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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...
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    Iranian Oil Company. In 1901, William Knox D'Arcy, a millionaire London socialite, negotiated an oil concession with Mozaffar al-Din Shah Qajar of Persia...
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    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 gas...
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    that the oil concession did not suffer the same fate as the tobacco concession ten years earlier. Before his return to Europe, he got D'Arcy to hire his...
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  • by D'Arcy's concession. In 1900, he agreed to fund a search for oil and minerals in Persia headed by Wolff, Ketabchee and Cotte, although D'Arcy never...
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    D'Arcy was negotiating a similar concession from the Ottoman Empire for oil rights in Mesopotamia. The Admiralty initiated efforts to entice D'Arcy to...
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    reaction to the following concessions made by Iran to foreign powers: the Reuter concession of 1872, proceeding letter,D'Arcy Concession?] the 1933 agreement...
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  • 1922. He is often associated with William Knox D'Arcy, an English entrepreneur who obtained a concession from the Iranian government to explore and extract...
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    been strained since 1931 when the Shah unilaterally cancelled the D'Arcy Concession – a 1901 agreement that had given the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company the...
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    Oil Company to succeed the early prospecting in Persia of William Knox D'Arcy with Burmah Oil owning 97%. Burmah Oil became the largest oil company in...
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