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File 10/5 II Hasa oil: CASOC's activities in Hasa; development of Ras Tannura; Political Agent's visit to Hasa [‎152r] (308/656)

The record is made up of 1 volume (326 folios). It was created in 7 Jan 1935-26 Mar 1941. 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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proceeded north to the a in al Abd which, as far as I can make
out, is about 16 or 17 miles from the Coast, and 3 or 4 miles
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south of the Kuwait Neutral Sone boundary. This is a particular-
ly unpleasant sulphurous salt spring, of no value to any one.
we then travelled due west parallel with the Kuwait Eeutral
Zone boundary (so far as we could judge where the boundary is),
crossing the Kuwait-Riyadh road and driving along over the
gravel plain in the general direction of Hafar al Batin. As
we had a long Journey to make to the next camp we went only
about 20 miles west of the Kuwait road (reluctantly deciding
that there was insufficient time to drive in to Kuwait to see
you) and we then turned south-east and joined the Kuwait-P.iyadh
road. All this area of so-called gravel plain is covered with
grass this year and I gather that most of the 3edu tribes who
would ordinarily be down in the "as sudah" by this time are
still up in the Dlbdibsh area. They are beginning to come in
now but we saw very few of them, and for this reason, as well .
ss the great distances we were covering daily, I had no oppor
tunity of making enquiries about the tribes and their migrations.
By tiiis time we were out of the area which has been covered by
Ho. 1 Seismograph Party, whose work has been roughly in a rect
angle south of the Neutral Zone boundary with its south-westerly
point not far from VJabrah. Crossing the adi-es- ]haqq we cut
off from the Kuwait road before reaching the new Saudi fort at
Qarya-al-Alya (about 23 miles west -north-west of v ,abrah), since
we had no time to waste on explaining ourselves to the Saudi
troops there. I am not quite sure how strong t-iis post is,
but the American geologist who was our guide said he thought
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there would be 100 men. We proceeded in a south-south-westerly
direction to 3eismog£aph Csmp No. 2 which is about 14 miles
north-west of Sarrar. This involved a difficult cross-country
journey after dark from the Company 1 s more northerly net-work
of tracks to the southerly net-work in the Sarrar area. This
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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. at Bahrain and 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. at Bushire on the oil concession in Saudi Arabia, the activities of California Arabian Standard Oil Company (CASOC) in Hasa, Saudi Arabia, and the development of the port and the refinery at Ras Tannura (also mentioned as Ras Tanurah). There are also documents on 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. 's visit to Hasa, in May 1939, including his report (folios 149-157). Also of interest: 'Copy of text of "Oil" Agreement between the "Standard Oil of California" and H.M. King Abdul-Aziz Al Saud' (folios 21-30).

There are notes at the end of the volume (folios 305-322).

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1 volume (326 folios)
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The documents in the volume are arranged in chronological order. There are notes at the end of the volume (folios 305-322). The notes are arranged chronologically and refer to documents within the file; they give brief description of the correspondence with a reference number, which refers back to that correspondence in the file.

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The foliation is in pencil in the top right corner. The numbering begins with the first (5th folio from the front) and ends with last page of writing (4th folio from the back). Between 103-112 and 173-179, folios are paginated on both sides.

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