'File 10/1 XIII Bahrain Oil Concession'

Title:

'File 10/1 XIII Bahrain Oil Concession'

Date:

1935/1936

Description:

Abstract: The volume contains correspondence and telegrams between the Political Agent in Bahrain, the Political Resident in Bushire, the Financial Adviser to the Government in Bahrain, Charles Dalrymple Belgrave, and representatives of the Bahrain Petroleum Company Limited (BAPCO) on the pipe line to be built between Bahrain and Saudi Arabia and on the unallotted area in Bahrain.The volume includes:newspaper cuttings on the development of the oil industry in Bahrain;draft supplemental deed to modify the mining lease (three copies on ff. 50-54; 62-66;168-172);abstract of accounts and statement of royalty for the second semester of 1935 (f. 126);supplemental deed to modify the mining lease between BAPCO and the Sheikh of Bahrain, with seal of the Political Agency in the Persian Gulf (ff. 180-183).refinery delivery tickets;newspaper extract on the merger between Texas Corporation and Standard Oil of California to market Bahrain oil products (ff. 228-230).There are maps within the volume:blueprint map of 'PROPOSED RESERVATION OF 80 FT. WIDE STRIP OF LAND FROM REFINERY TO SITRAH.' (f. 69);blueprint map with handwritten notes of 'PROPOSED RESERVATION FOR REFINERY, WATER WELLS AND LINES TO SITRA' (f. 88);'GENERAL MAP, BAHRAIN ISLAND, PERSIAN GULF' (f. 145A);'Map of the Near and Middle East Showing the Intense Development in Progress' from 'PETROLEUM TIMES', 22 February 1936 (f. 151).There are letters in Arabic, to and from the Sheikh of Bahrain, Hamad bin Isa al Khalifah.There are notes at the end of the volume (ff. 292-310).Physical description: The foliation is in pencil in top right corner. The numbering starts on first page with writing (4th folio in volume) with 1a,1b; then 2-72; 73A,73B; 74-87; 88, 88A; 102A,102B; 103-190; 191-196 are missing or skipped; and then it carries on until 310, which is the last number given on the last page of writing (4 blank pages at the end of the volume). An additional foliation sequence, since crossed out, starts with 52 on folio 231.

Language:

English

Type:

Archival file

Type (Narrower):

Other Texts

Type (Broader):

Text

Subject:

Petroleum Industry

Rights:

غير معروف

Identifier:

81055/vdc_100000000241.0x0001ff_ar
81055/vdc_100000000241.0x0001ff_en
IOR/R/15/2/400
IOR/R/15/2/400

Feedback