Oil discovery at Masjed Soleyman
Petróleo de Masjed Soleymán
- Date
- 26 de mayo de 1908 · confidence high
- Place
- Masjed Soleyman, Khuzestan, Iran
- Credited to
- George Reynolds, for the concession of William K. D'Arcy
- People
- 👤 George Bernard Reynolds1853–1925
- Field
- Cosmos & Earth
What was discovered
The first major commercial oil find in the Middle East, in the Zagros anticline. It gave rise to the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (today BP) and turned the region into the world's oil centre.
What it led to
- the Anglo-Persian Oil Company and the Abadan refinery
- the Royal Navy's conversion to fuel oil
- Middle East oil geopolitics