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IOR/L/PS/10/1001
- Record Id:
- 040-000546381
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 036-000544688
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000419.0x000381
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100076996176.0x000002
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IOR/L/PS/10/1001
- Title:
- File 2794/1921 Pt 12 'Persian Gulf; oil; Bahrain; acquisition of land on Sitrah Island and reservation of other land elsewhere'
- Scope & Content:
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The file contains letters, telegrams and memoranda relating to oil prospecting being undertaken in Bahrain by the Bahrain Petroleum Company (hereafter BAPCO) and the associated acquisition of land on Sitrah Island.
Key topics discussed include the BAPCO plans for the development of an oil storage and export infrastructure at Bahrain, including: oil storage facilities and questions over the need for a refinery at Bahrain. Included is a blueprint map (folio 81) showing Sitrah Island and Sitrah Channel with submarine line.
The file includes (ff 91-96) a copy of the 'Oil concession signed by the Shaikh of Bahrain in favour of the Eastern and General Syndicate on the 2nd December 1925 (as revised up to 12th January 1934)'.
The principal correspondents in the file are the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf; the Political Agent in Bahrain; the Chief Local Representative in Bahrain for BAPCO, Edward A Skinner; and British Government officials from the India Office and Petroleum/Mining Department in London.
The file includes a divider which gives the subject number, the year the subject file was opened, the subject heading, and a list of correspondence references by that year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Records
Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-000538283
036-000544688
040-000546381 - Is part of:
- IOR/L/PS : Political and Secret Department Records
IOR/L/PS/10 : Departmental Papers: Political and Secret Separate (or Subject) Files
IOR/L/PS/10/1001 : File 2794/1921 Pt 12 'Persian Gulf; oil; Bahrain; acquisition of land on Sitrah Island and reservation of other land… - Hierarchy:
- 032-000538283[0010]/036-000544688[1004]/040-000546381
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: IOR/L/PS
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 file (95 folios)
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100000000419.0x000381
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1933
- End Date:
- 1934
- Date Range:
- 1933-1934
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
- Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 97; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto side of each folio. A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.
- Former External References:
- P 2794/1921 Pt 12
- Arrangement:
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The papers are arranged in rough chronological order from the rear to the front of the volume.
The subject 2794 (Persian Gulf: Oil) consists of seventeen files and volumes, IOR/L/PS/10/989-1005. The files and volumes are divided into eighteen parts as follows: parts 1 and 2 comprise one volume; part 3 comprises the second volume; part 3A comprises the third volume; part 3B comprises the fourth volume; part 4 comprises the fifth volume; parts 5 and 5A comprise the sixth volume; part 6 comprises the seventh, eighth, ninth and tenth files and volumes; parts 7, 8 and 9 comprise the eleventh volume; part 10 comprises the twelfth file; part 12 comprises the thirteenth file; part 14 comprises the fourteenth volume, part 15 comprises the fifteenth volume; part 16 comprises the sixteenth file; part 17 comprises the seventeenth volume. There are no parts 11 and 13.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Public Record(s)