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IOR/L/PS/10/815

Record Id:

040-000546033

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

036-000544688

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000000419.0x0002c5

LARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100127504837.0x000002

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Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

IOR/L/PS/10/815

Title:

File 1450/1919 ‘Mesopotamia & Kurdistan: Geological Reports on’

Scope & Content:

This volume contains correspondence, memoranda, reports, telegrams and maps and geological drawings, regarding the geological examination of regions in Mesopotamia and the prospect of petroleum [oil] in these areas.

Included in the volume are the following reports:

‘MESOPOTAMIA GEOLOGICAL REPORTS No. 7-11’ (‘No. 7’ is crossed out and replaced with ‘No. 8’), 1920 (ff 9-22)
‘GEOLOGICAL REPORT (Mesopotamia) No. 7 NOTES ON THE UNDERGROUND WATER RESOURCES OF NORTHEN MESOPOTAMIA’, 1920 (ff 25-31)
‘GEOLOGICAL REPORT (Mesopotamia) No. 6 NOTES ON ZAKHO AND DOHUK [Duhok]’, 1920 (ff 41-44)
‘MESOPOTAMIA GEOLOGICAL REPORT 1919’, 1920 (ff 57-109)
‘REPORT OF THE BITUMINOUS DEPOSIT NEAR KIFRI’, 1919 (f 114)
‘GEOLOGICAL REPORT (Mesopotamia) No 5. THE KIFRI DISTRICT’ (ff 115-116)
‘GEOLOGICAL REPORT (Mesopotamia) No 4. RECONNAISSANCE REPORT ON THE COUNTRY ON THE RIGHT BANK OF THE RIVER TIGRIS BETWEEN BAIJI AND MOSUL’, 1919 (ff 122-129)
‘GEOLOGICAL REPORT (Mesopotamia) No 3. RECONNAISSANCE REPORT ON THE EUPHRATES VALLEY BETWEEN HILLAH AND HIT’, 1919 (ff 131-143)
‘GEOLOGICAL REPORT (Mesopotamia) No 2. PRELIMINARY NOTES ON THE JABAL HAMRIN’, 1919 (f 143)
‘GEOLOGICAL REPORT (Mesopotamia) No 1 ON THE DISTRICT OF QAIYARAH [Al Qayyarah]’, 1919 (ff 146-151)
‘APPENDIX. Translation of a Captured Document. Report of a Tour to the Coal Area and Petroleum Springs in the Zone of the Sixth L. of C. Inspectorate’, 1919 (ff 156-158)
‘No 13. Notes on the Jabal Gilabat [Qilabat] between Chinchal-al-Kabir and Qarah Tappah’, 1919 (f 164)
‘No 14. Notes on the Jabal Hamrin between Qarah Tappah and Table Mountain’, 1919 (ff 164v-167)
‘No. 10. Notes on the Geology of the Country between Tazah Khurmatu and Tauq [Tukhama Khulu]’, 1919 (ff 182-185)
‘REPORTS ON THE PROSPECTS OF PETROLEUM IN THE BAGHDAD WILAYAT [Vilayet]’, 1918 (ff 187-201)
‘Report No 9. Oil in the Kirkuk Anticline’, 1919 (ff 204-205)
‘No 3. Report on the Prospects of Obtaining Oil in the Jab-al-Khanuqah, S.E. of Sharqat [Ash Sharqat]’, 1918 (f 207)
‘No 4. Prospects of Obtaining Oil in the Jab-al-Qaiyarah and its continuation, the Jab-al-Najmah’, 1919 (ff 208-209)
‘No 5. Possibilities of Obtaining Oil in the Jab-al-Mishrak [Al Mishraq] and Country West of Hammam Ali [Hammam al Ali]’, 1919 (ff 210-211)
‘No 6. The Country between Mosul and Quwair [Al Kuwayr] on the Greater Zab, and its Prospects as Oil-producing Territory’, 1919 (ff 211v-212)
‘Report No 7. Sulphur near the Confluence of the Greater Zab with the Tigris’, 1919 (f 213)
‘No 8. Prospects of Obtaining Oil in the Quwair Dome’, 1919 (ff 213-214)
‘Appendix to Report No. 4, on the Jab-al-Qaiyarah Oil-field’, 1919 (f 214v)
‘Report on the prospects of obtaining Oil in the Jabal-Hamrin and Jabal- Makhul between Tikrit and Sharqat’, 1918 (ff 217-218)
‘Odd Notes on the Country between Tikrit and the Jabal-Hamrin and Jabal Makhul’, 1918 (ff 219-220)
‘PRELIMINARY REPORT ON THE PROSPECTS OF PETROLEUM IN THE BAGHDAD WILAYAT’, 1918 (ff 233-236).

