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Coll 17/21 ‘Iraq. Oil in – ’ [51r] (101/178)
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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(1) The Iraq Petroleum Company . - The Turkish Petroleum
Company (now the Iraq Petroleum Company) was formed in 1912,
when the Deutsche Bank became associated with the National
Bank of Turkey and the Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Company (Royal
Dutch Shell Group), in order to press certain claims to oil
rights in Bagdad and Mosul, including those attached to the
Bagdad Railway Concession. The chief rival of the new
company at that time was the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, which
had for some time been in negotiation with the Turkish
Government. In 1914 an agreement was entered into providing
for the reconstitution of the Turkish Petroleum Company, from
which the National Bank of Turkey withdrew, the new participants
being the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, 50 per cent.; the
Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Company and the Deutsche Bank, 25 per
cent. each. This agreement also provided that the three
groups should give undertakings not to be interested directly
or indirectly in the production of oil in the Ottoman Empire
in Europe and Asia (excluding Egypt, Koweit and the
Transferred Territories), except through the Turkish Petroleum
Company. This agreement was signed by the British and German
Governments, and by the groups concerned. As the Turkish
Petroleum Comoany was then predominantly British, this
arrangement had the effect of securing the whole of this area
to interests which were predcBiinantly British. After the war
American and French interests were admitted into the Iraq
Petroleum Company and the arrangement as regards non
competition between the groups composing the Iraq Petroleum
Company was confirmed in an agreement between the groups,
entered into in 1928. This was a private agreement between
the groups with which the British Government was not associated.
Under this agreement a line was drawn round Arabia, Palestine
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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.
- Physical characteristics
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