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'Military Report and Route Book. The Arabian States of the Persian Gulf. 1939' [‎45r] (89/328)

The record is made up of 1 volume (157 folios and 7 maps in pocket). It was created in 1940. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .

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69
The Bahrein Petroleum Company's concessions con
sist of the following :—
(i) The Oil Fields Area. —These cover an area of about
12 miles long by 24 miles wide at Jebal Dukhan, some
fifteen miles south of Manama. There are approxi
mately sixty wells capable of production, the majority
about 2,000 feet in depth, but there are four of over
4,000 feet. Crude oil flows in pipe lines from the wells
to the five tank battery stations.
It is not easy to damage the wells except by dynamite.
The most vulnerable ones are the 4,000 feet wells where
pressure is greatest. Pipe lines are easily repairable
if damaged.
The five tank battery stations are scattered over the
oil fields, each station dealing with groups of wells.
A battery consists of a few small tanks and a pumping
plant, and its function is to eliminate the free gas
before the oil is delivered at the refinery. Pipes run
from the batteries to the refinery. The pumping stations
and tanks can be damaged easily, but they are situated
in the open desert.
The whole oil fields area is covered by a network of
all-weather oiled roads.
(«) The Refinery. —This covers an area of about 1,000
yards square on a bluff two miles inland from Sitra
island, near the east coast of Bahrein island. It includes
storage tanks, power station, distillation units, crack
ing stills, acid plants and numerous other smaller build
ings and workshops. In the refinery some 300 Euro
peans and 2,000 natives are employed. Pipes carry
the refined oil through a terminal on Sitra island to
the loading wharf.
The refinery has a barbed wire fence all round it
and a barbed wire entanglement is to be put up round
the face of the bluff. Searchlight platforms have been
erected at suitable points and power lines laid to them,
so that if searchlights were available they could quick
ly be connected up. Cross roads lead to and round all

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This volume contains geographical information and maps about the Arabian States of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. . It was produced by the General Staff, India, and printed by the Manager, Government of India Press, Simla, 1940.

The volume is divided into two sections: 'Military Report' including general descriptions of Kuwait, Bahrein, Hasa, Qatar, the Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. , Muscat and Oman (folios 6-127) and 'Routes' (folios 128-164) including maps of:

and sketches of:

  • Bahrein Oil Company's area and important places (f 163);
  • Sharjah and Dibai [Dubai] (f 158).
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1 volume (157 folios and 7 maps in pocket)
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There is a foliation sequence, which is circled in pencil, in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. of each folio. It begins on the front cover, on number 1, and ends on the last of several maps which are stored in a pocket at the back of the volume, on number 164.

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