IRAQ OILFIELDS
PIPELINE TO SEABOARD. COMPANY NEGOTIATING. (British Official Wireless.) (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) RUGBY, February 10. (Received Feb. 11, at 5.5 p.m. In replying to a question in the House of Commons on the negotiations between the Iraq Petroleum Company and the Iraq Government concerning a pipeline which the company proposes to construct, connecting the Iraq oilfields with the Meriterranean seaboard, the Under-Sec-retary for the Colonies (Dr Drummond Shiels) said he could not say whether an agreement had been reached, and, though the company had negotiated, agreements with the governments of Palestine and Transjordan, the final decision as to the construction of the pipeline must depend upon the outcome of the negotiations with Iraq. It is understood that the proppsal is for a pipeline which would be a fork, one branch reaching the sea at Tripolis and the other near Haifa, in Palestine. The agreement with the Palestine Government was published last week in Jerusalem.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21258, 12 February 1931, Page 9
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