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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Container Reference (shelfmark) IOR/R/15/2/651-765 Name Petroleum Division, 1929-1970

1. IOR/R/15/2/666

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/666
Title:
‘File 28/1 N I Bahrain oil’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises correspondence and statistical tables relating to the production of oil and other petroleum products by the Bahrain Petroleum Company (BAPCO) during and immediately after the Second World War. The principal correspondents in the file are: the Chief Local Representative for BAP...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Oct 1939-6 Apr 1946
Extent:
1 file (264 folios)

2. 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)

3. 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)

4. 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)

5. IOR/R/15/2/763

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/763
Title:
‘File 28/77 War – Reserve of spare parts for oil companies to be kept at Bahrain’
Scope & Content:
The file comprises copies of correspondence relating to proposals, initially raised by the Political Agent at Bahrain (Hugh Weightman) to retain in Bahrain a stock of spare parts used by the region’s oil industries (in particular the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (AIOC)), should a major war lead to d...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Jan 1939-22 Jul 1939
Extent:
1 file (17 folios)