‘File 86/2 IX (C 50) Bahrain Oil’

Name: ‘File 86/2 IX (C 50) Bahrain Oil’
Author: Adviser to the Government of Bahrain (correspondent) | Bahrain Petroleum Company (correspondent) | Bahrain Petroleum Company, Chief Local Representative (correspondent) | Political Agent, Bahrain (correspondent) | El Segundo, oil tanker (correspondent) | Petroleum Division (correspondent)

İsim	‘File 86/2 IX (C 50) Bahrain Oil’
Yazar	Adviser to the Government of Bahrain (correspondent) \| Bahrain Petroleum Company (correspondent) \| Bahrain Petroleum Company, Chief Local Representative (correspondent) \| Political Agent, Bahrain (correspondent) \| El Segundo, oil tanker (correspondent) \| Petroleum Division (correspondent)
Basım Tarihi:	1934/1934
Basım Yeri	- Qatar National Library
Konu	Concessions, Oil, Bahrain \| Petroleum products \| more \| less
Tür	Kitap
Dil	İngilizce
Dijital	Evet
Yazma	Hayır
Sayfa Sayısı	262
Fiziksel Boyutlar	1 volume (262 folios)
Kütüphane:	Ortadoğu Dijital Kütüphanesi
Demirbaş Numarası	81055/vdc_100000000193.0x000277_ar \| 81055/vdc_100000000193.0x000277_en \| IOR/R/15/1/657
Kayıt Numarası	81055%2Fvdc_100000000193.0x000277_dlme
Lokasyon	British Library. India Office Records and Private Papers
Tarih	1934/1934
Notlar	The volume contains letters, telegrams and memoranda relating to oil prospecting undertaken in Bahrain by the Bahrain Petroleum Company (hereafter BAPCO), and the development of BAPCO’s infrastructure. The volume is a direct continuation of ‘File 86/2 VIII (C 49) Bahrain Oil’ (IOR/R/15/1/656). The principal correspondents in the volume are the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, Lieutenant-Colonel Trenchard Fowle, the Political Agent in Bahrain, Lieutenant-Colonel Percy Gordon Loch, the Chief Local Representative for BAPCO, Ed Skinner, and the Adviser to the Government of Bahrain, Charles Dalrymple-Belgrave.Subjects covered by the volume include:The ongoing construction of oil export facilities off Sitrah Island, including a pump station, submarine pipeline, and anchorage with buoys;A request by BAPCO for their vessel El Segundoto use wireless radio communications with BAPCO employees onshore, as well as for long-distance communications with the Company’s head offices in San Francisco. Loch’s consultations with Imperial & International Communications Limited (I&ICL) in Bahrain, and with the Admiralty, result in the former request being agreed, but the latter request being denied, the reason given that I&ICL’s new wireless radio station in Bahrain should be used instead (folios 29-30, 95-105, 176-79, 188-90);Questions of the measurement of oil in order to determine the royalties payable, with a description of how oil in storage tanks should be measured (folios 165-68), where responsibility for measurements should lie, how royalty should be paid (folios 72-76), and a statement of oil saved, used and stored for the period up until 31 December 1933 (folios 118-19);Discussion of who should hold the permanent post of Chief Local Representative for BAPCO, with Belgrave’s name mooted (folio 68), and British officials’ final decision to appoint Ed Skinner, in spite of the fact that the original concession stipulated that a British subject should at all times occupy the position (folio 109), amid continued resistance from the Bahrain ruling family to an American representative (folios 200-02);BAPCO’s refusal to commit to oil refining in Bahrain “in the face of continually uncertain and changeable world-wide market conditions” (folios 242-45), and doubts over the extent of Bahrain’s oil field (folio 115);Government of Bahrain approval for the construction of facilities at Sitrah Island, and for the construction of a permanent BAPCO camp on the mainland, in spite of the fact of a mining lease having not yet commenced (folios 60-61, 64-65);A report on BAPCO activity covering the period until 31 December 1933, including details on the status of wells, list of employees by classification and nationality, and a description of camp buildings (folios 128-33);Settlement in an ongoing dispute between the Government of Bahrain and BAPCO over the categories of goods imported by BAPCO on which duty should be paid, with a list of dutiable and non-dutiable goods (folios 183-84);Details of oil equipment imported on the German Hansa line vessel SS Wachtfels(folios 79-80, 113-14);The Ruler of Bahrain, Shaikh Ḥamad bin ‘Īsá Āl Khalīfah’s insistence that some positions of responsibility be given to native Bahrainis, and complaints over the employment of some foreigners who are ‘notoriously bad characters’ (folios 234-35). \| 1 volume (262 folios) \| The volume’s contents are arranged in approximate chronological order, from the earliest item at the front to the latest at the end. The office notes at the end of the volume (folios 247-52) mirror the chronological arrangement.Many items of correspondence in the volume are annotated in pencil with page numbers. These page numbers refer to other items within the volume, marked with numbers marked in red and blue pencil. \| Foliation: There is an incomplete foliation sequence and a complete foliation sequence. The complete sequence, which should be used for cataloguing, is circled in pencil, at the top of the recto of each folio. It begins on the first folio after the front cover, on number 1, and ends on the inside of the back cover, on number 258. Foliation anomalies: f 2 is followed by ff 2A-C. Index numbers written in red and blue pencil are part of the volume’s original filing system, and correspondent to the office notes index at the end of the file (ff 247-52). \| more \| less
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‘File 86/2 IX (C 50) Bahrain Oil’

