Maurel and Prom company
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| Etablissements Maurel et Prom S.A. | |
|---|---|
| Type | Public |
| Founded | 1813 |
| Headquarters | HQ: 12, rue Volney 75002, Paris, France  |
| Key people | Roman Gozalo, CEO Jean-François Hénin, Chairman Daniel Pélerin, Exploration Director, Michel Hochard, CFO |
| Industry | Oil and Gas Drilling and Exploration. Shipping and Trade (until 1970). 1970-1995: oil, mining, forestry, food proccessing. |
| Employees | 394[1]. |
| Website | www.maureletprom.fr |
The Maurel and Prom Company (fr. Etablissements Maurel et Prom S.A., MAUREL ET PROM, Maurel & Prom) is a French public company, based in Paris, and dating back to 1813.
In 2007, Maurel & Prom is a holding company of under 400 employees, involved in international exploration and production of hydrocarbons, specifically the drilling of offshore Oil and Natural Gas in Africa and the Caribbean. They currently have drilling contracts in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Gabon, Tanzania and Colombia.
Historically, Maurel & Prom was one of France's largest family run shipping and foreign trade houses, based in Bordeaux. It had substantial trading interests throughout the French Overseas Empire, which included trading houses in Saint-Louis, Senegal, and modern Guinea, Gambia, Mali and Ivory Coast.
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[edit] Contemporary company
- Etablissements Maurel et Prom S.A. website.
- dailyestimate.com Gabon: Energy profile, Tuesday, November 06, 2007.
- They made a mess of Nigeria... by Giles Foden, The Guardian, Thursday September 11 2003.
[edit] History
- C. M. Andrew, A. S. Kanya-Forstner. French Business and the French Colonialists. The Historical Journal, Vol. 19, No. 4 (Dec., 1976), pp. 981-1000
- Leland C. Barrows. General Faidherbe, the Maurel and Prom Company, and French Expansion in Senegal. Dissertation Abstracts International 35 8 (1975).
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- Sheldon Gellar. Structural Changes and Colonial Dependency: Senegal, 1885-1945. Sage: London (1976).
- A. G. Hopkins. Imperial Business in Africa. Part I: Sources. The Journal of African History, Vol. 17, No. 1 (1976), pp. 29-48
- Margaret O. McLane. Commercial Rivalries and French Policy on the Senegal River, 1831-1858. African Economic History, No. 15 (1986), pp. 39-67.
- Laurence Marfaing. L'Evolution du commerce au Senegal, 1820-1930. Paris (1992)
- C. W. Newbury. The Protectionist Revival in French Colonial Trade: The Case of Senegal. The Economic History Review, New Series, Vol. 21, No. 2 (Aug., 1968), pp. 337-348.
- Djibril Issa Niaré. CONTRIBUTION À L'HISTOIRE ÉCONOMIQUE DU SOUDAN FRANÇAIS :LE COMMERCE COLONIAL :1870-1960. Université de Bamako Faculté des Lettres, Langues, Arts et Sciences Humaines (2007)
- Yves Péhaut. Les maisons de négoce bordelaises face aux mutations du négoce dans les années 1920-1960 (Maurel et Prom), in BONIN Hubert, CAHEN Michel (eds), Négoce blanc en Afrique noire. L'évolution du commerce à longue distance en Afrique noire du 18e au 20e siècles. Paris, Société française d'histoire d'outre-mer - Alterna, 2001.
- Yves Péhaut. Le réseau d’influence bordelais : la "doyenne" Maurel & Prom jusqu’en 1914.
