IRANIAN OIL: Oil derrick, crane lowering 'collar' inside derrick / Oil workers attaching equipment like collar on oil well piping / Crane pulling oil pipe up oil well.

The country's oil industry was once the envy of the region, but after decades of mismanagement and corruption the sector is facing ruin. The FT's Andean correspondent Gideon Long asks what went wrong.

MOT 1951: MAP: Map of Iran w/ Teheran & Abadan (world's largest oil refinery) highlighted / Oil wells marked / HA WS Oil refinery w/ train moving on tracks FG / XWS Refinery w/ storage tanks FG / WS Refinery smoke stacks black smoke /...

LONDON ENGLAND: EXT Anglo-Iranian Oil Company LTD (IOAC) bulding / Britannic House sign / Chairman Sir William Fraser sitting at desk SOT saying have made huge contribution to Iran & economy, would be sad indeed if partnership should cease.

Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the UAE and other oil rich Middle Eastern states have announced plans to collectively invest trillions of dollars in new megaprojects, the most extreme of which is Saudi Arabia's $1 trillion 170km...

WS Park w/ Capitol Building BG / Iranian Ambassador Nassrullah Entezam-O-Saltaneh (1900-1981) sitting at desk w/ two reporters SOT saying for 50 years oil exploited by foreign company employee discrimination time to end.

Shah appointed approved by parliament<br/>
EXT Entrance gate to The Majlis of Iran (assembly legislative body) / Prime Minister Dr Mohammed Mossadegh (1882-1967) sitting at table talking (no SOT) w/ others.

Soldiers walking on sidewalk by park, male in shorts walking around / Two Caucasian women packing suitcases.

ABADAN IRAN: Abadan refinery tanker ships in harbor British oil tanker stern. Docked Norweigian ship (Norge Haugesund) stern / WS Docked Panamanian ship / Deck of ship w/ oil hoses / Man turning valve wheel.

Ambassador Henry F Grady<br/>
EXT American Embassy in Iran / US Ambassador to Iran Henry F Grady (1882-1957) sitting in chair talking w/ others & Hossenala (name & likeness not confirmed) sitting on couch.

VS Abadan Refinery no smoke from stacks no people no Britons no Iranians no tanks no Anglo-Iranian Oil Company / Nationalized. [this refinery Iraqi bombed/closed 1980. Reopened 1988 as smaller operation.]

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