BP Singapore Milestones
1985
Air BP Singapore provided fuelling services to Air Mauritius beginning with the airlines
inaugural flight to Singapore on 1 June.
BP Signed a joint agreement with Caltex, Esso, Mobil and Shell to acquire oil spill cleanup equipment stockpile worth $4.2 million. Designed to help the regional oil industry and
governments deal more effectively with major oil spill emergencies in the regional. The
arrangement, the third tier in the Tiered Area Response Capability (TARC) Agreement,
dispenses with the need for oil companies to set-up individual regional equipment stockpile.
BP together with five other oil companies, donated 18,000 gallons of jet fuel to Project Orbis
– a flying eye hospital – for its operations in Singapore and its flight from Singapore to its
next stop, Hong Kong.
BP Shipping office in Singapore re-opened with Capt. G VandenBergh as Superintendent and
later with W.R.O. Mann as Technical Marketing Manager. Some of the BP Shipping projects
include floating well-testing and production vessels for the offshore oil and gas industry, and
maintenance management systems for marine and industrial plants.
1986
$180 million hydrocracker complex at the Singapore Refining Company (SRC) on Pulau
Merlimau, in which BP Singapore has 78% share-holding interest, Singapore Petroleum
Company 19% and Caltex the remaining 3% was inaugurated by Singapore Acting Minister
for Trade & Industry and Minister of State for Defence, BG Lee Hsien Loong on 5 May.
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