Immediately afterwards his father sent him to be educated at King's College London, where he studied petroleum engineering. He was a brilliant student and graduated in 1887 at the age of 18 with a first-class degree in engineering and applied sciences. A year later, he went to Baku to examine the Russian oil industry and to further his knowledge on the oil industry. Gulbenkian later wrote an article entitled "La Transcaucasie et la péninsule d'Apchéron; souvenirs de voyage" ("Transcaucasia and the Absheron Peninsula – Memoirs of a Journey") which appeared in the "Revue des deux Mondes", a French language monthly literary and cultural affairs magazine. The article described his travels to Baku and the state of the oil industry in the region. It was eventually published as a book in 1891 in Paris.