OIL FROM IRAK
GREAT PIPE LINE
OFFICIAL OPENING
PARTY FLYING FROM LONDON
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(Received January 5. 2'. 15 p.m.) LONDON, Jan. 4.
The Daily Telegraph states that. a 42-seater Imperial Airways air liner will leave Croydon to-morrow to take a party to Irak and back.
The. largest aeroplane ever privately chartered in England, it will take a party of guests to Irak for the official opening of the pipe lines which will carry oil from Kirkuk to Tripoli and Haifa.
The flight will be made ""in 3GO or 400-inile daily stages. The guests will eat and sleep at hotels. The King of Irak will perform the first opening ceremony at Kirkuk on January 14, and after this- there will be ceremonies in Damascus, Tripoli, JUid Haifa, with the iinal function at Amman.
The pipe-line, 620 miles long, stretches from the Irak oilfields through British mandated territory to Haifa, Palestine. This completes 'a £IO,CCO,COO scheme to obtain oil from Irak without tanking it through the Suez Canal. The line starts from Kirkuk, in an area administered by the Irak Petroleum Company. •V double, line of piping runs 150 miles into the desert of Haditha, where it branches, one line going through French mandated territory to Tripoli and the other to Haifa.
The entire pipc-liuo has a total length of 12C0 miles. It crosses the Tigrjg, the Euphrates and the Jordan. It is capable of taking 4.000,0C0 tons of oil a, year. About 40 wells already are in action on the Irak field.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18596, 5 January 1935, Page 6
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