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File 3877/1912 Pt 4 ‘Turkey in Asia: oil concessions’ [73r] (87/176)
The record is made up of 1 part (87 folios). It was created in 22 Apr 1914-15 Sep 1914. It was written in English and French. 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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CONFIDENTIAL
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Sir L. Mallet to Sir Edward Grey.—(Received June 16, 12 noon.)
, Constantinople, June 15, 1914.
(No. 341.) ^ ‘ ' (June 15 ’ 7 ‘ 40 P - M *)
V YOUR telegram No. 265 of 12th June : Turkish oil concessions.
When I made suggestion contained in last sentence of my telegram No. 335 of
12th June, political position in Nejd was not uppermost in my mind. It is at present
so uncertain that European expert sent by Turkish Petroleum Company to survey for
oil at Hofuf might arouse great suspicion and encounter practical difficulty unless
previous arrangements were made with Ibn Sand, and this would be contrary to the
pblicy which I have recommended.
Stock is writing to Nicolls to-day, and recommends that a native, preferably an
Arab in employ of Anglo-Persian Company at Abadan, should be sent to hejd in order
to ascertain the areas and names of localities where oil may be reported to exist, bu
outside Silley’s claim. Information thus obtained would be communicated to the
Turkish Petroleum Company, who could then if necessary apply through their Basra
agents for permits. Stock has not yet mentioned these matters to Gunter, nor wouic
this appear to be necessary at present.
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Correspondence and papers relating to claims for exploratory oil licenses in Ottoman Turkey (including the vilayets of Baghdad, Mosul and Basra in Mesopotamia [Iraq], and Syria and Nejd). Principal correspondents include: the solicitors Treherne, Higgins and Company, who represent the oil explorer Roland H Silley; representatives of the Central Mining and Investment Corporation Limited (L Reynolds; Louis Julius Reyersbach); Foreign Office (FO) officials (Sir Eyre Alexander Barby Wichart Crowe; Sir Louis Du Pan Mallet).
- correspondence concerning Silley’s claims (competing with those made by the D’Arcy Group and Anglo-Persian Oil Company) over mining rights in the Mesopotamian vilayets of Mosul and Baghdad, an historical précis of which can be found in a letter dated 14 May 1914 from Treherne, Higgins & Company to the Foreign Office (ff 111-112);
- correspondence concerning Silley’s attempts to secure oil licenses in Nejd, Silley’s efforts to contact the prospective Vali of Nejd, Bin Saud (‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin ‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd), and discussion amongst FO officials over the prospects of the Turkish Petroleum Company (in large part financed by Deutsche Bank and the Dutch Anglo-Saxon Oil Company) having a presence in Arabia and the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. ;
- a note, written by Sulaiman Nassif, enclosed with a letter dated 27 April 1914, on petroleum prospecting concession licenses in Syria (f 105).
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- 30r:33v, 36r:42v, 44r:44v, 46r:66v, 68r:69v, 71r:91v, 93r:99v, 101r:104v, 106r:110v, 113r:117v
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