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'File 14/1 Oil: concessions in Muscat' [10r] (24/444)
The record is made up of 1 volume (216 folios). It was created in 20 May 1933-4 May 1938. It was written in English and Arabic. 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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Company who are geographically best suited to undertake
developement work, are virtually excluded from operating
in this area except as a nominee oi the 1 rad letrcleum
Company. ±he same remarks apply to the Shall. The
circumstances which have led up to this position are as
follows:
L9M.U0$ qf _c..a&.i_^Qy .
The Turkish Petroleum Company i now the Iraq
Petroleum Company) was formed in 1912 when the Deutsche
^ank became associated with the National Sank of Turkey
and the Anglo-C a xan ietroleum Company (Boyal huch-Chell
group) in carder to press certain claims to oil rights in
Baghdad and kosul, including those attached to the -dagh-
-dad railway 0 ncession. The chief rival of the new
company at that time was the Anglo*!ersian Oil Company
which had for some time been in negotiation with the
atikish Government* in 1914 an Agreement was entered
into providing for the reconstitution ol the Turkish
* etroleum Company, from which the lati.nal Bank of
Turkey withdrew, the new participants being the Anglo-
-Persian Oil Company, 50$; the Anglo-Saxon Petroleum
and the Deutsche Bank 25r each* This Agreement also
provided that the yree groups should give undertakings
not to be interested directly or indirectly in the pro-
-auction oi oil in the ottoman Empire in Europe and Asia
except in Egypt, Kuwait or the Transferred Territories,
except through the Turkish Petroleum Company* This
Agreement was signed by the British and d 8rifian Governments
and by the groups concerned. As the Turkish Petroleum
Company was then predominantly British, this arrangement
had the effect of securing the whole of this area to
interests which were predominantly British. After the
entry of**.
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- Content
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes, relating to oil concessions in Muscat territory.
The discussion in the volume relates to the following issues:
- Correspondence with officials of Petroleum Concessions
- Discussions with Major Frank Holmes about visiting Sultan Sa'id bin Taimur
- Awarding of a separate concession for Dhofar.
Included in the volume is a copy of the draft agreement between Petroleum Concessions and Sultan Sa'id bin Taimur (ff 65-77). Also included (folio 15) is a hand-written letter in Arabic by Sultan Sa'id bin Taimur to the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. , Muscat concerning a new oil survey.
The principal correspondents in the volume include the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. , Muscat; the Secretary of State for India; the Sultan of Muscat and Oman [Sa‘īd bin Taymūr].
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (216 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in rough chronological order from the front to the rear of the volume.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the first folio with 1 and terminates at the last folio with 212; 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. An additional foliation sequence is present in parallel between ff 2-212; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled. The foliation sequence does not include the front and back covers, nor does it include the leading and ending flyleaves.
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- English and Arabic in Latin and Arabic script View the complete information for this record
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- IOR/R/15/6/423
- Title
- 'File 14/1 Oil: concessions in Muscat'
- Pages
- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:14v, 17r:33v, 36r:63v, 78r:88v, 91r:117v, 119r:126v, 128r:148v, 153r:181v, 184r:202v, 204r:219v, back-i
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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