British Mandate: A Survey of Palestine: Volume II - Page 970

CHAPTER XXV.

and all works ancillary thereto was granted to the Company. The concession, which is for a period of seventy years, is for the purpose of transporting crude oil from the frontier of Iraq to a terminal point on the coast of Palestine hy means of a pipeline or pipelines traversing the territory of Palestine. The Convention stated that "the pipeline shall terminate in Acre Bay, provided that if it be found impracticable for the pipeline to terminate in the locality aforesaid it shall terminate at such point on the coast of Palestine as may be agreed between the High Commissioner and the Company". The Company has not yet implemented this Convention by the construction of a pipeline.

By a supplemental Convention dated 10th March, 1938, the right to construct, maintain and operate one or more oil refineries and ancillary works within a period of five years was granted to the Company together with the right to load or unload oil into and from vessels within the oil dock at Haifa Harbour. In accordance with Article XXVI of the original Convention, the High Commissioner consented to the assignment by the Company to the Consolidated Refineries Limited of such of the interests and powers conferred on the Anglo-Iranian Company by the original and supplemental Conventions as required for the construction, maintenance and operation of a refinery at Haifa, including the import and export of mineral oils. The refinery was constructed in 1939.

The two concessions were validated by the Anglo-Iranian Oil Conventions Ordinance 1938 in the schedules to which they are set out in full*.

A Convention similar to that made on 18th October, 1933 with the Government of Palestine was made on 26th September, 1933, between the Government of Trans-Jordan and the Company for the purpose of regulating the conveyance of mineral oils through the territory of Trans-Jordan**.

4. The Iraq Petroleum Company's Conventions. By a Convention dated 5th January, Hl31, between the High Commissioner for Palestine and the Iraq Petroleum Company Limited the right to construct, maintain and operate one or more pipelines and ancillary works was granted to the Company. The concession is for a period of seventy years. It provided that the pipelines should terminate in Acre Bay, if this was practicable. One pipeline, running from a point on the Jordan some fifteen kilometres south of Lake Tiberias to Acre Bay, was completed in 1933 and storage
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* Laws of 1938, Vol. I. page 108.

** Trans-Jordan Regulation, 1934, Page 95.

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