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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 [187r] (372/656)
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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D.0.1fo.C/70-l0/5. Dated the 16th January 1940.
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fttil you please refer to my desi-official
report Mo.C/337 dated the 20th May 1939 on my visit
to Has a ? I now have some sore up-to-date infoma-
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tion about the California Arabian Standard Oil Company 1 3 . c /j
operations and I have been promised a large scale map . V
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«rtiich 1 hope to receive in the near future•
2. A% Dtoaran there are now ten wells completed
to the deep horizon known as the Arab :ione ? and there
are xive"strings of tools" still working there.
/Ibu Hadriyah the test well has reached a depth close on
8700 feet and it is expected that another ten days or a
fortnight will show whether this a big oil-bearing area
or not, Although it is necessary to drill to a consider
able depth at .Abu Hadriyah the drilling is easy and they
have had no hold-ups such as the Bahrain 3 etroleura Company
suffer when they try drilling to the fourth-pay and
Petroleum Development (Qatar) have had in Qatar. The
test well at Ma* aqala has new reached a depth of 1600
feet| and drilling operations are shortly to begin at
yet another location flatted /bqaiq, about 3? miles south
west from Dharan. A preliminary structure hole is prac
tically complete there and this area is now to be tested
for oil.
3. Dharan production now ranges between 15 and 18
thousand barrels a day and the Company's plans contemplate
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p ft1 .. . C.G,Prior, C.I.I.
tical Hesident in the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
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Bushire.
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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)
- Arrangement
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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- File 10/5 II Hasa oil: CASOC's activities in Hasa; development of Ras Tannura; Political Agent's visit to Hasa
- Pages
- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:iii-v, 1r:20v, 30v:36v, 37ar:37bv, 38r:59v, 60v:61v, 63r:72v, 74v:93v, 94v:102v, 113r:127v, 130r:172v, 179r:179v, 181v:188v, 189v:200v, 201v:202v, 204v:206v, 207ar:207bv, 208r:210v, 211v:217v, 220v:222v, 223v:230v, 231v:235v, 238v:241v, 242v:244v, 245ar:245bv, 248v:249v, 250v:252v, 255v:256v, 259r:260v, 261v:263v, 264v:266v, 268v:271v, 272v:273v, 275v:278v, 279v:282v, 285r:288v, 289v, 291r:291v, 294v:323v, iv-r:v-v, back-i
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