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Coll 17/21 ‘Iraq. Oil in – ’ [15r] (29/178)
The record is made up of 1 file (89 folios). It was created in 12 Jan 1932-18 Sep 1935. 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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I'losul Oilfields Limited and the British Oil. Development
Co ncession in Iraq.
Memorandum ~by Petroleum Department*
1 • Introductory.
On 20th April s 1932 5 the Iraq Government granted an
oil concession to the British Oil Development Company
Limited over the western portion of Iraq. The con
cession is for a period of 75 years and covers an area of
about 40,000 square miles, comprising all Iraq lands
situated west of the River Tigris and north of the thirty-
third parallel of latitude. A special law confirming the
British Oil Development Concession was passed and published
in the Official Gazette on 29th May, 1932. This is
reckoned as the date of the commencement of the Concession.
The Company (for details of present allocation of capital
see paragraph 6 below) must be and remain a British
Company registered in Great Britain and the Chairman must
be a Britisn subject. There is, however, a large foreign
interest in the Company. The concession cannot be
assigned to another company except with the consent of the
Iraq Government, but there is nothing in the concession to
prevent foreign capital securing a controlling interest.
2. The area east of the Tigris (apart from the
Transferred Territories) is held by the Iraq Petroleum
Company, under a revised Agreement dated March 24th, 1931.
The Iraq petroleum Company has already drilled a number of
successful wells in the neighbourhood of Kirkuk and has
commenced the construction of pipelines to the Mediterranean
with an approximate annual capacity of some 4 million tons.
The Iraq petroleum Company’s pipeline runs from Kirkuk to
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The file contains papers relating to the oil concessions and operations of the Iraq Petroleum Company and the British Oil Development Company in Iraq.
It includes:
- Papers concerning payments due to the Government of Iraq from these companies.
- Papers of the Committee of Imperial Defence Standing Sub-Committee for Questions Concerning the Middle East, dated 1933, concerning the British Oil Development Company’s proposed pipeline from its concession near Mosul to the Mediterranean.
- Papers regarding the official opening of the Iraq Petroleum Company’s pipeline connecting the oil-field at Kirkuk with the Mediterranean port of Haifa, on 14 January 1935.
The papers include 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. minute papers, correspondence, and three newspaper cuttings from The Times . The correspondence is largely between Sir Francis Henry Humphrys, HM Ambassador to Iraq (HM Representative, Baghdad), and Sir John Simon, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. Other correspondents include: 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. ; the High Commissioner of Iraq; the Colonial Office; Sir John Cadman, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Iraq Petroleum Company; and the [British Government] Petroleum Department (Mines Department).
The file 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.
- Extent and format
- 1 file (89 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in approximate reverse chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 89; 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. A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.
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- IOR/L/PS/12/2882
- Title
- Coll 17/21 ‘Iraq. Oil in – ’
- Pages
- front, front-i, 2r:30v, 32r:37v, 44r:54v, 56r:64v, 66r:76v, 80r:82v, 84r:88v, back-i, back
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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- Open Government Licence