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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Subject Concessions, Oil, Iraq

1. IOR/L/PS/10/300

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/300
Title:
File 3877/1912 Pt 1 ‘Turkey in Asia: oil concessions’
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises copies of correspondence, memoranda and other papers, produced in response to the prospect of an oil company backed by German capital taking control of future oil concessions in Mesopotamia [Iraq], and the implications that such concessions might have on the Anglo-Persian Oi...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
17 Jul 1904-4 Sep 1913
Extent:

1 volume (412 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/10/301

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/301
Title:
File 3877/1912 Pt 2 ‘Turkey in Asia: oil concessions’
Scope & Content:
The volume is a chronological continuation of File 3877/1912 Pt 1 ‘Turkey in Asia: oil concessions’ (IOR/L/PS/300), and comprises papers concerning ongoing negotiations over oil concessions for the Mesopotamian vilayets of Mosul and Baghdad, in which the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC), Deutsch...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Aug 1913-31 Mar 1914
Extent:

1 volume (148 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/10/302/1

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/302/1
Title:
File 3877/1912 Pt 3 ‘Turkey in Asia: oil concessions’
Scope & Content:
The volume is a chronological continuation of File 3877/1912 Pt 2 ‘Turkey in Asia: oil concessions’ (IOR/L/PS/301), and comprises papers concerning ongoing negotiations over oil concessions for the Mesopotamian vilayets of Mosul and Baghdad, in which the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC), Deutsch...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
16 Mar 1914-25 Nov 1915
Extent:

1 part (184 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/10/302/2

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/302/2
Title:
File 3877/1912 Pt 4 ‘Turkey in Asia: oil concessions’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence and papers relating to claims for exploratory oil licenses in Ottoman Turkey (including the vilayets of Baghdad, Mosul and Basra in Mesopotamia [Iraq], and Syria and Nejd). Principal correspondents include: the solicitors Treherne, Higgins and Company, who represent the oil explor...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
22 Apr 1914-15 Sep 1914
Extent:

1 part (87 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/10/302/3

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/302/3
Title:
File 3877/1912 Pt 5 ‘Turkey in Asia: oil interests’
Scope & 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 antic...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19 Mar 1914-23 Aug 1917
Extent:

1 part (29 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/10/555

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/555
Title:
File 2249/1915 Pt 1 ‘Oil: Mesopotamia & Persia: General File’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence and other papers concerning oil exploration and applications for oil concessions in Mesopotamia [Iraq] and in the frontier region between Mesopotamia and Persia [Iran] during and in the years following the First World War, when Mesopotamia was under British military occupation and...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
19 Feb 1918-18 Dec 1919
Extent:

1 volume (234 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/10/556

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/556
Title:
File 2249/1915 Pt 2 ‘Oil: Mesopotamia and Persia: oil; Sir J Cowan's deputation & Standard Oil Co.’
Scope & Content:
Correspondence and other papers relating to oil exploration and the acquisition of oil concessions in Mesopotamia [Iraq] (and to a lesser degree, Persia [Iran]) by oil companies. The companies involved are: the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC); the Shell Transport Company (STC, also referred to ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1919-1921
Extent:

1 volume (294 folios)

8. IOR/L/PS/10/557/2

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/557/2
Title:
File 2249/1915 Pt 4 ‘Oil: Mesopotamia & Persia. (General File) 1920–24’
Scope & Content:
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],...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Nov 1919-20 May 1924
Extent:

1 item (242 folios)

9. IOR/L/PS/12/79

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/79
Title:
PZ 4668/33 'Turkish Petroleum Concessions'
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers regarding the 1914 oil concession granted to the Turkish Petroleum Company, which became the Iraq Petroleum Company in 1929. The primary correspondent is H P W Giffard, Petroleum Department, Board of Trade.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Aug 1933
Extent:
1 file (4 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/12/255

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/255
Title:
PZ 5191/38 'Iraq Petroleum Co's. oil agreement with Iraqi Govt'
Scope & Content:
The file consists of correspondence and official agreements relating to the Iraq Petroleum Company's oil conventions with the Iraq Government. Correspondents include the HM Representative, Baghdad, and the British Embassy in Baghdad. Also includes: the convention published in the official Iraq...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19 Jul 1938-17 Aug 1939
Extent:
1 file (30 folios)