Papers pertaining to Middle East ventures of the Mobil Oil Corporation [manuscript], 1951-1960.

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Papers pertaining to Middle East ventures of the Mobil Oil Corporation [manuscript], 1951-1960.

Papers of the Mobil Oil Corporation and its Middle East petroleum ventures cover the period of the greatest expansion of international oil comapnies and their influence in the middle east before the nationalization of the oil industry. Additional oil companies mentioned include the Arabian American Oil Company, the British Petroleum Company, Iranian Oil Participants, and the Iraq Petroleum Company. Topics mentined include the expansion and influence of western oil companies in the Middle East; the Suez Canal Crisis, 1956; purchase of Safaniya crude oil and the Ras Tanura Refinery; Tapline, the Trans-Arabian Pipeline Company and the crude oil pipeline to the Mediterranean.

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