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 by Alphonse Rothschild of the
Rothschild banking family of France
The Rothschild banking family of France (french: Famille banquière Rothschild) is a French banking dynasty founded in 1812 in Paris (at the time in the First French Empire) by James Mayer de Rothschild (1792–1868). James was sent there from ...
. In 1912, the company was acquired by
Royal Dutch Shell
Shell plc is a British multinational oil and gas company headquartered in London, England. Shell is a public limited company with a primary listing on the London Stock Exchange (LSE) and secondary listings on Euronext Amsterdam and the New Yo ...
.
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Oil companies of France
Black Sea energy
Caspian Sea
Energy companies established in 1883
Non-renewable resource companies established in 1883
Non-renewable resource companies disestablished in 1911
1883 establishments in France
1911 disestablishments in France
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