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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Name Petroleum Division, 1929-1970

11. IOR/L/PS/12/271

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/271
Title:
PZ 8361/38 'Employment of German nationals in oil installations in the Middle East'
Scope & Content:
The file consists of papers regarding an investigation by the Committee of Imperial Defence, Standing Official Sub-Committee for Questions Concerning the Middle East relating to the employment of German nationals in oil installations, particularly by the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company Limited and Ira...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
14 Dec 1938-May 1939
Extent:
1 file (20 folios)

12. IOR/L/PS/12/324

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/324
Title:
PZ 147/40 'Oil: question of desirability of supply to British territories by British owned companies'
Scope & Content:
The correspondence in this file relates to the desirability of ensuring that supplies of oil to British territories are made, as far as possible, by British owned companies. The main correspondents in the file are the Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Geoffrey Prior (Political Resident in the Persian ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Jan 1940-23 Mar 1940
Extent:
1 file (4 folios)

13. IOR/L/PS/12/384

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/384
Title:
PZ 3044/40(2) 'Oil. Persian Gulf. Bahrein. Personnel of Bahrein Petroleum Co. Roster of Employees 1941-'
Scope & Content:
This file mainly consists of copies of quarterly rosters (or summaries of rosters) of employees of the Bahrein [Bahrain] Petroleum Company Limited (BAPCO) for the period March 1941-December 1947, distributed by the Political Agent, Bahrain. Complete copies of the rosters are present for the foll...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
5 Apr 1941-14 Apr 1948
Extent:
1 file (991 folios)

14. IOR/L/PS/12/732

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/732
Title:
Ext 3508/42 'Report by Mr Bowlby, Petroleum Department representative, on his visit to Abadan, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and Basra'
Scope & Content:
The file contains a report by Hugo Salvin Bowlby, Petroleum Department representative in Baghdad, on his visit to Abadan, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and Basra, forwarded by Petroleum Department to the India Office. The report describes visits to oil fields in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia, in June 1942.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
16 Jun 1942-6 Jul 1942
Extent:
1 file (5 folios)

15. IOR/L/PS/12/1195

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1195
Title:
Ext 546/47 'Dr Nuttall's visit to Middle East oil areas'
Scope & Content:
This file consists of a letter, telegrams, report, notes and maps between Francis Anthony Kitchener Harrison of the India Office and W D Monsell-Davis of the Ministry of Fuel and Power regarding the visit of Dr Nuttall to the Middle East. Dr Nuttall visited different oil companies and oilfields ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
13 Mar 1947-30 Jun 1947
Extent:
1 file (14 folios)

16. IOR/L/PS/12/2115

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2115
Title:
Coll 6/48 'Oil: Concessions in Saudi Arabia. (Hasa)'
Scope & Content:
This file relates to oil concessions in Saudi Arabia, particularly the Hasa [Al Hasa] concession between the Government of Saudi Arabia and the Standard Oil Company of California (SoCal). It includes discussion of the following: Oil negotiations in Saudi Arabia during March and April 1933, and t...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Dec 1923-11 Jul 1945
Extent:
1 file (574 folios)

17. IOR/L/PS/12/2127

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2127
Title:
Coll 6/60 'Saudi Arabia: Oil Concessions in Asir and the Farsan Islands.'
Scope & Content:
This file concerns prospective Saudi oil concessions for Asir and the Farsan Islands. In a telegram to the Foreign Office, dated 4 June 1933, His Majesty's Minister at Jedda (Sir Andrew Ryan) reports that the recent Hasa concession, which was granted by the Saudi Government to the California Ar...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 May 1933-6 Dec 1934
Extent:
1 file (19 folios)

18. IOR/L/PS/12/2139

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2139
Title:
Coll 6/67(6) 'Boundaries of South-Eastern Arabia and Qatar: Trucial Coast Oil Concessions'
Scope & Content:
This volume concerns British policy regarding the south-eastern boundaries of Saudi Arabia, specifically its border with Qatar. The correspondence and memoranda near the beginning of the volume discuss from a British perspective the origins and recent history of the boundary dispute, which is d...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
30 Jun 1940-30 Mar 1948
Extent:
1 file (195 folios)

19. IOR/L/PS/12/2882

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2882
Title:
Coll 17/21 ‘Iraq. Oil in – ’
Scope & Content:
The file contains papers relating to the oil concessions and operations of the Iraq Petroleum Company and the British Oil Development Company in Iraq. It includes: Papers concerning payments due to the Government of Iraq from these companies. Papers of the Committee of Imperial Defence Standing...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
12 Jan 1932-18 Sep 1935
Extent:
1 file (89 folios)

20. IOR/L/PS/12/2975

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/2975
Title:
Coll 20/18 'Muscat: Oil: Muscat Commercial Concession'
Scope & Content:
Correspondence pertaining to the commercial oil concession agreement between the Sultan of Muscat, Said bin Taimur [Sa‘īd ibn Taymūr Āl Bū Sa‘īd], and Petroleum Development (Oman and Dhofar) Limited, signed in June 1937. The correspondence is principally between the two involved parties, the Ira...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
8 Feb 1934-25 Oct 1946
Extent:
1 file (425 folios)