The Asiatic Petroleum Company
Nick Kitto has kindly sent this brief summary of the origins of the Asiatic Petroleum Company extracted from Shell Oil Company’s website:
Shell Transport and Royal Dutch were originally competitors. In 1903, they agreed to establish a joint marketing company for the Far East operations. The Asiatic Petroleum Company (APC) was thus incorporated in London.
APC established branch offices in Hong Kong (1906) and Shanghai (1908).
In 1913, these offices became the headquarters of the Asiatic Petroleum Company (South China) Ltd and the Asiatic Petroleum Company (North China) Ltd respectively.
In 1907, Royal Dutch and Shell Transport merged their businesses interests to form the Royal Dutch/Shell Group, though they still conducted business in China under the APC trade name.
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