مجموعة ٢٨\ ٨٥ "بلاد فارس. العلاقات مع شركة النفط الأنجلو-فارسية التابعة للحكومة البريطانية." [و‎‎١‎٨‎٧] (٣٨٠/٣٧٩)

THIS DOCUMENT IS THE PROPERTY OF HIS BRITANNIC MAJESTY’S GOVERNMENT
PERSIA.
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November 19, 1934.
CONFIDENTIAL.
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Section 5.
[E 6962/1301/34]
No. 1 .
Sir R. Hoare to Sir John Simon.—(Received November 19.)
(No. 478.)
HIS Majesty’s representative presents his compliments to His Majesty’s
Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and has the honour to transmit
herewith copy of despatch No. 60 from His Majesty’s consul, Kermanshah. dated
the 25th October, on the subject of Anglo-Persian Oil Company activities at
Naft-i-Shah.
Tehran, October 31, 1934.
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Enclosure in No. 1 .
Consul Summerhayes to Sir R. Hoare.
(No. 60.)
Si ri Kermanshah, October 25, 1934.
I HAVE the honour to report that on the 23rd instant I travelled back here
alone the new pipe-line of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company from Naft-i-Shah,
and I give below some account of the project in amplification of details given from
time to time in diaries.
2. At Naft-i-Shah a sufficient volume of oil for all probable requirements
is assured from the existing well with a depth of about 2,000 feet. r I wo other
wells are being drilled close by, of which one is wanted as subsidiary for the mam
supply and the other is needed for taking back the unnecessary crude oil. As
there is no market in Persia for the heaviest oil products, the first distilling or
topping is to be done at Naft-i-Shah before the oil is pumped up the line and the
rough fuel oil will be pumped back down the third well.
3 . The work there is still mainly controlled from the Naft-Khaneh field,
4 miles away across the Iraqi frontier. Though the Persians have recently com
plicated this control by insisting on the cutting of the previous telephone line
between Naft-Khaneh and Naft-i-Shah, the new work is given some special
facilities, and the Persian police and customs officials, both at Naft-i-Shah and
at Khosrovi, on the main road, cause much less difficulty than they do in other
places where the company works. When the construction work at Naft-i-Shah is
finished the traffic between the two fields may be more restricted.
4. The frontier between Naft-Khaneh and Naft-i-Shah is fortunately well
marked by the stream x\b-i-Naft, yet two of the wells on the Iraqi side are so close
to this stream that it is planned to drill others at a comfortable distance. Further
to the north, on its way towards Qasr-i-Shirin, the pipe runs very near to a
less clearly defined frontier and after the first road had been roughly made for
the work it was found that it touched Iraqi territory and a change had to be
made.
5. Naft-i-Shah is the property of the Shah, and he is. of course, particularly
interested in the project. The attitude of the authorities has, therefore, been
generally helpful all along the line, and, between this and the care shown by the
•company’s staff, the work has gone smoothly and quickly. His Majesty acquired
some years ago all the area around the Naft-i-Shah, where the Kalher tribe, since
renamed the Bavandpur, used to spend the cold seasons only. It is a barren
district, but it is planned to make quite a township at Naft-i-Shah and to make
the tribespeople settle there and over the now deserted country to Qasr-i-Shirin.
6 . The pumping station at Naft-i-Shah will boost the oil along the 3-inch
pipe to the next pump near Qasr-i-Shirin, a distance of over 40 miles. The trench
is ready there and the welding work is being hurried on now before the winter
from the well end to meet at Pai-Taq the pipe, which is now finished, from there
to Kermanshah.
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