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Coll 28/85 ‘Persia. Relations with H.M.G. Anglo-Persian Oil Company.’ [131r] (263/380)
The record is made up of 1 file (187 folios). It was created in 22 Dec 1934-21 Mar 1947. It was written in English and French. 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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Translation.
“ Petroleum ”
means crude oil, natural gases, asphalt, ozokerite, as well as all
products obtained either from these substances or by mixing these
substances with other substances.
“ Operations of the Company in Persia
means all industrial, commercial and technical operations carried
on by the Company exclusively for the purposes of this Concession.
ARTICLE 1.
The Government grants to the Company, on the terms of this
Concession, the exclusive right, within the territory of the Concession,
to search for and extract petroleum as well as to refine or treat in
any other manner and render suitable for commerce the petrohum
obtained by it.
The Government also grants to the Company, throughout Persia,
the non-exclusive right to transport petroleum, to refine or
it in any other manner and to render it suitable for commerce,
as well as to sell it in Persia and to export it.
ARTICLE 2.
(A) The territory of the Concession, until the 31st December
1938, shall be the territory to the south of the violet line* drawn
on the map signed by both parties and annexed to the presen
Agreement.
(B) The Company is bound, at latest by 31st December 1938,
to select on the territory above-mentioned one or severa areas o
such shape and such size and so situated as the Company may deem
suitable. The total area of the area or areas selected must not
exceed one hundred thousand English square miles (100,000 square
miles), each linear mile being equivalent to 1,609 metres.
The Company shall notify to the Government in writing on
31st December 1938, or before that date, the area or areas wic
it shall have selected as above provided. The maps an
necessary to identify and define the area or areas which the Company
shall have selected shall be attached to each notification.
(C) After 31st December 1938, the Company shall no longer
have the right to search for and extract petroleum e^pt on the area
or areas selected by it under paragraph (B) above and t e
of the Concession, after that date, shall mean only the area or areas
so selected and the selection of which shall have been notified
the Government as abov e provided.
~ * (Note— The outline Map attached to this text shews this line.)
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Correspondence concerning diplomatic relations between the British and Persian Governments over the concession and operations of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company Limited (from 1935, Anglo-Iranian Oil Company Limited), referred to as APOC hereafter. The file includes: correspondence dated 1933 to 1935 from the British Consul at Kermanshah, reporting progress of the construction of APOC’s oil refining facilities at Kermanshah; correspondence dated 1939 and 1940 reporting on the Shah of Persia [Reza Shah Pahlavi] and his Government’s efforts to renegotiate the terms of the APOC concession, in light of the heightened strategic importance of APOC’s oil production to Britain during wartime conditions; correspondence dated 1941 reporting on wartime developments, the likelihood of German occupation of Iran, and the threat to APOC oil production in the country. The file also includes: two bound and printed copies of the APOC Concession 1933-1993, printed in French and English, and accompanied by a fold-out map of the concession area (ff 127-149, ff 150-172); an illustrated brochure, published by APOC in 1924 to commemorate the company’s stand at the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley in 1924 (ff 109-126).
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- 1 file (187 folios)
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The papers are arranged in approximate 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 inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 188; 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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- Coll 28/85 ‘Persia. Relations with H.M.G. Anglo-Persian Oil Company.’
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- 150r:172v, 127r:149v
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