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'File 5/1 XIV Kuwait Oil Company' [218r] (445/570)
The record is made up of 1 file (281 folios). It was created in 23 Dec 1936-4 Oct 1939. 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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4720/38.
BRITISH LEGATION,
If.
&816/438/ 26 )
1272/84/29.
JEDDA,
SAUDI ARABIA.
13th June, 1938.
My dear Baxter,
The Jedda manager of California Arabian Standard
Oil Company, Lenahan, gave a very optimistic account of
the Hasa oilfield two or three days ago. He described
it as richer than that of California. He said that the
expenditure of a sum of five million dollars up to the
end of 1938 had been authorised, and that a refinery
would have to be built in Hasa as the one at Bahrain was
only sufficient for local purposes. ell No. 7 had been
shut down, as there was nowhere to put the oil at present
These statements were made to Day, who, as manager
of Gellatly, Hankey and Company (Sudan; Limited,
represents the Shell interests in the dejaz, and they
should perhaps be discounted a little, as Lens.ian nay
have been trying to scare the Shell.
Yours ever,
Sgd. R.’ 3 ?. Bullard.
Baxter, Esq., .C.,
Foreign Office.
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- Content
This file contains correspondence and documentation relating to the initiation of oil operations in Kuwait by the Kuwait Oil Company. The majority of the papers relate to operational matters from workers contracts, buoying and navigation, to plans for the construction of refineries.
- Extent and format
- 1 file (281 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the front to the rear of the file.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 283; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located at the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.
Additional foliation sequences are present in parallel between ff 6-278; these numbers are also written in pencil but, where circled, are crossed through.
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- IOR/R/15/5/249
- Title
- 'File 5/1 XIV Kuwait Oil Company'
- Pages
- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, 2r:7v, 20r:24v, 29r:29v, 31r:37v, 40r:57v, 69r:70v, 72r:78v, 80r:85v, 87r:90v, 92r:95v, 99r:99v, 102r:105v, 107r:109v, 125r:131v, 135r:135v, 137r:140v, 142r:149v, 151r:154v, 156r:158r, 158r, 159v, 159v:180v, 197r:198v, 200r:214v, 217r:244v, 246r:255v, 258r:258v, 263r:272v, 275r:275v, 277r:282v, back-i
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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- Open Government Licence