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Coll 30/216 'Development of oil supplies in the Middle East.' [57r] (114/131)
The record is made up of 1 file (63 folios). It was created in 18 Nov 1943-12 Jun 1947. 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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7* If the above proposals are adopted the position when
they are completed will be as follows:-
(a) PISLDS
Mas^id-i-Sulaiman, Haft Kel
& Gach Shran will have a
potential maximum .of.
and a sustained production
under most favourable
conditions of
Barrels/day Millions of tons
per annum
With the addition of Agha
Jari # the potential maximum
becomes
and the sutaincd production
capacity
ABADAiT KEF INBRY crude
reauirernents for the manu-
337,000
290,000
437,000
370,000
13.8
17.7
(c)
facture of 15*18 million
tons of products •••••..
362,000
17.25
PIPLL Il^TE CAPACITY
M ) Crude to Refinery
290,000
13.8
(2) Recycle to M.I.S.
39,000
2.0
With the addition of two
12-inch lines Agha Jari to
Abadan, and one 12-inch line
Abadan to Haft Kel area
(3) Crude to Refinery
374,000
17.8
(4) Recycle to Haft Kel
69,000
3.5
8 # Tho effect of those will thus be to restore
operations to a balanced basis at maximum capacity. Virtually
no development drilling has taken place for over 4 years, while
considerable quantities of equipment and materials from soock
h~vc been transferred to assist production in India or used m
connection with Government sponsored scheme sf^ the improvomei
of transport arrangements and supplies to the Armed Tore
q The total estimated requirement of steel, etc. io
66,500 tons, and ?he material cost will be in the neighbourhood
of £ 10 , 670 , 000 .
Further port and main installation tankage is also
f This will be incorporated in a separate project
212,000 tons.
^ T . • Q +h ot this project offers the (quickest and most
present carrying.
t, + +■> +’n f , -rvi-aeline alignment runs through swampy
S„„o 55. IS-SS r; r h
the next fine weather period.
-4-
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The file contains papers concerning the British Government's decision in 1943 to sanction an increase in oil production in the Middle East.
The papers include: the agreement of the military authorities, 1943; papers of the War Cabinet Oil Control Board, November 1943 (including approval for the recommencement of drilling at Qatar); Foreign Office 'Survey of the Oil Resources of the Middle East' (with map and graph), 28 February 1945; Foreign Office map of 'Concession Areas in the Middle East', October 1946; papers dated 1946 concerning a memorandum entitled 'Oil and the Middle East' by K Stock of the Ministry of Fuel and Power; and papers concerning a request from the Bahrain Petroleum Company (BAPCO) for trade statistics on the consumption of petroleum products in certain Middle Eastern countries, 1947.
The file includes a divider, which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.
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- 1 file (63 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.
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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 65, 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.
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- IOR/L/PS/12/3959
- Title
- Coll 30/216 'Development of oil supplies in the Middle East.'
- Pages
- front, front-i, 2r:4v, 5v:7v, 11r:16v, 18r:27v, 29r:44r, 44ar:44av, 45r:64v, back-i, back
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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- Open Government Licence