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    The D'Arcy Concession (Persian: امتیازنامه دارسی, romanized: qarârdâdeh Darsi) was a petroleum oil concession that was signed in 1901 between William Knox...
    27 KB (4,032 words) - 14:34, 28 May 2024
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    name National Iranian Oil Company. In 1901, William Knox D'Arcy, a millionaire London socialite, negotiated an oil concession with Mozaffar al-Din Shah...
    48 KB (6,227 words) - 13:54, 5 June 2024
  • The Barco oil concession was one of the main concessions in Colombia during the early development of its petroleum industry, the other being the De Mares...
    15 KB (1,781 words) - 15:20, 2 July 2023
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    taking on the concession. He found help from Gulf Oil. In 1927, Gulf Oil took control of the concessions that Holmes made years ago. But Gulf Oil was a partner...
    13 KB (1,678 words) - 13:22, 30 April 2024
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    important concessions during the reigns of Nasseredin shah and his successor Mozaffareddin shah. He was in particular the initiator of the oil concession granted...
    32 KB (4,876 words) - 13:50, 16 April 2024
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    the oil and petrochemical industry in Persia (Iran). The D’Arcy Concession was signed in 1901 and allowed D'Arcy to explore, obtain, and market oil, natural...
    10 KB (1,213 words) - 17:33, 28 May 2024
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    chairman in 1935. The next year he arranged for Texaco to buy the Barco oil concession in Colombia. Over the next three years he oversaw the major engineering...
    21 KB (2,668 words) - 14:02, 18 April 2024
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    British and Iraqi negotiators held acrimonious discussions over the new oil concession. The major obstacle was Iraq's insistence on a 20 percent equity participation...
    26 KB (2,944 words) - 19:53, 25 May 2024
  • Arabs as "Abu Naft" (the Father of Oil), was a British-New Zealand mining engineer, geologist and oil concession hunter. Following distinguished service...
    12 KB (1,710 words) - 19:09, 30 December 2023
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    BP (redirect from BP (oil company))
    to explore oil in Mesopotamia (now Iraq); and by 1914, APOC held 50% of TPC shares. In 1925, TPC received concession in the Mesopotamian oil resources...
    266 KB (25,616 words) - 03:21, 28 May 2024
  • Iraq Petroleum Company (category Oil and gas companies of Iraq)
    contained substantial reservoirs of oil. Since Mesopotamia was an Ottoman possession, early negotiations for an oil concession centered in the empire's capital...
    42 KB (5,073 words) - 08:31, 4 April 2024
  • maintain his hold on power but when he secretly signed a lucrative oil concession with Petroleum Development Ltd, outraged family members conspired to...
    8 KB (1,030 words) - 06:04, 28 January 2024
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    In Colombia, Gulf purchased the Barco oil concession in 1926. The government of Colombia revoked the concession the same year, but after much negotiation...
    55 KB (6,844 words) - 05:00, 15 May 2024
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    TotalEnergies (redirect from Total oil)
    Iraq Petroleum Company (IPC), 23.75 percent owned by Total, signed an oil concession agreement with the Sultan of Muscat. IPC offered financial support to...
    76 KB (7,776 words) - 08:05, 31 May 2024
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    (KPC). The oil concession rights were awarded to the company on 23 December 1934, and it started its drilling operations in 1936. The first oil discovery...
    8 KB (755 words) - 16:09, 6 June 2024
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    many concessions, providing foreigners with monopolistic control of various Persian industries and markets. One example was the D'Arcy Oil Concession. Widespread...
    18 KB (1,957 words) - 17:33, 28 May 2024
  • discovery of oil and the erecting of the first oil well in the middle east by D'Arcy's concession. In 1900, he agreed to fund a search for oil and minerals...
    29 KB (2,836 words) - 00:00, 14 May 2024
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    Pan American Petroleum and Transport Company (category Defunct oil companies of the United States)
    government oil concession. Standard Oil of Indiana obtained a majority stake in 1925. The company sold its foreign properties to Standard Oil of New Jersey...
    17 KB (2,243 words) - 17:58, 13 April 2024
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    palm oil concessions have been awarded to 44 companies. 60% of the awarded concessions consist of forests and native vegetation, and some concessions overlap...
    95 KB (10,187 words) - 06:57, 8 June 2024
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    dissatisfaction with the royalty terms of the British petroleum concession, under the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC), whereby Persia received 16% of "net profits"...
    137 KB (16,874 words) - 15:38, 7 June 2024
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