• finnish know-how helped to pump kazakh oil-the branobel history in Lagos
  • finnish know-how helped to pump kazakh oil-the branobel history in Lagos
  • finnish know-how helped to pump kazakh oil-the branobel history in Lagos
  • finnish know-how helped to pump kazakh oil-the branobel history in Lagos
  • Where did Robert Nobel find kerosene?
  • Robert Nobel already had experience of kerosene from the lamp and lamp oil warehouse Aurora in Finland. In Baku he would once again come into contact with oil. The photo shows samples of kerosene being taken in Baku.
  • Who invented pipeline transport in Baku?
  • Pipeline transport was pioneered near Baku by Vladimir Shukhov and the Branobel company in 1878–1880. On 10 April 1902, the company signed a contract for the purchase of oil fields in Romany, which were owned by the oil producer Isabey Hajinsky.
  • When did the Bolsheviks take power in Baku?
  • On 28 April 1920, the Bolsheviks seized power in Baku after the Red Army invasion of Azerbaijan and Branobel's oil business in Azerbaijan was nationalized. In May 1920, the Nobel family sold almost half the Branobel's shares in its possession to Standard Oil of New Jersey.