Over the mud flats of the Isle of Grain, 40 miles down the Thames from London, rose a strange new smell. It was the acrid odor of distilling oil from the Anglo-Iranian Oil Co.’s Kent refinery, which ...

The directors of Anglo-Iranian Oil Co., Ltd. meet in the cream-walled board room of London’s Britannic House. They sit around an oval mahogany table beneath a huge, hanging globe of the world which ...

When the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, now British Petroleum, discovered Iranian oil in 1908, a century of petroleum energy primacy followed. The same is rapidly becoming true for minerals like lithium, ...