'File 39/8 Oil Development, Middle East: Trans-Arabian pipe line' [‎54v] (108/161)

Content

The file contains correspondence between the Government of India, 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. , the Foreign Office, the Ministry of Fuel and Power 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 Bahrain about American interest in Middle East oil. The correspondence discusses a Trans-Arabian oil pipeline to the Mediterranean Sea, to be built from AbQaid [Abqaiq, Saudi Arabia] to the South of Palestine, and the visit of representatives of Petroleum Reserves Corporation from USA to the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. .

The file also contains:

• enclosed in the correspondence, copy of oil concession between Standard Oil Company of California and the Government of Saudi Arabia, 1933 (ff 16-20);
• agreement on Petroleum between the Government of the United States of America and the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, 1944 (ff 74-77);
• newspaper cuttings and extracts;
• map showing the Trans-Arabian Pipeline 'Middle East Oil' (f 55).

Extent and format

1 file (79 folios)

Arrangement

The papers in the file are arranged chronologically, excluding some earlier documents enclosed to a letter. There are file notes at the end, on folios 70-78. The notes are arranged chronologically and refer to documents within the file.

Physical characteristics

Foliation: the main foliation sequence commences at the front cover with 1 and terminates at the back cover with 81; 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. An additional mixed foliation/pagination sequence is also present in parallel between ff 2-44; these numbers are written in a combination of red crayon and pencil.

Written in

English in Latin script

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