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File 2249/1915 Pt 4 ‘Oil: Mesopotamia & Persia. (General File) 1920–24’ [233r] (465/484)
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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1 _ MAMMLI OIL FIELiB. 6^9 ... ”1
ial Political No
0.
. Date
To.
From
— ’ ^ m 200 11/10
/ C 'S > i
Subject.
I 1887
191i
Apr.
19tl
3
4 F.o.
A.P.O.C
Propose to develop two wells
Bajidad 3 ^ 1 W ^'^ 1 R9 ^^ n9r 7 at
1887
Apri
2§th
4 P«t.Ex
F.O.
Will Prof.John Cadman
consult Sir Percy Cox.
3237
July
5th
w.o
P.E.
tonsb ^ 186 ® ' to l3e saved 24,000
Enquires whether there are mill tan/
objections to drilling at MailP
3237
July
19tl
¥ *°
F.O
haft Khana.
uompany to carry out drilling
operations as Agents to the
uovermiont ox Iiesopotanda and not
on their own account.
L 4145
l
Sept,
ifetl
Sept,
30th
T.O
w.o.
Bagdad
1.0
(1) t Deprecates apportionroent of
mineral or olher rights (2) su^ests
paymenw to A.P.O.C from military
^ceived to proposal
P7tli to war Office that
A,P.©*C should keep account of
5066
i
Nov.
14th
Nov.
20tii
1.0
w.o
Baghdad
telm, 9810
1.0
expenditure onU.?.
Requests early orders on telegram of
16th September; operations are in
effective progress at Mandali. 1
towards h enquires.
343
1919
Feb.
16th
—i
1.0
Baghdad
A.P.O.C ask for pipe line to
Baghdad and apoly tor Refinery; lh
active operations in progress. IJ 1
Requests orders. w
%
197
Jan,
10th
1.0
W.O
■
IPS
The branch of the British Government of India with responsibility for managing political relations between British-ruled India and its surrounding states, and by extension the Gulf, during the period 1937-47.
Reply to 5066a - Telegram of July
27th suggesting A.P.0.0*3 operations
should be on military a/c was
transferred to Pet.Ex)
1S7 1
1
Jan.
29th
Pet.Ex,
I.o
Requests decision.
/
0 826 :
Feb.
L2th
I.o
Pet.Ex,
Mr.Long does not think that any
question of Government responsibility
for A.P f 0,C operations at Haft Khana
will arise. \
1
It has been understood that any
such operations were being carried
cut by the wish and under the
direction of the local Military
authcrities^and ^that^as^far as^they
of the 00*8 Persian concession, the
Co.
jmi
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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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