Frank Holmes
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Major Frank Holmes also known as "Abu Naft" ("the father of oil") in Arabic was a British geologist. He was born on a farm in New Zealand in 1874. He worked in a South African gold mine and then for two decades, specializing in gold and tin was an itinerant mining engineer all around the world - Australia, Malaya, Mexico, Uruguay, Russia, and Nigeria. During WWI, he was quatermaster in the British Army. While on a beef-buying expedition to Ethiopia, he heard about oil seepages in the Arabian coast on the Persian Gulf. In an effort to develop Saudi Arabian oil, Britain rejected Holmes's offer. Holmes would find his financial backing in the United States with Shell Oil Company and Standard Oil of California.
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