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'Military Report and Route Book. The Arabian States of the Persian Gulf. 1939' [55v] (110/328)
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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86
return for handsome royalties. The California Arabian
Standard Oil Company is an entirely American con-
eern.
There are about 20 wells in the Dhahran area, where
oil was first struck at a considerable depth in one well
This well is 4,700 feet deep and shut in ; it produces
approximately 400 tons a day. Work is progressing
with the deepening of the remaining wells. A second
area, where oil in commercial quantities has been struck,
is Hadriya, which is 15 miles inland, due west of Uiinna
Island.
As yet (1939), no refinery has been built, but it is
possible the Company will build one by Ras Tanura,
where they have constructed their depot for permanent
export. A pipe line and a motor road run from the
Dhahran oil fields to Ras Tanura. There are large
storage tanks, and the pipe line has been carried out to
sea for about 1,100 yards to a loading terminal. A jetty
has also been built at Damman. Until a refinery ii
constructed oil for refining is shipped in tank barges to
Zellaq, in Bahrein.
4. Supplies. —A force of any size landing in Hasa
could not rely on local resources for any supplies what
ever, with the exception of a small quantity of fuel.
si •
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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:
- The Arabian States of the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. , Muscat and Oman, and Routes in the area (f 158);
- Kuwait Area (f 159);
- Bahrein, Hasa and Qatar (f 160);
- Trucial Oman A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. (f 161);
- Muscat and Oman (f 162);
and sketches of:
- Bahrein Oil Company's area and important places (f 163);
- Sharjah and Dibai [Dubai] (f 158).
- Extent and format
- 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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- IOR/L/PS/20/C252
- Title
- 'Military Report and Route Book. The Arabian States of the Persian Gulf. 1939'
- Pages
- front, front-i, 2r:156v, 158r:164v, back-i, back
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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- Open Government Licence