Also included in the volume are the following maps and geological drawings:

‘TO ACCOMPANY GEOLOGICAL REPORT MESOPOTAMIA No 8’, 1920 (f 20)
‘To ACCOMPANY GEOLOGICAL REPORT MESOPOTAMIA No 8 ON THE SULAIMANIYAH DISTRICT’, 1920 (f 21)
‘TO ACCOMPANY GEOLOGICAL REPORT MESOPOTAMIA No: 7a. THE WATER RESOURCES OF THE MANDALI-BADRAH DISTRICT’, 1920 (f 30)
‘GEOLOGICAL REPORT (MESOPOTAMIA) No 7 NOTES ON THE UNDERGROUND WATER RESOURCES OF NORTHERN MESOPOTAMIA’, 1920 (f 31)
‘TO ACCOMPANY GEOLOGICAL REPORT No 6’, 1920 (f 44)
‘TRANSVERSE SECTION. JABAL HAMRIN’ (f 88)
‘Diagrammatic Section across Jabal Hamrine [Hamrin] in the Table mountain area, shewing [showing] relationship of Pos Tertray [Post-Tertiary] Gravel to the Tertainis [Tertaries]’ (f 168)
‘Red Clay & Sandstone Series Transverse section across Jabal Gilbat’ (f 169)
‘QĀRAH TAPPAH’, 1918 (f 170)
‘CHINCHĀL-TALISHĀN’, 1918 (f 172)
‘SHAHRABĀN’, 1917 (f 174)
‘MANSURĪYAH AL JABAL’, 1918 (f 176)
‘1 Diagrammatic Section N[orth]. of the Tuz Khurmatu’ (f 183)
‘2 Diagrammatic Section oposite [sic] Sulaiman Beg, just N[orth]. of the stream’ (f 183)
‘3 Diagrammatic Section oposite [sic] Sulaiman Beg just S[outh]. of the Stream’ (f 183v)
‘Transverse Section across Jabal Nasaz near Gil’ (f 185)
‘GEOLOGICAL MAP OF NAFT KHANA DISTRICT OF MESOPOTAMIA’ (f 198)
‘THE PETROLEUM DEPOSITS OF HIT’ (f 199)
‘GEOLOGICAL RECONNAISSANCE IN N.E. MESOPOTAMIA’ (f 200)
‘SECTION FROM SHAHRABAN TO CHAH SURKH [Chiya Surkh]’ (f 201)
Transverse Section Maps of Jabal Hamrin and Jabal Makhul (f 220).

The volume comprises internal correspondence between British officials of different departments. The principal correspondents are: the Civil Commissioner, Baghdad; the Under-Secretary of State, India Office; the Political Agent, Baghdad; officers of the Imperial Mineral Resources Bureau; and officers from the Petroleum Department.

The volume includes a divider which gives the subject number, the year the subject file was opened, the subject heading, and a list of correspondence references by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.

Collection Area:

India Office Records and Private Papers

Project / Collection:

India Office Records
Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-000538283
036-000544688
040-000546033

Is part of:

IOR/L/PS : Political and Secret Department Records
IOR/L/PS/10 : Departmental Papers: Political and Secret Separate (or Subject) Files

IOR/L/PS/10/815 : File 1450/1919 ‘Mesopotamia & Kurdistan: Geological Reports on’

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Hierarchy:

032-000538283[0010]/036-000544688[0816]/040-000546033

Container:

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Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

1 volume (244 folios)

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Languages:

English

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1918

End Date:

1922

Date Range:

1 Dec 1917-26 Jun 1922

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 246; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.

Former External References:

P 1450/1919

Arrangement:

The volume’s contents are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the volume.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Public Record(s)

Names:

Civil Commissioner, Mesopotamia, 1917-1920
Imperial Mineral Resources Bureau, 1919-1925

Subjects:

Geological data
Geological surveys
Oil
Reports

Places:

Kurdistan, Middle East, Asia
Mesopotamia, Asia Minor