Samuel, Marcus
Published: August 18, 2006, 5:11 pm
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Marcus Samuel (1853–1927), the son of an English shell merchant who started an oil business in 1892; Samuel named his father’s company The "Shell" Transport and Trading Company, Limited (1897). The initial business centered on shipping oil exports for lamps and cooking to the Far East. Samuel commissioned a special ship in 1892, the 5,010-ton Murex, that would become the world's first oil tanker; he began exporting Russian kerosene through the Suez Canal to Singapore and Bangkok. In 1907, Shell merged with the Royal Dutch Petroleum Company, which had significant oil holdings in Asia, to form the Royal Dutch/Shell Group of Companies, one of the world’s largest multinational oil corporations. Samuel was knighted in 1898 and became Viscount Bearsted in 1925.
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Cutler J. Cleveland (Lead Author);Peter Saundry (Topic Editor) "Samuel, Marcus". In: Encyclopedia of Earth. Eds. Cutler J. Cleveland (Washington, D.C.: Environmental Information Coalition, National Council for Science and the Environment). [First published in the Encyclopedia of Earth August 18, 2006; Last revised Date August 18, 2006; Retrieved May 25, 2013 <http://www.eoearth.org/article/Samuel,_Marcus>
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Cutler J. Cleveland is Professor of Earth and Environment at Boston University, where he also is on the faculty of the Center for Energy and Environmental Studies. Professor Cleveland is Editor-in-Chief of the Encyclopedia of Energy (Elsevier, 2004), winner of an American Library Association award, the Dictionary of Energy (Elsevier, 2005), Handbook of Energy (Elsevier, forthcoming), and is the Founding Editor-in-Chief of the Encyclopedia of Earth. He is the recipient of the Adelma ... (Full Bio)
Marcus Samuel (1853–1927), the son of an English shell merchant who started an oil business in 1892; Samuel named his father’s company The "Shell" Transport and Trading Company, Limited (1897). The initial business centered on shipping oil exports for lamps and cooking to the Far East. Samuel commissioned a special ship in 1892, the 5,010-ton Murex, that would become the world's first oil tanker; he began exporting Russian kerosene through the Suez Canal to Singapore and Bangkok. In 1907, Shell merged with the Royal Dutch Petroleum Company, which had significant oil holdings in Asia, to form the Royal Dutch/Shell Group of Companies, one of the world’s largest multinational oil corporations. Samuel was knighted in 1898 and became Viscount Bearsted in 1925.
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