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File 3877/1912 Pt 4 ‘Turkey in Asia: oil concessions’ [76r] (93/176)
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.
Sir L. Mallet to Sir Edward Grey.—(Received June 12, 2*45 p.m.)
Constantinople, June 12, 1914.
(No. 335.) R. n (June 12, 1 p.m.)
YOUR telegram No. 259 of 10th June and my telegram No. 319 of 6th June .
Mr. Silley’s oil concessions. ^ , , . , . ,
Silley and his associate Mahomet Fakri discussed their claims with fetock
yesterday. Mahomet Fakri finally agreed to negotiate for cession to petroleum
company of Basra and Nejd properties, and to this Silley has assented. Two partners are
now considering terms on which they will negotiate and are to see Stock again.
Mahomet Fakri declined to give information respecting actual locality of the Hofuf
claim, as he said that he intends applying for more “ permis ” for other areas in the
vicinity of the one now the subject of discussion. _ , . ... T <» n
Any deal which may be concluded with Silley over Hofuf claim will, I lear, only
encourage him and others to apply for “ permis ” for other areas in Nejd, with a view
to ultimately disposing of them to the company. W e have no means to prevent issue
of “ permis,” and I therefore think, on political grounds as well as in the interests or
the company, that Greenway should be advised to send an expert at once to inspect
Hofuf area, as well as the surrounding country. If indications of oil are ±ound m
those regions the company should immediately apply for “ permis through t leir
Basra agents, and thus, by establishing prior rights, exclude al other applicants.
Silley should be then bought out. If, however, no indications be found to exist,
I should then think that we can afford to leave Silley alone.
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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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- 1 part (87 folios)
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