1.
LV PAN Refinery and tankers at anchor.
0.08

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SV Oil release chimney burning.
0.11

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GTV Refinery and installations.
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GV EXT Management building.
0.21

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SV Iraqi flag on car and building.
0.26

6.
SV Ministers around table. (3 shots)
0.40

7.
SV Ministers around car and cars away.
0.53



Initials GD/VS 2.05 GD/VS 2.12



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Background: Crude oil began to flow once again through the International Petroleum Corporation's installation in Tripoli on Tuesday (6 March), after a successful takeover by the lebanese authorities.

Within hours of the takeover, oil started pumping through the 20-mile pipeline and a flame belched out from the gas burn-off chimney....signalling the end of a nine-month lull in oil production at the refinery.

A special committee set up to supervise the running of the installations, took over control in the presence of Mr. Anwar Al-Sabbah, the Lebanese Minister of Economy, and Mr. Pierre Helou, the Minister of Oil and Industry.

The Lebanese authorities told newsmen just after the signing ceremony that they would honour commitments made by the IPC to its staff of about 500.

The oil flow was interrupted in June, 1972, when Iraq and Syria both nationalised IPC assets on their territories.

SYNOPSIS: Tripoli, and the big International Petroleum Corporation's refinery is back in action. After a lull of nine months, flames appeared at the top of the gas release chimney again on Tuesday only hours after a successful takeover by the Lebanese authorities.

A special committee established to supervise the operation of the refinery took over control in the presence of Mr. Anwar Al-Sabbah, the Lebanese Minister of Economy, and Mr. Pierre Helos, the Oil and Industry Minister. IPC's Lebanese Director, Mr. Ronald Cawdry was called into the ministry meeting where he was handed the ??? containing the Government ???sion.

After the meeting the ministers told newsmen that with the refinery operating again, they'd honour commitments made by the IPC to its five hundred staff members when the refinery closed.