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In 1813, Maurel & Prom, founded by two famous families in Bordeaux, was set up to ship goods by boat from Bordeaux to the French colonies
in West Africa. The shipping company of the same name was founded in
1830. Over the years, the company acquired several trading posts and
became one of the main shipping companies servicing Senegal, Côte
d'Ivoire, Cameroon, Gabon and Congo.
At the end of the XIXth century, Joseph Prom founded the Maurel &
Prom oil factory, which was fed with groundnut imported from Senegal.
On 6 August 1891, he purchased Château de Bel-Air, located in the
municipality of Le Haillan. In 1892, Prom was elected in the municipal
council of Le Haillan with 211 votes for 211 voters. He died in 1894
and Bel-Air was sold after the death of Prom's widow in 1916.
The Maurel & Prom line was closed down in 1970 following the crisis
of maritime transport. The company went to food processing (chicken and
fish farming). In 1995, Electricité et Eaux de Madagascar purchased
76% of the company and developed mining, forestry and shipping
activities. The two companies separated in 1999; Maurel & Prom
refocussed its business on oil and gas exploration and production,
which began in Kouakouala (Congo) in 2000. The company built there a
pipeline in 2002 and discovered a new deposit in M'boundi. In the
meantime, Maurel & Prom has withdrawn from its non-strategic
activities (agriculture, forestry, gold mining).
Maurel & Prom is now listed among the ten mid-sized oil companies in
Europe.
Source: Company website
Ivan Sache, 15 January 2005
![[Flag of Maurel-Prom]](../images/f/fr~hfmpr.gif)
Coporate flag of Maurel & Prom - Image by Ivan Sache, 15 January 2005
The corporate flag of Maurel & Prom, as shown on the company website, is a white flag with a white rectangle bordered in yellow and charged with a red ampersand (&).
Ivan Sache, 15 January 2005
![[Flag of Maurel-Prom]](../images/f/fr~hfmp2.gif)
![[Flag of Maurel-Prom]](../images/f/fr~hfmp1.gif)
House flag of Maurel & Prom; left, first version ; right, second version - images by Ivan Sache, 16 August 2005
Although the company website indicates that they got out of shipping in 1970 they are perhaps indicating the getting out of their principal trade as the company continues to appear in Lloyds as a shipowner until around the mid to late 1980s. Two flag versions are shown for them with the variances being in the red lettering. Stewart 1963 shows them as "M&P" and Brown 1982 [lgr82] "MP" connected by a red dash.
Neale Rosanoski, 4 June 2005
![[Flag of Maurel Freres]](../images/f/fr~hfmfr.gif)
House flag of Maurel Frères - Image by Jarig Bakker, 20 December 2004
In the beginning of the XXth century, the main port of commerce of Senegal was not Dakar but Rufisque, where most trading houses of Bordeaux, including Maurel Charles, Maurel Frères and Maurel Louis had their headquarters.
The house flag of Maurel Frères is white with a red border and the blue letters MF.
Source: Brown's Flags and Funnels of British and Foreign Steamship Companies [wed26]
Jarig Bakker & Ivan Sache, 15 January 2005
![[Maurel et Prom]](../images/f/fr~hfmhp.gif)
House flag of Maurel & H. Prom - Image by Jarig Bakker, 20 December 2004
The house flag of Maurel & H. Prom is white with a blue border and the red letters M&HP.
Source: Brown's Flags and Funnels of British and Foreign Steamship Companies [wed26]
Jarig Bakker, 20 December 2004