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File 2249/1915 Pt 4 ‘Oil: Mesopotamia & Persia. (General File) 1920–24’ [154r] (307/484)
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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Q/5549/3 of 5 *5^20
Genaral Headquarters,
'Mesopotamian Kxpeditlonarj Force
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ii'im wtmt ■iiitmin
Secretary,
far Office, London♦
5th May, 1920.
Sir
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(l) With reference to yo\ir telegram No. 4040 FI of 3rd
April 1920 - and in continuation of Wf talogram ’o. CU8349/3 of
5 . 5 . 20 ., I hare th® honour to report as followss-
The only oil fields in Mesopotamia that have been
considered in connection with the production of oil as a
Military measure are -
(a) Naftkhaim Oil Fields.
(b) Chia Surkh Oil Fields (23 miles It.H.B. of Kirkuk).
(c) Quairarah Oil Fields#
(2) Naftkhana Oil Field # Cn the occupation of Baghdad in
March 191*7, work was commenced on this oil field as a Military
measure, hut it was transferred shortly after the occupation
of Baghdad to the A#?.0.0. Expenditure ammmt.lng to
approximate!? •
lakhs
One lakh is equal to one hundred thousand rupees
of
rupees
Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf.
was incurred in connection with
this oil field. This amount has since been recove' Sr an the
A.P.O.C.
( 5 ) Chia Surith Oil Field . Reports on this oil field were
not satisfactory and no work was undertaken or military
expenditure incurred on this project •
(45 Qualvarah Oil Field . After some preliminary work on
these oil wells they were taken over by the S.k M. in July 1919
^—r*-
The total expenditure incurred on the work of reconstruction
has amounted to Rs.10,616.3.0. In addition to this there is a
recurring expenditure of Ee.5 ,000 per mensem for maintenance.
The average weekly output of oil from these wel .s
amounts to -
Patrol
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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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- File 2249/1915 Pt 4 ‘Oil: Mesopotamia & Persia. (General File) 1920–24’
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- 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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