Sultan Said received Receiving direct financing Supply to raise an armed Bearing_arms force to occupy Control the Imamate of Oman from Iraq Petroleum Company ( IPC ) , a consortium of oil companies that was majorly owned by what-is-known-today as Royal Dutch Shell , Total , ExxonMobil and British Petroleum ( BP ) ; the latter was majority-owned by the British government .

Sultan Said received Receiving direct financing Supply to raise an armed Bearing_arms force to occupy Control the Imamate of Oman from Iraq Petroleum Company ( IPC ) , a consortium of oil companies that was majorly owned by what-is-known-today as Royal Dutch Shell , Total , ExxonMobil and British Petroleum ( BP ) ; the latter was majority-owned by the British government .

Piper Alpha was an oil production platform in the North Sea approximately north-east of Aberdeen , Scotland , that was operated Being_in_operation by Occidental Petroleum ( Caledonia ) Limited .

Their targets were the Arab Petroleum Investments Corporation building and the Al-Khobar Petroleum Centre , and a foreign workers ' housing complex , the Oasis Compound , in the Gulf city of Khobar .

Their targets were the Arab Petroleum Investments Corporation building and the Al-Khobar Petroleum Centre , and a foreign workers ' housing complex , the Oasis Compound , in the Gulf city of Khobar .