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File 2249/1915 Pt 4 ‘Oil: Mesopotamia & Persia. (General File) 1920–24’ [189r] (377/484)
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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in '^ ret3men ^ ^<9tween tiie two aovemment^)
olnoulo. such pipe-line find railways
oross territory wrti,in a French sphere
of influence* France undertakes to give
-v^ry facility cor tlie riglits of crossing
without any royalty or wayleaves on iiie
oil transported, hevertlieless, compensation
diall be payable to the landowners for the
surface occupied^
In the some way France will give
facilities at the terminal port for the
acquisition of the land necessary for the
erection of depots, railways, refineries,
leading harts he. Oil thus exported
shall be exempt from export and transit
11 ^material neces sary for the
construction of the pine-lines,railways,
iefineries and other equipment shall also
oe tree from import duties and wayleaves 0
Siould the said petroleum company
desire oo lay -i pipe-line and a railway
to tbe
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
, the British Government
vial use its good offices to secure similar
facilities for that purpose^
A,
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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’
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- 191r:191v, 188r:189v, 147r:148v
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