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File 2794/1921 Pt 12 'Persian Gulf; oil; Bahrain; acquisition of land on Sitrah Island and reservation of other land elsewhere' [92v] (188/198)
The record is made up of 1 file (95 folios). It was created in 1933-1934. 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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such alteration.
IXb.° The Company shall keep full and correct accounts of all crude oil measured
as aforesaid and the said representative of the Shaikh shall have access at all
reasonable times to the books of the Company containing such accounts and shall be<
at liberty to make extracts therefrom and the Company shall at its own expense
within three calendar months after the end of each calendar year deliver to the
Shaikh an abstract of such accounts for such year and a statement of the amount of
royalty due to the Shaikh for such year. Such accounts shall be treated as confidential
by the Shaikh with the exception of such figures therein as he may be required by
law to publish.
X. The licensees shall take all practical measures to prevent an injurious access
of water to any oil-bearing formations which may be encountered either while
operations are in progress or upon the abandonment of any well.
THIRD SCHEDULE.
Mining Lease.
Article I.
The Shaikh hereby grants to the Company on behalf of himself and his
successors the exclusive right for a period of fifty-five years to prospect and drill
for, extract, treat, refine, manufacture, transport and deal with petroleum products,
naphtha, natural greases, tar, asphalt, ozokerite, and other bituminous materials,
within the area or areas described in words in the first schedule to this lease and
delineated on the map attached as the second schedule thereto. Such right, however,
shall not include the exclusive right to sell such products within the leased area. He
also grants the Company the exclusive right to construct and operate refineries and
storage tanks within this area and also the right, but not the exclusive right, to
construct, erect, and operate pipe-lines, refineries and storage tanks, railways, wharves
and jetties, tramways, roads, buildings, machinery, and telegraph apparatus, of all
kinds in any part of the territory under the control of the Shaikh so far as may be
necessary for the purpose of their business.
The Company shall have the right to prospect for, collect and use free anywhere
within the leased area, but not to export or sell, stone, gypsum, salt, sulphur, clay,
wood, and water, whether from rivers or springs, for the purpose of their work.
The selection of routes and sites for such works and the course of the pipe-line
shall rest with the Company.
Article II.
The Shaikh grants gratuitously to the Company all uncultivated land belonging
to him which may be needed by the Company for their operations.
In the lands so granted the Company shall for the period of their Agreement
enjoy full proprietary rights.
The Shaikh also recognises that the Company has the right to acquire all and
any other lands and buildings necessary for the said purpose with the consent of the
proprietors on such conditions as may be arranged between the Company and the
said proprietors without their being allowed to make demands of a nature to surcharge
the prices ordinarily current for lands and buildings situated in their respective
localities.
At the expiry of the Agreement the ground and all immovable property left by
the Company shall be handed back to the Sheikh.
It is, however, understood that within the leased area the Company shall be
entitled to acquire only such land as is necessary for their pipe-lines, refineries, offices,
and other works and that save in so far as it is necessary in order to enable their pipe
lines and railways to pass freely to their destination they shall not occupy any land
outside the leased area which might otherwise be leased for the production of oil to
a third party, unless they can satisfy the Shaikh that no other land suitable for their
purpose is available.
* Added under provisions of Indenture of 15th February 1933 (No. Ill on pages 8-9 below).
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The file contains letters, telegrams and memoranda relating to oil prospecting being undertaken in Bahrain by the Bahrain Petroleum Company (hereafter BAPCO) and the associated acquisition of land on Sitrah Island.
Key topics discussed include the BAPCO plans for the development of an oil storage and export infrastructure at Bahrain, including: oil storage facilities and questions over the need for a refinery at Bahrain. Included is a blueprint map (folio 81) showing Sitrah Island and Sitrah Channel with submarine line.
The file includes (ff 91-96) a copy of the 'Oil concession signed by the Shaikh of Bahrain in favour of the Eastern and General Syndicate on the 2nd December 1925 (as revised up to 12th January 1934)'.
The principal correspondents in the file are 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 the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. ; 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 Chief Local Representative in Bahrain for BAPCO, Edward A Skinner; and British Government officials from the 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. and Petroleum/Mining Department in London.
The file includes a divider which gives the subject number, the year the subject file was opened, the subject heading, and a list of correspondence references by that year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.
- Extent and format
- 1 file (95 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in rough chronological order from the rear to the front of the volume.
The subject 2794 ( Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. : Oil) consists of seventeen files and volumes, IOR/L/PS/10/989-1005. The files and volumes are divided into eighteen parts as follows: parts 1 and 2 comprise one volume; part 3 comprises the second volume; part 3A comprises the third volume; part 3B comprises the fourth volume; part 4 comprises the fifth volume; parts 5 and 5A comprise the sixth volume; part 6 comprises the seventh, eighth, ninth and tenth files and volumes; parts 7, 8 and 9 comprise the eleventh volume; part 10 comprises the twelfth file; part 12 comprises the thirteenth file; part 14 comprises the fourteenth volume, part 15 comprises the fifteenth volume; part 16 comprises the sixteenth file; part 17 comprises the seventeenth volume. There are no parts 11 and 13.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 97; 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. A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.
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- File 2794/1921 Pt 12 'Persian Gulf; oil; Bahrain; acquisition of land on Sitrah Island and reservation of other land elsewhere'
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- 91r:96v
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