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

Content

A chronological continuation of File 3877/1912 Pt 3 ‘Turkey in Asia: oil interests’, Part 5 comprises correspondence following the annulment of the 19 March 1914 agreement on oil concessions in Mesopotamia, which discusses the wider implications of the war on oil concessions in Turkey, and anticipation of post-war agreements. The principal correspondents are: the Assistant Undersecretary to the Foreign Office (Sir Maurice William Ernest de Bunsen); Secretary of the Political Department of the 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. (Sir Arthur Hirtzel); the Director of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC, Charles Greenway).

The correspondence includes:

• discussion of the elimination of German interests in Turkey and Arabia;
• the split between Britain and France of former Ottoman territories;
• existing APOC claims in the Mesopotamian vilayets of Mosul and Baghdad;
• Shell Royal Dutch Group’s claims in the Mesopotamian oil concessions.

Extent and format

1 part (29 folios)

It is part of

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

620 images

Ref: IOR/L/PS/10/302

Arrangement

The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front.

Written in

English in Latin script

Type

Archival item

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/10/302/3

Former external reference(s)

P 3877/1912 Pt 5

History of this record

Date(s)

19 Mar 1914-23 Aug 1917 (CE, Gregorian)

Subjects

Concessions, Oil, IraqPetroleum industryImperialismFirst World War (1914-1918)

Places

Mesopotamia

People & organisations

Foreign OfficeIndia OfficeAnglo-Iranian Oil Company LimitedAnglo-Saxon Petroleum CompanyRoyal Dutch Shell, oil company

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