Scottish Oils Ltd, oil manufacturers

Scottish Oils Ltd was established by Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC) in 1919 by the merger of five Scottish oil shale companies, Young's Paraffin Light & Mineral Oil Company, Broxburn Oil Company, Pumpherston Shale Oil Company, Oakbank Oil Company, and James Ross & Company Philpstoun Oil Works. Shale oil production in Scotland ceased in the early 1960s and there was an unsuccessful attempt to revive it in 1973. The company was wound up on the 15th December 2010.