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IOR/L/PS/12/3949
- Record Id:
- 040-000559025
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 037-000558776
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000648.0x000207
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100060308793.0x000002
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- IOR/L/PS/12/3949
- Title:
- Coll 30/209 'Oil: Protection & destruction of oil installations in the Middle East. Oil Denial Scheme.'
- Scope & Content:
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The file concerns British Government measures to implement an oil denial scheme in the Persian Gulf, by asking oil companies operating in the region to temporarily plug, or permanently destroy existing oil wells, thus denying oil resources to the enemy [during the Second World War]. The oil wells concerned were in Bahrain, Qatar, and Kuwait.
The file includes correspondence from the Bahrain Petroleum Company (BAPCO); Commander-in-Chief, Middle East; the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf; the Petroleum Department; and the War Office. Correspondence dated 1943-44 includes plans by BAPCO to reopen plugged oil wells in Bahrain.
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.
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Records
Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-000538283
036-000554996
037-000558776
040-000559025 - Is part of:
- IOR/L/PS : Political and Secret Department Records
IOR/L/PS/12 : Departmental Papers: Political (External) Files and Collections
IOR/L/PS/12/3709-3976 : Political (External) Collection 30: Persian Gulf
IOR/L/PS/12/3949 : Coll 30/209 'Oil: Protection & destruction of oil installations in the Middle East. Oil Denial Scheme.' - Hierarchy:
- 032-000538283[0012]/036-000554996[0031]/037-000558776[0249]/040-000559025
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: IOR/L/PS
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 file (182 folios)
- Digitised Content:
- https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100000000648.0x000207
- Thumbnail:
-
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1942
- End Date:
- 1944
- Date Range:
- 31 Mar 1942-15 Nov 1944
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
- Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 183; 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:
- Coll 30/209
- Arrangement:
- The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Public Record(s)