File 3877/1912 Pt 4 ‘Turkey in Asia: oil concessions’

Content

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).

Extent and format

1 part (87 folios)

It is part of

File 3877/1912 Pt 3-5 ‘Asiatic Turkey: Oil Concessions’

620 images

Ref: IOR/L/PS/10/302

Arrangement

The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front.

Written in

English and French in Latin script

Type

Archival item

Access & Reference

Original held at

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.

Access conditions

Unrestricted

Archive reference

IOR/L/PS/10/302/2

Former external reference(s)

P 3877/1912 Pt 4

History of this record

Date(s)

22 Apr 1914-15 Sep 1914 (CE, Gregorian)

Subjects

Concessions, Oil, IraqPetroleum industryImperialism

Places

MesopotamiaNejd

People & organisations

Foreign OfficeAnglo-Saxon Petroleum CompanyTreherne, Higgins and Company, law firmCentral Mining and Investment Corporation LimitedRoland H Silley

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