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Newsvia The Argus (Brighton)

The first person to discover oil in Iran and the Middle East was a man from Brighton

20 April 2026

George Bernard Reynolds was the first person to discover oil in Iran and the Middle East, doing so in 1908, eventually leading to the formation of BP.

Read full article at The Argus (Brighton)

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