Founded in 1860, formerly known as the Standard Petroleum Trust Company, in 1976 to complete the nationalization reform, India’s largest oil company, Bharat Petroleum Company (BPCL) is the second largest oil company in India, and it is also India’s earliest enterprise with advanced information processing equipment and leading position in information technology, Bharat’s predecessor was the Standard Petroleum Trust Company, which was founded in 1860, and it merged with Anglo-Dutch Shell and Rothschilds to form the Indian ASIATIC Oil Company, THIS WAS FOLLOWED BY THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE BURMAH-SHELL OIL RESERVE AND DISTRIBUTION COMPANY IN INDIA, WHICH WAS NATIONALIZED IN 1976 TO BECOME THE BHARAT OIL COMPANY.