[1] The Institute of Petroleum Technologists was established in 1913 by the consulting chemist and engineer Sir Thomas Boverton Redwood (1846–1919)[2] and Arthur Eastlake.
[3] He emphasised the need to amalgamate the diverse knowledge and interests of the various branches of the oil industry.
[1] The IP designation still survives, for example in the specification of test methods in the petroleum industry.
[4] The institute's crest was an Archaeopteryx with the Latin motto conjunctione potiores (translated as 'preferential coupling').
[7][8] Model codes of safe practice (MCSP) included: This list is a sample of the test methods available.