'File 10/1 IV Bahrain Oil Concession'
- Holding institution:
- British Library. India Office Records and Private Papers
- Data provider:
- Qatar National Library
- Title:
- 'File 10/1 IV Bahrain Oil Concession'
- Date:
- 1933/1933
- Description:
- Abstract: The volume mainly contains correspondence, telegrams and notes of meetings between the Political Agent in Bahrain, the Political Resident in Bushire, the Secretary of State for India, the Financial Adviser to the Government in Bahrain, Charles Darlymple Belgrave, and representatives of the Bahrain Petroleum Company Limited (BAPCO) on the Bahrain Oil Concession. The volume also contains correspondence and notes of meetings on the aquisitition of oil rights over an additional area, including the territorial waters of the Bahrain Islands. There are also letters in Arabic to and from the Sheikh of Bahrain, Hamad Bin Issa Al-Khalifah, and confidential correspondence regarding the resignation of Major Holmes from Chief Local Representative of BAPCO, and the translation of a speech read in his honour by Ali bin Hussein (folios 201-203). Some of the documents in the volume are marked as confidential. There is an index at the end of the volume (folios 217-227).Physical description: The main foliation sequence is circled in pencil, at the top of each folio. It begins on the first page of writing, on number 2, and runs through to 233, ending on the inside of the back cover of the volume.
- Language:
- English
- Type:
- Archival file
- Type (Narrower):
- Other Texts
- Type (Broader):
- Text
- Subject:
- Petroleum industry
- Rights:
- غير معروف
- Identifier:
- 81055/vdc_100000000241.0x0001f6_ar
81055/vdc_100000000241.0x0001f6_en
IOR/R/15/2/391
IOR/R/15/2/391