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037-000228401 Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Name Petroleum Concessions Limited, 1935-

1. IOR/R/15/2/861-872

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/861-872
Title:
File 38: Petroleum Concessions Limited
Scope & Content:
The files and volumes contain correspondence and memoranda relating to the work of Petroleum Concessions Limited and their subsidiaries, Petroleum Development (Trucial Coast) Limited, Petroleum Development (Qatar) Limited, and Petroleum Development (Oman and Dhofar) Limited, in the Persian Gulf ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1933-1950
Extent:
12 files and volumes (1149 folios)

2. IOR/R/15/2/418

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/418
Title:
File 10/3 XI Qatar Oil Concession
Scope & Content:
The volume contains copies of documents and correspondence in English and Arabic exchanged between the Sheikh of Qatar, Petroleum Concessions Limited, the Political Resident in Bushire, and the Political Agent in Bahrain, on the Qatar Oil Concession. There is also correspondence on the employmen...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
27 Feb 1936-1 Apr 1940
Extent:
1 volume (291 folios)

3. IOR/R/15/2/572

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/572
Title:
File No. 17/25 RECORDING OF SHORT WAVE FREQUENCIES BY BAHRAIN AND SHARJAH.'
Scope & Content:
The file discusses a letter received from the General Department, Foreign Office relating to the operation of radio stations in the Persian Gulf, including the frequencies that such stations could be operated on and the regulations to be followed in registering frequencies and call signs. Also i...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
15 Dec 1948-8 Aug 1949
Extent:
1 file (32 folios)

4. IOR/R/15/2/878

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/878
Title:
File 39/7 (10/9) Kuwait Oil Concession
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence between Kuwait Oil Company, the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, the Political Agent at Bahrain and the Political Agent at Kuwait. The correspondence discusses the discovery of oil in Kuwait; because of the scarcity of oil found in the well at Bahra it was ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
21 Mar 1936-16 May 1947
Extent:
1 file (42 folios)

5. IOR/R/15/2/344

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/344
Title:
File 9/3 Indian business interests in Bahrain and the Gulf
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence sent and received by the Political Agent at Bahrain concerning how to improve the Indian trade in the Gulf and how to increase it to the detriment of the Japanese trade, providing that India can supply similar goods at competitive prices. The file contains info...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
11 Aug 1932-25 Apr 1949
Extent:
1 file (64 folios)

6. IOR/R/15/2/161

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/161
Title:
File 1/A/38 V Saudi Arabian Frontier Negotiations
Scope & Content:
The volume concerns negotiations between the British and Saudi Arabian governments over the question of how to settle the eastern frontier of Saudi Arabia. The principal correspondents are: HM Minister, Jedda (principally Sir Reader William Bullard); the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 Dec 1937-18 Apr 1942
Extent:
1 volume (250 folios)

7. IOR/R/15/2/299

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/299
Title:
File 8/8 II Annual Administration Report of The Bahrain Agency
Scope & Content:
The file contains correspondence relating to the collation and submission of the annual Administration Report of the Bahrain Political Agency and the Trucial Coast Office, as well as the reports themselves. Present within the file are the reports for the years 1940-43. Each Bahrain Agency repor...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Jan 1941-15 Feb 1944
Extent:
1 file (358 folios)

8. IOR/R/15/2/465

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/465
Title:
'11/5 Negotiations with Ibn Saud regarding Boundaries of Saudi Arabia'
Scope & Content:
The file comprises correspondence, memoranda, maps, and other papers relating to questions over the position of Saudi Arabia’s south-eastern frontier adjoining Qatar and the Trucial Coast shaikhdoms, notably Abu Dhabi. Negotiations over the frontier had long been deferred by British Government o...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Mar 1944-4 Sep 1949
Extent:
1 file (212 folios)

9. 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)

10. IOR/R/15/2/623

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/623
Title:
File 22/23 Recognition of FUJAIRAH as Independent State
Scope & Content:
The file correspondence begins with a note dated 1938 from the Residency Agent, Sharjah to the Political Agent, Bahrain announcing the succession of Shaikh Muhammad bin Hamad ash-Sharqi to the Trucial Coast Shaikhdom of Fujairah, on the death of his brother, Shaikh Saif bin Hamad ash-Sharqi, 24 ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
02 Jan 1938-09 Oct 1950
Extent:
1 file (58 folios)