Commonwealth Oil Refineries
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Commonwealth Oil Refineries (COR) was an Australian oil company that operated between 1920 and 1952 as a joint venture of the Australian government and the Anglo-Persian Oil Company.
Early history
The partnership was established in 1920 on the initiative of prime minister Billy Hughes.[1][2]
In 1924 it opened Australia's first oil refinery near Laverton, Victoria, north of the Melbourne - Geelong railway, adjacent to Kororoit Creek Road.[3][4]
In the 1930s the company was involved in oil search ventures [5]
BP
In 1952, the Menzies Coalition government sold the Australian government's interest in COR to the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, which became the British Petroleum Company (BP) in 1954.
In 1955 it developed a refinery at Kwinana, Western Australia[6]
BP/COR
Between 1952 and 1959, BP Australia branded its standard-grade petrol as COR, but then dropped the name.[7][8]
See also
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