مجموعة ٢٨\ ٨٥ "بلاد فارس. العلاقات مع شركة النفط الأنجلو-فارسية التابعة للحكومة البريطانية." [و‎‎١‎١‎٧] (٣٨٠/٢٣٥)

A “ Boofiing Station ” at
Mullasani
Carrying sections of Pipe
line across the desert.
2 Jpe main Power and
^bmping Installation at
Tembi
Jl
ILl
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\ r alves on the Pipe-line
from Maidan-i- N aftun
to Abadan
^ht. New refinery problems
experience with Persian oil
rent. There were also the
met. All this necessitated
ly. Furthermore, there were
g the white Staff, many of
ions.
3rk was carried Steadily on,
of the refinery was carried
rought into operation. In
was made to local markets,
,000 gallons a month.
o operation a complete oil-
a scale soon exhausted the
t became clear in 1913 that
irogramme embarked upon
•ught to a dividend-paying
:able to raise further capital
s terms, partly because the
one of its many phases of
lany was only juSt getting
earning of dividends,
scessary financial assistance
from the Government, who were
at the moment very much interested in
the subject of adequate supplies of fuel-
oil for the British Navy.
Ever since 1904 the Admiralty had been
seriously considering the conversion of the Navy
to oil-fuel, and in 1912 the oft-mooted question
was brought to a head by the appointment by Mr. WinSton
Churchill," then First Lord of the Admiralty, of a Royal Com
mission, under the Presidency of Lord Fisher, to advise the
Government on the question of oil supplies. The evidence
given before the Commission led to the conclusion that there would
be no great risk in the conversion, assuming the availability of all
the oil "that would be required, and that, in any case, it was a risk that
muSt be taken. Lord Fisher was particularly impressed by the evidence
given by Sir Charles Greenway—then Managing Director of the Anglo-
Persian Oil Company—as to the great potentialities of the Persian fields.
From that time onwards the Government has attached the very greatest
importance to these fields as one of the main future sources of supply
for the British Navy.
The position of the finances of the Anglo-Persian Company was then
referred to the Government and a request made for assistance. Mr. WinSton
Churchill, with his usual grasp of big questions, readily recognised the
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