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032-000538283 Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Name Petroleum Division, 1929-1970

1. IOR/L/PS/12/3899

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/3899
Title:
Coll 30/161 'Oil: Petroleum Developments in the Arabian Peninsula.'
Scope & Content:
The file relates to the preparation of the following Foreign Office confidential print: 'Note on Petroleum Developments in the Arabian Peninsula. (Prepared in the Petroleum Department, June 1938)', dated 11 June 1938. The file includes the original Petroleum Department version of the paper, dat...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 May 1938-6 Aug 1938
Extent:
1 file (32 folios)

2. 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)

3. 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)

4. IOR/L/PS/10/992

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/992
Title:
File 2794/1921 Pt 3B 'Persian Gulf: oil; Kuwait'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, printed reports and notes relating to the development of oil concessions in Kuwait. The discussion in the volume relates to: A proposed visit by the Shaikh of Kuwait to the Anglo-Persian oilfields (ff 488-492) A report (ff ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1932-1933
Extent:
1 volume (492 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/10/993

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/993
Title:
File 2794/1921 Pt 4 'Persian Gulf: oil: Bahrein.'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, printed reports and notes relating to the development of an oil concession in Bahrain. The discussion in the volume relates to: The form of wording to be used in an agreement with the Eastern and General Syndicate Limited an...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1925-1930
Extent:
1 volume (709 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/10/997

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/997
Title:
File 2794/1921 Pt 6 'Persian Gulf: Oil: Bahrain'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes relating to the oil concession in Bahrain. Also included are some article cuttings (folio 338 and folio 344) from petroleum industry newspapers. The discussion in the volume relates to the wording and legal interpr...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
18 Oct 1933-8 Nov 1934
Extent:
1 volume (459 folios)

7. 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)

8. 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)

9. IOR/L/PS/10/996

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/996
Title:
File 2794/1921 Pt 6 'Persian Gulf: Oil - Bahrain (1933.)'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes relating to the development of an oil concession in Bahrain. The discussion in the volume relates to the terms of Major Frank Holmes's residency in Bahrain and issues relating to finding his replacement. It contai...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
27 Jul 1933-21 Nov 1933
Extent:
1 volume (481 folios)

10. IOR/L/PS/10/1000

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/1000
Title:
File 2794/1921 Pt 10 'Oil. Persian Gulf. Bahrain. Refinery at Bahrain.'
Scope & Content:
The file contains letters, telegrams and memoranda relating to oil prospecting being undertaken in Bahrain by the Bahrain Petroleum Company (hereafter BAPCO). The principal correspondents in the file are the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf; the Political Agent in Bahrain; the Chief Local ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1933-1938
Extent:
1 file (272 folios)