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The smell of natural gas was unmistakable. It was a smell you could see. The vapours rose clearly in the sunlight, and stank of rotten eggs. But to the explorer George Reynolds it was the best thing he had smelled in seven years. He instructed the men to keep drilling. George Reynolds in Persia, 1910 Back in England, William D’Arcy was close to despair. He had gambled his considerable fortune on oil, and now he was on the verge of losing it all (both country houses, the mansion on Grosvenor Square). It seemed that the geologists and experts who had wagged their heads encouragingly at him since 1901 had all been wrong about the oil beneath the sands of Persia.Having never set foot in Persia himself, Mr D’Arcy didn’t even have adventure travel stories to show for his investment. What he had was letters and telegrams from his explorer, urging patience, practically begging to extend the search until every possibility had been exhausted.But patience, like Mr D’Arcy’s finances, had run out. Even the Burmah Oil Company, whose investment had saved the expedition in 1904 (on the false hope of an imminent discovery, it had turned out) were tiring of finding nothing. Geroge Reynolds on an early expedition in Persia Now Mr Reynolds would be on the receiving end of an insistent telegraph: drill to 1,600 feet and give up.Giving up was not part of George Reynolds’s character, even if he might admit that this particular search had often seemed doomed. It had taken 10 days just to get to Shardin, eight months to start drilling and six years of toiling to find nothing of any consequence. Torrential rains had washed away four months of work on a link road to Masjid-i-Suleiman, where two weeks ago a drill bit had fallen off in one of two last-chance wells and taken more than a week to fish out. But vindication was in the air. By the early morning of 26 May 1908, the whole camp reeked of sulphur. At four o’clock the drill reached 1,180 feet and a fountain of oil spewed out into the dawn sky. From remote Persia, telegrams were slow. Mr D’Arcy got the good news five days later.“If this is true, all our troubles are over,” he beamed, adding, “I am telling no one about it until I have the news confirmed.” Telegram sent to Mr D'Arcy Enlarge image Within a year, the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, which would one day become BP, was in business. The press talked up the vastness of the new company’s potential to the point that on the day Anglo-Persian stock opened for trading in London and Glasgow people stood five deep in front of the cashiers at a Scottish bank, desperate to get in on the action. And William D’Arcy, who had nearly lost everything, was richer than he had ever been in his life.I edited my profile with Thomas' Myspace Editor V4.4

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BP OIL CONTROLLING AIR EMISSIONS TO MINIMIZE DAMAGE ON THE ENVIRONMENT

BP OIL CONTROLLING AIR EMISSIONS TO MINIMIZE DAMAGE ON THE ENVIRONMENTFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 22, 2007BP is planning to reduce the nitrogen oxide emission in the Texas City plant by 53%. BP is lo...
Posted by BP Oil on Fri, 23 Mar 2007 04:38:00 PST

BP Solar will expand its cell manufacturing capacity in Spain.

BP Solar will expand its cell manufacturing capacity in Spain.Madrid, 22nd March 2007: BP Solar today announced that it has begun constructing a mega cell plant at its European headquarters in Tres Ca...
Posted by BP Oil on Thu, 22 Mar 2007 03:02:00 PST

BP to Purchase Chevron's Manufacturing Business in the Netherlands

BP to Purchase Chevron's Manufacturing Business in the NetherlandsRelease date: 05 March 2007BP announced today that it has agreed to purchase Chevron's Netherlands manufacturing company, Texaco Raffi...
Posted by BP Oil on Thu, 22 Mar 2007 03:05:00 PST