BP Shipping Marks its 100th Year
BP Shipping today celebrates its 100-year anniversary, making it the longest continually operating company in the BP group. Formed on April 30, 1915 as the British Tanker Company, the business has adapted to significant world events including two world wars, the Great Depression, closures of the Suez Canal, and the impact of oil nationalisations on the world economy and the movement of oil and gas. BP Shipping has also played its role in the evolution of safer and more environmentally sustainable shipping practices including inert gas systems, crude oil washing and double hulling, and has used its marine skills in the design and development of ground-breaking hybrid vessels in support of offshore oil and gas exploration.
BP Shipping Turns 100
BP Shipping celebrated its 100-year anniversary yesterday, making it the longest continually operating company in the group. Formed on April 30, 1915 as the British Tanker Company, the business has contributed to two world wars, the Great Depression, the closures of the Suez Canal, and the impact of oil nationalisations on the world economy and the movement of oil and gas. It has also played a role in the evolution of safer and more environmentally sustainable shipping practices including inert gas systems, crude oil washing and double hulling. The firm has been responsible for the construction of more than 500 oil and gas tankers – an average launch rate of one new ship every 10 weeks of the century – as well as a myriad of small vessels to support BP’s international operations.
BP Marine Establishes Presence In Chile
BP Marine has opened a new supply network in Chile offering a full lubricant supply facility at 14 ports along the Chilean coast from Puerto Montt in the South - to Iquique located further North. Coordinating local blending of a core range of marine lubricants, the BP marine network in Latin America will operate out of Santiago de Chile, managing the supply and distribution of marine lubricants. Local stocks will be situated in strategic locations to provide for the 14 major Chilean coast ports. According to Alberto Julio, who is managing the BP Chile operation, the network will offer a service to BP International shipping customers requiring replacement products in Chile, as well as supplying the local coastal shipping industry.
