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Coll 17/21 ‘Iraq. Oil in – ’ [6r] (11/178)
The record is made up of 1 file (89 folios). It was created in 12 Jan 1932-18 Sep 1935. 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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Majesty’s Government should assume a financial interest
in the Company. After careful consideration a decision
had been taken against this suggestion. The question
had also been considered whether the Anglo-Persian Oil
Company could take a financial interest in the Company 9
but their participation was ruled out by the agreement
under which this area was excluded from the sphere of
the Anglo-Persian Oil Company’s operations. A third
possibility had been the assumption of a financial
interest in Mosul Oil Fields Ltd. by the I.P.C. or some
other agreement between them. Sir Alfred Faulkner had
approached Sir John Cadman with such a suggestion^ but
after a talk with Sir Alwin Dickinson 9 the Managing Director
of Mosul Oil Fields 3 Ltd. 9 Sir John Cadman had stated
that the I.P.C. was not at present prepared to take a part.
Whether some arrangement would be possible in future
might depend to a considerable extent on whether oil
were found in paying quantities.
The fact that His Majesty’s Government had been
unable to take any financial interest in Mosul Oil Fields
Ltd. would make it all tha more difficult to approach
that Company with any suggestion that they should meet
the wishes of His Majesty’s Government in such a question
as the alignment of their pipeline. Opportunities
might 9 however^ present themselves later of influencing
the policy of the Company through its British Chairman,
and he was anxious to know the views of the Sub-Committee
and particularly of the Deforce Departments on the
importance which they attached to the issue.
THD CHAIRMAN recalled that the question of influencing
the Company’s decision in regard to the alignment or iheir
pipeline had been fully discussed over a year ago. He
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The file contains papers relating to the oil concessions and operations of the Iraq Petroleum Company and the British Oil Development Company in Iraq.
It includes:
- Papers concerning payments due to the Government of Iraq from these companies.
- Papers of the Committee of Imperial Defence Standing Sub-Committee for Questions Concerning the Middle East, dated 1933, concerning the British Oil Development Company’s proposed pipeline from its concession near Mosul to the Mediterranean.
- Papers regarding the official opening of the Iraq Petroleum Company’s pipeline connecting the oil-field at Kirkuk with the Mediterranean port of Haifa, on 14 January 1935.
The papers include 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. minute papers, correspondence, and three newspaper cuttings from The Times . The correspondence is largely between Sir Francis Henry Humphrys, HM Ambassador to Iraq (HM Representative, Baghdad), and Sir John Simon, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. Other correspondents include: the 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. ; the High Commissioner of Iraq; the Colonial Office; Sir John Cadman, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Iraq Petroleum Company; and the [British Government] Petroleum Department (Mines Department).
The file includes a divider, which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.
- Extent and format
- 1 file (89 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in approximate reverse chronological order from the rear to the front 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 inside back cover with 89; 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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- IOR/L/PS/12/2882
- Title
- Coll 17/21 ‘Iraq. Oil in – ’
- Pages
- front, front-i, 2r:30v, 32r:37v, 44r:54v, 56r:64v, 66r:76v, 80r:82v, 84r:88v, back-i, back
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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- Open Government Licence