Walter Russell Hall and William Knox D'Arcy (image sourced from Wikimedia Commons]

How BP nearly never existed

BP is the world’s fifth-largest oil company, turning over $303.7B in 2018 and producing 4.1 million barrels of oil per day. One of the petrochemical industry’s ‘supermajors’, BP was once perilously close to never existing at all. The story has its beginnings in the small Central Queensland town of Mount Morgan, just South of Rockhampton […]