Burmah Oil Company Ltd.

The Burmah Oil Company was founded in Glasgow, Scotland in 1886 by David Sime Cargill to develop oil interests on the Indian subcontinent. It became an early and major shareholder in , so restricted its downstream interests to the subcontinent, where BP had no business. It played a major role in the oil industry in South Asia for about a century through its subsidiaries and in discovery of oil in the Middle East though its significant interest in British Petroleum. It marketed under the BOC brand in Burma, Pakistan and Assam (in India) and through a joint venture Burmah-Shell with Shell in the rest of India.

Burmah Oil Company created mechanised drilling in Magwe Division's oil fields (Yenangyaung, Chauk, and Minbu). Until 1901, when Standard Oil Company began operating in Burma (also known as Myanmar), Burmah Oil Company was the sole oil company to operate in Burma. The company operated in Burma until 1963, when Ne Win nationalised all industries in the country.

The company was involved in a landmark legal case, Burmah Oil Co. v Lord Advocate.

A two-volume history of the company was written by T.A.B. Corley: A history of the Burmah Oil Company, 1886-1924 (published 1983) and A history of the Burmah Oil Company. Vol 2, 1924-66 (published 1988).