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File 3877/1912 Pt 3 ‘Turkey in Asia: oil concessions’ [158r] (81/372)
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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Turkish Petroleum Company, or nominated its Directors.
(4) in the meantime, pending confirmation by the
Treasury of the proposed arrangements, various negotia
tions were (prior to the outbreak of the war) carried on
by myself and other proposed British Members of the
Board oi the Turkish Petroleum Company, acting as
Directors of the latter Company, in connexion with which
expenditure to the extent of about £1,200 has been in
curred by us for payments for options, geologists' fees,
legal expenses, etc. in respect of our 50/o interest in
tiie Turkish Petroleum Company*
(0) Further expenditure of about £500 has been
incurred in respect of Registration fees, legal expenses
etc*, in connexion with the formation of the D'Arcy Ex
ploration Company,
The dangers connected with the present position are:
(1) that as the Turkish Petroleum Company actual
ly holds the kilonetric ‘ ining rights (so far as regards
Petroleum) pertaining to the Baghdad Railway Concession
we shall, if we fail now to complete the Agreement of
the i^th, march 1914, lose all claim to am interest in
these rights, inasmuch as v/hatever the result of the war
may be the agreement in respect of these rights between
the Baghdad Railway Company and the Turkish Petroleum
Company will doubtless hold good inasmuch as it was con
cluded long before the war with a Company of an osten
sibly British character.
As it was intended by the j aghdad Railway Company
to select such an alignment for their Railways as would
enable them under the kilometric Mining Concession to
cover as far as practicable all the known Oilfields of
Mesopotamia, a Petroleum Concession for the portion of
Mesopotamia
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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.
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- 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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