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IOR/R/15/2/405
- Record Id:
- 040-000228679
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 036-000228236
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000241.0x000224
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100023600452.0x000002
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IOR/R/15/2/405
- Title:
- File 10/1 XVIII Bahrain Oil Concession
- Scope & Content:
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The volume mainly contains correspondence between the Political Agent in Bahrain, the Political Resident in Bushire, the Adviser to the Government in Bahrain, Charles Dalrymple Belgrave, and representatives of the Bahrain Petroleum Company Limited (BAPCO) on the protection of oil fields in Bahrain from sabotage and bombing and on the decrease of the oil production during the World War Two. It contains monthly details on shipment of oil from Bahrain and on petroleum products exports, and semestral abstracts of accounts and statement on royalties for the period 1942-1943.
There are maps and drawings by BAPCO:
- 'A reservation for an overhead salt water line for refinery use' (f. 186);
- map of 'Location of Fish Traps south of Sitra Island' (f. 187);
- drawing of 'Proposed Causeway & Materials Pier Sitra' (f. 288).
There is an index with notes at the end of the volume, on folios 301-322.
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Records
Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-000209245
033-000227426
036-000228236
037-000228401
038-000228661
040-000228679 - Is part of:
- IOR/R : India Office Records transferred later through official channels
IOR/R/15 : Records of the British Residency and Agencies in the Persian Gulf
IOR/R/15/2 : Political Agency, Bahrain
IOR/R/15/2/139-916 : Bahrain Agency, Confidential Office Files
IOR/R/15/2/388-460 : File 10 Oil and Minerals
IOR/R/15/2/405 : File 10/1 XVIII Bahrain Oil Concession - Hierarchy:
- 032-000209245[0010]/033-000227426[0002]/036-000228236[0003]/037-000228401[0011]/038-000228661[0018]/040-000228679
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: IOR/R
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume (339 folios)
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100000000241.0x000224
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1942
- End Date:
- 1944
- Date Range:
- 6 Apr 1942-18 Jan 1944
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
- The main foliation starts on the first page with writing (4th folio in volume) with number 2. The numbering is in pencil, encircled, in top centre of recto; the sequence starts with 2-24; then 25A,25B; 26-219; 220, 220A-220J and ends on 322, which is the last number given, on the last page of writing.
- Former External References:
- Confidential files: 10/1 XVIII
- Arrangement:
- The documents in the volume are arranged in chronological order. There is an index at the end of the volume, on folios 301-322. The index is arranged chronologically and refers to documents within the volume; it gives brief description of the correspondence with a reference number in red ink, which refers back to that correspondence in the volume.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Public Record(s)