Bnito

Bnito (from Russian "Batumskoye Neftepromyshlennoye i Torgovoye Obschestvo", "Батумское нефтепромышленное и торговое общество"), or the Caspian and Black Sea Oil Company, was an oil business founded in 1883[1] by Alphonse Rothschild of the Rothschild banking family of France.[2]In 1912, the company was acquired by Royal Dutch Shell.[3]

See also
  • Black Sea energy

References
  1. Julian Evans (May 13, 2006). "Stalin and a giant moustache". The Times.
  2. Michael P. Croissant, Bülent Aras (1999). Oil and geopolitics in the Caspian Sea Region. Praeger Publishers. p. 10. ISBN 978-0-275-96395-8.
  3. Yergin, Daniel (1991). The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power. New York: Simon & Schuster. pp. 60–61, 132–133. ISBN 9780671799328.
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