Pahlavye Oil Company

The Pahlavye Oil Company (POC, Babkhi: Sherkat-e Naft-e Palavye) is a corporation wholly owned by the House of Suren, which operated as an oil and gas producer in the formerly ungoverned regions of central and south-west Eura, including those regions subsequently annexed into Constancia and Oportia.

The POC utilises mobile derrick platforms and land crawlers to undertake exploration and drilling for crude oil and natural gas amongst the proven deposits between Lake Erik and the Gulf of Aqabah. Refining and distillation occurs at the petrochemical works of Pahlavye, a survival from the Babkhan era, which distribution occurs via tankers carried on land cruisers which crisscross the continent along caravan routes controlled by the Mutatawwi'a militias aligned with Raspur. Prior to the Second Euran War, destinations for oil tankers included Raspur city, Vey, and Zugashvili for sale to domestic users and to the Constancian ports of Aqabah and Cario for export. Following that conflict, the majority of Surenid oil consignments were consigned via black market routes to the international markets to fund the efforts at covert state building on the part of Azad Eura which culminated in the establishment of the Suren Confederacy in 1687 AN. As of that year the delivery point for POC oil shipments allocated to the domestic market were the storage tanks of the new industrial city in Industrial New Town of Surenshahr, with international exports slated to be received by terminals under construction in the port of Kara.

It subsequently became an affiliate (25%) of ESB Engineering, a factor that contributed, along with the accession of the Suren Confederacy to the Raspur Pact, towards the overland convoys of the company becoming now targets of Azad Eura during the Third Euran War and the Alexandrium Wars.