مجموعة ٢٨\ ٨٥ "بلاد فارس. العلاقات مع شركة النفط الأنجلو-فارسية التابعة للحكومة البريطانية." [و‎‎١‎١‎٨] (٣٨٠/٢٣٧)

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A panorama of the great Refinery at Abadan as seen from the River.
of keeping the fields in
ition to the proposals put
nt to any a&ion despatched
Professor Sir John Cadman
Survey of India, as experts,
regarding the richness of
ion being fully confirmatory
be potentialities of the fields,
at, completed on August 10,
; advantage to the Govern-
>ok “ The World’s Crisis.”
>lies of fuel-oil for the Navy
bon in a market which had
l enormous profits to the
Hint thus gained and saved,
a. In this he includes the
n shares, which he puts at
received, £6,500,000 ; the
amount afhially saved on
the oil purchased as com
pared with current prices,
£7,500,000; and the further
savings estimated on the balance of the contraff, for which he allows
£10,000,000.
While these negotiations were in progress, the Company suffered a
severe loss in the death of their Chairman, Lord Strathcona. He was
succeeded in the Chairmanship by Sir Charles Greenway, who for the
next seven years, embracing the whole period of the War and of the
Company’s great development, combined the duties of Chairman and
sole Managing Dire&or.
In 1917 occurred the death of the great pioneer who so courageously
and so successfully laid the foundations of the Company’s future wealth
and power. William Knox D’Arcy did not live to see the immense develop
ments which have since occurred, but he had the supreme satisfaction of
knowing that the work he did and the sacrifices he made had become a
keystone in the arch of national security and progress.
' Under the Stimulus of the national emergency brought about by the
War, work was pressed forward with all possible speed in Persia. The
capacity of Abadan Refinery was doubled. Further pipe-line was laid down
to meet the increased requirement of crude oil. Arrangements were
made for the conStru&ion of a number of tankers.
Naturally the import
ance of these operations
was not loSt on the Enemy
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