Iraq Petroleum Company (15 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. A rare piece of Iraq Petroleum Company, Litvak and Mandatory Palestine labour history. Original brown cloth black printed "I.P.C. / No. 1509" with oatmeal lace tie 63x96mm. (1)pp title page, 11pp printed forms, each page individually inkstamped 1509. Near fine with some neat ms entries and the bearer's b/w photo which has come loose and is laid in. This was issued on 18 March 1933 during construction of IPC's pipeline connecting Kirkuk to two major new maritime terminals on the Mediterranean coast. Work began in 1932, and finished over a year ahead of schedule with the first oil reaching Tripoli in June 1934, and Haifa in October 1934. Haifa was already an important industrial centre, and the IPC terminal involved developing major new infrastructure. The bearer is Josef Levite, a Lithuanian Jewish electrician (Head Gd V), resident in the house of Dr Rosemberg on Nordo (Nordau) Street in Haifa's Hadar Hacarmel Quarter. His referee is Mr Yehuda Azoulai at the IPC Commissariat in Haifa (p1). His photo is IPC inkstamped (p2). A single entry in his Medical Report states the Medical Officer passed him fit with a smallpox vaccination on 17.3.33 (p3). The pages recording prior IPC service are blank suggesting he is a new employee (pp4-11). They ask about category, rate of pay, dates, ability, character, reason of discharge, with space for remarks. Levite's recruitment came shortly after the launch of the Association of Lithuanian Jews in Palestine (1932), a cooperative helping new migrants. By 1935, around 18,000 Litvaks were resident in Palestine with Haifa a major destination. IPC's employment practices at Haifa were coming under scrutiny at this time. Responding to questions put by the Histadrut to the Palestine High Commission, the Colonial Secretary informed the House of Commons on 30 March 1933 that the Palestine Government is happy with IPC's assurance that it is "applying fair conditions in respect of all labour, Arab or Jew, in their employ". Less then two years later, several hundred Arab and Jewish IPC workers in Haifa jointly struck over pay, hours and conditions. (Ref: Cypaite-Gile, "I go where they go", Journal of Eurasian Studies, 2024; Hansard 30 March 1933; Jewish Voice for Labour, "Palestinian Workers Have a Long History of Resistance", 2021).

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 160. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1934 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Volume 1934 Language: English Pages: 160 Volume 1934.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. Kirkuk. Iraq Petroleum Company Limited. Large pictorial oil industry map. 1952. Produced by Newman Neame Maps Ltd., London, November 1952. Large-format pictorial promotional map of the Iraq Petroleum Company operations at Kirkuk. Decoratively designed in a mid-century modern style with inset illustrations of industrial facilities, housing, pipelines, workshops and public amenities associated with the Kirkuk oilfields. Colour lithograph. Folded as issued. Sheet size: 95.2cm x 60cm. Short marginal tear with tiny loss to upper left margin not affecting image. Very good indeed with bright original colour. A scarce and visually striking petroleum industry map from the early Cold War era.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good Plus. Banias. Iraq Petroleum Company Limited. 1952 pictorial oil terminal map . Produced by Newman Neame Maps Ltd., London, November 1952. Large colour pictorial map of Banias and the Iraq Petroleum Company sea terminal for the Kirkuk pipeline. Decorative mid-century commercial cartography showing harbour facilities, storage tanks, pipelines, shipping routes and surrounding landscape. Original colour lithograph. Folded as issued. Sheet size: 95.4cm x 60cm. Light wear along folds only. Very good indeed with bright fresh colour. An uncommon and visually striking petroleum industry map relating to Syrian and Iraqi oil infrastructure during the post-war period.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. Original b/w photo 26x21cm, with ink stamps and printed caption to the verso. Very good, lightly worn. This was issued by IPC's Photographic & Printing Dept with their stamp to the verso. The caption, dated 16 May 1962, states: "This unique marine structure, built for the Basrah Petroleum Co. at a cost of £22 million is 1300ft. long and 240 ft. wide and stands in 80 ft. of water. The terminal can accommodate two Super Tankers simultaneously". This photo was acquired by the Daily Telegraph for its Picture Library, with their "Received May 1962" stamp.

