Catalogue description Foreign Office: Oil Department: Registered Files (OD Series)

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Details of FCO 54
Reference: FCO 54
Title: Foreign Office: Oil Department: Registered Files (OD Series)
Description:

This series consists of registered files of the Oil Department of the Foreign Office dealing with oil issues and relations with oil producing countries.

Date: 1967-1968
Arrangement:

By former file reference

Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: OD file series
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Creator:

Foreign Office, Oil Department, 1967-1968

Physical description: 81 file(s)
Access conditions: Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated
Immediate source of acquisition:

In 1998 Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Administrative / biographical background:

The Oil Department dealt with all questions relating to the international supply, demand and price of oil, and relations with oil producing countries individually and through the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries. The Department was absorbed into a Commodities and Oil Department in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office on its creation in October 1968.

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