IOR/L/PS/12/3887

The file contains monthly statements of petroleum products exports from Bahrain for the period July 1936 - February 1948 inclusive. The statements were sent by the Political Agency, Bahrain to the India Office (and other British Government departments), and the information was provided by the Bahrain Petroleum Company (BAPCO). The statements were originally (1937) sent in response to a request by the Petroleum Department for monthly statistics of the destinations of oil shipments from Bahrain, in order to assess royalties payable by the company.

The statements provide the following information: date of departure (later, date of loading), name of vessel, quality of oil shipped, quantity (in tons), destination, and (from 1940) bunkers (diesel or fuel, in tons).

From 1945, the statements also provide summaries (in long tons; later, in tons); and (from 1946) reports of actual refinery operations (in tons of 2240 lbs).

The file includes a divider, which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.