File 3877/1912 Pt 5 ‘Turkey in Asia: oil interests’
- Holding institution:
- British Library. India Office Records and Private Papers
- Data provider:
- Qatar National Library
- Title:
- File 3877/1912 Pt 5 ‘Turkey in Asia: oil interests’
- Date:
- 1914/1917
- Description:
- Abstract: 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 anticipation of post-war agreements. The principal correspondents are: the Assistant Undersecretary to the Foreign Office (Sir Maurice William Ernest de Bunsen); Secretary of the Political Department of the India Office (Sir Arthur Hirtzel); the Director of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC, Charles Greenway).The correspondence includes:discussion of the elimination of German interests in Turkey and Arabia;the split between Britain and France of former Ottoman territories;existing APOC claims in the Mesopotamian vilayets of Mosul and Baghdad;Shell Royal Dutch Group’s claims in the Mesopotamian oil concessions.Physical description: The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front.
- Language:
- English
- Type:
- Archival item
- Type (Narrower):
- Other Texts
- Type (Broader):
- Text
- Subject:
- Concessions, Oil, Iraq
Petroleum industry
Imperialism
First World War (1914-1918)
Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Company
Royal Dutch Shell, oil company - Geographic region:
- Mesopotamia
- Rights:
- رخصة المشاع الإبداعي لأغراض غير تجارية
- Identifier:
- 81055/vdc_100035703953.0x000003_ar
81055/vdc_100035703953.0x000003_en
IOR/L/PS/10/302/3
IOR/L/PS/10/302/3