3rd Edition. 152 pages. Octavo. Bound in the original light grey cloth with red insignia stamped to the front board and red lettering to the spine. Twenty-seven B/W plates from photographs, six maps and one genealogical chart. Boards slightly bowed; some wear to spine. Bookplate of the British Council, Baghdad on the front pastedown, as well as an ink stamp of the British Inst on the front free end paper. Illegible inscription also "with the compliments". Overall,a clean and bright copy. A scarce book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Black 12-ring binder gilt-titled to front 24x29cm. Approx (137)pp including Contents (1)pp, Legend and Explanation (4)pp, and logs for 65 wells of which 63 are (2)pp each and 2 are (3)pp each, printed single-sided in colour and b/w on facing pages. The binder is very good with handling marks, the interiors near fine with all logs present. This extremely rare and detailed in-house operational manual would have been used by IPC's geologists and managers. There is only one reference to it online (in Al Anzi et al, Siliciclastic Reservoirs of the Arabian Plate, AAPG, 2019, Chapter 7). The Contents are dated 23 October 1961 with each log dated individually during 1960-61, which facilitated regular replacement and updating when needed. The date is significant as it follows OPEC's creation (Sept 1960), and the enactment of Law 80 by Qasim's government which took 99.5% of the IPC concession without compensation, immediately halting exploration (12 Dec 1960). This did not affect Zubair and Kirkuk, but brought other territories under state control, with the Iraq National Oil Company formed in Feb 1964 to operate them. IPC came under increasing pressure in the 1960s, and was finally nationalised in 1972. The logs are arranged alphabetically from Adaiyah 1 to Zubair 38, each consisting of a Graphic Summary, and a Synopsis of Gas, Oil and Water shows. The Graphic Summary gives map reference, scale, spudding and completion dates and durations, total depth, objective, results, present status, details on production tests, and compilation date. The Synopsis features two geological sections with detailed annotations, one showing findings at each depth, the other based on the age of each "rock unit". An example from Kirkuk 116 - Objective: "Sited as a Cretaceous test on the Avanah dome of the Kirkuk structure. After testing the most promising intervals of the Cretaceous, drilling was continued to the limit of capacity without reaching the Jurassic". Result: "The Shiranish was not fractured and was dry. Heavy dark unproducible oil was found in the Mushorah. The Upper Qanchuga / Jawan was water-logged, with a small show of heavy gravity oil in its upper part. No production was obtained from the Lower Cretaceous". Present status: "Plugged to 3,525 feet, blanked-off and abandoned". Examples of production tests from other logs: "test failed", "no fluid ingress", "retaining valve leaked" etc.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Silver card presentation folder titled in red and black 31x23cm opening to reveal two silver IPC monogrammed envelopes containing 3 colourful and attractively drawn pictorial maps, and the "Iraq Oil in 1951" report. Folder good with some wear, Map 1 very good with short closed fold tears, Maps 2 and 3 near fine lightly creased, report very good with sections coming loose. Very rare. Worldcat lists each map individually at the Library of Congress only (OCLC 889845752, 846851474, 975830778), and 7 locations for the report (Harvard, Columbia, Stanford, NYPL, Rolvaag Memorial Library, Emory University, Seattle Public Library), none on Jisc. IPC PIPELINES: IPC built its Mediterranean Pipeline from Kirkuk to Haifa and Tripoli in 1932-35. This set celebrates significant upscaling with the completion of a new 30-inch pipeline from Kirkuk to Banias in Syria in 1952. REPORT: colour illustrated staple-bound wraps 21x26cm, 33pp illustrated in colour and b/w, dated July 1952. This leads on the pipeline, stating 308 miles (55%) had been laid down and Kirkuk's facilities expanded to take an extra 14 million tons. Gibson, IPC's MD, reports on major expansion in the Basrah Concession, agreement to share profits 50/50 with the Iraqi Government (in contrast to the troubling developments in Iran (not mentioned)), and commitment to use 70% of revenues for agricultural development. Maps show sea and pipeline routes and operations, and photos show Iraqi royalty and VIPs, IPC top brass, and various activities. MAP 1: "Pictorial Map of the Operations of the Iraq, Basrah & Mosul Petroleum Companies in the Middle East", V. (Victor) Coverley-Price, c1952, 78 x 55cm. No scale. Alongside the modern world of oil installations and transportation, this shows major cities and towns, Islamic and pre-Islamic sites (Kerbala, Ctesiphon, Babylon, Baalbek, Palmyra etc), agricultural activities, Bedouin (black tents, camels and camel riders), traditional sailing craft, with relief shown by shading and pictorially, within an illustrated frame showing by Arab and foreign pipeline workers, their tools and transport. Coverley-Price (1901-88) was a professional diplomat, painter and writer. MAP 2: "Iraq Petroleum Company Limited - Kirkuk", 95 x 59cm, drawn by FH Reitz and J Varney, produced by Newman Neame Maps Ltd London, printed in Nov 1952 in time for the inauguration, scale approx 6 inches to 1 mile. This shows Kirkuk on either side of the Khassa River with major buildings, public gardens, new residential areas, New Industrial Area, Tank Farm, KI Pump Station, old and new airfields etc. Inset circular drawings show offices, sports ground, Technical Institute, gardens, crematorium, Horton spheres at night, hospital, Zab Bridge, trainees, and the Eternal Fires (Baba Gurgur). Other features include railway, roads, brick fields, wells, the degassing station, Iraqi settlements (Old Baba, Choplije, and Shurau) somewhat