File 1421/1908 Pt 1 'Persia: oil; D'Arcy Oil Syndicate' [242r] (5/218)
The record is made up of 1 item (109 folios). It was created in Mar 1904-May 1909. 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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Foreign Office to Mr. J. R. Preece.
Sir, Foreign Office, Moy 6, 1909.
I AM directed by Secretary fen E Grey to acknowledge the receipt of your letter
of the 22nd ultimo respecting the right of the Oil Syndicate to construct a telegraph
and telephone along the pipe line which they are about to construct from their oil wells
in Arabistan.
I am to inform yon that His Majesty’s Government are doubtful whether it would
he to the interest of the Syndicate to raise this (Question with the Persian Government
at the present moment, but that if they desire to proceed with the work on their own
responsibility His Majesty’s Government will, if necessary, use their good offices in
support of the Syndicate’s contention that Article 2 of their Concession entitles them to
build a telegraph and telephone line along the pipe line for use only in the ordinary
course of their business.
I am to^ add that Sir E. Grey is obliged to the Syndicate for their offer to allow
the use of their poles by the Indo-European Department for the service of the Borasjoon-
Ahwaz-Mohammerah and Shuster line, but he does not consider that any such arrange
ment would be practicable.
I am, &c.
(Signed) LOUIS MALLET.
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Part 1 consists of correspondence relating to work connected to the Persian oil wells of the D'Arcy Syndicate, and Concessions Syndicate Ltd. The correspondence is between the Government of India, Foreign Office, 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. , and representatives of both oil companies. Included as enclosures are letters, telegrams, and memoranda from the following:
- British Minister to Persia;
- British Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire;
- the Persian Prime Minister (Mushir-ed-Dowleh);
- Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. in Turkish Arabia A term used by the British officials to describe the territory roughly corresponding to, but not coextensive with, modern-day Iraq under the control of the Ottoman Empire. and Consul-General at Baghdad;
- Lieutenant-Colonel David Lockhart Robertson Lorimer, Vice-Consul in Arabistan, at Ahwaz;
- Percy Zachariah Cox, Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. in the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , at Bushire;
- John Richard Preece, British Consul-General at Isfahan, acting on behalf of Concessions Syndicate Ltd;
- George B Reynolds, geologist for Concessions Syndicate Ltd;
- William Knox D'Arcy, representative of both oil companies;
- Thomas Jackson, Director of Imperial Bank of Persia.
Several matters are covered by the papers, including:
- Arthur Henry Hardinge's tour of D'Arcy's Persian oil wells in January 1904;
- status of oil production of the wells;
- the question of who is to receive the oil concessions;
- the companies' needs for financial and administrative assistance from the Indian and British governments;
- an agreement reached between the Syndicate and the leaders of the Bakhtiari tribes;
- the question of guarding the wells;
- the need for land for reservoirs and a refinery and the arrangements for the purchase of such on Abadan Island, Mohammerah [Khorramshahr];
- the question of expanding production into Pusht-i-Kuh;
- the need for telegraphic services in the region;
- proposals for a pipeline to the coast.
Folio 251 is a sketch plan of Abadan Island showing the location of the land required by the Syndicate.
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