File 12/9 Visits to Bahrain of government officials and others [253r] (510/578)
The record is made up of 1 volume (285 folios). It was created in 4 Jan 1935-6 Aug 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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Floyd Ohliger, with whom i stayed for the night, informed me
that but for his resistance my whole time would have been taken
up at meals and other entertainments arranged for my benefit
by the Saudi authorities. We spent the afternoon in seeing the
oil camp and some of the oil wells. The houses are small but
all are air-conditioned. The wells in this area were at the
same depth as the Bahrain deep level wells, that is to say
from 4,000 to 4,300 feet. We learnt however that within the
last fortnight a well had been brought in at 10,000 feet at
/vbu Hadria, an oilfield which is being developed towards the
north. From ten to tv/elve thousand barrels were sent over
daily from A1 Khobar to the refinery at Bahrain and the
remainder from Dhahran was piped to the port of Has Tanura.
up to 30*000 barrels a day. The amount being exported from
Has Tanura did not exceed 20,000 barrels a day and was often
much less according to the tankers available, i understand
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that no decision has yet been reached as to whether the oil
from the northern field would be piped to Has Tanura or to
some nearer port such as Jubail,
20. The road from Dhahran to Has Tanura has to follow a
more circuitous route than the pipe-line and is some sixty
miles in length, it is only an oiled track but motor cars
and lorries can proceed at a good speed except at one or two
places where there is loose sand which despite the employment
of oversize desert balloon tyres is liable to be an obstacle.
It is already possible to reach the northern oil camp from
Dhahran by car in about five hours and to go on from there,
skirting the neutral zone, to Kuwait in another eight hours.
From Kuwait to Basra it is only three and a half to four hours
so that a practicable motor route is in process of evolution
/ from
The pipe-line is about forty miles in length and its capacity
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The volume contains correspondence sent and received by 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 regarding the arrangements and programmes for visits to Bahrain of the following:
- the Minister at Jedda, Sir Andrew Ryan, visiting the Gulf;
- 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 Kuwait;
- Mr Rendel of the Foreign Office;
- Dr Pawelke, Secretary to the German legation in Baghdad;
- Mr Loxle;
- the British Ministry at Tehran, Mr and Mrs Seymour, visiting Qatar and Bahrain;
- Princess Alice and Earl of Athlone, on a private visit to Ibn Saud and to Bahrain, Qatar and to the California-Arabian Standard Oil (CASOC) oil camp at Al Khobar;
- the British Ministry in Jedda, Sir Reader Bullard;
- the British Ambassador at Baghdad, Sir Basil Cochrane Newton visiting Bahrain, Dubai, Muscat and CASOC at Dharhan (account of his tour on folios 246-256);
- Emir Saud [Sa‘ūd bin ‘Abd al-‘Azīz Āl Sa‘ūd] visiting Baghdad;
- the Officers of the Geological Survey of India visiting the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. .
The documents in the volume are mainly in English. There is correspondence in Arabic with English translations, with Shaikh Ḥamad bin ‘Īsá Āl Khalīfah, Ruler of Bahrain, Shaikh Abdullah bin Qasim Al Thani, Ruler of Qatar, and the Government of Saudi Arabia at Al Khobar.
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- 1 volume (285 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers in the volume are arranged chronologically. There is an index at the end of the volume, on folios 260-283. 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.
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Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1 , and terminates at the inside back cover with 287; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. Two additional foliation sequences are present between ff 5-259 and ff 260-283 respectively. These numbers are also written in pencil, and can be found in the same position as the main sequence, but they are not circled.
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