berlin Radio's Persian-language program announcer during the Nazi rule, became director of propaganda. Mr. Sharif-Emami, who also had spent some time in jail for his pro-Nazi activities in the 1940s, assumed several positions after 1953 coup, including Secretary General of the Oil Industry, President of the Senate, and Prime Minister (twice). [69
US and Nazi connections
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8. 1953: Operation Ajax
The CIA overthrew Premier Mohammed Mossadegh in Iran, complaining of his neutralism in the Cold War, and installed in his place General Fazlollah Zahedi, a wartime Nazi collaborator. Zahedi showed his gratitude by giving 25-year leases on forty percent of Iran's oil to three American arms. One of these firms, Gulf Oil, was fortunate enough a few years later to hire as a vice president the CIA agent Kermit Roosevelt, who had run Operation Ajax. Did this coup set the clock ticking on the Iranian hostage crisis of 1979-80?[7]
Tom Harley
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Tom Harley is President Corporate Development at BHP Billiton and is active at the top levels of the Liberal Party of Australia. He is a key facilitator of a "1996 wheat "donation" to Iraq and the illegal recouping of an associated "debt" six years later by a mysterious BHP-linked company". [1]
BP in China
BP in Russia
Tom Harley and wheat for oil scandal
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by Marian Wilkinson and David Marr, The Sydney Morning Herald
April 17th, 2006
THE Tigris affair began as a sharp bit of business disguised as a great humanitarian gesture that morphed into a loan repaid as a secret commission after the fall of Baghdad. It was the filthiest of all AWB's deals with Iraq.
The donor was BHP, back in 1996 when it was still the big Australian. But a decade on, the Cole inquiry is trying to untangle a web of intrigue that draws together big oil, big wheat, big names, a very big scandal and high stakes - the Halfayah oilfield, one of the richest in Iraq, with reserves the size of Bass Strait.
Tom Harley's family in politics for a long time-He is great g'son of Alfred Deakin
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The great grandson of Alfred Deakin, a founding father of Federation and Australia's second prime minister, Harley was front and centre of some of the Big Australian's greatest adventures during his 24 years at the firm.
BHP owns 44 percent of the BP-operated Atlantis project in the Gulf and is a partner in the Mad Dog field operated by BP
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BHP, also the world’s largest mining company, is focusing on “delivering projects in some of the world’s deepest waters,” the Melbourne-based company said in its 2009 annual report. BHP owns 44 percent of the BP-operated Atlantis project in the Gulf and is a partner in the Mad Dog field operated by BP. Production at BHP’s Shenzi project in the Gulf began last year.
“The deepwater Gulf of Mexico continues to be a very vital part of the business,” Yeager said.
Exemption for Mad Dog even after Gulf disaster
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BP's latest bid for exemption
BP has made similar assertions -- even since its blowout -- to obtain an exemption from environmental review for another project.
The exploration plan for a 4,468-foot-deep well in its "Mad Dog" field, approved May 6, doesn't claim to have "proven equipment and technology," but it does assert that it had the capability to respond to a worst-case scenario of a 184,000-barrel-a-day spill.
In the section of the "initial exploration plan" for explaining the Mad Dog operation's "blowout scenario," BP states: "information not required."
BP top U.S. executive McKay told a Senate committee that requesting and receiving such categorical exclusions are "industry standard" because extensive environmental reviews have already been done at an earlier stage in the process.
As with many of the plans, BP's Mad Dog assertions are "summarized from" the 2002 EIS that deemed spills highly unlikely. Besides "proven equipment and technology," the exploration plans offer a potpourri of reasons spills won't happen, or how easily they can be dealt with. Some are eyebrow-raising in the wake of the BP blowout, the oil washing ashore in Louisiana, and reports of coziness between MMS inspectors and oil company managers.
Fears BP Spill Could Hit BHP Billiton Petroleum
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However, MF Global argued the scenario could worsen for BHP Billiton, which sees the Gulf of Mexico is a major development region for the group's petroleum business. "Atlantis and Mad Dog [oil fields] are operated by BP and the concern is that the two operations might even be closed down if certain politicians get their way," said analysts at MF Global. They concluded: "Further exploration and drilling could be severely curtailed by the government wishing to protect the natural habitat."
BHP Billiton caught in US climate change scandal
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MARIAN WILKINSON ENVIRONMENT EDITOR
August 13, 2009
BHP BILLITON and two other leading US energy companies operating in Australia have been caught up in a lobbying scandal that was aimed at defeating the landmark US climate change bill but is now under investigation by a congressional committee.
BHP Billiton involved in Oil For Food Scandal
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The Guardian, Monday 23 January 2006
BHP Billiton, the world's biggest miner, has been dragged into an Iraqi corruption scandal amid revelations that United Nations contracts were inflated by $8m (£4.5m) to recover a debt the previous Iraqi regime owed the London-listed group. An Australian inquiry into local involvement in the abuse of the UN's oil-for-food programme has revealed that BHP provided $5m worth of wheat on credit to Iraq in the 1990s to secure oil exploration rights.
BP's other business in Gulf - Atlantis
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Considered one of BP's most technically challenging projects ever, the Atlantis platform is currently the deepest moored floating dual oil and gas production facility in the world and weighing in at 58,700t, it is also one of the largest. BP is operator of Atlantis with 56% ownership with its partner in the venture, BHP Billiton, having a 44% working interest.
BP spills coffee (joke) video
Cracks show BP battled well 2 months before blast
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Cracks Show BP Battled Well Two Months Before Blast (Update1)
June 17, 2010, 10:58 AM EDT
(Adds Waxman comment starting in the 10th paragraph. See {SPILL
By Alison Fitzgerald and Joe Carroll
June 17 (Bloomberg) -- BP Plc was struggling to seal cracks in its Macondo well as far back as February, more than two months before an explosion killed 11 and spewed oil into the Gulf of Mexico.
Tony Hayward sold shares weeks before oil spill
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BP chief Tony Hayward sold shares weeks before oil spill
The chief executive of BP sold £1.4 million of his shares in the fuel giant weeks before the Gulf of Mexico oil spill caused its value to collapse.
By Jon Swaine and Robert Winnett
Published: 12:10AM BST 05 Jun 2010
Tony Hayward: 'This won't stop deepwater drilling. It will transform it'
Tony Hayward cashed in about a third of his holding in the company one month before a well on the Deepwater Horizon rig burst, causing an environmental disaster.
Atlantis rig problem could lead to oil spill
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The Associated Press has learned an independent firm hired by BP substantiated the complaints in 2009 and found BP was violating its own policies by not having completed engineering documents on board the Atlantis when it began operating in 2007.
Australia BHP Billiton Rio Tinto
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Australia BHP Billiton Rio Tinto
AP News 2010-05-20 13:41:27
In this undated photo released by BHP Billiton, the BHP Billiton Atlantis oil and gas rig in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico, approximately 130 miles (208 kilometers) off the coast of Louisiana. Mining giant BHP Billiton Ltd. said it was looking for other takeover targets during the current global financial turmoil, after abandoning its US$68 billion hostile bid for Rio Tinto citing risky conditions, Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2008. (AP Photo/BHP Billiton, HO)
BHP is one of top Goldman Sachs clients.
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The move will leave Goldman Sachs to concentrate primarily on investment banking, where it rates in the top four across each of the major categories and league tables.
The bank is known for being an aggressive competitor against its rivals, especially in the lucrative mergers and acquisition advisory business. BHP Billiton is one of its main clients.
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