'File 39/8 Oil Development, Middle East: Trans-Arabian pipe line'
- Holding institution:
- British Library. India Office Records and Private Papers
- Data provider:
- Qatar National Library
- Title:
- 'File 39/8 Oil Development, Middle East: Trans-Arabian pipe line'
- Date:
- 1943/1948
- Description:
- Abstract: The file contains correspondence between the Government of India, the India Office, the Foreign Office, the Ministry of Fuel and Power and the Political Resident at Bahrain about American interest in Middle East oil. The correspondence discusses a Trans-Arabian oil pipeline to the Mediterranean Sea, to be built from AbQaid [Abqaiq, Saudi Arabia] to the South of Palestine, and the visit of representatives of Petroleum Reserves Corporation from USA to the Persian Gulf.The file also contains:enclosed in the correspondence, copy of oil concession between Standard Oil Company of California and the Government of Saudi Arabia, 1933 (ff 16-20);agreement on Petroleum between the Government of the United States of America and the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, 1944 (ff 74-77);newspaper cuttings and extracts;map showing the Trans-Arabian Pipeline 'Middle East Oil' (f 55).Physical description: Foliation: the main foliation sequence commences at the front cover with 1 and terminates at the back cover with 81; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. An additional mixed foliation/pagination sequence is also present in parallel between ff 2-44; these numbers are written in a combination of red crayon and pencil.
- Language:
- English
- Type:
- Archival file
- Type (Narrower):
- Other Texts
- Type (Broader):
- Text
- Subject:
- Concessions, Oil, Kuwait-Nejd Neutral Zone
Pipelines
Petroleum Reserves Corporation - Geographic region:
- AbQaid
Persian Gulf - Rights:
- رخصة المشاع الإبداعي لأغراض غير تجارية
- Identifier:
- 81055/vdc_100000000241.0x000142_ar
81055/vdc_100000000241.0x000142_en
IOR/R/15/2/879
IOR/R/15/2/879