A000501
revised
AU-VU:EOAS
Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation
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English
AACR2
Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules
Corporate Body
created
2000-05-25
human
Ailie Smith
updated
2025-11-05
human
https://www.eoas.info/biogs/A000501b.htm
ABN 53 004 085 616
corporateBody
BP Australia Pty Ltd
AACR2
1920
Start Place
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Location
Melbourne, Victoria
Petrochemical Industry
BP Australia Pty Ltd has been registered with the Australian Securities & Investments Commission since 25/08/1920. The company's operations extend from exploring for and developing natural gas and oil in the North West Shelf to manufacturing petroleum products at their refineries in Western Australia and Queensland to marketing fuels and other products at BP service stations. They also have a Solar business in New South Wales and are the only manufacturer in commercial scale production of solar cells in Australia. Other businesses include lubricants, petroleum distribution, shipping, marine, bitumen, and aviation fuel products. Edited from their website March 2006).
Commonwealth Oil Refineries Ltd (1920 - c. 1952)
BP Solar Australia Pty Ltd (c. 1974 - )
BP Solarex (1999 - c. 2000)
BP Solar (2000 - )
Trove
'BP Australia Pty Ltd', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology
BP Australia Pty Ltd
Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation
Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation
Resource: Technology in Australia 1788-1988
Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering
Technology in Australia 1788-1988
Online
Melbourne
Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre
2000