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Archive Reference (shelfmark) IOR/L/PS Subject Petroleum

1. IOR/L/PS/10/1004

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/1004
Title:
File 2794/1921 Pt 16 'Persian Gulf: Oil Bahrain. Calibration of Tanks and measurement of oil.'
Scope & Content:
The file comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and notes relating to the calibration and measurement of the oil storage tanks of the Bahrain Petroleum Company Limited in order to assess royalties due to the lessors. Included in the file is a technical plan: 'Diagram of Sit...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1934-1942
Extent:
1 file (177 folios)

2. IOR/L/PS/10/1005

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/10/1005
Title:
File 2794/1921 Pt 17 'Persian Gulf: oil; tables of quantities produced by Bahrain Petroleum Co Ltd'
Scope & Content:
The volume comprises tables of the capacities of the storage tanks of the Bahrein [Bahrain] Petroleum Company Limited. The tables were compiled by B and R Redwood, Petroleum Inspection Department in August 1934.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1934
Extent:
1 volume (43 folios)

3. IOR/L/PS/12/886

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/886
Title:
Ext 6796/43 Export Licences for Bahrain Petroleum Company
Scope & Content:
The file contains two despatches from the Political Agent, Bahrain, informing the India Office of export licences granted to the Bahrain Petroleum Company for shipment of petroleum and petroleum products to Persia.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
21 Dec 1943-4 Mar 1944
Extent:
1 file (2 folios)

4. IOR/L/PS/12/992

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/992
Title:
Ext 2013/45 'Saudi Arabia: Post War Petroleum situation'
Scope & Content:
The file contains an account by George Ogilvie-Forbes, British Ambassador to Venezuela, of a conversation with Arthur A Curtice, an American petroleum engineer advising the Government of Venezuela. The account details comparisons made by Curtice between the petroleum resources of South America a...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19 Mar 1945-25 May 1945
Extent:
1 file (6 folios)

5. IOR/L/PS/12/1196

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/12/1196
Title:
Ext 611/47 'W E V Abrahams Staff College talk on Oil'
Scope & Content:
This file contains two copies of a lecture delivered by Major General William Ernest Victor Abraham of the British Army to an audience at the Staff College at Camberly. The file contains the text of the lecture on the subject of petroleum, its chemical and physical properties, as well as world pr...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
20 Nov 1947-21 Nov 1947
Extent:
1 file (39 folios)

6. IOR/L/PS/18/B316

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B316
Title:
'Report on the prospects of obtaining oil in the Jabal-Hamrin and Jabal-Makhul between Tikrit and Sharqat by E H Pascoe, Geological Survey of India'
Scope & Content:
The file consists of a document which provides topographical details for the mountain ranges of Jabal Hamrin and Jabal Makhul in Fars with a view to obtaining oil from the area. Edwin Hall Pascoe provides a general overview of the area before discussing the following areas in more detail: rocks ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Dec 1918
Extent:

1 file (4 folios)

7. IOR/L/PS/18/B322

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/PS/18/B322
Title:
Mesopotamia: Oil Policy
Scope & Content:
This is a printed report prepared by the India Office concerning an inter-departmental conference held on 8 April 1919 to discuss the question of oil policy in Mesopotamia, with those present including: Sir Thomas Holderness; Lieutenant-Colonel Arnold Talbot Wilson, Civil Commissioner, Mesopotami...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 Apr 1919
Extent:

1 file (1 folio)