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File 3877/1912 Pt 3 ‘Turkey in Asia: oil concessions’ [156r] (77/372)
The record is made up of 1 part (184 folios). It was created in 16 Mar 1914-25 Nov 1915. 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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TK2 Ai-JGLC PERSIAN OIL CCi PANY
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LONDON, S.C.
2nd, November, 191/
Sir:-
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With reference to the arrangements which were
made in March last for a fusion of the Turkish Petrol
eum interests of the D'Arcy Group M with those of the
Turkish Petroleum Company I beg to draw the attention
of His majesty's Government to the importance of these
arrangements being carried through without delay in
order that the interests of the D*Arcy Group (i.e. of
tne Anglo-fsrsian Gil Company Limited) may be pre-
served, no matter how the present war may eventuate,
and also ^or the purpose of clearing up the present
somewhat involved position as regards liability for
expenditure already incurred,
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The present position is as follows:-
(1) Under the agreement signed at the Foreign
Office on the 19th. Larch last the "a'Arcy Group" are
under obligation to take up uG,o of the Capital of the
Turkish Petroleum Company.
(2) For the purpose of carrying out this obli
gation a Company was registered in June last under
the name of the "D'Arcy Exploration Company* with a
Capital of *100,000 which Capital it is proposed
should be subscribed for as follows:-
Three-
Under Secretary of state,
Foreign office.
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The volume is a chronological continuation of File 3877/1912 Pt 2 ‘Turkey in Asia: oil concessions’ (IOR/L/PS/301), and comprises papers concerning ongoing negotiations over oil concessions for the Mesopotamian vilayets of Mosul and Baghdad, in which the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC), Deutsche Bank, the British-backed National Bank of Turkey, and the Anglo-Saxon Oil Company (ASOC, a division of Royal Dutch Shell) are the principal claimants. The principal correspondents include: the Director of APOC (Charles Greenway); Foreign Office officials (Sir Louis Du Pan Mallet; Sir Eyre Alexander Barby Wichart Crowe); the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Sir Edward Grey); the Admiralty (William Graham Greene).
The papers cover:
- correspondence dated 1914 regarding a claim made by Roland H Silley, represented in the correspondence by his solicitors Treherne, Higgins and Company, to concessionary rights in Mesopotamia;
- proposals for APOC to represent the D’Arcy Group, the original British claimants to oil concession rights in Mesopotamia;
- an agreement made between representatives of the British and German Governments, the National Bank of Turkey, ASOC, Deutsche Bank and the D’Arcy Group (APOC), dated 19 March 1914, for the ‘Fusion of Interests in Turkish Petroleum Concessions of the D’Arcy Group and of the Turkish Petroleum Company’ (f 271);
- efforts, in late October and November 1914, to maintain the agreement of 19 March 1914, in spite of Britain now being at war with Turkey, including a letter from Greenway, dated 2 November 1914, stressing the importance of carrying through the concessions arrangements without delay (ff 156-161);
- a minute, with no indication of author, dated January 1915 which offers a concise précis of the history of oil concessions in Mesopotamia, and the background to the agreement of 19 March 1914 (f 143);
- in 1915, discussion amongst Foreign Office officials over the validity of the agreement signed on 19 March 1914, in response to events of the First World War.
- Extent and format
- 1 part (184 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front.
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- English and French in Latin script View the complete information for this record
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- Title
- File 3877/1912 Pt 3 ‘Turkey in Asia: oil concessions’
- Pages
- 282r:283v, 279r:279v, 250r:251v, 196r:197v, 178r:178v, 156r:161v, 152r:153v, 147r:147v
- Author
- Greenway, Charles
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