Background
On 19 March 1914, the British and German governments had signed an agreement whereby the interest of National Bank of Turkey in TPC was transferred to APOC. The newly reconstituted TPC then applied for a concession for Mesopotamian oil which was granted subject to various conditions at which point World War I intervened. In December 1918, the British expropriated the 25% share of Deutsche Bank in TPC.Earle, Edward Meade 1924 The Turkish Petroleum Company:A Study in Oleaginous Diplomacy Political Science Quarterly, vol. 39, no. 2, pp. 265-279 It was this latter share that was ultimately to be given to the French under the San Remo oil agreement. There were prior abortive attempts at an agreement, preliminary and then final version of the Long-Bérenger Agreement,Marian Kent 1976 Oil & Empire:British Policy and Mesopotamian Oil 1900-1920 Macmillan Press then the Greenwood-Bérenger Agreement before the final San Remo version. All versions can be seen at. The agreement delimited the oil interests in Russia and Romania, British ( British Mandate of Mesopotamia) and French colonies. The initial agreement takes the names of the British petroleum minister, Sir Walter Long, and the French petroleum minister, Henri Bérenger, who negotiated the agreement.G. Gareth Jones (1977). The British Government and the Oil Companies 1912–1924: the Search for an Oil Policy. The Historical Journal, 20, pp 647-672 doi:10.1017/S0018246X00011286See also
* Partitioning of the Ottoman EmpireNotes
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