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Coll 17/21 ‘Iraq. Oil in – ’ [17r] (33/178)
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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3 .
On the 1st January 5 1935
£175,000 (gold)
w •» » »* 1937 £200,000 ,r
and of a similar amount on the 1st January in
each succeeding year.
(The 1933 payment has already been made) .
(e) Royalty at the rate of 4/- per ton until a date
20 years after the commencement of regular
exports, thereafter to be revised every ten
year's by reference to the profits of the Company
in the preceding period. Minimum royalty
£ 200,000 per annum conditional on the oil
obtained being of ’’Merchantable quality”. The
Iraq Government is entitled to 20 per cent. oj.
all petroleum v/on, free of cost at the well head,
but no royalty is payable in respect of tnis oil
and the Government may not export such oil
although it can sell it back to the Company at
a price to be agreed.
(f) Certain payments in lieu of taxation of profits.
Petroleum prospects of the terri tory covered^
the Concession.
4. Little definite information is available oi the
prospects of this territory as geological surveys have not
yet been completed and no test drilling has yet been cameo,
out except at Qaiyarah on the west bank of the Tigris.
Here the Iraq petroleum Company put down two test wells
while they were prospecting and obtained a production of
heavy oil of poor quality at shallow depths. It remains
to be seen whether deeper drilling will reveal the existence
of better quality oil at greater depths. The possibility
of the existence of favourable oil structures in this large
area has, however, always been recognised, although the
preliminary surveys carried out by the Iraq petroleom
Company indicated that the area east of the Tigris was the
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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