Nafta was an oil distribution chain owned by the

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but operated abroad. In the 1920s, a Nafta chain operated in

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, before being sold to

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in 1937. In the

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and

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a petrol chain was built up in the 1960s, with the British service stations being sold to Q8 in 1987. NAFTA (UK) was originally called ''Russian Oil Storage Installations''. Another Soviet-owned company in the United Kingdom which shared directors with Nafta was ''Russian Oil Products Limited'' (established in 1924 and struck off in 2018).

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