The French alternative plan to the building of the Iraq oil pipe line to the Palestine port of Haifa (the conditions for which have been laid down in the convention signed between the Palestine and Transjordan Governments and the Iraq Petroleum Company last week), that the pipe line should be built to Tripolis, in Syria, which is under the French Mandate, or to both Haifa and Tripolis, by adopting the bifurcation project frequently discussed in this connection, came up in the Chamber to-day. It was mentioned in the course of a big debate on a Government bill for the ratification of two conventions made by the French Government, under the San Remo Anglo-French Agreement of 1924 for the division of the oil in Iraq, one with the Compagnie Francaise de Petroles, which holds 25 per cent. of the shares in the old Turkish Petroleum Company, which has now become the Iraq Petroleum Company, and the other with the Compagnie Francaise de Raffinage formed with State participation to engage in oil import and refinery in France.
No definite statement was made by the Government to-day to the Chamber as to the final site of the oil pipe line. The negotiations do not appear to be completed yet, but the general impression created is that there is an agreement in principle to have two oil pipe lines, one to Haifa and the other to Tripolis.
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