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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Container Reference (shelfmark) IOR/R/15/2/651-765 Name Arabian American Oil Company, 1933-1988

1. IOR/R/15/2/651

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/651
Title:
‘File 28/1 War – Miscellaneous’
Scope & Content:
The file contains copies of correspondence on a range of subjects associated both directly and indirectly with events and the impact of the Second World War. Key correspondents in the file include: the Political Agent at Bahrain (Hugh Weightman; Major Reginald George Evelin William Alban; Edward...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
6 Jun 1939-7 Jul 1943
Extent:
1 file (185 folios)

2. IOR/R/15/2/662

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/662
Title:
‘File 28/1 K II Defence of oil field and refinery’
Scope & Content:
The file contains copies of correspondence, memoranda and other papers, many marked ‘Most Secret’, relating to plans for the defence and emergency demolition of oil fields and refineries operated by the Bahrain Petroleum Company (BAPCO) in Bahrain, and to a lesser extent, those operated by the C...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
17 Apr 1942-30 Aug 1942
Extent:
1 file (287 folios)

3. IOR/R/15/2/671

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/671
Title:
‘File 28/1 R Reports from C.A.S.O.C. A.R.P. etc.’
Scope & Content:
The file’s contents relate to an enquiry made by the California-Arabian Standard Oil Company (CASOC), dated 27 October 1940, to the Political Agency in Bahrain, asking if British aircraft were flown over the company’s refinery at Dhahran [al-Ẓahrān] in Saudi Arabia on the night of 25/26 October 1...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 Oct 1940-29 Oct 1940
Extent:
1 file (8 folios)

4. IOR/R/15/2/672

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/672
Title:
‘File 28/1 S Evacuation of personnel and families of BAPCO and CASOC employees and others’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises correspondence, notices and lists relating to the numbers of, and plans for the evacuation of, British, British-Indian, American and other (chiefly Goans, described as Portuguese-Indian) subjects, particularly those employed by the Bahrain Petroleum Company (BAPCO) and Califor...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 May 1940-11 Aug 1942
Extent:
1 file (66 folios)

5. IOR/R/15/2/679

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/679
Title:
‘File 28/5 I Export licences for shipments of oil from Bahrain’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises papers relating to oil exports made by the Bahrain Petroleum Company (BAPCO), and to a lesser extent the California-Arabian Standard Oil Company (CASOC), and the need for regulation of oil exports during wartime. The principal correspondents in the file are the Political Agent...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Aug 1939-26 Dec 1940
Extent:
1 volume (313 folios)

6. IOR/R/15/2/693

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/693
Title:
‘File 28/10 (b) Bonafides of C.A.S.O.C. [California-Arabian Standard Oil Company] & Bapco [Bahrain Petroleum Company] employees.’
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence and other papers relating to investigations made by the Political Agency in Bahrain, the California-Arabian Standard Oil Company (CASOC), the Bahrain Petroleum Company (BAPCO) and British Government departments, into CASOC and BAPCO employees suspected of having ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
12 Jun 1940-28 Jun 1942
Extent:
1 file (59 folios)

7. IOR/R/15/2/718

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/718
Title:
‘File 28/28-(i) Military requirements (purchases etc. for the army)’
Scope & Content:
The file contains copies of correspondence and other papers relating to the acquisition of oil industry equipment and supplies from the California-Arabian Standard Oil Company (CASOC) and the Bahrain Petroleum Company (BAPCO), for use by British military headquarters at Basra, Iraq (later referr...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 May 1941-29 Jan 1943
Extent:
1 file (305 folios)

8. IOR/R/15/2/719

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/719
Title:
‘File 28/28-(ii) Military requirements. Purchases from oil companies. Coke’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises copies of letters, telegrams and other papers relating to: i) the export of petroleum industry equipment from the Bahrain Petroleum Company (BAPCO) at Bahrain and the California-Arabian Standard Oil Company (CASOC) at Al Khobar [Al-Khubar], including: baker cement retainers to...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19 Oct 1942-5 May 1945
Extent:
1 file (265 folios)

9. IOR/R/15/2/740

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/740
Title:
‘File 28/45 Oil field personnel for war purposes’
Scope & Content:
The file contains copies of correspondence concerning the deployment and retention of oil company personnel for war purposes, and includes: correspondence dated October and November 1942, relating to a request forwarded from H S Bowlby of the Petroleum Department, London, to the Political Agent ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
29 Oct 1942-14 May 1944
Extent:
1 file (18 folios)