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Coll 54/1(S) 'Middle East (Official) Committee: Reconstruction' [128r] (259/940)
The record is made up of 1 file (468 folios). It was created in 20 Mar 1949-13 Dec 1949. It was written in English. 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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few years later it explored Portuguese Angola without finding
oil* In January 1948 it made an unsuccessful attempt
at bidding for the Kuwait share of the Neutral Zone. In
Ethiopia activities have been’concentrated in the Ogaden area
where the first exploration well was spudded in May 1949#
VI. TURKEY'
16. Oil in significant quantities has only recently been found
in Turkey. An oil bearing anticline running east and west
through the mountain of Ramandag. some 80 miles east of
Diyarbekir and 10 south of Besiri in South Eastern Turkey
brought in about 50 tons of heavy oil per day from a well
1,300 metres deep in March 1948 and the installation of pumps
and the bringing in of a second well has since raised production
to about 120—140 tons per day. The present rate of production,
equivalent to some 46,000 tons per year, represents one tenth
of Turkish annual consumption. A small refinery of a primitive
nature has been built at Maymoune, near the fields with a
capacity ol 150 tons per day. The Minister for Economy and
Commerce has prepared a plan for a pipeline to and a refinery at
s enderun costing £T 300 million. In accordance with the policy
of the Turkish Government to concentrate economic development
m its own hands, no concessions to foreign companies are
envisaged. Work on the Ramandag field has been carried out
by the Drilling and Exploration Company of Dallas, U.S.A. as
contractors to the Turkish Government. Discussions for a joint
participate 61 ^ COmpany have been mooted and Socony-Vacuum may
17. Prospecting has been carried on, so far without success, at
Adana and^Erzerum and a geophysical survey has investigated
seepages m Thrace. s
VII. CYPRUS
in'iqtT+TTT 1 ? 8 li ° enc !f over half the island was granted
of D ® ve:Lo P ment (Cyprus) Ltd., an associate
the Iraq Petroleum Company. Exploration activities were
suspended during the war. They were resumed in 1946 and
comprehensive geophysical surveys have been carried out. The
results were unfavourable and in November 1948 the licence
was surrendered.
g r °5 pe T, 1 ( l e Permit has been held for a number of years
Limassol , di?+i?^t <ieS n ln - reSPe0t 2 ? aDout one square mile in the
Limassol district. Boring operations are about to be undertaken
area if oif bearing? reCOgnised evidence that the ’
VIII. PALESTINE
??* J 11 has yet been disc overed in Palestine, in 1939
?P?lef?ineVLf T0V ' ernm0nt granted to Petroleum Development ’
(Palestine) Ltd., an associate of I.P.C., 29 oil prospecting
4 d e ?h» S M C ° Verlng abo i lt 5,600 sq. miles of the coastal plain
and the Negev area. In addition, two prospecting licences
were granted to the Jordan exploration Company Ltd. for small
areas m proximity to the Dead Sea. At thf futbr^k o! wfTthe
/licensees
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The file contains papers relating to the Middle East (Official) Committee. It consists of: papers circulated to members of the Committee, received by the External Department of the Commonwealth Relations Office (CRO); a few items of CRO correspondence with the Foreign Office, the Cabinet Office, and Commonwealth governments; and a register of papers received or sent by the CRO relating to the Committee, with internal CRO correspondence (at the back of the file).
The file includes agendas for meetings of the Committee, and minutes of the meetings on 28 April, 5 May, 5 July and 19 July 1949. Matters discussed and recorded in the minutes include: the reconstitution of the Committee; the re-settlement of Arab refugees from Palestine; the report on Economic and Social Development in the Middle East by the Working Party of the Committee; the future work of the Committee; the Conference of HM Representatives in the Middle East to be held in London from 26 to 29 July 1949; United States President Truman’s ‘Fourth Point’ (Truman’s message of 24 June 1949 to the United States House of Representatives, communicating a ‘Recommendation for the Enactment of Legislation to Authorise an Expanded Programme of Technical Assistance for Underdeveloped Areas of the World’); and further studies of the Working Party.
The file also includes the following papers prepared by (or approved by) the Working Party of the Committee: draft, revised and interim versions of the report on Economic and Social Development in the Middle East; papers relating to the economic and social development of Iraq, Syria, Greater Transjordan Used in three contexts: the geographical region to the east of the River Jordan (literally ‘across the River Jordan’); a British protectorate (1921-46); an independent political entity (1946-49) now known as Jordan , Egypt, the Lebannon, Saudi Arabia, Cyrenaica, Tripolitania, Eritrea and Somalia, and the Colony of Aden and the Aden Protectorate; and a paper on Middle East oil.
In addition, the file includes other papers relating to matters discussed at the meetings, and the following subjects: Transjordan Used in three contexts: the geographical region to the east of the River Jordan (literally ‘across the River Jordan’); a British protectorate (1921-46); an independent political entity (1946-49) now known as Jordan ; irrigation development in Iraq; Persia’s [Iran’s] Seven Year Plan for development; informal conversations on social and economic affairs in the Middle East between representatives of the Foreign Office, the Treasury, the British Embassy in Washington, and the United States State Department; the work of the Development Division of British Middle East Office; a survey of the oil resources of the Middle East; and economic development in Cyprus in relation to the Middle East.
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- 1 file (468 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in approximate reverse chronological order from the front to the rear of the file.
Numbers in red pen on the top right hand corner of items in the file refer to entries in the register of papers received and sent by the Commonwealth Relations Office at the back of the file.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 468; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.
A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.
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