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Container Reference (shelfmark) IOR/L/PS/12/3709-3976 Name Bahrain Petroleum Company, 1929-

11. IOR/L/PS/12/3905

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3905
Title:
Coll 30/168 'Lights and Buoys: Proposed levy of light dues at Bahrein.'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns a proposed levy for light dues at Bahrain on ships belonging to the Bahrain Petroleum Company Limited (BAPCO). The measure was proposed by the Government of India in 1936, and further pressure was applied by the Persian Gulf Lighting Service Advisory Committee in 1940. The latt...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 Oct 1935-20 Aug 1947
Extent:
1 file (288 folios)

12. IOR/L/PS/12/3907

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3907
Title:
Coll 30/170 'Question of ownership of Libainat islands.'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the disputed ownership of the islands of Libaina (rendered Libainat in the file title) al Saghir and Libaina al Khabir (also referred to as Bain-as-Seghir and Bain-al-Khabir, or jointly as the Bainain), lying between Saudi Arabia and Bahrain, which were the subject of territori...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
22 Apr 1938-12 May 1942
Extent:
1 file (129 folios)

13. IOR/L/PS/12/3911

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3911
Title:
Coll 30/174(1) 'Bahrein Oil: Monthly returns of royalties.'
Scope & Content:
The file contains monthly royalty delivery tickets issued by the Bahrain Petroleum Company (BAPCO), for the period June 1936 to December 1938 inclusive. The tickets give figures for net tons of crude oil delivered to the BAPCO refinery, on which royalty was paid to the Government of Bahrain (ref...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15 Jun 1936-27 Jan 1939
Extent:
1 file (487 folios)

14. IOR/L/PS/12/3912

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3912
Title:
Coll 30/174(2) 'Bahrain Oil: Monthly returns of royalties.'
Scope & Content:
The file contains copies of royalty delivery tickets (statistical forms, giving totals of bulk crude oil deliveries to refinery), and marine receipt tickets (giving totals of crude oil received from Ras Tanura), issued by the Bahrain Petroleum Company (BAPCO), together with summaries of oil deli...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Jan 1939-6 Mar 1940
Extent:
1 file (563 folios)

15. IOR/L/PS/12/3913

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3913
Title:
Coll 30/174(3) 'Bahrain Oil: monthly returns of Royalties.'
Scope & Content:
The file contains monthly summaries of Bahrain Petroleum Company (BAPCO) oil deliveries upon which gross royalty was accrued (and summaries of the Arabian crude run from Zellaq, which was deducted from the gross royalty figure) for the period January 1940 to January 1948, inclusive. The figures ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 Feb 1940-9 Mar 1948
Extent:
1 file (278 folios)

16. IOR/L/PS/12/3932

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3932
Title:
Coll 30/192(3) ‘Persian Gulf. Defence of Bahrein (a) Employment of British officer & N.C.O. Instructor. Appt. of Capt A.C. Byard. (b) Bahrein Defence Force – Recruitment from personnel of Bahrein Petroleum Company.’
Scope & Content:
The file consists of two folders of papers, mostly correspondence, relating to the defence of Bahrain: folder A ‘Bahrein Defence Scheme. Employment of British officer & N.C.O. Instructor. Appt. of Captain A. C. Byard. “ ” Major H.T. Hewitt.’ [‘Bahrein Defence Scheme. Employment of British of...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
12 Jun 1939-24 May 1941
Extent:
1 file (110 folios)

17. IOR/L/PS/12/3947

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3947
Title:
Coll 30/207 'Bahrein oil: Changes in oil output from refinery at Bahrein and Ras Tanura. Lighterage difficulties & staffing problems of Gray Mackenzie and Co Ltd at Bahrein and Kuweit.'
Scope & Content:
The file covers various topics concerned with the oil industry at Bahrain, and the activities of the Bahrain Petroleum Company (BAPCO). The papers include: variations in the oil output of the Bahrain Petroleum Company, as a result of commercial and wartime conditions, 1940-42, including corresp...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Aug 1940-16 Mar 1948
Extent:
1 file (381 folios)

18. IOR/L/PS/12/3948

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3948
Title:
Coll 30/208 'War Compensation & Insurance at BAHREIN'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the payment of war compensation and insurance as a result of enemy action, or action by the military authorities, at Bahrain (and, to a lesser extent, Kuwait). The issue arose in 1942 following representations to the British Government by the Bahrain Petroleum Company (BAPCO) c...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
7 May 1941-3 Feb 1945
Extent:
1 file (224 folios)

19. IOR/L/PS/12/3949

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3949
Title:
Coll 30/209 'Oil: Protection & destruction of oil installations in the Middle East. Oil Denial Scheme.'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns British Government measures to implement an oil denial scheme in the Persian Gulf, by asking oil companies operating in the region to temporarily plug, or permanently destroy existing oil wells, thus denying oil resources to the enemy [during the Second World War]. The oil well...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
31 Mar 1942-15 Nov 1944
Extent:
1 file (182 folios)

20. IOR/L/PS/12/3950

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3950
Title:
Coll 30/210 'Bahrein Oil: production of aviation fuel (100 octane) at Bahrein'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the establishment of a 100 octane aviation fuel production plant at the refinery of the Bahrain Petroleum Company (BAPCO) at Bahrain. The plant was to cost $18 million, and be 75% financed by the United States (US) Government. The papers cover: correspondence from the Governme...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4 Oct 1938-15 Jun 1946
Extent:
1 file (97 folios)