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1939 ANNUAL REPORT
This Report is intended to summarize briefly the activity of The Bahrein
Petroleum Compemy Ltd,, on Bahrein Island during the year 1939. During the year
1939 some new processing plants were installed and additions and capacity increases
were made to several plants. Standardization of Operating and Maintenance practices
was fairly well established. The Report contains tabulations showing the number of
employees, the status of wells, and the number and type of all buildings. The Map
attached shows the location of Wells, Pipelines, Refinery, Pump Stations, Roads, and
Miscellaneous Minor Installations.
BUILDINGS
Provision of additional housing for employees has been continued and three
duplex married houses were built during the year. Four construction bunkhouses were
reconditioned and air cooled to make semi permanent bachelor quarters. Additional
cooling equipment, to provide necessary capacity for cooling this additional housing,
was installed at No. 2 A.C. Plant. Construction of permanent type housing for native
employees has been started and two units of 10 rooms each had been completed at the
end of the year.
DRILLING
Four small wells developed production from the Orbitoides zones outside the
previous areal limits of production although tests on three of these were not completed.
Well No. 4-, drilled in 1934 about 1$ miles south of the present producing area, has
been re-entered and completed as an oil producer, following acidization of the Orbit
oides Zone.
No additional development of the Second Pay limestone occurred during the
past year. The trends of edge water movement and reservoir pressure conditions in
dicate that closer well spacing in this zone is unnecessary, at least for the present.
One major repair operation was completed, and another undertaken, for the purpose of
keeping the Second Pay producing wells in a high state of efficiency.