Summary

Bitumen and Oil Refineries (Australia) Ltd was incorporated in 1946 as the first Australian owned bitumen and oil refinery. Shareholders agreed to a change of name to Boral Ltd in 1963.

In 1988 the Gas Corporation of Tasmania was acquired and integrated into Boral's energy business. This part of the business was renamed Origin Energy in 2000.

Related entries

Timeline

  Ipswich Gas and Coke Company
 1858 - 1984 Launceston Gas Company
 1862 - 1924 Chas Hardy & Company
       1858 - 1984 Launceston Gas Company
       1861 - 1993 South Australian Gas Company
       1864 - 1971 Brisbane Gas Company Limited
       1924 - c. 1992 Hardys Limited
       1946 - 1963 Bitumen and Oil Refineries (Australia) Limited
       1984 - 1988 Gas Corporation of Tasmania Limited
             1963 - Boral Limited
                   2000 - Origin Energy Limited

Archival resources

University of Melbourne Archives

• Boral Limited records, 1876 - 1962, https://gallery.its.unimelb.edu.au/imu/imu.php?request=search; University of Melbourne Archives. Details

Published resources

Books

• King, Stephanie, From the ground up: Boral's first fifty years, State Library of New South Wales Press, Sydney, 1996, 104 pp. Details
• Lambert, J.T., A commemoration of the closure of the Newstead Gas Plant, 6 September 1996: a history of the establishment, development and termination of the Gas Corporation of Queensland (BORAL) Brisbane Works, 1863-1996, Boral Energy, Milton, Queensland, 1996. Details

Journal Articles

• Hutchinson, Diane, 'The transformation of Boral: from dependent, specialist bitumen refiner to major building products manufacturer', Business History, vol. 42, no. 3, 2000, pp. 109-132. Details