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File 2249/1915 Pt 4 ‘Oil: Mesopotamia & Persia. (General File) 1920–24’ [155r] (309/484)
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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Petrol
Kerosine Ho*l
Kerosine Ko,2
(engine oil)
400 gallons
700 n
2600 "
Of this amount the whole of the petrol and kerosine Ho.l Is
consumed In the 12th Divisional Area, but only a small
quantity of leer ©sine ho *2 (Engine 011 } can be made Use of for
military purposes (approximately 300 gallons per week) the
remainder is according to the demand disposed of locally at
annas 6 per gallon* Approximate amount realised per mensem
from sales on this account is Hs.1,000 which is credited to
Army funds*
Oils are produced at quaiyarah at a cost of rm&ily
4 annas per gallon. The prices of oils obtained from the
A. 0 . 0*0 . at Abadan and delivered to the Mosul Area are shewn
in the attached statement. It will thus be seen that
approximately Hs. 1,700 per mensem is saved by the production
of Oil at w.uaiyarah over and above the cost of production and
the monthly maintenance charge.
(5) Ho attempt has been made to develop or extend these
oil fields, or to improve the plant so as to manufacture
economically on a large scale* Such work would be in the nature
of a commercial project and would require heavy initial
expenditure. The actual work on the oil field has been
confined to the production of as much oil as is required to
meet the demands of troops in the Mosul Area, thus effecting a
saving on the heavy charges that would be incurred If the oil
was purchased from the A.P.O.C. at Abadan and transported to
Mosul, and further, the Civil population at Mosul receive cheap
lighting which adds largely to the contentment of the country
side.
I have the honour to be.
Sir,
four obedient Servant,
(Sgd.) Percy Hambro,
for Lieut-General,
General Officer Commftn&ing-in-Chief, •
Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force.
J.T.B.
IB
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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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