File 2249/1915 Pt 4 ‘Oil: Mesopotamia & Persia. (General File) 1920–24’

Name: File 2249/1915 Pt 4 ‘Oil: Mesopotamia & Persia. (General File) 1920–24’
Author: HM Petroleum Executive (correspondent) | Foreign Office (correspondent) | United States Federal Government (correspondent)

İsim	File 2249/1915 Pt 4 ‘Oil: Mesopotamia & Persia. (General File) 1920–24’
Yazar	HM Petroleum Executive (correspondent) \| Foreign Office (correspondent) \| United States Federal Government (correspondent)
Basım Tarihi:	1919/1924
Basım Yeri	- Qatar National Library
Konu	Military occupation \| Resources exploration \| Concessions, Oil, Iraq \| more \| less
Tür	Kitap
Dil	İngilizce
Dijital	Evet
Yazma	Hayır
Sayfa Sayısı	242
Fiziksel Boyutlar	1 item (242 folios)
Kütüphane:	Ortadoğu Dijital Kütüphanesi
Demirbaş Numarası	81055/vdc_100076920593.0x000002_ar \| 81055/vdc_100076920593.0x000002_en \| IOR/L/PS/10/557/2
Kayıt Numarası	81055%2Fvdc_100076920593.0x000002_dlme
Lokasyon	British Library. India Office Records and Private Papers
Tarih	1919/1924
Notlar	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. \| 1 item (242 folios) \| more \| less
Parçası Olduğu	British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers

Kaynağa git Ortadoğu Dijital Kütüphanesi Digital Library of the Middle East

Aramaya Dön

Ortadoğu Dijital Kütüphanesi

Kaynağa git

File 2249/1915 Pt 4 ‘Oil: Mesopotamia & Persia. (General File) 1920–24’

Yazar HM Petroleum Executive (correspondent) | Foreign Office (correspondent) | United States Federal Government (correspondent)

Basım Tarihi 1919/1924

Basım Yeri - Qatar National Library

Konu Military occupation | Resources exploration | Concessions, Oil, Iraq | more | less

Tür Kitap

Dil İngilizce

Dijital Evet

Yazma Hayır

Sayfa Sayısı 242

Fiziksel Boyutlar 1 item (242 folios)

Kütüphane Ortadoğu Dijital Kütüphanesi

Demirbaş Numarası 81055/vdc_100076920593.0x000002_ar | 81055/vdc_100076920593.0x000002_en | IOR/L/PS/10/557/2

Kayıt Numarası 81055%2Fvdc_100076920593.0x000002_dlme

Lokasyon British Library. India Office Records and Private Papers

Tarih 1919/1924

Notlar 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. | 1 item (242 folios) | more | less

Parçası Olduğu British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers