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File 2249/1915 Pt 4 ‘Oil: Mesopotamia & Persia. (General File) 1920–24’ [90r] (179/484)
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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>titions for
.censes to
tarch for
‘ude oil, <&c•
i alienated
in da •
onditions of
icense over
lienated
ands.
of the Lessee to be observed and performed up to the
expiration of the first term, the Governor shall offer
to the Lessee a renewed lease for the further term of
twenty-one years or such further and longer term as the
Secretary of State may approve, at the same surface
rent and sub ect to the same Convenants, Provisions, &nd
Agreements, other than the provision for extension, and
subject also to such other conditions, which may include
provision for any increase or decrease in the amount of
royalty payable, as the Governor may approve*
60, Any person desiring to obtain e license to
search for Crude oil or linerala upon lands alienated
from the Crown subsequent to the 17 th day of January 1902,
shall transmit to the Bub-Intendent a petition addressed
to the Governor, describing the tract of land over which
he is desirous of searching, and giving the acreage
and the boundaries of the same, nd shall deposit with the
Sub-lntendant the sum. of Five ounds to cover the expenses
of the Government in connection with the petition, and also
a further sum equal to 10 per cent.cf the fee payable on
the issue of a license under Rule 61, in respect of the
acreage applied for, the latter payment to be Uken into
account if the license is issued, otherwise to be forfeited.
61. -(a) Upon such petition being presented rnd
approved by the Governor, nd upon the payment of e fee
at the rate of one shilling per acre, and clue allowance
being made for any payment on account under Rule 6C,
license will be granted to the applicant to search the l*md
n med
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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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- Title
- File 2249/1915 Pt 4 ‘Oil: Mesopotamia & Persia. (General File) 1920–24’
- Pages
- 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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