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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Name Anglo-Iranian Oil Company Limited, 1909-1954

71. IOR/L/PS/12/3808

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3808
Title:
Coll 30/89 'Oil: Koweit Oil Agreement between the Koweit Oil Company and His Majestys Government.'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the political agreement between the British Government and the Kuwait Oil Company made in the event of the company obtaining an oil concession from the Shaikh of Kuwait [Aḥmad al-Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ]. The company was equally owned by the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC) and the Gulf...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
3 Jan 1934-29 Mar 1935
Extent:
1 volume (283 folios)

72. IOR/L/PS/12/3811

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3811
Title:
Coll 30/91(1) 'Koweit Oil Concession: Agreement between the Shaikh of Kuwait and the Kuwait Oil Company.'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns negotiations over the signing of the commercial agreement between the Shaikh of Kuwait, Shaikh Ahmad al-Jabir as-Sabah [Aḥmad al-Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ] and the Kuwait Oil Company. The agreement provided the company with exclusive rights to exploit oil, gas, and petroleum products with...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
12 Jan 1934-23 Dec 1934
Extent:
1 volume (477 folios)

73. IOR/L/PS/12/3835

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3835
Title:
Coll 30/110(1) 'Oil: Oil concessions on the Trucial Coast.'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns negotiations over the granting of oil concessions to companies with a significant British interest by a number of states on the Trucial Coast: Dubai, Sharjah, Ras-al-Khaimah, Abu Dhabi, and Ajman. The negotiations were initially with the Anglo-Persian Oil Company Limited (APOC)...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
4 Aug 1934-7 Jul 1936
Extent:
1 volume (451 folios)

74. IOR/L/PS/12/3879

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3879
Title:
Coll 30/144 'Oil: Proposed transfer of the "beneficial ownership" of certain shares in the Kuwait Oil Co. held by the Anglo-Iranian Oil Co.'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns a proposal by the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company Limited to transfer the 'beneficial ownership' of the shares the company held in the Kuwait Oil Company Limited to the D'Arcy Exploration Company Limited. The papers show that the India Office and the Foreign Office consented to the ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
31 Dec 1936-7 Jun 1937
Extent:
1 file (19 folios)

75. IOR/L/PS/12/3939

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3939
Title:
Coll 30/198 ‘Persian Gulf Defence : - ABADAN.’
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers mostly relating to the defence of Abadan (and to a lesser extent other areas of Persia [Iran] and Bahrein [Bahrain]) during the Second World War. It includes papers concerning the following: the defence of oil installations of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (AIOC) at Ab...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
23 Apr 1942-15 Jul 1943
Extent:

1 file (113 folios)

76. IOR/L/PS/12/4117

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/4117
Title:
Coll 35/14 'Persia and Persian Gulf: postal administration'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the postal service in Persia and in the Persian Gulf. The file contains: Review of postal service in Persia [Iran] and in the Persian Gulf, with complaints of inefficiencies since their transfer under Persian administration, 1923 Bushire - Shiraz mail service, 1923 Proposed ap...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
26 Jun 1923-13 Mar 1939
Extent:
1 file (204 folios)

77. IOR/L/PS/12/4130

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/4130
Title:
Coll 35/24 'Persian Gulf: establishment of a wireless station in Qatar by Anglo Persian Oil Company'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the proposed establishment of a wireless station in Qatar by Anglo Persian Oil Company station in Abadan, to communicate with their Bahrain station, having obtained permission from the ruler of Qatar. The file contains correspondence between the India Office and Cable and Wire...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
5 Jan 1934-22 Feb 1935
Extent:
1 file (4 folios)

78. IOR/L/PS/12/4143

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/4143
Title:
Coll 35/34 'Persian Gulf: allocation of Persian call signs to Anglo-Iranian Oil Company's wireless stations at Abadan and Maidan-i-Naftun'
Scope & Content:
The file concerns the allocation of call signs for the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company's wireless telegraph stations at Abadan and Maidan-i-Naftun, Iran. The file contains correspondence between the Secretary of State for India, the India Office, the Foreign Office, Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, British...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English and French
Date Range:
19 May 1937-13 Jul 1938
Extent:
1 file (44 folios)

79. IOR/L/PS/18/B364

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B364
Title:
‘Letter from Lt-Col Sir A.T. Wilson, K.C.I.E., C.S.I., C.M.G., D.S.O., Officiating Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, to the Secretary to the Government of India, Foreign and Political Department, Simla.’
Scope & Content:
The file contains a printed copy of a letter, sent by Lieutenant-Colonel Arnold Talbot Wilson, Officiating Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, to the Secretary to the Government of India, concerning the protection of the oil fields operated by the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC) in the Arab...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
25 Oct 1920
Extent:

1 file (2 folios)

80. IOR/L/PS/18/B394

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B394
Title:
Quarantine control in the Persian Gulf
Scope & Content:
Memorandum describing the developments leading up to the surrender of quarantine control by His Majesty's Government to the Persian Government in 1928. It outlines the following: quarantine arrangements dating from 1864 including who was responsible for what in terms of roles and the financial ou...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Aug 1928
Extent:

1 file (3 folios)