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File 2249/1915 Pt 4 ‘Oil: Mesopotamia & Persia. (General File) 1920–24’ [234r] (467/484)
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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Political No.
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Date.
To.
10 244 200 11/19
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Subject.
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1.0
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April
8th
June
23rd
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June
27th
July
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lonfer
ence
1.0
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Pet.Ex.
Baghdad
G^have been acting as agents of
K.m.S. as they deem that Naft Khana
thou^a situated in Mesopotamia has
continued to be within their
concession by the Protocol of 17th
JQ v Turco Persian
t ran tier it is quite possible that
no question will arise in regard
^o any drilling done in that area.
Baghdad 1,0
Nov.
7 til
25th
1,0
Pet.Ex.
1.0
Dec,
4th
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1.0
1.0
Lord Curzon is doubtful Aether Naft
Khana could be rightly considered
as falling within the Coy f s Persian
concession (F.0.413214/M.E.44 of 2nd
April). .
A.P.O.Crights at w.K. siiould be
maintained.
Copy of their letter dated 2n4
May to A.P.O.C
"ihis conference was able to accept
-the-^view-that the rirfato of^our Coy
at Naft Khana should be maintained.
Mandali Oil Fields. Early
orders requested.
A.P.O.C propose to defer formation
of iihanskin Company,
F.C
Consults re above.
Any operations of A.P.O.C
in the transferred areas
should be suspended.
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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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