Bataafsche Petroleum Maatschappij (B.P.M.), a Petroleum company, appears in Jongejan’s Land en Volk van Atjeh Vroeger en Nu in connection with Aceh. Built large fuel tanks at Sabang for oil-fired ships and motor vessels.
Type
Petroleum company
Description
Built large fuel tanks at Sabang for oil-fired ships and motor vessels. Constructed (with Peudawa zelfbestuur) the 1934 landing field in Idi for aerial mapping of its Peureula’ oil fields.
Significance
Bataafsche Petroleum Maatschappij (B.P.M.) is recorded by Jongejan as part of the institutional landscape of Aceh.
See Also
Source
Land en Volk van Atjeh Vroeger en Nu, by J. Jongejans, Oud-Resident van het Gewest Atjeh en Onderhoorigheden, with a foreword by Dr. H. Colijn (Baarn: Hollandia Drukkerij N.V., c. 1938), pp. 282, 295.