1909
Abadan Refinery Site Selected
Selects Abadan Island as the refinery site and begins establishing the company's Persian Gulf refining base.
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Browse historical events and people recorded at Abadan in Great Britain. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.
Selects Abadan Island as the refinery site and begins establishing the company's Persian Gulf refining base.
Directs development of refinery facilities at Abadan to process crude from the Persian oilfields.
Opens the Abadan refinery with an initial annual capacity of about 120,000 tons.
Faces serious technical problems when an early refinery test fails and product quality proves poor.
Abadan refinery capacity reaches about one million tons annually after sustained wartime expansion.
Abadan refinery capacity reaches roughly one hundred thousand barrels per day after sustained expansion.
British troops complete the occupation of the Abadan oilfields in Iran
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