Yazar Adviser to the Government of Bahrain (correspondent) | Bahrain Petroleum Company (correspondent) | Bahrain Petroleum Company, Chief Local Representative (correspondent) | Political Agent, Bahrain (correspondent) | El Segundo, oil tanker (correspondent) | Petroleum Division (correspondent)

Basım Tarihi 1934/1934

Basım Yeri - Qatar National Library

Konu Concessions, Oil, Bahrain | Petroleum products | more | less

Tür Kitap

Dil İngilizce

Dijital Evet

Yazma Hayır

Sayfa Sayısı 262

Fiziksel Boyutlar 1 volume (262 folios)

Kütüphane Ortadoğu Dijital Kütüphanesi

Demirbaş Numarası 81055/vdc_100000000193.0x000277_ar | 81055/vdc_100000000193.0x000277_en | IOR/R/15/1/657

Kayıt Numarası 81055%2Fvdc_100000000193.0x000277_dlme

Lokasyon British Library. India Office Records and Private Papers

Tarih 1934/1934

Notlar The volume contains letters, telegrams and memoranda relating to oil prospecting undertaken in Bahrain by the Bahrain Petroleum Company (hereafter BAPCO), and the development of BAPCO’s infrastructure. The volume is a direct continuation of ‘File 86/2 VIII (C 49) Bahrain Oil’ (IOR/R/15/1/656). The principal correspondents in the volume are the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, Lieutenant-Colonel Trenchard Fowle, the Political Agent in Bahrain, Lieutenant-Colonel Percy Gordon Loch, the Chief Local Representative for BAPCO, Ed Skinner, and the Adviser to the Government of Bahrain, Charles Dalrymple-Belgrave.Subjects covered by the volume include:The ongoing construction of oil export facilities off Sitrah Island, including a pump station, submarine pipeline, and anchorage with buoys;A request by BAPCO for their vessel El Segundoto use wireless radio communications with BAPCO employees onshore, as well as for long-distance communications with the Company’s head offices in San Francisco. Loch’s consultations with Imperial & International Communications Limited (I&ICL) in Bahrain, and with the Admiralty, result in the former request being agreed, but the latter request being denied, the reason given that I&ICL’s new wireless radio station in Bahrain should be used instead (folios 29-30, 95-105, 176-79, 188-90);Questions of the measurement of oil in order to determine the royalties payable, with a description of how oil in storage tanks should be measured (folios 165-68), where responsibility for measurements should lie, how royalty should be paid (folios 72-76), and a statement of oil saved, used and stored for the period up until 31 December 1933 (folios 118-19);Discussion of who should hold the permanent post of Chief Local Representative for BAPCO, with Belgrave’s name mooted (folio 68), and British officials’ final decision to appoint Ed Skinner, in spite of the fact that the original concession stipulated that a British subject should at all times occupy the position (folio 109), amid continued resistance from the Bahrain ruling family to an American representative (folios 200-02);BAPCO’s refusal to commit to oil refining in Bahrain “in the face of continually uncertain and changeable world-wide market conditions” (folios 242-45), and doubts over the extent of Bahrain’s oil field (folio 115);Government of Bahrain approval for the construction of facilities at Sitrah Island, and for the construction of a permanent BAPCO camp on the mainland, in spite of the fact of a mining lease having not yet commenced (folios 60-61, 64-65);A report on BAPCO activity covering the period until 31 December 1933, including details on the status of wells, list of employees by classification and nationality, and a description of camp buildings (folios 128-33);Settlement in an ongoing dispute between the Government of Bahrain and BAPCO over the categories of goods imported by BAPCO on which duty should be paid, with a list of dutiable and non-dutiable goods (folios 183-84);Details of oil equipment imported on the German Hansa line vessel SS Wachtfels(folios 79-80, 113-14);The Ruler of Bahrain, Shaikh Ḥamad bin ‘Īsá Āl Khalīfah’s insistence that some positions of responsibility be given to native Bahrainis, and complaints over the employment of some foreigners who are ‘notoriously bad characters’ (folios 234-35). | 1 volume (262 folios) | The volume’s contents are arranged in approximate chronological order, from the earliest item at the front to the latest at the end. The office notes at the end of the volume (folios 247-52) mirror the chronological arrangement.Many items of correspondence in the volume are annotated in pencil with page numbers. These page numbers refer to other items within the volume, marked with numbers marked in red and blue pencil. | Foliation: There is an incomplete foliation sequence and a complete foliation sequence. The complete sequence, which should be used for cataloguing, is circled in pencil, at the top of the recto of each folio. It begins on the first folio after the front cover, on number 1, and ends on the inside of the back cover, on number 258. Foliation anomalies: f 2 is followed by ff 2A-C. Index numbers written in red and blue pencil are part of the volume’s original filing system, and correspondent to the office notes index at the end of the file (ff 247-52). | more | less

Parçası Olduğu British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers