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| Company type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Petroleum, energy |
| Founded | 1948 |
| Founder | Bulgheroni Family |
| Headquarters | Buenos Aires, Argentina |
Key people | Alejandro Bulgheroni (Chairman) |
| Products | refined petroleum fuel natural gas electricity |
| Revenue |  US$600 million (1997) [1] |
| US$310 million (1997) [1] | |
| Owner | CNOOC (50%) |
Bridas Corporation is an Argentine independent oil and gas holding company based in Buenos Aires. Since March 2010 it is 50% owned by China National Offshore Oil Corporation. [2]
Bridas Corporation was founded by the Bulgheroni family in 1948, and grew to become the second-largest producer of fossil fuels in Argentina (after the state-owned YPF), with production of over 78 million boe in 2004. [3] Bridas has focused in the South America Southern Cone and Central Asia. Its activities includes four principal areas of operations:
Bridas began expanding into the Central Asian energy sector in 1987, and secured its first large-scale contract (gas exploration rights in Turkmenistan), in 1992. [5] Between 1995 and 1997, CEO Carlos Bulgheroni was personally involved in negotiations between Bridas and the governments of Pakistan and Turkmenistan, as well as the ruling Taliban faction in Afghanistan, to build the Trans-Afghanistan Gas Pipeline. [6] These negotiations were in competition with those undertaken by Unocal, [7] and although an agreement with Unocal-led corporation CentGas was reached, the deal was forfeited in January 1998 in favor of one with Bridas. [8] Instability in Afghanistan delayed construction of the pipeline. In 2006, Bulgheroni indicated interest in Bridas' involvement with the Trans-Afghanistan Pipeline project, which continued to be hampered by the ongoing war in the Central Asian nation. [9]
In 1997, Bridas and Amoco (now BP) established a joint venture named Pan American Energy. [1] The stake of BP is 60% and the stake of Bridas is 40%. On November 28, 2010, it was announced that Bridas would acquire the BP's stake for $7.06 billion in cash. [2] In 2011 the deal was cancelled. [10] In September 2017, BP and Bridas agreed to merge their interests in Pan American Energy and Axion Energy to form a jointly owned Pan American Energy Group. [11]
Amoco is a brand of fuel stations operating in the United States and owned by British conglomerate BP since 1998. The Amoco Corporation was an American chemical and oil company, founded by Standard Oil Company in 1889 around a refinery in Whiting, Indiana, and was officially the Standard Oil Company of Indiana until 1985. Originally part of the Standard Oil Company trust, it focused on producing gasoline for the new automobile market. In 1911, as part of the break-up of the Standard Oil trust, it became an independent corporation. Incorporated in Indiana, it was headquartered in Chicago, and formally adopted the name Amoco in 1985. Amoco Corporation merged in 1998, over the course of several years all Amoco and Standard stations were converted to BP. The Amoco name was branded at the gas pump for the highest 93 octane blends. The Deepwater Horizon oil spill of 2010 tarnished the BP brand in the US resulting in a rethinking of US branding. Amoco was resurrected in 2017 beyond merely being a gasoline blend, as service station owners could choose to use the Amoco brand for station branding and supplies purchased from BP in selected areas of the United States markets. This branding decision also allow for an increase in stations without flooding a particular market with a single BP name. This was consistent with marketing at Chevron and ExxonMobil and the utilization of the Chevron/Texaco and Exxon/Mobil brands.
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