lost among the modern sprawl, Iraq's Royal Coat of Arms and inset map showing its relative position. MAP 3: "Iraq Petroleum Company Limited - Banias, Sea Terminal of the 30 inch Pipe Line from Kirkuk", 95 x 60cm, also by Reitz, Varney, Newman Neame, printed Nov 1952, scale 15 inches to 1 mile. This shows Banias to the west of major installations straddling the Jobar, Hryssoun, and Sourite Rivers, including the tank farm, pipeline, harbour, industrial and residential areas. Inset circular illustrations show Maraob Crusader Castle, Banias' school, offices, signal station, canteen, and workers hauling sea lines aboard. Other features include sea lines connecting the pipeline to tankers offshore, roads, a rough impression of fields and woodlands, the Syria's coat of arms and inset map its location. Reitz is known for his work with BOAC (with Varney), and the British Transport Commission.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Black 12-ring binder gilt-titled to the front with printed title label to the spine 24x29cm. 7pp preliminaries (title, contents, abbreviations, 2 legends on folding sheets numbered N839-845) + 118pp colour maps, charts and tables (some with multiple leaves or folding) organised by 4 tabbed section dividers (General, IPC, BPC, MPC) + (4)pp section contents. The binder is good, worn to the extremities with handling marks. The interiors are near fine and complete, with manuscript note "EP/21. Room 408" to the main title, and a couple of discreet pencil annotations. The General Information includes 2 additional unindexed full-page maps between pp6-7 (Summary of Wells drilled in North / South Iraq). This extremely rare and confidential in-house manual would have been used by IPC's senior managers and geologists to assist with their planning and decision making. No other references to it were found online. The title is dated June 1964, with some content dated earlier. The date is significant as it follows OPEC's creation (Sept 1960), and the enactment of Law 80 by Qasim's government which took 99.5% of the IPC concession without compensation, immediately halting exploration (12 Dec 1960). This did not affect Zubair and Kirkuk, but brought other territories under state control, with the Iraq National Oil Company formed in Feb 1964 to operate them. IPC came under increasing pressure in the 1960s, and was finally nationalised in 1972. The General Information compares all companies within the group. Maps on a scale of 1:3,000,000 separate out North and South Iraq, with index maps, summary of wells drilled, and Seismic and Gravity Surveys. Charts identify the "rock units" which have paid off, seismic survey operating statistics, progress for development wells and for exploration wells, drilling progress since 1 Jan 1957, expenditures for 1927-63, and average daily production in barrels since 1952. The IPC, BPC and MPC sections include topographical maps on a scale of approx 17 miles to 1 inch for North and South Iraq (showing the pipeline, railway, roads, anticlines, oil field boundaries, number of wells, colour shaded heights etc). There are contour maps (full-page, double-page or folding) for Kirkuk, Jambur, Bai Hassan, Lower Fars, Zubair-Tuba, Rumaila, Ain Zalah, Butmah, and Qaiyarah Oasis. There are related section drawings for wells and for reservoir characteristics, stratigraphic diagrams, elevation diagrams, reservoir behaviour, advance of injected water, production systems, data sheets, well correlation tables, etc.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. Original unpublished b/w photo 62x88mm, printed on Velox paper with handwritten caption to verso. Very good, lightly worn. The photo shows the front section of a De Havilland DH.89 Dragon Rapide in a hangar, with a mother and child seated in the cockpit. The caption states "Taken at the aerodrome in one of 'Daddy's' aeroplanes". Undated, but this Velox logo was used in the 1930s-40s, and IPC was using this particular aircraft (manufactured during 1934-46) from 1934 onwards. IPC created the Iraq Petroleum Transport Company to patrol its Pipeline from Kirkuk to Haifa, and transport personnel and equipment to remote areas.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. An operational reference work likely for the management of the IPC and its associated companies, issued in the lead up to the nationalisation of the IPC, and independence for Abu Dhabi and Qatar. It is composed of loose printed leaves 10x17cm 4-hole punched with twist ties, apparently to facilitate adding or removing sections, as shown below. There is no cover, title page or explanatory text, and it opens with the Contents (1)pp, which are undated, suggesting a generic format. This is followed by individually numbered sections containing tables of operations related data for the Iraq Petroleum Company (IPC.1-18); Qatar (Q.1-4); Abu Dhabi (AD1-4); Middle East (ME1-6); World (W1-13), and 3 maps as called for (IPC BPC MPC Main Pipeline System, Qatar, Abu Dhabi), two of which are dated June 1971. The data goes up to 1970 or Jan 1971. Time series data starts in 1949, 1950s, or 1960s. All pages are present except for W11-13 (see below). However, there are many extra leaves with second sets of IPC.9-10, IPC.15-16, IPC.17-18, Q.3, and W.1-10, giving data for the previous year. IPC: includes exports, production, refinery intakes, terminal shipments, Iraq government revenues, Iraq government "take", payments to Syria and Lebanon, production data, drilling, fluid injection into reservoirs, pipelines, destinations of Iraq oil, and personnel. QATAR and ABU DHABI: production, shipments, tankers, govt revenue and take, drilling (wells, status, footage drilled), production and QPC and ADPC exports. MIDDLE EAST: production, posted prices. WORLD: reserves, production, consumption, refineries, tankers, trade. The missing leaves are W11-11a (calorific equivalent) and W12-13 (conversion factors).

