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File 2249/1915 Pt 4 ‘Oil: Mesopotamia & Persia. (General File) 1920–24’ [85r] (169/484)
The record is made up of 1 item (242 folios). It was created in 1 Nov 1919-20 May 1924. 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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rarHOD 0? Si^ECTIOT! 01 ?
AREAS.
j
ROYALTY
n mm miA
9 annas per 40
gallons or 5
ad valorem on
the gross value
Exploration licences, pros-
peoting licences and Mining
leases are granted to British
subtle eta.. Iros *ectlng licences
£tre for one year which may he
extended to two years at the
discretion of the Governor,
’ining leases may include the
whole area of the prospecting
licences provided that the area
does not exceed 10 square miles.
revious
regulations
provided for a
royalty of 7 1
on all oil
raised buo if
there are no
producing wells
on adjacent
territory royal'
ty was only 5 .
:h.is has lately
"been revised
however and an
amended royalty
of IgP
substituted.
Prospecting licences and
Mining Leases are granted by the
Government, A prospecting licence
must cover an area in the form
of a rectangle of which no side
shall exceed two kilometres in
length* A lease may be granted
for one-fourth of the prospecting
area, and lessee shall have first
oution over remainder of area at
royult. fixed by Government not
exceeding 25;.. • Hot more than
•4 areas shall he held in one con
tiguous group, and no side of such
a group shall exceed 4 kilo etres
in length.
Rent for
ospec ting
3ence is £100
i: annum,
ler mining
ase £E-| per
3 tare
2,/- per ? .;on or
If of crude
production in
k i nd.
mxL.i)
'1) I arsons desirous of pros
pecting for petroleum must
notify the sub-Intendant of
.ends describing the tract of
land which it is desired to
explore and stating the boundaries,
a deposit of £2 is reauired.
^he Governor then grants an
Lxp1or at j on Licence if he.thinks
It "se sir able, and a geological
examination may be imde.
(2 ) I f t he ge ol ogioal eond it io ns
are found to be favourable to the
existence o petroleum the
applicant applies for a prospect
ing licence over a portion of the
area covered by fl). 4 deposit
of £5 must be paid and a rental
is olmrged. at the rate of l/-
per acre, "till partioulars mast
be given of the acreage and
boundaries of the area. This
licence entitles the prospector
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The item comprises correspondence and other papers concerning oil exploration in territories that were part of the Ottoman Empire prior to the First World War. The item includes: reports on exploratory drilling being undertaken by the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC) at Naft Khana [Nafţ Khānah], in territory transferred from Persia [Iran] to Mesopotamia [Iraq] in 1914 in response to recommendations made by the Turco-Persian Boundary Commission; the question of whether APOC drilling activity at Naft Khana should be paid for out of military funds, given Britain’s military occupation and administration of Mesopotamia during and after the First World War; oil concessions in Mesopotamia in relation to the San Remo Oil Agreement (1920), signed between the British and French Governments; a 1920 survey report by the APOC geologist, William Robert Smellie, entitled ‘Oil in relation to Fars anticlines’ (ff 132-139), and a response by the Officiating Director of the Geological Survey of India, Edwin Hall Pascoe, that disagrees with Smellie’s findings (ff 100-101); British Government policy on mining and oil prospecting in Palestine; and correspondence exchanged between representatives of the Government of the United States and the Foreign Office, relating to the refusal to permit American companies to conduct oil surveys in Mesopotamia.
The item’s principal correspondence are: the Foreign Office; HM Petroleum Executive, the Civil Commissioner in Baghdad, Arnold Talbot Wilson; and representatives of the Government of the United States.
The item 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.
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- Title
- File 2249/1915 Pt 4 ‘Oil: Mesopotamia & Persia. (General File) 1920–24’
- Pages
- 1r:6v, 8r:15v, 19r:28r, 30r:47v, 49r:56v, 59r:60v, 62r:63r, 65r:65v, 68r:74v, 77r:105v, 107r:131v, 140r:146v, 149r:163v, 174r:187v, 190r:190v, 193r:198v, 200r:201v, 203r:212v, 214r:229v, 231r:242v
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