Bataafse Petroleum Maatschappij

Bataafse Petroleum Maatschappij (BPM)
Company typesubsidiary
IndustryOil extraction
Founded1907
Defunct1965
SuccessorPN Permina (legal successor)
PT Shell Indonesia (1957-1965)
Headquarters,
ParentRoyal Dutch/Shell

Bataafse Petroleum Maatschappij or Bataafsche Petroleum Maatschappij (colloquially known as BPM), Dutch for Batavian Oil Company, was the Dutch East Indies and later Indonesian subsidiary of Royal Dutch Shell oil company established in 1907.[1][2]

  1. ^ Braake 1944, pp. 68–9, 74.
  2. ^ Coumbe 1923, pp. 71–86.