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'File 10/1 XVI Bahrain Oil Concession' [9r] (25/555)
The record is made up of 1 volume (276 folios). It was created in 5 Mar 1939-5 Nov 1940. It was written in English and Arabic. 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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BAHREIN ROYALTY AOCOWTIHG PROCSDURE IN COHNECTION
VYITH HANDLING ARABIAN CRUDE OIL R2CEIYED AT ZELLAQ,
The Bahrein Petroleum Company 9 Limited 9 has arranged to
purchase crude oil produced in Arabia from the California Arabian
Standard Oil Gompanyo
The installations and arrangements for the handling of
this oil and the royalty accounting procedure to be followed
during the time it is so handled are outlined below: -
lo The crude oil is to be transported by barges from A1
Khobar 0 Saudi Arabia^ to Zellaq^ Bahreinp and discharged
into four crude oil measuring tanks now at Zellaqo
The oil will be run from these tanks by pipe line to a
Juncture with the Bahrein gathering system at Gathering
Station Noo at which point it will be comingled with
the stream of oil being pumped from the Bahrein field
to royalty measuring tanks NoSo 152 and 153«
So In order to avoid any "slack" and to permit any necessary
subsequent ohecking D the pipe line from the Zellaq tanks
to the Juncture mentioned above and from such Juncture to
tanks NoSo 15S and 153 will be filled with Bahrein crude
oil before any Arabian oil is run from the Zellaq tankso
For record purposes 9 certified tank gauges will be taken
of royalty measuring tanks NoSo 152 and 153 and of all
refinery crude oil storage tanks 9 and the quantities of
all unfinished stocks in refinery tanks ascertained and
certified by a Bahrein Government representative,, prior
to the receipt of the first Arabian crude oilo
3o The measurement of each delivery of Arabian crude oil
out of the Zellaq measuring tanks will be witnessed by
a Bahrein Government representative and recorded on a
delivery ticket certified by the State Engineero
4. The amount of Bahrein crude oil run from field storage
on which the gross royalty payable to the Sheikh of
Bahrein will be calculated will be detezmined by certified
runs of the comingled crude oil from royalty measuring
tanks Noso 152 and 153 9 with a deduction of the exact
amount of Arabian crude oil measured and run from the
Zellaq tankso
5o Since the measured quantity of Arabian crude oil deliver
ed out of Zellao tanks will enter into the calculations
only in connection with runs from royalty measuring tanks
Noso 152 and 153 v all crude oil at any time remaining in
the Company 9 s field storage and pipe lines f including the
line from the Zellaq tanks to the Juncture with the Bahrein
gathering system, will be regarded as Bahrein oilo
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The volume contains correspondence between the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. in Bahrain, the Political Resident A senior ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul General) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Residency. in Bushire, the Financial Adviser to the Government in Bahrain, Charles Dalrymple Belgrave, and representatives of the Bahrain Petroleum Company Limited (BAPCO) on reservation of land and infrastructures to be built on Sitra Island and some correspondence with the Sheikh of Bahrain, asking for his help to retrieve 116 cases of dynamite dispersed in Huwais on the Qatar coast during a storm and taken by locals (folios 135-136).
The volume also includes semestral 'Abstracts of accounts of oil measured' and 'Statement on Royalty' and monthly details on 'Shipments of oil from Bahrain' for 1938-1940.
There are maps showing:
- 'Bahrain Petroleum Co. Ltd. - Permanent Camp (Awali) Reservation' (f. 46);
- 'Bahrain Petroleum Co. Ltd. - Rifa Class II-B Townsite' (f. 57);
- 'Bahrain Petroleum Co. Ltd. - Reservation for Golf Course & Agricultural Purposes' (f. 90)
- and Tank Charts (ff. 206-209).
There are some letters and documents in Arabic, mainly letters to and from the Sheikh.
There is an index at the end of the volume (folios 251-270).
- Extent and format
- 1 volume (276 folios)
- Arrangement
The documents in the volume are arranged in chronological order. There is an index at the end of the volume (folios 251-270). The index is arranged chronologically and refers to documents within the volume; it gives brief description of the correspondence with a reference number, which refers back to that correspondence in the volume.
- Physical characteristics
The main foliation sequence commences at the titlepage and terminates at the 4th sheet from the rear of the volume; numbering 1-270 is written in pencil, is encircled and can be found in the top right corner. A second foliation sequence commences at f 3 and terminates at folio 250; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.
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- IOR/R/15/2/403
- Title
- 'File 10/1 XVI Bahrain Oil Concession'
- Pages
- 8r:10r
- Author
- Belgrave, Sir Charles Dalrymple
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