No Binding. Condition: Good. Four original b/w photos, each approx 23x18cm, with white borders, with highly abbreviated pencil captions to the versos. Good to very good with pinholes and minor loss to corners of one (not affecting image). No photographer or publisher is indicated, but probably IPC, as they show aerial views of installations along its Mediterranean Pipeline from Kirkuk to Haifa. They may have been taken by the IPC's Iraq Petroleum Transport Company, which was responsible for patrolling the pipeline, and transporting people and equipment to remote places. Captions are as follows: "K1 25-5-49". K1 was the pipeline pumping station at Kirkuk. / "A 4050 Iraq Petroleum", nd, c1949-51 / "8560 Iraq 1951" / "5849 Iraq 1951".

No Binding. Condition: Good. Niello cigarette case 12 x 8cm, unstamped sterling silver, hinged, with a push button release mechanism. Good condition, tarnished (unpolished) with some small dents. The hinges and mechanism work smoothly. The cloth bands inside are no longer present. This was probably commissioned by or gifted to somebody who had worked on the construction of the pipeline. The upper panel features a detailed map titled "Mediterranean Pipeline 1931-1934", apparently reproduced from an IPC map. It features a grid numbered 34-46 and 32-36. It shows the frontiers for Iraq, Transjordania, Syria, and Palestine, the pipeline route from Kirkuk to Haifa and Tripoli with pumping stations labelled, railways, major cities and towns, historic sites, and natural features including wadis and rivers. The lower panel features a romanticised river view possibly of Basrah with palm trees, a dhow, and mosque on the far bank.

No Binding. Condition: Very Good. Watercolour on paper with visible size 34x21cm, mounted in a glazed wooden frame 54x43cm, with printed label to the back. The artwork appears to be very good with some spotting and foxing. The frame has wear at the edges, and is still sealed at the back. The label is brittle and partially destroyed. The artist's name is not visible, however, the label credits IPC as the "Artist", suggesting it was commissioned by the company. It was framed by the famous James Bourlet and Sons (17 & 18 Nassau Street, London W1), and may possibly have hung in IPC's offices to attractively evoke its activities in remote areas. Ain Zalah lies northwest of Mosul, and Kirkuk's prolific fields, all of which form part of the Zagros fold. "Alan" refers to the Alan Anticline. The painting is undated, but surveys at Ain Zalah began in 1938 after the Kirkuk discoveries, with oil first struck in 1939. Drilling stopped in 1941 due to WW2, then resumed with 13 new wells drilled between 1947 and 1951 (see AAPG, "Ain Zalah Field - Iraq Zagros Folded Zone, Northern Iraq"). The painting shows a small simple building and two drums set in stony ground by the side of the river, with a backdrop of mountains. A car is parked in the shade of the building with a figure beside it, and donkeys rooting around in meager earth. The fairly rudimentary nature of the operation may suggest the painting is based on its early days, hence the estimated date of 1939.

Folio (212 x 298 mm). 25 ff. Contemporary brown leatherette binding with giltstamped cover-title. The original Joint Venture Agreement between the state-owned Iraqi Drilling Company (IDC) and the Mesopotamia Petroleum Company (MPC), with the autograph signatures of Idriss Muhsen Al-Yassiri, General Director of IDC, Stephen Remp, Director of MPC and its associate Ramco Energy, and Peter Redman, Director of Midmar Energy and Firstdrill, other associate companies of MPC. - This joint venture, known as the Iraqi Oil Services Company LLC (IOSCO), was created with the objective of drilling 60 new wells each year in the Republic of Iraq, thus significantly increasing oil and gas production. This groundbreaking deal was the first joint venture of its kind between the Iraqi Ministry of Oil and a foreign oil company since the fall of the regime of Saddam Hussein in 2003. On 7 July 2009, IDC terminated the agreement after MPC failed to fulfil financial obligations. MPC was unable to confirm funding of $44.1 million to meet the initial capital commitments to preserve its 49 percent stake in the venture. - Handwritten addition by Stephen Remp on fol. 4 specifying the territory of the joint venture: "(i.e. Missan Province or any other Provinces to be mutually agreed by The Parties.) [.]". - In mint condition.