Oil in the Middle East, its discovery and development / by Stephen Hemsley Longrigg.

"Issued under the auspices of the Royal Institute of International Affairs."

Includes index.

I. THE BEGINNING : 1. Oil Formation - 2. Middle East Oil - 3. Surface Signs and Earliest Uses - 4. Birth of the Industry - 5. Middle East Oil in the Nineteenth Century -- II. BEFORE THE FIRST WORLD WAR : 1. The New Century - 2. Persia and the A.P.O.C. - 3. Egypt - 4. The Turkish Empire and Arabia - 5. Turkish Petroleum Company -- III. THE FIRST WORLD WAR AND AFTER : 1. The War Years - 2. The War in Persia - 3. Persia after the War - 4. Egypt, 1914-23 - 5. Levant, Turkey, Arabia, and Iraq, 1914-23 -- IV. OIL UNDER RIZA SHAH : 1. Between the Wars - 2. The Nineteen-twenties in Persia - 3. 1933 ; a New Deal - 4. Fields and Abadan, 1933-9 -- V. HOPE AND FULFILMENT IN IRAQ : 1. Naftkhana - 2. The Red Line - 3. Baba Gurgur - 4. Revised Concession and B.O.D. - 5. Mediterranean Pipeline - 6. West of Tigris - 7. The Basra Province -- VI. THE LEVANT BETWEEN THE WARS : 1. Turkey - 2. The Levant States ; Pipelines and Terminals - 3. The Levant States ; the Search for Oil - 4. Egypt ; Renewal of Hope -- VII. THE BEGINNING IN ARABIA : 1. First Steps - 2. Bapco - 3. Qatar - 4. Casoc - 5. Kuwait - 6. West, South, and South- East -- VIII. SECOND WORLD WAR: IRAQ AND PERSIA : 1. Iraq Catastrophe - 2. Recovery in Iraq - 3. Recession in Persin - 4. Persia ; the War Achievement - 5. Russian Concession -- IX SECOND WORLD WAR : ARABIA AND THE LEVANT : 1. The Fortunate : Saudi Arabia - 2. The Fortunate ; Bahrain - 3. The Unfortunate ; Qatar and Kuwait - 4. Turkey and the Levant - 5. Egypt in the War -- X. THE TRAGEDY OF PERSIA : 1. Russian Concession - 2. Development in Persia ; The Last Phase - 3. The Anglo-Iranian as Employer - 4. Agreement, Disagreement, and Nationalization - 5. Aftermath, 1951-3 -- XI. MID-CENTURY IN IRAQ : 1. End of the Red Line - 2. Kirkuk and the I.P.C. - 3. The New Pipelines - 4. Ain Zala and the M.P.C. - 5. Zubair and the B.P.C. - 6. Naftkhana and the K.O.C. - 7. Companies and Government - 8. Uncertain Prospect -- XII. ARABIA, I946-53 : THE ALL-AMERICAN COMPANIES : 1. The Peninsula, 1946-53 - 2. Progress of Aramco - 3. Tapline - 4. Aramco, Government, and Public - 5. Neutral Zone - 6. Bapco and Bahrain -- XIII. ARABIA, 1946-53 : THE INTERNATIONAL COMPANIES : 1. Kuwait - 2. Qatar - 3. Southern Arabia -- XIV. THE LEVANT COUNTRIES SINCE 1945 : 1. Turkey - 2. Syria-Lebanon - 3. Palestine and Jordan - 4. Israel - 5. Egypt -- XV. THE PRESENT AND THE FUTURE : 1. The Position Reached - 2. Functions and Dangers -- MAPS : Middle East : Oilfields - Iraq-Syria ; Fields and Drilling Sites - Persian Gulf ; Oilfields and Pipelines - Egypt-Palestine-Jordan - Southern Arabia.