500-MILES OIL PIPE-LINE
MEDITERRANEAN TO IRAQ JAFFA, Palestine, May 31. A large survey party has loft Amman, Transjordania, with 11 specially equipped motor-cars to conduct a preliminary survey for the laying- of an oil pipe-line from the Mesopotamian oilfield across the Great Arabian Desert to the Mediterranean. "The expedition is iiuauceil by the Turkish Petroleum Co., Ltd.. It is staled that the Mediterranean terminus of the lino will be Haifa, in the Bay of Acre. Tho Turkish Petroleum Co., Ltd., in October, 1912, acquired a concession granted to the Deutsche Batik by the Turkish Government to work oil deposits over 90,000 square, miles in the Mosul and Bagdad provinces, Iraq. Tintteen years later, in 1925, a convention was'signed by the Iraq Government grauling the company a concession for 75 years. A period of three year* was allowed for survey and the selection of 2-1 plots of eight square miles each. Drilling operations began in 1926 at Palkliana, 125 miles north of Bagdad, and if this spot were linked with Haifa the pipe-lino would be more than 500 miles long. The Anglo-Persian Oil Co., Ltd., holds 474 per oent. interest in the company and the Royal Dutch Shell combine 22} per cent.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16704, 23 July 1928, Page 10
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201500-MILES OIL PIPE-LINE Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16704, 23 July 1928, Page 10
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