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File 2249/1915 Pt 4 ‘Oil: Mesopotamia & Persia. (General File) 1920–24’ [84r] (167/484)
The record is made up of 1 item (242 folios). It was created in 1 Nov 1919-20 May 1924. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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OOUM'MY
royalty is
of cnide oil b-ut
where well pro
duces over 100
barrels oer day
royalty may be
as much as 25£.
Most usual
ROYALTY,
common. This system of division
in </0 small plots has led to very
wasteful methods of development
owing to the competition which
ensued between owners of neigh
bouring proprietors. Several
of the states have fixed the
maximum area of oil and gas
lands to be acquired by a single
erson or company at 640 acres,
but in the reserves of Oklahoma
a maximum of 4,800 acres has
been insisted on.
Under the new oil Lends
Leasing Bill with regard to
Public Lands it is proposed
to grant a Prospecting (drilling)
Licence for two years over an
area which is not to exceed
£ t 560 acres for any one applicant.
Subsequently a lease may be
granted for an area of one fourth
of the land embraced in the
prospecting permit. Leases are
to be for a term of 20 years upon
a royalty of 5 of the production
and the annual payment in advance
of a rental of 1 p per sore.
The licensee is also to be ^
entitled to a preference right l
to a leas© for the remainder of ^
the land covered by his pros-
peeting permit at, a royalty of
not less than lrf$. No wells
to be drilled within 200 feet of
the outer boundary.
UIiAUIA
10; in cash is
usual practice,
in private lands
arrangements as regards rent
and royalties. rotection
may be obtained from the
Courts under the Lend Con
solidation laws against fraudu
lent claims as to proprietor
ship of lands. There are no
Government regulations restrict
ing size of area held by any
one Company.
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The item comprises correspondence and other papers concerning oil exploration in territories that were part of the Ottoman Empire prior to the First World War. The item includes: reports on exploratory drilling being undertaken by the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC) at Naft Khana [Nafţ Khānah], in territory transferred from Persia [Iran] to Mesopotamia [Iraq] in 1914 in response to recommendations made by the Turco-Persian Boundary Commission; the question of whether APOC drilling activity at Naft Khana should be paid for out of military funds, given Britain’s military occupation and administration of Mesopotamia during and after the First World War; oil concessions in Mesopotamia in relation to the San Remo Oil Agreement (1920), signed between the British and French Governments; a 1920 survey report by the APOC geologist, William Robert Smellie, entitled ‘Oil in relation to Fars anticlines’ (ff 132-139), and a response by the Officiating Director of the Geological Survey of India, Edwin Hall Pascoe, that disagrees with Smellie’s findings (ff 100-101); British Government policy on mining and oil prospecting in Palestine; and correspondence exchanged between representatives of the Government of the United States and the Foreign Office, relating to the refusal to permit American companies to conduct oil surveys in Mesopotamia.
The item’s principal correspondence are: the Foreign Office; HM Petroleum Executive, the Civil Commissioner in Baghdad, Arnold Talbot Wilson; and representatives of the Government of the United States.
The item includes a divider, which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.
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- Title
- File 2249/1915 Pt 4 ‘Oil: Mesopotamia & Persia. (General File) 1920–24’
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- 1r:6v, 8r:15v, 19r:28r, 30r:47v, 49r:56v, 59r:60v, 62r:63r, 65r:65v, 68r:74v, 77r:105v, 107r:131v, 140r:146v, 149r:163v, 174r:187v, 190r:190v, 193r:198v, 200r:201v, 203r:212v, 214r:229v, 231r:242v
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