File 3877/1912 Pt 3-5 ‘Asiatic Turkey: Oil Concessions’

Content

The volume contains parts 3, 4, and 5 of the subject ‘Asiatic Turkey: Oil Concessions’.

Part 3 (IOR/L/PS/10/302/1) concerns ongoing negotiations over the Turkish Petroleum Company’s oil concessions for the Mesopotamian vilayets of Mosul and Baghdad.

Part 4 (IOR/L/PS/10/302/2) concerns competing claims, and in particular those from the oil explorer Roland H Silley, over oil licenses in Mesopotamia and Nejd.

Part 5 (IOR/L/PS/10/302/3) concerns the status of oil concessions in Mesopotamia and the broader Ottoman region, during the First World War, and the likely outcomes of any settlement in the post-war period.

Each part includes a divider which gives the subject and part numbers, the year the subject file was opened, the subject heading, and a list of correspondence references contained in that part by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.

Extent and format

1 volume (302 folios)

It is grouped into

File 3877/1912 Pt 3 ‘Turkey in Asia: oil concessions’

372 images

Ref: IOR/L/PS/10/302/1

File 3877/1912 Pt 4 ‘Turkey in Asia: oil concessions’

176 images

Ref: IOR/L/PS/10/302/2

File 3877/1912 Pt 5 ‘Turkey in Asia: oil interests’

60 images

Ref: IOR/L/PS/10/302/3

Arrangement

The subject 3877 (Asiatic Turkey: Oil Concessions) consists of 3 volumes, IOR/L/PS/10/300-302. The volumes are divided into 5 parts, with parts 1 and 2 comprising one volume each, and parts 3, 4 and 5 comprising the third volume.

Each part includes a divider which gives the subject and part numbers, the year the subject file was opened, the subject heading, and a list of correspondence references contained in that part by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.

Physical characteristics

The foliation sequence commences at 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 304; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. The front cover and one leading flyleaf have not been foliated. A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.

Written in

English and French in Latin script

Type

Archival file

Access & Reference

Original held at

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.

Access conditions

Unrestricted

Archive reference

IOR/L/PS/10/302

Former external reference(s)

P 3877/1912

History of this record

Date(s)

16 Mar 1914-4 Jul 1917 (CE, Gregorian)

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