Kirklington Hall Research Station
Kirklington Hall Research Station was a geophysical research institute of BP in Kirklington, Nottinghamshire. During the 1950s it was the main research site of BP.
History
[edit]As part of the East Midlands Oil Province, oil was found in eastern Nottinghamshire. It was also known as the BP Research Centre or the Geophysical Centre, part of BP's Exploration Division. The research centre was established in 1950. Its first employee was Jack Birks,[1] later managing director of BP. From 1950 it was the main research site of BP, until BP sold the site in 1957 for £12,000. Research moved to Sunbury-on-Thames, in Surrey, in 1957. Sunbury had been built around the same time as the Kirklington site, in the early 1950s.
Kirklington Hall today is a private school.
Structure
[edit]The former site is situated north of the A617.
Function
[edit]It conducted geophysical research for exploration for BP. This part of BP is now known as BP Exploration. Work would be conducted on core samples and with seismic methods.
See also
[edit]- British Geological Survey, also in Nottinghamshire
- Sunbury Research Centre, where most of BP's research takes place in the UK today.
- Category:Petroleum geology
- Category:Seismology measurement
References
[edit]- ^ "Jack Birks". The Daily Telegraph. 27 August 2001. Archived from the original on 16 July 2017.
- British Petroleum and Global Oil 1950-1975: The Challenge of Nationalism, James Bamberg, page 33
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