Coll 17/21 ‘Iraq. Oil in – ’
- Holding institution:
- British Library. India Office Records and Private Papers
- Data provider:
- Qatar National Library
- Title:
- Coll 17/21 ‘Iraq. Oil in – ’
- Date:
- 1932/1935
- Description:
- Abstract: 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 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 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.Physical description: 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 side of each folio. A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.
- Language:
- English
- Type:
- Archival file
- Type (Narrower):
- Other Texts
- Type (Broader):
- Text
- Subject:
- Oil
Pipelines
Concessions, Oil, Iraq
British Oil Development Company - Geographic region:
- Mosul
Haifa
Kirkuk - Rights:
- رخصة المشاع الإبداعي لأغراض غير تجارية
- Identifier:
- 81055/vdc_100000000602.0x0001a9_ar
81055/vdc_100000000602.0x0001a9_en
IOR/L/PS/12/2882
IOR/L/PS/12/2882