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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Place Ras Tanura, Asia, Saudi Arabia Level [40] File

1. IOR/L/PS/12/3876

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3876
Title:
Coll 30/141 'Proposed development of the port of Ras Tannurah.'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the proposed development of the port of Ras Tanurah (also spelled Ras Tannurah) in Saudi Arabia to service the oil industry in Hasa. The British Government did not want to encourage the development of a Saudi Arabian port (folio 73), because of the adverse economic impact it wo...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
26 Sep 1936-18 May 1945
Extent:
1 file (76 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/12/3906

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3906
Title:
Coll 30/169 'Lights and Buoys: Buoying of approaches to Ras Tanurah on behalf of California Arabian Standard Oil Co.'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns an approach to the India Office from the California Arabian Standard Oil Company Limited (CASOC), for assistance with the buoying of the channel leading to the company's chosen anchorage at Ras Tanura [Ra’s Tannūrah]. The request is contained in correspondence from the company'...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
24 May 1938-15 Dec 1938
Extent:
1 file (55 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/12/3940

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3940
Title:
Coll 30/200 ‘Persian Gulf. Tour of Political Resident from Bahrein to Muscat in L. T. Nearchus.’
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers, mostly correspondence, relating to: a tour of Muscat by Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Geoffrey Prior, Political Resident in the Persian Gulf and HM Consul-General, Bushire, in February 1940; his journey from Muscat to Bahrein [Bahrain] in the ship LT [Lighthouse Tender] Ne...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
29 Apr 1940-1 Oct 1946
Extent:

1 file (64 folios)

4. IOR/R/15/2/470

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/470
Title:
'11/8 OPENING A BANK AT AL KHOBAR'
Scope & Content:
This file concerns plans in 1944-45 and 1949 to open bank branches on the mainland of Saudi Arabia. The file contains correspondence between the Political Agent at Bahrain; the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf at Bushire; Ernest Vincent Packer, Petroleum Concessions Limited, Bahrain; the A...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
29 Jul 1944-28 Dec 1949
Extent:
1 file (74 folios)

5. IOR/R/15/2/481

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/481
Title:
Activities of Foreign Agents in Saudi Arabia
Scope & Content:
This file concerns suspicions of foreign agent activity in Saudi Arabia. Folios 2-5 and 8 concern suspicions held by C S Freebury of Gray Mackenzie and Company Limited at Ras Tanura, with regards to Mr Jean de Kuharski and Mr Pixton (Polish and English citizens respectively, who are said to be ma...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
26 Oct 1947-3 Feb 1948
Extent:
1 file (8 folios)

6. IOR/R/15/2/876

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/876
Title:
File 39/5 (10/5 III) Dissatisfaction among ARAMCO employees
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence with representatives of California Arabian Standard Oil Company (CASOC), from 1944 known as Arabian-American Oil Company (ARAMCO), and between the Political Agent at Bahrain, the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, the Government of India, and the Secretary o...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
7 Apr 1941-5 Apr 1949
Extent:
1 file (242 folios)

7. IOR/R/15/2/888

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/888
Title:
File 39/22 Bahrain pearling banks in strip of seabed leased by Trinidad Leaseholds Ltd
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence between the Political Agent at Bahrain, the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf and the Adviser to the Government of Bahrain regarding the use of pearling banks within areas of oil interest near Ras Tanura.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 Nov 1947-24 May 1948
Extent:
1 file (9 folios)